Theme & Design

Enter The Saccharine Universe of Sweetopia!

You can rely on sweet-themed slots to always follow the same design style. Sickly sweet candy, marshmallow, rivers of sugary icing etc. Relax’s Sweetopia is no different. It knows its audience and if you enjoy classics like Sweet Candyland, Sugar Rush and Delicious Candy PopWins then you’ll be right at home here. It’s basically a fantasy land for sugar-rish fiends and, topped off with a weird cutesy voiceover that may just push the boat a little too far.

RTP and Variance

Sweetopia Royale has a fixed RTP of 96.1%. That is about average for an online slot and Relax Gaming slot players benefit from the fact that the RTP remains the same wherever you play. There are no lower rates, unlike with many rival studios, Nolimit City and Hacksaw Gaming included.

The variance is high. Relax are another slot developer known for their high volatility output. They are the studio who put out the Money Train series after all, as well as classics like Dead Man’s Trail and Book of Power. So, in short, expect a bit of a roller coaster, an uneven win distribution, but with plenty of exciting features that can set up crazy win sequences on occasion.

Maximum Win

The maximum payout is, somewhat disappointingly, just 5,000x. In today’s slots world that is underwhelming. Perhaps Relax felt the audience for a sweet-based game are not as driven by super-high potential as those who play the slots that reflect the darker side of life. If you want more to play for, try our list of Relax Gaming’s highest max win slots.

Symbols and Paytable

Sweetopia Royale plays out on a 7×7 game grid. The cluster pays mechanic dictates that wins are triggered by landing 4 or more identical symbols in vertically or horizontally adjacent positions.

The best part about cluster pays games is that you can build huge clusters with big value, so the top of the paytable displays some very big prizes. The pay symbols are made up of four sweets and five cakes, all in different colors with the purple cake the most valuable at the top of the pile. The prizes range from 0.1x for 4 of the lowest value sweet up to 5,000x for 49 (a full screen) of the highest value cakes.

There are NO wilds in this slot game.

Features and Gameplay

Like all the best cluster pays slots, Relax Gaming have packed Sweetopia Royale with tons of features, so it rarely sits still and the entertainment levels are high throughout.

Re-Spins With Extra Modifiers

At the heart of the game is this re-spin feature which stands in for the more common cascading wins event that we see in most grid slots.

After each win, the winning clusters lock in place and a re-spin follows. If more symbols are added to the cluster then the process repeats. And so on, until no more symbols are added to the cluster and no more clusters appear. Then the payout is awarded.

The good part is, when the re-spin feature is playing, random modifiers MAY also land to help improve the payout. There are 3 modifiers and they work like this:

• Candy Cannon – 2 to 8 symbols matching those in the winning clusters are added anywhere on the grid
• Sweet Upgrade – symbols in the winning cluster are upgraded to the next symbol type in the paytable
• Candy Clusters – where symbols of the same type as in the cluster appears on the same row or reel as the cluster, like magic they are dragged onto it to increase its size

Random Extras At The Start or End of a Game Round

This generous feature gives you more chances to win at the start or end of any game round. There are 2 possibilities here:

• Sweet Surprise – at the start of your game round a super-sized 2×2, 3×3 or 4×4 mystery symbol is added to the grid to reveal a pay symbol or coin.
• Lucky Respin – at the end of the game round, every position on the grid that is adjacent to a winning cluster re-spins, potentially adding more symbols to that cluster

In both cases, if this creates more wins, or new wins, then the re-spin feature kicks in too.

Combining Clusters 

This one is particularly powerful. Where you have two separate clusters on the grid, but in adjacent positions, then they form one super cluster where the symbols takes the value of the highest value cluster.

Then, the re-spins kicks in again.

Candy Coin Re-Spins

The Candy Coin Re-Spin takes the game in a slightly different direction.

As well as sweets and cakes there are coins in the paytable. These have random values assigned to them from 1x to 1,000x and they too can form clusters. The difference is, when a cluster of coins form, the re-spin only reveals blanks, more coins, or the canon, cluster or upgrade modifiers.

Coin clusters can be very valuable if you get lucky with the numbers. And to help you, the Sweet Surprise and Lucky Respin features may also randomly trigger during Candy Coin Re-Spins.

Free Spins With Enhanced Modifiers

In the free spins round the modifiers take on a progressive element which makes the gameplay more exciting and the prizes potentially greater. You need to land at least 3 scatters to trigger the round as follows:

• 3 scatters – 5 free spins
• 4 scatters – 6 free spins
• 5 scatters – 7 free spins
• 6 scatters – 8 free spins
• 7 scatters – 9 free spins

Now, on every FIFTH re-spin, ONE of the three modifiers – Candy Canon, Sweet Upgrade, Canon Clusters – will be upgraded and ONE more free spin is added to your total. Each modifier has five levels and works as follows:

• Candy Canon – at each new level, between 2 and 8 symbols matching those in a winning cluster will be added to the reels
• Sweet Upgrade – at each new level, the symbols in a winning cluster are upgraded to the next value in the paytable
• Candy Cluster – in this case, not only do symbols matching the winning cluster appearing on the same reel or row get drawn into the cluster, but also any symbols between the cluster and the matching symbols get converted into the cluster symbol too.

After every modifier has been triggered 5 times, after each further 5 re-spins, then another spin is simply added to your total.

The Final Verdict

Sweetopia Royale is no also-ran in the crowded field of sweet-themed slots. This is a genuinely innovative game which boasts interesting features and builds towards a potentially exciting climax in its free spins round. The fundamental re-spins mechanic means the game doesn’t play like a standard cluster pay slot, and with those 3 random modifiers dropping (perhaps not as often as we’d like) clusters can transform and grow unexpectedly which keeps you on your toes. The coins are also an interesting addition, adding a hold and win element when you least expect it. The numbers hold up well too with a good RTP and volatility, though the 5,000x max win might feel a bit too low for some.

So, to conclude, smart gameplay matched with high quality production means Sweetopia should be a popular choice for saccharine-hungry slots players this year.