Retro Sweets

Theme and Design

A Nostalgic Setting For This Feature-Fuelled Cluster Pays Game

Retro Sweets is a follow-on from Push’s November 2022 release, Retro Tapes, which based its theme around the classic magnetic tapes used to record music back in the 80s. Retro Sweets is similarly nostalgic, with classic sweets in wrappers packing out the paytable, and a 60s diner providing the backdrop, a ghetto-blaster sitting on one of the booth’s tables, and the whole scene bathed in a purplish-pink light. The soundtrack is a nice 80-s style electro one, completing the journey back in time. It feels quite chilled, not unlike the feeling you get from Hacksaw’s Vending Machine, though the volatility here means the experience is quite different.

RTP and Variance

Retro Sweets has five RTP rates – 96.49%, 95.42%, 94.42%, 90.46% and 88.41%. Your slot site operator can choose to run the game at any of these settings and I recommend finding one that sets the game to 96.49%. MrQ from Lindar Media consistently runs slots at the optimum settings and makes a good choice. You can check the RTP for yourself wherever you play by hitting the hamburger button on the top right of the game screen, then the ‘?’ button at the bottom of the pop-out. Scroll through until you see ‘Return to Player’.

This is also a high variance slot so it will have an uneven win distribution and it’s a good idea to set your stake to a low setting to ride out those dry spells whilst chasing down the big moments.

Maximum Win

The maximum payout in Retro Sweets is 10,000x. That isn’t bad – you can win £10,000 from just a £1 bet. If you like that and what to find much bigger potential from the same studio then check out our list of Push slots with the highest max wins.

Symbols and Paytable

The Retro Sweets game grid is big with 6 reels, each displaying 9 rows of symbols. It is a cluster pays game so you need to be landing 5 or more identical symbols on adjacent positions, horizontally or vertically, to score wins. With so many positions on the grid there is the chance to build really big clusters.

There are six paying sweets in the paytable. They are the purple, blue, green, pink, orange and red ones, valued at from 0.1x for 5 purples up to 500x for 17 or more reds.

There is also a multi-colored Wild Candy symbol that substitutes for all pay symbols to complete clusters. It starts with a 1x multiplier which grows by 1x each time it is involved in a winning cluster.

Features and Gameplay

Retro Sweets is packed with features that create some really exciting gameplay. Here is how it all works:

Cascading Wins

First of all, this game uses the classic Cascading Wins mechanic. After each win, winning symbols are removed from the grid, existing ones drop down to fill the spaces, and new ones drop in from above to complete the grid once more. If more wins are created, then the process repeats. And so on, until no more wins occur.

Wild Multiplier

Look out for the Wild multiplier, shaped like a multi-colored candy bomb. It carries a multiplier of 1x, 2x, 3x or 5x. When it lands it distributes that value to any visible Wild Candy symbols before transforming into an instant prize symbol with a random value.

Instant Prize Symbols

These are different colored symbols that display bet multiplier values of 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x or 1,000x. If they land as a cluster of 5 then the prize value is paid out.

Instant Prize Multiplier 

Just like the Wild Multiplier, the Instant Prize Multiplier has a value of 2x, 5x or 10x. This one applies its value to all Instant Prize symbols in view before transforming into another Instant Prize symbol itself.

Sweet Collector

The Sweet Collector is the letter ‘C’. It works like a magnet, attracting identical pay symbols from across the grid to form a cluster around it. It can do the same with Instant Prize symbols if 4 or more are visible. It can drawn in anywhere between 4 and 9 symbols in this way and it can attract Wilds too to help complete the clusters.

Once a cluster is created by the collector it transforms into the matching pay symbol or an Instant Prize symbol.

Cluster Links

Look out for the Cluster Links too. For these to trigger you need to land a specified number of Instant Prizes in a cluster. These clusters and enhancements can bring up big wins. 

Up To 12 Free Spins

Wild Candy symbols don’t just help to complete clusters. When 3 or more land on one spin, then the free spins feature is triggered like this:

• 3 Wild Candy – 6 free spins
• 4 Wild Candy – 8 free spins
• 5 Wild Candy – 10 free spins
• 6 Wild Candy – 12 free spins

At the start of the round, any Wild Candy and Instant Prize symbols stick in place from the triggering spin. And for each spin, the remaining positions on the grid display any of the following symbols:

• Instant Prize – locks in place for the rest of the feature
• Instant Prize Multiplier – applies its value to any visible Instant Prizes
• Wild Candy – completes clusters
• Wild Multiplier – applied to any Wild Candy on the grid
• Extra Spin – gets you 1 or 2 more spins before transforming into an Instant Prize symbol
• Sweet Collector – picks out pay symbols, instant prize symbols and wilds not yet involved in a cluster and attracts them around it
• Blanks – do not pay out

Instant Prize cluster payouts are only calculated and paid out at the end of the round. As these symbols stick throughout, that means there is potential to build some really nice wins.