Sugar Craze Bonanza Slot Review

Sugar Craze Bonanza Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Sugar Craze Bonanza slot has 5 reels, 4 rows and 1,024 fixed ways to win. To form a winning combination, land 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols on a payline. Matching symbols need to appear from left to right, on consecutive reels and beginning from reel 1 (the leftmost reel). Symbols can appear in any positions on the reels too.

Playable from 20p to £25 per spin, you can change your bet by pressing/clicking on the Coins icon which located under the main Spin button (desktop version) and to the right of the main Spin button (mobile/portrait version). Players outside the UK can make use of Autoplay which come with win and loss limits. Additionally, you will find a Quick Spin mode which is located in the Settings section.

The Sugar Craze Bonanza RTP is 96.1%. This is above the 96% online slots average but only just. In terms of volatility, it’s very high and comes with a 20.37% hit frequency rate. This means a win every 4.9 spins on average.

When it comes to payouts, you can win 10,000 x your total bet per spin. Key to large wins will come from the free spins as multipliers can start as high as 12x.

Theme – sickly sweet treats

With a sweets theme, the Sugar Craze Bonanza slot is actually a candy version of Games Global’s Thunderstruck Stormchaser slot. Visually, this clone couldn’t be more different than Norse mythology. With a candy-floss/cloud backdrop, the colour palette is soft with blues, pinks and purples making up the colour scheme.

Instantly giving you a sugar craving, it has a soft and light-hearted soundtrack to reinforce the graphics. Bright and colourful, it has many similarities to Pragmatic Play’s Sweet Bonanza slot. Like that iconic game, it will remind you of Katy Perry’s California Girls music video.

Symbols on the reels include A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 playing cards which appear within purple cubes. Higher value symbols include purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red sweets. The red sweet is the best paying symbol with 0.5, 1.25 or 4 x bet awarded for 3, 4 or 5 in combination.

Finally, there is a Sugar Craze Bonanza Wild symbol that substitutes for all paying symbols mentioned above. 3, 4 or 5 wilds in combinations will pay 0.75, 2.5 or 10 x your total bet. The other symbol you’ll come across include Swirly Sweet Scatter which is key to triggering the free spins.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
9	3, 4 or 5 = 0.15, 0.3 or 1 x bet
10	3, 4 or 5 = 0.15, 0.3 or 1 x bet
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.15, 0.3 or 1 x bet
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.15, 0.3 or 1 x bet
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4 or 1.25 x bet
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.4 or 1.25 x bet
Purple Sweet	3, 4 or 5 = 0.25, 0.6 or 1.5 x bet
Blue Sweet	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.75 or 1.75 x bet
Green Sweet	3, 4 or 5 = 0.35, 1 or 2 x bet
Yellow Sweet	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 1 or 2.5 x bet
Orange Sweet	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1.25 or 3.5 x bet
Red Sweet	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1.25 or 4 x bet
Sugar Craze Bonanza Wild	Substitutes for paying symbols + pays up to 25 x bet
Swirly Sweet Scatter	3+ triggers Free Spins feature

Sugar Craze Bonanza Mobile

Released on the 30^th of March 2023, Hammertime and Games Global have created the Sugar Craze Bonanza slot with the latest HTML5 technology. Optimised for play on mobile, desktop and tablet devices, it’s available to play on smartphones that use iOS, Android and Windows operating systems.

Sugar Craze Bonanza Bonus Features

The Sugar Craze Bonanza slot benefits from 5 bonus features. You’ll come across rolling reels for successive wins, win multipliers, wild reels and free spins where you can begin with a starting multiplier up to 12x. Collect Sugarstorm tokens to benefit from up to 3 Sugarstorm free spins with up to 5 wild reels each.

Rolling Reels feature

Like with many Games Global slot games, Sugar Craze Bonanza comes with a Rolling Reels feature. It’s triggered when you land a winning combination. When this happens, the winning symbols are removed with new symbols rolling in and replacing them.

Applying in both the base game and free spins, rolls keep on coming until no more new wins are formed. Games Global has used this feature extensively in previous releases such as Immortal Romance and Thunderstruck 2.

Multiplier feature

Keep an eye out for various multiplier symbols which can appear anywhere in base game and free spins. Awarding a multiplier of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x, 15x or 20x, the Multiplier feature is triggered when part of a winning combination. If multiple multipliers are part of a win, the sum of display multipliers are added and applied to the total win at the end of a spin/free spin.

Sugarstorm feature

The Sugarstorm feature will be randomly triggered on a base game spin. Basically, 1 free spin is awarded with up to 5 reels turning fully wild. The more wild reels, the larger the potential payout. If you’re lucky enough to land 5 wild reels, you’ll pocket 10,000 x your total bet (the game’s max win).

Free Spins feature

The Free Spins feature is activated when you land 3 or more Swirly Sweet Scatter scatters anywhere on the reels. 3, 4 or 5 will also pay 1, 5 or 25 x bet respectively.

You then get to spin the wheel to win free spins and a starting multiplier value. Importantly, the size of the multiplier and the number of free spins increases with the number of scatters you landed to trigger the feature. Here’s what the wheel can award:

Once in, you will see Sugarstorm tokens randomly awarded at the start of the feature. Collect 12 or more Sugarstorm tokens to activate the Sugarstorm feature at the end of the feature for guaranteed wild reels. These are awarded by scatters landing during the feature. You will see a Sugarstorm meter which can award up to 3 Sugarstorm free spins which play out after the normal free spins have ended.

On a free spin/roll, multiplier symbols can randomly upgrade, up to 12x. Landing 3 or more scatters will give you 5 extra free spins, with no limits.

Lastly, players outside the UK can use the Buy feature. For 50 x your total bet, you will trigger the Free Spins feature. It will randomly award 3, 4 or 5 scatters.

Sugar Craze Bonanza Summary – Thunderstruck Stormchaser with a sugary coat

The Sugar Craze Bonanza slot is a sugary/sweet reskin of the Thunderstruck Stormchaser slot game. Whilst this game is popular due to the appeal of previous Thunderstruck slots, the sweet theme is very popular these days. That said, the bonus features/gameplay works in this environment which is softer and may appeal to more players.

When it comes to the bonus features, multipliers (up to 20x) can lead to decent wins. The Sugarstorm feature can also award up to 5 fully wild reels which will see you pocket the max win of 10,000 x bet. I found the bigger wins coming in the Free Spins feature as you can benefit from up to 25 free spins with a 12x multiplier initially. Collecting Sugarstorm tokens will also lead up to 3 Sugarstorm free spins with up to 5 wild reels on each.

If you have a sweet tooth, the Sugar Craze Bonanza slot has proven gameplay and bonus features to keep you coming back for more. Whilst it’s a reskin, it can award big payouts per spin or free spin. The only downside is that provider Hammertime didn’t add an extra feature or 2 or even increase the max win potential.

Other sweet/candy themed slots include Big Time Gaming’s Donuts which offers free spins with multipliers up to a 50x, a very high 96.54% RTP rate and 40,000 x bet top wins. ELK Studios offer you Dropz which immerses you into a world of lollipops, chocolate and doughnuts. It comes with 25,000 x bet wins and superb gameplay.