Sugar Bomb DoubleMax

Sugar Bomb DoubleMax: Slot Overview

With a name like Jelly, it's surprising Yggdrasil Gaming's partner studio hasn't made a sweet-themed slot before. This all changes with the release of Sugar Bomb DoubleMax, a sweet-as-you-like-it slot full of candy, sugar, and all that sort of tooth-wrecking, waist-expanding, naughty, but nice stuff. As the name says, Yggdrasil Gaming's popular DoubleMax win multiplier has been brought on board, helping to sweeten up gaming that includes a couple of multiplier-linked bomb symbols, instant prizes, and free spins.

For the view, Sugar Bomb DoubleMax gives players well-versed in the candy genre a familiar environment to inhabit. Not even well-versed players, really. Sometimes, it feels as if you've played just one of these sorts of games, you've played, or at least seen, them all. You know, ripples of pink, white, blue, and purple, sweety objects sprinkled here and there, as if you're living in the swirls of cotton candy or have been rammed headfirst into a marshmallow. Sugar Bomb DoubleMax doesn't really have much new to offer optically, but it manages to present a mouth-watering scene if candy slots are your thing.

Sugar Bomb DoubleMax's active gaming area has a main zone made up of 5 reels and 3 rows, plus there's a 3-position top tracker where some of the special symbols may appear. Mix all the reels together, and you've got 576 ways to win. You've also got a medium-high volatile slot, producing an RTP of 96% by default, no matter how the game is approached – betting 20 c to $/€80 per spin, buying free spins, or using the Golden Bet. When activating the Golden Bet, stakes increase by 25%, and in return, the chance of triggering free spins rises.

The symbols part of winning combinations are removed from the reels after they have paid out. Symbols drop down or shift to the side on the top tracker to fill the empty gaps, and if another win is formed after the cascade, the process repeats itself, ending when no new win hits. A stack of sweet items appear on the paytable, including 10 to A card royals, which are covered in some sort of oozing treacle, paying 0.5 to 0.75 times the bet for a 5-of-a-kind win. They're joined by 5 sugary items, worth 1x to 10x the bet for a 5-matching symbol winning way. Wilds are played by the Sugar Bomb symbols, which substitute for any regular paying symbol and are directly connected to the DoubleMax win multiplier.

Sugar Bomb DoubleMax: Slot Features

Sugar Bomb DoubleMax's sugary delights consist of cascades, Sugar Bombs, Golden Bombs, the DoubleMax, Gobstoppers, free spins, and a bonus buy.

DoubleMax

The DoubleMax multiplier is triggered by the Sugar Bomb symbol. A Sugar Bomb in view doubles the DoubleMax win multiplier. Sugar Bombs are wild, too, and are only active for the DoubleMax once. Sugar Bombs appear only on the top tracker reel.

Golden Bomb

The Golden Bomb appears only on the top tracker, as well. When a Golden Bomb hits, which probably won't be too often, the DoubleMax is taken to its maximum x256 multiplier value.

Gobstopper

Gobstoppers are also only present on the top tracker reel. Gobstoppers hit with an instant prize of 1x to 10x the bet, and this prize may be multiplied by the DoubleMax.

Free Spins

Getting 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols on the reels results in 8, 10, or 12 rewarded free spins, respectively. During free spins, the DoubleMax multiplier remains persistent when triggered by the Sugar Bomb or the Golden Bomb. Hitting 2, 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols awards a further 2, 4, 6, or 8 free spins, respectively.

Buy Bonus

For 80x the bet from the bonus buy, players can get a free spins session with 3 or more scatter symbols.

Sugar Bomb DoubleMax: Slot Verdict

In some ways, Sugar Bomb DoubleMax is business as usual. It's a candied online slot powered by Yggdrasil's doubling-up win multiplier mechanic. It sounds pretty pedestrian when put like that, but on the encouraging side, Jelly has avoided following the usual blueprint put forward many moons ago by Raptor DoubleMax (the mechanic's debut) and has forged something of its own path. Maybe not thematically, since it's all sweets and whatnot, yet the studio has tinkered with the DoubleMax delivery system and a few of the supplementary features.

The most critical is the way the DoubleMax multiplier is activated and grown. Usually, in these sorts of games, the multiplier doubles up following a winning cascade. It's a system which works well, to be sure, but there are plenty of good examples of that sort of method already. So, the Sugar Bomb symbol actually made for an appreciable change. Helps that it is wild too. Not saying one system is a clear-cut better pick, though, as some gamblers may naturally gravitate to one over the other. Anyway, having an alternative choice is no bad thing. An aspect of Sugar Bomb DoubleMax which might be more divisive, or at least help players make their minds up over whether to go for Jelly's contribution or shun it, is that the DoubleMax multiplier is capped at x256, and in connection, winning potential isn't as impressive here as it can be elsewhere. Where its bigger brothers and sisters boast 20-25,000x, Sugar Bomb DoubleMax taps out at a noticeably lighter figure of 5,000x the bet.

Therefore, Sugar Bomb DoubleMax is not the king-size option for those looking to go large in the DoubleMax category. However, it's not a bad option either for gamblers happy to downsize winning potential, as it offers a satisfying mix of candy and relatively unique DoubleMax gaming.