Sweet 16 Slots
Back at the start of 2016 RTG made a promise to its legions of slot gaming fans. All through the year they would release new games, at the rate of one per month! Many assumed this would lead to a reduction in quality but, the opposite has proven true, with titles like Eternal Love and the Zanshi slot proving some of the most popular game launches in RTG history. For December, the last game to be released, the Sweet 16 slot, finally hit the shelves, the question is, will this sugary treat be an anti-climax or a Christmas number 1?
The theme choice is certainly novel for the new Sweet 16 slot, with a candy filled game and a nod to the MTV reality show hit of the same name. This is more candy crush saga than teenage dream in the new slot though, with enough varieties of sweets in play to give you some serious toothache if you consume too much! Fortunately, the sugar rush isn’t just confined to the fun style. With 243 ways to win, morphing symbols and grouped wilds to play with, this slice of cake has plenty of great gambling ingredients.
Structure & Theme
Sweet 16 is an incredibly easy game to setup and play. The 243 ways to win format where all wins pay left to right for symbol sequences is about the easiest to follow in current slot gaming layouts. Add in the most popular 5x3 reel frame and you have a slot that even the greenest novice can soon get to grips with. The lack of setup options outside bet range does allow more space for funky controls like spin speed in the form of a measuring scale and a larger than usual display for balance and bet. This might not seem so important to desktop PC players but for those playing slots on tablets or Android and iPhones, it’s a big help.
Whilst the game theme is pretty, the 243 ways to win layout is a genuine requirement on this slot. The game is so cluttered with imagery and bright colours you simply wouldn’t be able to follow it if the format was more complicated. If you don’t like your slots loud and proud, it may be a little bit of a turn off. If you do like a decent splash of colour though, the game has you covered! The bright purple background portrays an explosion of various candies coming out of the screen at you whilst each reel also has its own individual brightly backed palette to display the chunky sweets on offer as they hopefully line up and grant you credit prizes.
Features & Gameplay
The individual prizes for the icons on the Sweet 16 game can feel a little limited at first but don’t despair, there’s a good reason for it. The game is jam packed full of feature goodies and it’s there that the real prize rewards lie. Everything seems to offer something extra on this slot, with the scatter granting a separate award based on your bet in addition to triggering the free spins feature for example. Talking about those spins a moment, as you might expect there are sixteen available with a re-trigger on top and the base game secondary features also in play.
The side features available throughout the game are as creative and colourful as the theme. The wild for instance isn’t just a valuable stacked wild symbol, it’s also possible for it to grouped on reels 2-5 for instant 5 of a kind combinations across all reels. Given this can happen on any spin at any time, it really keeps the anticipation level high throughout play. If that wasn’t enough for you, in an interesting variation on the transferring wild mechanic, there are what RTG call morphing symbols. Any winning symbol morphs to a new position after a win and, if the wins keep coming in sequence a multiplier bar is increased at the top of the screen. These multipliers range from 1x-10x the total prize in the base game and x2 – x20 in the free spins feature!
Summary
Whether you feel that this is the best new online slot from RTG in recent years or not will probably come down to your feelings on the theme which some more conservative players might find a little garish. In some ways that’s a shame because the game play and rewards are fantastic, perhaps in the future a clone of the game will be released sharing the same structure but with a broader ranging theme appeal. Till then, we think this is a fantastic game and it’s a great way for RTG to top of a year of incredible real money slot game releases. Play it now for free or for real money at the top RTG casinos!
