Sugarlicious EveryWay

Sugarlicious EveryWay: Slot Overview

Here's something different, players. Megaways slots might be a dime a dozen, and games with scatter pays win mechanisms are on the up and up, but have you ever seen the two things blended in one place? Well, you have now, sort of, thanks to software provider Red Tiger, which has brought together two intriguing online gambling concepts. However, it must be said this is not strictly a scatter pays slot but rather an EveryWay pays game, and we'll explain this in further detail in a moment. The name of this Victor Frankenstein-ian amalgamation of parts is Sugarlicious EveryWay, and features chain reaction wins, Sugar Bomb multipliers, free spins, and two feature buys.

Sugarlicious EveryWay fits into the 'if you've seen one candy slot, you've pretty much seen them all' category. Of course, not all sweet slots can be bundled together, yet Sugarlicious EveryWay provides a fairly stereotypical candy land for the action to take place - a bright skied location populated by candied items of various descriptions. There's not much remarkable to look at, but what's here is unlikely to damage the retinas of those who behold it. Sugarlicious EveryWay meets a certain standard in the looks and sounds department, making it relatively sugar-licious, in other words.

Unwrapping this particular treat reveals a highly volatile math model producing two default RTP values. These are 95.69% when staking 10 c to $/€6 per paid game round, or slightly lower at 95.68% when buying features. In the middle of the display is a 6-reel gaming panel governed by Megaways under licence from BTG. On each spin, 2 to 7 symbols land on each individual reel, altering the ways to win up to 117,649 at the most. However, unlike normal, Sugarlicious EveryWay does not pay from the leftmost side across adjacent reels like a regular slot. Instead, when at least 8 identical symbols are showing in any position on the reels, they pay as win ways.

Sugarlicious EveryWay has ten standard pay symbols divided into two groups. The low-pay group consists of 10 to A card ranks, matching their high-pay counterparts, which include a cherry, plum, lemon, orange, and watermelon. Symbol values were nigh on impossible to calculate as the pay table displays tiers of values of x2 to x6. Maybe this relates to the number of reels in the win, or something, or, well, huh.

Sugarlicious EveryWay: Slot Features

Laced along the top of Sugarlicious EveryWay like stuck sugar are chain reaction wins, Sugar Bombs, free spins, and a bonus buy.

Chain Reaction

Winning symbols disappear from the reels, making way for new symbols to drop in, providing another chance to win. If another win is created, the chain reaction system triggers again.

Sugar Bomb

Sugar Bomb symbols may land anywhere on a spin, revealing a random multiplier of between x2 and x100. If a winning spin occurs, all Sugar Bombs pop and their multiplier values are added up if more than one is in view. The total multiplier is applied to the total win accrued on the spin.

Free Spins

In the base game, when 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols hit, players win 10, 12, or 14 free spins, respectively. While the round is in play, hitting 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters awards an extra 5, 6, 7, or 8 free spins, respectively. The pay table notes nothing new in the free spins round to look forward to.

Feature Buy

However, should players want to buy free spins, they can do so for 80x times the bet, or you can buy a spin guaranteeing both a Sugar Bomb and a win for 25x the bet. An RTP of 95.68% can theoretically be expected when buying features.

Sugarlicious EveryWay: Slot Verdict

Bringing together EveryWay pays, and Megaways might have been a more momentous occasion if the studio had picked a more original theme to sweeten the audiovisuals with. Candy's all right, despite being done to death, even in Sugarlicious EveryWay's fairly run-of-the-mill type way. At a stretch, there is fruit in there as well for diversity purposes, perhaps, but the outer wrapper just wasn't all that exciting. This conclusion might not have been so readily drawn if the side features weren't also as commonplace.

Hate to say it, yet the features are a tad tired in some ways. Potent when they pop, but much of Sugarlicious EveryWay feels like it has been transported over from Sweet Bonanza. Cascades, scatter pay wins (of a kind), Sugar Bomb multiplier symbols, bah, seen it all before, and that fact cheapens the original Megaways/EveryWay melding. Not to the point that Sugarlicious EveryWay hovers instantly over the dustbin icon on the desktop. However, if Red Tiger had matched the inventive way the core mechanics function with more inventive side features or added something to free spins, Sugarlicious EveryWay might have made a more favourable impression. As it is, the impression was okay, winning potential is sizable at 12,864.9x the bet, yet it's hard not to feel the whole show could have been extra fire with some additional effort.

To sum up, Sugarlicious EveryWay was a pleasant candy game, a little generic in some ways, but it posts decent numbers while delivering an interesting interaction between EveryWay pays and Megaways. Still, after a while, Sugarlicious EveryWay felt like that YouTube clip of English competitive eater BeardMeetsFood struggling to digest a third of an enormous bar of Toblerone within an hour. We are talking about a bar of chocolate weighing 4.5 kg, which is ludicrous, so we can let him off that one. It's a bit harder to let Red Tiger completely off the hook, however, because while Sugarlicious EveryWay is a decent candy game, it's hard not to feel it could have been better.