Candy Madness mixes a sweet shop with a desert island. A turquoise lagoon, waterfalls and jungle cliffs fill the background, and a small brown monkey grins down from the top of a palm tree beside the reels, clearly up to something. The 5×4 grid is framed in bamboo and vines and loaded with glossy sweets. My stake was 1.00 with 100 credits loaded.
Theme and Gameplay
Everything is bright and bouncy. Swirled pink-and-white sweets, lollipops, ice-cream cones, gummy stars, jelly hearts, red diamond drops, green gumdrops and purple flower jellies fill the reels, and red gift boxes with gold ribbons are the Free Spins symbols. The monkey on his palm tree is the star of the show.
The jackpot banners above the grid read Mini 10x, Minor 25x, Major 100x and Grand 500x. A purple Buy Free Spins button sits under the logo, and a coin-stack button on the left handles the bet.
Paying combinations must start on the opening reel, and multipliers in the same win add together.
Slot Features
Whenever a Gold Banana lands, the monkey leaps from his tree onto it and turns it into a Monkey Wild. The wild locks in place and a respin begins. Each further Gold Banana during the respin adds another locked Monkey Wild and another respin, building up a cluster of wilds.
Landing three gift boxes gives you two Monkey Wilds for the bonus, four boxes give three, and five give four. They’re shown in the Monkey Indicator and jump to random spots on every spin, and a Monkey Wild can upgrade to a multiplier version worth x2 to x5, rising the longer it stays put. Free spins carry on as long as Monkey Wilds remain on screen. Gold Bananas add new ones, but watch out for anvils: up to three targets move around each spin, and an anvil that lands on a Monkey Wild knocks it out of the indicator.
A Bonus Prize meter climbs one level per free spin. Surviving 5 spins earns the Mini, 10 the Minor, 20 the Major and 25 the Grand, awarded once the feature is over.
RTP and Win Potential
Besides the prizes in free spins, the jackpots can also land completely at random, regardless of what the reels show.
For instant access, Buy Free Spins starts the bonus for 50x your bet, and an Extra Bet option is also available. With jackpots and survival-based prizes driving the big moments, volatility lands somewhere between medium and high.
My Thoughts On This Slot
I enjoyed the personality here. The monkey gives the game a sense of humour, and the anvil mechanic adds real tension to the free spins. You’re never quite sure whether the next spin will add a wild or take one away. The 50x buy is good value for such an interactive bonus.
Regular spins feel fairly plain between Gold Bananas, and the sweet-themed symbols won’t win any prizes for originality.
