Candy Tower

If you have a wicked sweet tooth, you are going to love this game. Candy Tower unsurprisingly looks to be one of the most saccharine games ever produced by the Habenero studio. It transports players to a land where the streets are paved with jelly babies and the rivers are made from golden syrup.

Even the buildings are made from enormous pancakes and outsized chocolate gateau. Because it is a candy-based slot, it can’t be helped but be compared to the ever-popular Candy Crush mobile game, however, the similarities are there for all to see in the cluster pay dynamic and brightly coloured candies which inhabit the reels.
In terms of bonus feature content, Candy Tower has a fair amount to offer.

Overview Candy Tower

The game includes a free spins round which is fairly generous, however, most of the bonuses in this game come from the ‘boosts’ that you earn by creating certain combinations. There are five different types of boosts that can be activated in this game. Each one rewards players with a different set of modifiers or helpful free games. The modifiers include expanding wild symbols, instant cash prizes and multipliers, all of which help you amass a greater score to take home with you at the end of the feature.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for Candy Towers is self-explanatory. The player has been transported to a magical fantasy land where from the sky to the ground everything has high sugar content. Apart from triggering many people’s desire to eat sweet things, this game is also vibrantly coloured and uplifting. Critics might say that the theme is a tad childish for a game which at the end of the day is targeted at the 18 plus audience. However, sweet-themed things have a track record of going down well with children and adults alike, so Habenero shouldn’t have too much of an issue here.

The background as we have mentioned incorporates the display of almost every sweet food known to man. To the right of the reels, players will be able to see a huge slice of chocolate cake that is smothered in chocolate sauce. To the left we have a mountain of pancakes topped by fruit sat next to what looks like a tall whip cream covered milkshake. Accompanying you on this fun feast of an online slot game is a small cupcake person, who has been brought to life to cheer you on from the sidelines. Their little expressions of joy when you land a combination are almost as sweet as their desert filled surroundings.

The board is very straightforward in that there aren’t any borders or delineations to speak of, only a solid wall of hard candy symbols stacked on top of each other. The effect is that playing the game is simple and easy to follow.

The vast majority of the symbols in this game are made up of various hard candy symbols. There are 7 of these in total. Remember that this game is a cluster pays slot, so players can land clusters in the range of 7 to 30 symbols. The lowest value candies in the game are the yellow and blue ones. Up from them is the purple candy which pays 3x your stake for 7 in combination. Up again from the purple candy are the green and red ones. The green pays 5x for 7 in a combination, whilst the red has the highest payout of all the candies. If you land 30 of the red candy, you will win a payout of 22,000x your stake. The special symbols for this game include the wild symbol which says ‘wild’ on it and can substitute for any other symbol bar the specials. There is also a scatter which is just a tile that says scatter. It is involved in triggering the game’s free spins round.

Game Play

Candy Tower is played on a 6-reel, 5-row playing board with a cluster pays win dynamic. To create winners in this game, players must create clusters of 7 matching symbols or more anywhere on the reels. To change your betting level per spin, use the bet adjuster tool located at the bottom of the playing window. The betting range for Candy Tower is 15p to £3,000 per spin. Further information regarding the slot, including a display of the paytable, can be accessed by clicking on the settings menu. The spin button is located underneath the centre of the reels. You can set up auto spins in the game’s menu. The volatility for Candy Tower is in the high range of the spectrum. The return to player percentage for Candy Tower is 96.73%, a fairly good rate. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 31,213x the stake.

Features

The first bonus in this game is the influence of wild symbols which can fall at any time in the base game or the free spins game. They can step in for any other symbol bar the scatter to help score better wins. The next feature available to you is the free spins round. To trigger this bonus, players must land a minimum of 3 scatter symbols on the reels at the same time. However, the more scatters that you land, the more free spins you will be awarded. Landing 6 scatters to trigger the feature will result in as many as 250 free spins for this bonus. Random wilds are also liable to drop in whilst you are playing this round. However, the booster features are disabled when playing the free spins round.
This game also comes as discussed with a collection of boosts.

These are achieved by collecting different types of wins that are counted using the symbols on the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. The more of these various wins you get, the higher the candy tower which the cupcake person stands on becomes. The boosts are explained below:

• Vertical boost: 5x yellow candy wins = wild symbols expand to cover 3 symbols.
• Horizontal boost: 10x blue candy wins = wild symbols expand to cover 3 symbols horizontally.
• Cash boost: 25x purple candy wins = free games and instant cash prizes appear randomly.
• Roaming boost: 30x green candy wins = during free spins, a wild symbol is guaranteed.
• Multiplier boost: 25x red candy wins = all prizes are doubled during the base game.

Conclusion

Habenero has sunk their teeth into this sweet slot, designing all sorts of fun new dimensions to playing a candy-based online game. Both the theme and the high-quality presentation of the slot give players confidence that this is a well designed and entertaining product with plenty to get involved in. The RTP is pretty good too. The only thing to be wary of is that it is highly volatile, so players may be waiting a long time for features to trigger.