Sweet Spotz

Sweet Spotz: Slot Overview

It's time for a sugar fix on the reels, players, this time courtesy of casino game maker Slotmill, in an online slot titled Sweet Spotz. Slotmill has already proven its chops, and then some, making fruit-filled extravaganzas like Fruit Smash and the gambling community-influenced follow-up Super Fruit Smash, so it makes sense the team would turn their attention to something less healthy. Sweet Spotz it is, so if you're in the frame of mind for some sugary, saccharine, tooth-assaulting action, please feel free to join us as we chomp on in.

It might be just us, but something about the cheekily playful wild symbol had a sort of Pokémon touch, giving Sweet Spotz a vaguely Asian influence. Once past the load screen and into the game for real, it became clear Slotmill wasn't interested in making a totally cliched-looking, sweet-themed slot. The reason is that while brightly lit and all, the setting for Sweet Spotz is closer to The Shire (with doughnuts) than an over-the-top pastel nightmare of sweet sugary items. Such is Slotmill's way of giving players both familiar elements to ground themselves while also taking them somewhere they perhaps didn't know they wanted to explore. Admittedly, Sweet Spotz didn't conjure the biggest 'wo, what is this?' moment when it lit up the monitor, but a bunch of Slotmill slots have started like that and gone on to impress regardless.

Sweet Spotz is a cluster paying slot with an Avalanche mechanic where regular wins occur when 5 or more of the same pay symbol type land in vertical or horizontal connecting positions. The game board is made up of 6 columns of 6 symbols, and when winning combinations hit, they are removed, and new symbols drop to fill up the gaming grid. This occurs through a highly volatile math model with an RTP of 95.48%. Bets can be selected from 20 p/c to $/€60, and there is a real pick 'n mix of feature buys and optional ways to play available.

Four hard candies are Sweet Spotz's low-pay symbols, while four doughnuts make up the high pays. When baseline 5-of-a-kind clusters land on the reels, the reward for such is 0.1 to 0.4 times the bet, rising to a maximum of 12 to 125 times the bet if a cluster of 18+ matching symbols hits.

Sweet Spotz: Slot Features

If there's something Slotmill likes to gorge on its features, and Sweet Spotz comes with a juicy list of extras. These are Avalanches, which we've touched on already, Multiplier Sweet Spotz, Mystery Transforms, Cupcake Wilds, free spins, Fast Track feature buys, and Burst Mode.

Multiplier Sweet Spotz

When a winning symbol is removed, it activates the position it was in. After the second time this occurs in a sequence, an x2 multiplier is added to the position. Winning again on the same spot increases the multiplier by x2 up to a maximum of x16. From there, the multiplier increases by x4. Multipliers apply to all winning combinations which land on top of it. If more than one multiplier is in a win, the values are added before being applied. In the base game, marked spots are cleared at the end of a spin.

Mystery Transform

Mystery Transform symbols appear on the base game and in free spins. When Avalanches stop, and a Mystery symbol is in view, it activates and chooses 10 symbols, then transforms them as well as itself into another symbol.

Cupcake Wilds

Cupcake Wilds are able to substitute for any other symbol. When a Cupcake Wild is part of a cluster win, it randomly jumps to an adjacent empty position, including its own position, before the next Avalanche occurs.

Free Spins

When 3 or more Cupcake Wild symbols land on the reels, 6 free spins are awarded. At the start of free spins, all multiplier Sweet Spotz are activated, increasing multipliers from their first explosions. During the free spins round, all multiplier Sweet Spotz remain until the round ends.

Fast Track

The Fast Track menu provides a number of ways players may tackle Sweet Spotz. These are:

• 1+ Power Up – 2x the bet to guarantee a game round with 1 Cupcake Wild. RTP 96.1%.
• 2+ Power Up – 10x the bet to guarantee a game round with 2 Cupcake Wilds. RTP 96.27%.
• Bonus – 100x the bet to land 3 Cupcake Wilds. RTP 96.43%.
• Super Bonus – 400x the bet to land 4 Cupcake Wilds. RTP 96.62%.

Burst Mode

Burst Mode lets players pick a number of spins, a bet level, and the math model will do its thing without reels spinning or much in the way of front-end graphics.

Sweet Spotz: Slot Verdict

That was kind of odd. We're so used to Slotmill pulling creative rabbits out of the hat that more established studios hadn't thought of, contributing something new and interesting to the grid slot (or other slot genre) that Sweet Spotz took us back a step or two. So close it is to Sugar Rush as to almost feel cheeky. Maybe there's more going on in the background we're not privy to, and fair enough if there is. The gambling community will have to draw their own conclusions about Sweet Spotz, and one of those conclusions, perhaps, is Slotmill liked Pragmatic Play's Sugar Rush so much that they decided to make their own version.

Not just Sugar Rush either. Sweet Spotz has shades of Jammin' Jars going on as well, what with the Cupcake Wild bouncing around the place, lending a hand at linking symbols into winning clusters. Slotmill meticulously chose two popular mechanics and cleverly incorporated them into their own slot game. Provided players are happy looking past the imitative parts, combining Sugar Rush and Jammin' Jars could very well prove to be a winning concept.

In the end, Sweet Spotz can be considered a charming slot machine. It boasts Slotmill's renowned attention to detail, pleasing aesthetics, and entertaining gameplay. Although it incorporates familiar elements, Sweet Spotz adds its own unique touch to the mix. While Slotmill is known for their innovative ideas, Sweet Spotz takes a slightly different approach by incorporating well-established concepts. It may not be groundbreaking, but it still manages to provide an enjoyable gaming experience. Slotmill's ability to create captivating games is evident, even when exploring familiar themes.