Retro Sweets

Casinos with Retro Sweets

An Introduction to Retro Sweets

Spinomenal is excellent when it comes to giving players great-looking titles with fun themes. They did it again with their Retro Sweets online slot, which features a feature-heavy style of gameplay with a gorgeous, winter-themed and candy-based aesthetic.

If you’re looking to get warm and cozy while enjoying some slot action, this is a title that will be an excellent fit.

The thing we like the most about how the presentation is handled is just how in-depth they go with the theme. You’ll see gingerbread men, cups of cocoa, candy drop houses and all kinds of other symbols. However, even the card rank symbols fit the theme with detailed decorations. The background is a gingerbread-style house as well, so you are really just immersed in this candy-based wintery universe.

On the gameplay front, a big part of the focus is a high hit-rate. You get an optional side bet that increases the hit-rate as well as a feature set that centers around it. Overall, players are put in a position where the features are always hovering and waiting to hit. That’s a style that a lot of players enjoy, and it’s what Spinomenal went with for this particular title. Between the value-centric regular pay table and the numerous features, we like how everything comes together to spell action.

Betting and Layout

We don’t really see many titles with non-standard formats from Spinomenal. Along these lines, it seems they went with a classic approach here in what may be the most common video slot format of all time. It’ll be very familiar if you’ve played many games in the genre at all. Here’s what to expect:

• The symbol grid consists of five reels and three rows each.
• Players have a static set of 20 free spins to win on. However, you can’t change this number, so it’s always 20.
• Paylines are set up so that they only pay from left to right in this slot. Wins from the right to left do not count. However, the free spins symbols are an exception since they’re scattered in this title.
• The overall betting range for the base wager goes from €0.20 up to the €200 level per spin. However, the side bet doubles that, which we’ll get into down below.
• Each win description in the following is based on the line bets. For example, a 250x win is worth 250 times the amount being wagered per payline.

Other Information

In addition to these bets, you’ll have a “Retro Bet” side bet available. This doubles the size of your wager, but it does not double the size of the payouts. However, you will get more frequent wins from it, which we’ll describe down below in the features.

The volatility level of this game depends on whether you use the side bet or not. We place it in the below-average range without the side bet, but it appears to be around average with the side bet activated. In either case, you won’t have to worry so much about massive swings all the time. Additionally, you can switch back and forth by turning the side bet on and off at will during your sessions.

Gameplay and Features

The feature set of the Retro Sweets online slot is all about action. However, these features are split primarily between two types. One type increases your chances of regular wins, and the other type consists of completely new wins. We’ll cover both in the following, and this will help you to know what to expect.

The Retro Bet

The Retro Bet side bet can be turned on in the top-right corner. While it doubles the size of your wager, it also forces a wild to show up every spin in the middle spot of the third reel. This causes a little bit of a trade-off that we’ll explain.

On the one hand, it increases the volatility of your play somewhat. It goes up from around the medium-low range to being firmly in the medium range. This isn’t going to matter much to most players, however. That’s especially the case because it increases the return to player percentage for this title.

Our recommendation is to drop your bet size down to a level where the Retro Bet will come in at around what you’d be betting anyway. This gives you the increased payout percentage without effectively changing your volatility much (with respect to the base amount you would have wagered originally).

Wild Gingerbread House Symbols

The wilds can be spotted really easily. They are an amazingly designed symbol that consists of a really well-decorated gingerbread house. We love how much effort was put into the detail of the presentation of this symbol. Additionally, it offers really strong payouts along the following lines:

• Five of a Kind – 250x
• Four of a Kind – 100x
• Three of a Kind – 25x

With a wild always showing up on the middle of the center reel with the Retro Bet, your chances of getting these wins is increased quite a bit.

Mystery Peppermint Symbols

The peppermint swirl candies are a classic in much of the world. Additionally, these iconic candies have an important place in the Retro Sweets video slot as well. They serve as mystery symbols that help you to get extra wins.

Here’s how they work. On any given spin, you can have peppermint swirls show up anywhere on the game board. However, before your payouts are calculated, these swirls will all turn into a matching symbol selected at random. These can become wilds, but they cannot become free spins bonus symbols.

The idea here is that having more matching symbols on the game board drastically increases your chances of winning. Moreover, it makes it easier to get multiple payouts on the same turn.

Scatter Symbols Payouts

You can also get some really solid scatter wins. These come from the “Free Spins” symbol, which also awards free spins. We’ll get into that down below. However, here are the payouts you can get from these symbols:

• Five of a Kind – 20x (400x line bet)
• Four of a Kind – 5x (100x line bet)
• Three of a Kind – 2x (40x line bet)

The pay table lists these based on a multiple of the overall wager. Additionally, we’ve included the line bet equivalents here since that’s what all of the other wins in this game display as.

We should point out that the free spins symbols are not substituted for by the wilds.

Retro Sweets Free Spins

When you get a minimum of three of the free spins symbols, you don’t only trigger the scattered payouts above. You’ll also pick up a set of free spins along the following lines:

• Five Scatters – 50 free spins
• Four Scatters – 30 free spins
• Three Scatters – 15 free spins

During this free spins mode, if you had the Retro Bet activated, that wild will still show up in the middle of the game board for this feature. With so many free spins available, Spinomenal opted not to add more value to them to keep the volatility from getting out of hand it looks like.

How to Win at Retro Sweets

It’s really important to have the Retro Bet activated when you play this game. That’s even if you need to lower your base bet size down to something that keeps the total wager (including the side bet) at a level you’re comfortable with. A failure to do so will cause a penalty to your return to player percentage. Put another way, it will increase the house advantage.

Outside of that, you should choose your total bet size to be something you’ll be comfortable with. No other betting adjustments are necessary outside of the side wager.

Payout Structure for Retro Sweets

The cup of hot cocoa pays out 250x for five of a kind, which is the same as the wilds. From there, gingerbread men are worth 200x for five, and five of the pair of red and green candy canes will pay out a nice 150x win. Additionally, the same 150x win is yours for five of the green and red striped candy.

You can really see how balanced the pay table is overall with the card rank symbols. They are decorated like striped candy and start at 130x for five of the red A. For the orange K and yellow Q, it drops to 120x for five, but you can also win 100x for five of a kind combinations of the green J or blue 10 symbols.

Overview

If you’ve liked other video slots that have used this kind of candy theme, then this is one title you definitely will not want to miss. Due to the fact that the Retro Sweets online slot offers a high degree of aesthetic quality while still standing out in the sub-genre, it fits tremendously in Spinomenal’s portfolio overall. With the Retro Bet activated, the pay rate of this slot is pretty substantial as well.

Overall, the feature-oriented gameplay of this game is centered around giving players a tremendous amount of excitement. It’s also worth noting that the fun is definitely enhanced by the great amount to which the level of graphics fits the slot’s theme, even down to the card rank symbols.

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