Starlight Princess: RTP versions, multipliers and the global meter
Released on 10 September 2021, Starlight Princess is Pragmatic Play's anime-styled take on the engine it had just proven with Gates of Olympus. Same 6x5 grid, same Pay Anywhere logic — 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on the board pay, with no paylines and no left-to-right rule — same tumble mechanic, and the same idea of random multiplier symbols dropping onto the board. The theming is completely different, and so is one crucial detail of how the multipliers behave.
Start with the number everyone should check first. The headline RTP is 96.5%, which is top-tier for the studio. But this game ships in more than one build, and operators choose: 95.51% is common, and a 89.51% version exists and is in circulation. Nearly seven points separate the best and worst versions of a game that looks and plays identically. The RTP is written in the information panel behind the "i" button. On this title in particular, reading it is not optional.
The multipliers are winged, crowned hearts that land at random and carry values from x2 all the way to x500. In the base game they apply to the win they land on. In the free spins — 15 of them, opened by 4 or more scatters — they work quite differently from Gates of Olympus: instead of applying individually, every multiplier that lands is added to a global meter displayed on screen, and that meter does not reset for the rest of the round. Every subsequent winning tumble is multiplied by the accumulated total. A long feature therefore compounds: the meter you build in the first few spins is still working for you on the last one. Landing 3 or more scatters during the bonus adds 5 extra spins.
The paytable is where Pay Anywhere games get misread, because payouts jump sharply with cluster size. The crown is the top symbol: 10x for 8-9 symbols, 25x for 10-11 and 50x for 12 or more. Below it, the pink heart pays 2.5x / 10x / 25x, the purple moon 2x / 5x / 15x and the blue star 1.5x / 2x / 12x. The low gems are much thinner: the red heart gem runs 1x / 1.5x / 10x, the blue pentagon 0.8x / 1.2x / 8x, the green diamond 0.5x / 1x / 5x, the teal decagon 0.4x / 0.9x / 4x and the yellow hexagon 0.25x / 0.75x / 2x. Nothing here is big on its own — the whole game is the multiplier meter.
Stakes run €0.20 to €100, rising to €125 with the Ante Bet, which costs 25% more per spin and roughly doubles your chance of triggering the feature naturally without changing the RTP. Where regulation allows it, the feature can be bought for 100x the stake. Volatility is high and the win cap sits at 5,000x.












