Provider:
Blueprint Gaming
Four cascades in one spin open a banker's table of sweets, and the free spins it deals carry a multiplier that climbs with every drop and never resets. Across 490 spins at 1.00 that table opened seven times, and one round retriggered to run 17 spins.
Blueprint Gaming is a software studio that's been creating games for internet casinos. I played 490 spins at a stake of 1.00, starting from a balance of 1,000.00. But with too much time on my hands, and no other slot in the queue, I chose to give their slot Sweet Success Megaways a shot. The session finished on 965.10, which is 455.10 won from 490.00 wagered, a return of 92.9%.
Sweet Success Megaways is a 6-reel slot with up to 117,649 ways. Each reel shows between 2 and 7 symbols and that number is redrawn on every spin, so the ways total changes from one spin to the next, and one base-game spin at a stake of 1.00 showed 3,600 ways and paid 6.00. With 96.06% RTP and a bet level spanning from 0.20 to 10.00, it's a basic slot that no one would suspect was made recently judging by the vintage-looking graphics. A horizontal top reel of 4 positions sits above reels 2 to 5, and it is the only place the Wild can land. This is a Megaways slot that arrives with a pair of mechanics. The Wild substitutes for all regular pay symbols but not for the bonus symbols. I will analyse them further below, but to be frank the slot doesn't truly require an instruction guide. Every win removes the winning symbols and drops new ones into the gaps, which can build further wins in the same spin.
Symbols on the reels comprise the usual low paying 9 to A symbols, as well as high value symbols in the shape of sweets, with the top of them paying 5x, and the most valuable symbol of all, however, is the Sweet Success logo. Mystery symbols can land on any reel, and when they do they all turn into the same randomly chosen symbol, never a Wild or a scatter. It pays 50x for 6 of a kind. The logo pays from 2 of a kind, starting at 1x the total bet, while the 9 to A symbols range from 0.1x to 1x the total bet.
4 successive cascades activate the Pick 'N' Mix feature. Those cascades have to come within a single spin, and each one fills a step of the Pick 'N' Mix trail. 5 activate Super Pick 'N' Mix and 6 or more activate Mega Pick 'N' Mix. Super Pick 'N' Mix holds fewer cash prizes and more free spins awards, and Mega Pick 'N' Mix holds free spins awards only. You pick a sweet, then take or decline the banker's cash or free spins deals. The Bonus Train can randomly add 5 free spins to an offer you accept. A taken free spins deal grants 12 to 20 spins. During Free Spins the win multiplier rises by 1 with every cascade and never resets for the rest of the feature, with no upper limit.
5 extra spins are awarded if you managed to land 4 bonus symbols during Free Spins. Only one of my 7 rounds retriggered, the one on spin 256, which ran to 17 spins and paid 45.00. 5 bonus symbols award 10. Bonanza from Big Time Gaming and Diamond Mine Megaways from Blueprint Gaming use the same free spins multiplier that climbs by 1 with each cascade.
Minty Slots Verdict: Sweet Success Megaways is an awful slot in every manner imaginable, and the graphics are exceedingly dismal. The 7 bonus rounds paid 327.00 between them, 72% of everything the session won, and the best of them returned 108.00 on spin 86. The returns are even more so, and the Megaways system has been overdone by this stage.