Candy Blitz

Software provider Pragmatic Play continues to wage war on players’ teeth by releasing another scatter paying candy slot. This one goes by the name of Candy Blitz and stirs up a sugary blend of familiar and newer elements, which with a bit of good luck, may sweeten players’ days. One of its key features is a multiplier reel which can unleash multipliers with values up to a maximum of x500 (though it can technically be as low as x1 in the base game). As well as this are free spins, a bonus buy, tumbles and a whole lot of sweet stuff.

If anyone’s built up a strong portfolio of Candy Crush inspired slots by now, it’s Pragmatic Play. Yet the games do kind of, somewhat, a little bit, at times, look a tad samey. Perhaps that’s the danger of doing a candy game in general; you’re sort of locked into designing a sweet-filled game world heavy on pastely or bright colours, with tooth-busting items dotted all over the place. So it is in Candy Blitz, which looks fine and dandy but doesn’t really do much visually to stand out from a crowded lineup. Moving on.

One of the largest items on Candy Blitz’s screen is its 6-reel, 5-row gaming grid. Upon this grid, matching symbols pay from any position – there are no pay lines, clusters, or ways around here. Instead, as long as 8+ identical pay symbols land in view, a winning scatter is formed. Candy Blitz is a highly volatile game, possessing a default RTP of 96.08%, or 96.02%, when using the bonus buy feature. Bet selection is wide, ranging from 20 p/c on the lower side to £/€240 on the upper.

The tumble feature removes winning symbols from the gaming grid when they hit. Any gaps caused by this process are filled by symbols tumbling down from above. Tumbles will continue like this until no new win appears. No second guesses for predicting what Candy Blitz’s regular pay symbols might be. Yup, all nine of them are candies of various shapes and colours. When landing a scatter win made up of 8 matching symbols, the payout equates to 0.25 to 1.5 times the bet. When the scatter win consists of 12+ matching symbols, the awards bump up to 0.75 to 50 times the bet. Candy Blitz does not possess wild symbols within its bag of tricks.

Candy Blitz: Slot Features

What Candy Blitz does have in its pick ‘n mix bag of extras are a multiplier reel, free spins, and a buy free spins feature.

Multiplier Reel

Next to the main reels is a special multiplier reel. On each spin, 5 random multiplier symbols drop onto the reel with values of x1-x6, x8, x10, x12, x15, x20, x25, x50, x100, x250, or x500. The blue symbols on the multiplier reel displaying no value are the x1 multipliers. All wins in the game are multiplied by the bottom-most multiplier on the reel. After each tumble, the multipliers on the reel tumble down one position.

Free Spins

Players are awarded 10, 12, or 14 free spins when 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols land in the base game, respectively. During free spins, the minimum multiplier possible is x2. Other than that, nothing really changes. However, hitting 4, 5, or 6 scatters in the feature awards an extra 5, 8, or 10 free spins.

Buy Free Spins

By spending 100 times the bet, players can buy the free spins round, guaranteeing 4, 5, or 6 scatters trigger the feature.

Candy Blitz: Slot Verdict

Pragmatic Play has generally done pretty well out of using the candy theme in its games. The developer has found varying degrees of success with slots like Sweet Bonanza and Sugar Rush, so when it comes to utilising sweet stuff, the team clearly knows what it’s doing. Will Candy Blitz go on to become another one of the studio’s more popular candy slots? Pragmatic Play and its associates Reel Kingdom have a knack for relentlessly slinging stuff against a wall until something sticks. Will Candy Blitz? It very well might, it very well might; you just never know.

What might push Candy Blitz into the limelight? It’s a slot that is easy to go with the flow, in part because Pragmatic Pay also has a knack for making shiny, high-energy slots. Candy Blitz’s big guns are its multipliers, which flex fairly frequently. This is not a game where you have to wait around an age for multipliers to show up. Hit a win, get a multiplier. Hit a subsequent win on a tumble, get another multiplier. Though, a lot of the time in the base game, the multiplier symbols were those annoying blue x1s. However, multiplier values can be pretty high too, and during the review, pretty sure we managed to hit back-to-back x100s, which isn’t the worst thing to happen. Solid winnings are possible too when Candy Blitz is blitzing, up to a maximum of its 10,000x the bet win cap.

While there are similarities between Candy Blitz and Sweet PowerNudge, Candy Blitz does more than enough to differentiate itself from its sibling. Its Multiplier Reel arguably has a higher level of unpredictability (a good or bad thing, depending on your viewpoint), multipliers are active in the base and bonus game, some are chunky multiplier values too, and there’s greater overall payout potential. Pretty sweet stuff, in other words.