Candy Blast Slot Review

The Candy Blast Slot Game

Push Gaming is among the slot developers considered innovative and top-notch. So, I entered this online slot expecting nothing short of top-quality standards.

Candy Blast happens in a dreamy world with colourful palm trees and clouds under blue skies. Meanwhile, the 6x5 playing field in the middle of the screen resembles a candy store, sitting on what appears to be a giant candy island.

There’s no hiding that everything looks mouth-watering and appealing to the eye. As if that’s not enough, the developer included an upbeat dance melody that elevates the design to a futuristic aura.

Symbols and Payouts

The minimalist user interface should make it easy to familiarise yourself with the gameplay. Furthermore, the paytable includes only nine regular symbols and uses a Pays Anywhere engine, which is not uncommon.

If you’re a first-timer unfamiliar with the payout rules, consult the Candy Blast paytable when playing to stay updated with the winning requirements.

In summary, you win when you match the same symbol in at least eight grid positions at the same time anywhere on the reels. Meanwhile, you evaluate your win by multiplying the corresponding paytable payout by the selected bet.

The bottom of the paytable includes the Blue, Purple, Green, Pink, and Orange Candies. These pay 0.15-1x, 0.2-1.25x, 0.25-2x, 0.4-2.5x, and 0.5-3x the stake for 8+ of the same.

Then, the high-paying symbols include the following:

• Purple Cake - 0.75x to 4x the bet.

• Green Cake - 1x to 5x the stake.

• Dragonfruit Cupcake - 1.25x to 10x the bet.

• Banana Cupcake - 5x to 25x the stake.

Wild symbols don’t make it to the Candy Blast. However, there are Multiplier Boost, Extra Life, and the Rainbow Cupcake for the features.

Candy Blast Slot Bonus Features

The cascades come with increasing multipliers. Further, you get the Multiplier Boost symbol, Extra Life symbol, scatter symbols, free spins, and the Multiplier Strike Out feature.

Total Multiplier

During the base game, the total multiplier starts from x1 and can increase to x2048! It’s always present throughout the Candy Blast game and applies to every winning combination. It doubles in value for every winning cascade but resets after a non-winning cascade.

Multiplier Boost Symbol

This symbol is available during the base game and free spins but is non-paying. It activates with any paying sequence and boosts the total multiplier by the displayed steps, rangingfrom 1 to 5.

Extra Life Symbol

This symbol is non-paying and available during the base game and free spins. However, it only activates on a non-winning cascade. When active, it removes all the paying symbols from the Candy Blast gameboard except the feature symbols and all instances of the most common regular symbol.

If several symbols are equally common, only the highest-paying symbol, according to the paytable, remains.

Scatters & Free Spins

Manage 3 or more scatters (Rainbow Cupcake) to trigger the free spins, as follows:

• 3 scatters award 8 free spins and an initial x2 total multiplier.
• 4 scatters trigger 10 free spins and an initial x4 total multiplier.
• 5 scatters activate 12 free spins and the initial x8 total multiplier.

Every Rainbow Cupcake symbol that hits on the Candy Blast reels during the free spins will retrigger an additional +1 spin before the next free spin starts.

Multiplier Strike Out Feature

This feature starts after 3 consecutive winning tumbles. It deletes the last active total multiplier step from the multiplier ladder.

Bonus Buy & Push Bet

You can pay 150x or 750x the base bet to buy 8 free spins with an initial x2 multiplier and 12 free spins with an initial multiplier of x8, respectively. Meanwhile, the Push Bet available in the bet selection panel doubles your base bet, increasing the chances of triggering the free spins!

How to Win at Candy Blast Slot

After all is said and done, I’m sure your main objective is to secure wins. So, how does one win in this online slot?

First, you have to spin the 6 reels and 5 rows and hope that 8 or more identical symbols appear simultaneously anywhere on the gameboard, thanks to the Pays Anywhere engine.

After winning symbols are paid, every winning symbol disappears, while the remaining symbols collapse downwards. Further, new symbols drop from above and fill all available positions on the Candy Blast reels.

Select a bet from the €0.10 and €100 limits before spinning the reels. Once done, hit the semi-transparent Spin button at the bottom right to ignite a single game round. Otherwise, you can use the Autoplay function to preselect several auto-spins!

Activating the Lightning Bolt button triggers faster spins, while the three-line Menu icon reveals the paytable, game rules, and settings options.

Candy Blast Slot RTP & Volatility

Depending on your game variant, you get either a 94.30% or 96.34% RTP. Meanwhile, expect a highly volatile experience with the chance to win up to 10,000 times your stake! 

The Final Thoughts

It’s unusual for Push Gaming to create cloned games, but it doesn’t mean it can’t happen. That’s why, upon thorough check, I realised this new release has the same mechanics as the Mad Blast released a few weeks back. While their themes are different, as one focuses on an explosive theme and the other food & fruits, they are like identical twins beneath their skins.

At first, I was excited about Candy Blast. However, after making the reskinned discovery, I’m unsure whether everyone will feel the same about the gameplay.

A lot of multiplier action happens during the gameplay, thanks to the progressive multiplier ladder and Multiplier Boost symbol active in both the base game and free spins. Then, the Extra Life symbol offers you significant winning chances by removing the low-valued paying symbols from the screen.

The same base game action follows you to the free spins but with elevated multipliers. And so, you can win significantly up to the lucrative 10,000x bet win cap throughout your experience. With that thought, I think it’s worth a shot and an alternative to popular candy releases like Pragmatic Play’s Sweet Bonanza.