Sweet Alchemy

The Sweet Alchemy online slot, available at Play'n Go casinos, puts players in the middle of a candy wonderland. You'll see a pink and purple witch on the right-hand side of the reels, and she's there to help you with magic spells and other goodies to help you win big and get more winning combinations than you would have received without her help. The graphics are obviously good considering the production house that this came from, and the gameplay is fast-paced with a lot of room for racking up significant payouts.

Game Format and Layout

The layout of the basic game has five vertical reels and five horizontal rows for 25 total symbols on the game board at any given time. You'll get wins in this slot by matching up four adjacent, matching symbols in a cluster. These can be connected horizontally or vertically, but they can't be connected only diagonally, and they don't have to be in a straight line to count as a cluster. You can wager from $0.10 to $100 per spin in this game, and all of your payouts are multiplied by your bet size, which is the convention we will use here for listing certain available wins.

Avalanche Wins and the Sugar Rush Meter

The main feature that you will interact with during the gameplay is the Sugar Rush Meter, which is a part of the avalanche feature. When you get a winning cluster, it's paid out to you, and the number of symbols is added to the Sugar Rush Meter, which itself sits in the bottom-right corner of the game screen. That cluster disappears, and new symbols fall into place to give you more opportunities to win. This continues giving you the ability to fill this meter, which puts you in position to add wilds to the reel.

The first quarter of the meter gives you random wilds. If you pass the second quarter of the meter, you'll have random striped wilds added to the reel, and after you get a win with them, they will clear an entire horizontal or vertical line of symbols to allow new ones to fall down into place to give you more chances at continuing the streak. Passing the third quarter gets you dotted wilds, which remove all of one symbol when used in a win. Finally, getting all the way around to filling up the meter takes you to the Mix the Elixir Free Round. Note that when you get a loss, this meter resets for the next turn.

Mix the Elixir Free Round

This bonus round is where the real value is in this game. The format expands to be nine-by-nine, which obviously gives you better chances of hitting winning combinations, and you'll get Candy Spells added to the reels that can give you several ways to win based on how many winning symbols you get with a spell meter similar to the Sugar Rush Meter in function.

After this, you'll get to play the Elixir of Power bonus, which has you pick random chocolate pieces to reveal prizes worth up to 10 times your total wager. Each time you complete this bonus, you'll be taken to the map that shows you your position on a quest to earn chests that give you tremendous payouts.

Winning Payouts

The best base payout is 30 times your total bet for a cluster of 80 or more of the yellow star symbols. You can win 20x for eight or more of the red heart of the pink teardrop, and the dark red, round candy can get you 15x for the same. Payouts of 6x to 2x are awarded for eight or more of the blue square candy down to the blue circle candy with a hole through the middle.

In Summary

What you will find with the Sweet Alchemy online slot by Play'n Go is a title with a lot of depth to its gameplay. While the visual appeal is obviously strong, and they've done a great job with incorporating a helpful, healer-type character, what really shines is the multiple layers of the bonus features. On top of that, you're given regular interaction with multiple features through the Sugar Rush Meter and avalanche features, making this a very exciting title overall. This is the kind of game that we like to see because of the combination of aesthetics and in-depth gameplay experience.