Sugar Sands Slot Review & Free Play

Sugar Sands: Stack Ancient Artifacts in Jelly Filled Pyramids for up to 25,000x Wins

Candy-filled pyramids, ancient tablets made of jelly, and pharaohs made of candy bring up to 25,000x payouts in Sugar Sands by Skywind Group. Stack colorful sugary symbols for up to 100x payouts, land cat-like sphinx for up to 30 free spins, and trigger multiplier hotspots worth up to 2,187x. Here’s a brief look at what this candy-themed version of ancient Egypt looks like from within.

The game takes up a sizable 7x7 reel grid where you need to land clusters of five or more matching symbols touching each other to form a win. Unlike regular slots, wins here can form horizontally, vertically, and even diagonally, thanks to the tilted reel setup. Each winning combination triggers a cascade, giving you even more chances to land payouts. I made between 0.20x to 1.50x returns pretty easily throughout my session thanks to this setup.

Getting wins above that was the hard part, as lower symbols almost always filled the reels. They also brought less than 1x returns, so landing multiple cascades didn’t help much either. What really saved me was the multiplier hotspot feature. After landing two winning combos on the same symbol space, that spot gains a 2x multiplier. These multipliers double with each new win on the same spot. Even though I only reached the 2x multiplier, I managed to push my wins up to nearly 5x my bet. 

I triggered the free spins bonus game with three scatter symbols, which gave me 10 spins with persistent multiplier hotspots. The multipliers also add up when multiple hotspots are used, which helped me reach a 20x multiplier on one of the spins. That said, the lower symbol payouts only got me a small 13x payout on my first trigger. I triggered the round a few more times and never managed anything over 20x my bet.

Sugar Sands had such a promising start that the low payouts in the bonus game stung. It has everything going for it, a unique mixed theme, fun visuals and animations, and a gameplay loop with decent winning potential. The problem is the bonus game payouts are too low to take you far. I would only recommend playing the Sugar Sands free demo by Skywind Group above, not betting real money on it.