The fruit theme is dear to everyone who likes to play casino games. The reels of the first Las Vegas slot machines displayed symbols of fruit, perhaps to remind people of the sweet things in life, and they’re still dubbed fruit machines to this day. But you don’t have to trek to Vegas – or visit a gambling museum – to enjoy the classic fruit-machine experience. This retro theme is alive and well in the world of online casino games, only it’s moved with the times in terms of playability and mobile-optimized convenience. Imagine having to yank a lever on your phone to get the reels moving! If you’re not convinced, wait until you try the Sugar Surge slot. It’s the freshest take on retro fruit you’ll ever experience. Let’s take a closer look at its fruitful possibilities.

Game overview

The Sugar Surge slot offers players a funky retro fruit theme packed with color, humor and chances to land wins. When the game loads on your screen, you can immediately see that this isn’t your regular bag of candy. Above the reels, for instance, there are four jackpot counters ranging from Mini and Minor to Major and Grand. Between them and the reels is a mystery slider on which symbols come and go. BARs, horseshoes, dollar signs, bells, melons, grapes, oranges, cherries, plums – all the familiar Vegas fruit-machine emblems are there, plus two special swirling mint symbols for good measure. The slider comes into play during the Mystery Slider feature (more about that below.)

At all times, the action on the reels is fast and furious. There are two main reasons for that. First, Sugar Surge has a feature that you don’t see very often when you play online slots: All the symbols, that’s every single one, are scatters! This means you could potentially land winning combinations of up to 15 matching symbols, irrespective of where they land on the reels. The second reason is that as winning combinations begin to form, the reel set expands, creating even more winning possibilities. With so much going on at once, Sugar Surge represents great entertainment value.

How to play

The aim of this fun slot is to form winning combinations of retro fruit machine symbols on a 5×3-reel grid. Since all symbols are scatters, the base game is very busy, but what you really want is to trigger one of the special features. The Mystery Slider feature expands the reels to 7×5 in the right circumstances; while during the Free Spins you collect the special orange symbols that can unlock one of the four jackpots. 

To start playing Sugar Surge, simply use the intuitive controls at the bottom of the screen to select a bet level from 0.50 to 250 coins. As always when you play slots online, it’s advisable to consult the game’s paytable so that you can make an informed betting decision. The Sugar Surge slot has a return to player (RTP) of 94.27%.

Graphics and soundtrack

The enjoyment of playing Sugar Surge is all down to the slot’s graphics and sounds, which do perfect justice to the retro fruit theme. The electro-funk soundtrack complements the commotion on the reels, with a crazy bass line that slaps harder the more combinations are unlocked. The symbols stand out clearly and brightly, and their movements are comically animated. In fact, Sugar Surge is one of the more amusing online gambling slots out there. It’s hard not to smile, for instance, when the Sugar Fairy swoops across the expanding reels, or when a funny deep voice announces “BIG WIN” while the music just keeps getting crazier. Based purely on the fun factor, Sugar Surge is one of the best online slots to come out in some time.

Features

Apart from the potentially win-enhancing scatter feature, where all symbols are scatters, the Sugar Surge slot has two main features. The first is the Mystery Slide feature, which is really the engine of the entire game. It’s fuelled by special mint “reveal” scatters which appear randomly and lock on the reels, then reveal various fruit symbols awarded by the slider. Land 3 or more mint scatters to expand the reels to 5×4. The more mint scatters land in the expanded area, the further it expands, to a maximum of 7×5.

Once all the mint scatters are revealed, you return to the base game. That’s where you can win 10, 15 or 20 free spins by landing 3, 4 or 5 Free Spins symbols respectively. Pay attention if you see a multicolored swirly mint scatter symbol during free spins. There’s a small scatter counter with 10 spaces underneath the slider, and every time you land a multicolored mint, a special orange symbol shoots into one of those spaces. Collect enough of those, and you trigger one of the four jackpots. Note that Free Spins symbols and multicolored mints aren’t available during the Mystery Slider feature.

Bonuses and jackpots

Sugar Surge is one of the more straightforward jackpot slots around, in the sense that you can immediately gauge how close you are to winning a jackpot by reading the scatter counter. Every multi-colored swirly mint you land gets you closer to one of the four jackpot categories. Collect 7 to win the Mini, 8 for the Minor, 9 for the Major and 10 for the Grand jackpot. Be aware that the scatter counter resets to zero at the end of a round of free spins.

Similar games

It’s unlikely that the retro fruit theme will ever go out of fashion. It’s just too, well, sweet. If you love playing casino games with a high sugar content, you might also want to sample these slot machine games online:

• Fruit Blaster – Retro fruit in outer space!
  
• Fruit Shop – The upbeat, energetic classic.
  
• Fruit Shop Megaways – Like Fruit Shop, but with up to 117,649 ways to win!
  

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