Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs

Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs: Slot Overview

Bees and chocolate eggs are two objects which aren't traditionally associated with each other, but that's all about to change if Push Gaming has its way. Why? Because the studio has designed the online slot Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs, which brings the two together in a gooey, chocolaty merger. Players familiar with the developer's Wild Swarm series, which has been buzzing about since 2018, will quickly clock the links between 3 Chocolate Eggs and the third installement, Wild Swarm Triple Hive, as this update is basically a honey dripping redo with Easter egg overtones.

As a consequence of the redo process, much of the artwork has remained the same, meaning 3 Chocolate Eggs is located in an area flanked by grandstands, trees, and nature, though it has less of a Medieval jousting atmosphere than Triple Hive had. In its place is an Easter egg vibe evoked by all of the eggs, baskets, and bunnies in the background. Furthermore, the three beehive collection pots above the grid have been replaced with, eggs, you got it, though despite the vibe shift, 3 Chocolate Eggs remains a happy-go-lucky bee-themed slot. When you think about it, honeybees have a pretty nice job, flitting about the countryside, soaking up the fresh air, visiting flowers, collecting nectar, before depositing it at the hive to convert into sweet, golden honey. Sounds a lot more satisfying than some human jobs.

Getting down to the nuts and bolts, Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs is played on a 5x4 matrix, with 20 winning lines. The only betting option in this game is choosing a base stake of $/€0.10 to $/€100, and the highest RTP is 96.48% while the volatility is medium.

The pay symbols are Jack to Ace royals, two flower symbols, a pot of honey, a crown, and a dollar sign. Landing 5 matching royals pays 1x the stake, whereas 1.5x to 10x is paid when landing 5 matching higher pays. Wild Honey symbols and Sticky Wilds substitute for all symbols except the Chest symbol. Sticky Wilds only appear in free spins, and when they land, they remain in place until the feature ends. Wilds have the same payout value as the dollar sign.

Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs: Slot Features

Collectable Bees are able to trigger free spins with combinations of features, jackpots are up for grabs, as is a Wheel feature.

Collectable Bees

In the base game, the Wild Honey symbol may appear with a Collectable Bee. There are four types:

• Red Bunny Bee - Is collected by the Jackpot Egg for a chance of triggering the Jackpot Egg feature.
• Green Bunny Bee - Is collected by the Multiplier Egg for a chance of triggering the Multiplier Egg feature.
• Yellow Bunny Bee - Is collected by the Sticky Egg for a chance of triggering the Sticky Egg feature.
• Queen Bunny Bee - Is collected by a random Egg for a chance of triggering the corresponding feature. The Queen Bunny Bee has a higher chance of triggering a feature than the other bees.

Wheel Feature & Jackpots

The Wheel feature triggers when the Chest symbol lands in the base game or during free spins. When activated, a wheel appears and awards a prize. In the base game, this could be a bet multiplier of 2x-250x, a jackpot prize, or free spins with Egg features. In free spins, the wheel can award 2-5 extra spins, Sticky Wild Reels, 2-5 Jackpot Tokens of the same type (in Jackpot free spins), jackpots, or bet multiplier prizes. Jackpots are the Mini, Minor, Maxi, Mega, and Grand, worth 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x, and 1,000x the bet, respectively.

Free Spins

When Bees are collected, they have a chance of triggering their respective free spins feature. When a single feature triggers, 7 free spins are awarded. Filling a reel with Sticky Wilds awards +1 free spin. Free spins can also be triggered by a combination of Collectable Bees or via the Wheel feature. A combination of 2 features awards 10 free spins, while a combination of 3 features awards 12 free spins.

• Jackpot feature - Sticky Wilds land with a Jackpot Token attached, which gets collected by the respective Jackpot Meter. When a meter is full, its prize is awarded and the meter resets. All jackpots can be won multiple times. The Mini, Minor, Maxi, Mega, and Grand need 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 tokens, respectively.
• Multiplier Egg feature - Reel Multipliers of x2, x4, and x8 appear above reels 2, 3, and 4, respectively. When filling one of these reels with Sticky Wilds, the Reel Multiplier applies to each Sticky Wild below it. Sticky Wild Multipliers are additive.
• Sicky Egg feature - Before the first free spin, 4 Sticky Wilds are randomly placed on the reels.

Queen Bunny Bee

When a Queeny Bunny Bee lands during any Egg feature or combination of Egg features, it adds a random number of 1-4 Sticky Wilds to the reels. The Queen Bunny Bee is also a Sticky Wild. The Queen Bunny Bee cannot award Jackpot Tokens, but the Sticky Wilds she adds can - in Jackpot free spins.

Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs: Slot Verdict

Push Gaming has taken to the three pot movement with real gusto as it seeks to attract gamblers drawn to this style of play. The studio already has a number of these games in its portfolio, and Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs adds another one. Some, the cynics perhaps, might brand this a superfluous addition since it doesn't bring much to the table that Wild Swarm Triple Hive didn't, which is hard to argue with. But seasonal-style slots are so often clones or redoes that it's also easy to shrug it all off and let Push Gaming have a bit of fun catering to the chocolate egg crowd.

Technically, there isn't really anything new to add that wasn't mentioned or experienced in Wild Swarm Triple Hive. Connections between this game and Wild Swarm remain, which provides a nice continuity, such as the focus on Sticky Wilds, while the Multiplier Reels of Wild Swarm 2 have been preserved as well. Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs feels like a real slot of its time, too, where jackpots, three pots, and combinable free spins features have literally swarmed the slot world, pun intended. Push Gaming makes them as well as anyone, though given the studio's towering reputation for innovation, it's a shame something original didn't sneak its way into Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs.

Chocolate and honey make for borderline teeth-stripping sweetness, though Wild Swarm 3 Chocolate Eggs isn't quite as overpowering. It faithfully recreates the brand of three-pot entertainment offered in the slot it was made from, with a new egg-based coat of paint over the top, while boasting winning potential of 23,903x the bet, but Wild Swarm or three-pot fans aren't hugely missing out if they skip this one for the original.