Sweet Kingdom

Sweet Kingdom: Slot Overview

The diet starts tomorrow, players; today, we're taking on Sweet Kingdom from developer Pragmatic Play, a candy-coated cluster paying grid slot with a money symbol collection feature as an icing on the top. Pragmatic Play does have a sweet tooth, huh, having been the brains behind recent online slot hits such as Sweet Bonanza 1000 and Sugar Rush 1000, plus a host of other tooth-busting releases. Sweet Kingdom gives the theme a personal touch, making it look inviting while also taking the money symbol collection style of gaming and giving it a squeeze.

A veritable candy kingdom is where Sweet Kingdom has been located by its maker. Literally a kingdom in this instance, with a pastel palace on one side of the screen and a crowned, sceptre-holding, one-eyed sweet character on the other side. Pragmatic Play is by now extremely well-versed in creating enchanting candy land settings for its slots, and Sweet Kingdom is another that is relaxing to behold both visually and aurally.

Mechanically, Sweet Kingdom is played on a 7-reel, 7-row game grid that uses a cluster pays system to create winning combinations. When at least 5 matching symbols are connected horizontally and/or vertically, they create a win. Lurking behind them lies a highly volatile math model, which sends out an RTP value of 96.52% by default when betting 20 cents to $/€240 per spin.

The tumble mechanic removes winning symbols from the reels after combinations pay out. Symbols drop downwards, and new ones fall in from above to fill all of the empty gaps. Tumbling continues until no more winning combinations appear following a symbol drop. Sugared items make up Sweet Kingdom's pay table, which displays 7 different snack symbols. Winning clusters made up of 5 matching symbols pay from 0.2 to 1 times the bet, while hitting the biggest 15+ sized clusters are worth 20 to 150 times the bet. There might be a lot of sugar on display, but Sweet Kingdom does not sweeten the grid up at any time with wild symbols.

Sweet Kingdom: Slot Features

As well as making sweet games, Pragmatic Play knows a thing or two about money symbol collect slots as well, being associated with the massively popular Big Bass fishing range in conjunction with Reel Kingdom. As well as money symbol collections, Sweet Kingdom comes bundled with free spins and a bonus buy.

Money Symbols

Chests are the Money symbols. They land showing values of 0.5x to 20x the bet. When a Money symbol hits, it stays on the screen until the end of a tumble sequence or until it is collected. The key is the Collect symbol. When a key hits, it collects all the Money symbol values currently on the screen. Money symbols double in value for every tumble as long as they remain on the screen.

Free Spins

Hitting 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatters triggers 10, 12, 15, 20, or 30 free spins, respectively. During free spins, Money symbols land with a random amount of lives on them. Money symbols remain on the reels until the amount of lives reaches 0 or they are collected. Lives go down by 1 for each spin. Free spins also have an Immortal Money symbol, showing initial values of 0.5x to 20x the bet. Immortal Money symbols stay on the reels until the end of the round or until they are collected. Hitting 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatter symbols awards an additional 10, 12, 15, 20, or 30 free spins, respectively.

Buy Free Spins

For 100x the bet, players can buy a spin guaranteed to land 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7, triggering scatter symbols. The free spins bonus buy RTP is 96.48%.

Sweet Kingdom: Slot Verdict

One of the most desirable features of the game is that the value of the Money symbols doubles with each winning tumble. A fairly sizable twist when you think about it. If starting values seem pretty weak, no need to fear, they can double up, if you're lucky, to significantly larger values. Hints of this are dropped in the base game, but free spins, as ever, get an extra boost in order to potentially fire off greater thrilling entertainment.

One element crucial to the free spins feature is the Immortal Money symbol. Funny one, this. In some ways, you want to avoid Money symbol collection until the very last spin when an Immortal Money symbol is in view in order to blow its value up. Then, on the final spin of the round, hit a key, and boom, the money is yours. This would be tough to time to perfection, though, no doubt. Without the doubling effect, it is hard to see Sweet Kingdom inching its way towards its 10,000x the bet win cap, but with doubling and the possibilities this gives to the Immortal Money symbol, who knows? The outcome might be sweet.

Is Sweet Kingdom as crave-inducing as the aforementioned Sugar Rush and Sweet Bonanza slots have tuned out to be amongst the gambling community? Arguably, no, but it's got the capabilities to sling sugary wins about the place if its Money symbols play ball, and should that happen, then lucky, sweet slot players will no doubt be glad they chose this one over its many competitors.