Fruit vs Candy Slot

Fruit vs Candy is one of Microgaming's newest games and it was released only earlier in February. To be honest, their game releases are so frequent that I haven't kept up with them, however, a few days ago some casino sent me 25 free spins to try this game so that's how I got my first impression about it.

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the name was- a little childish. It took me back to me childhood where I would always choose candy over fruit. Some things never change, even when you grow up! But enough about that- I think that the game design is quite average, definitely not surprising as you can see letter symbols and fruit or candy. What has recently been a common thing for Microgaming slots is the two themes you can play with- this time you can play either candy or fruit theme, depending on what you prefer. From the 25 free spins I won around 20€ that let me further explore this game.

Technically this game is a 243 way slot and the minimum bets are 0.30€ per spin. I noticed many similarities with their other slots bonus wise- it has free spins round and two random bonuses. In my session I experienced them all- the random cash bonus that just comes up after non winning spin and gives you coin win.Then the other one I had was the sugar rush bonus and I think it is a great one as it will give coin wins to the picture symbols and in my case I also had a scatter so it triggered free spins as well. And I also loved the free spins because you never know how much you'll get, as they end up when all have been covered with stash feature.

Overall I played this game for over an hour and I had a great time. I was close to 100x bet winnings yet I had frequent wins all the time, my highest base game win was 40x bet from the goodie bag feature. Although I am not the biggest fan for the game design, it is definitely compensated with the multiple bonus features and I think that they all come in handy. I was impressed with this slot and would recommend to try it.

Fruit vs Candy is one of the newest video slot powered, created by Microgaming software company. It has 5 reels and 243 pay ways to win. I tried it just once, at Casinoluck for some minutes, but I do not like it so much.

Fruit vs Candy has one bonus game and two different free spins features. At bonus game which is called as sugar rush bonus you get award as cash prizes for all high symbols which appear on the reels. This bonus can be trigger any time during base game and if you get only a single scatter during this bonus the free spins is trigger. While I was playing it, I never triggered bonus game. I guess this is because I was playing it only for a couple of minutes.

There are also two different free spins features – if you playing in fruit mode you will get free spins with cash stash feature. Here at this feature any A, K, Q, J and 10 symbols that land are removed from the reels. Beside this each symbol removed adds cash to you stash, but the cash which you will get is really small, I was playing it on bets 0.6€ and for some symbols I got only 0.04€ pennies which is really bad. Free spins continues until all royals have been stashed.
At candy mode you will get free spins with sweet reel reature. Here weetened reels turn single wilds into stacked wilds. Free spins continues until all reels are sweetened and you can get up to 50 free spins. I think candy free spins feature looks better, but while I was playing I triggered only fruit free spins. I didn't change the fruit-candy mode during base game at all.

Otherwise I think this game is good, but nothing so special about it. I don't think I will play it again, because I lost money on it without any big win. The base game is ok, there could be some higher winnings from 5 of the kind symbols. Anyway I will rate it with 6 stars.

This is one of Microgaming latest released games, Fruit vs Candy, and is yet another fruits game with all the familiar fruits symbols, but including some candy symbols too. But if you think that this game plays like the usual fruits game, then you're wrong. It plays exactly like the game 'Lost Vegas'. In fact, it is a direct clone of Lost Vegas, with the humans and zombies icons being replaced with fruits and candy icons. Hmm, what more can you expect if it's from Microgaming, right? A clone after a clone after another clone, that's what Microgaming is all about, asking us to play with all their cloned games. Sheesh!

Honestly speaking, the graphics in Fruit vs Candy sucks! It looks like a game from decades ago! Cloning a game is already easy enough, yet these Microgaming guys can't even create a nice modern-looking game from a clone? In fact, the clone, Lost Vegas, looks way way better than this game! What a complete letdown! In my opinion, this game shouldn't have been released at all, not in its present looks.

If you've played Lost Vegas, then playing Fruit vs Candy goes exactly the same way. Pick whether you want to play on the Fruits side or on the Candy side. You can always change sides later on, but not within any feature games. The Fruits side is the same as the Survivors side in Lost Vegas, and the Candy side the same as the Zombies side. The mode of play and the Free Spins features are still the same, with either Stashed Cash or Sweetened Reel modes. In Lost Vegas, my preference was the Zombies side with its Infected Reels feature, so in this game, it's the Candy side, with its Sweetened Reel feature.

Very briefly, the logo is the Wild symbol, paying a very low 10x the total bet for getting 5 of them, and substitutes for other symbols except the Scatter symbol. The Fruit and the Candy are the Scatter symbols, paying 50x the total bet for getting 5 of them, and getting 3 or more Scatters trigger the Free Spins game. The free spins keep on going until all the card symbols have been stashed away, or until all the reels have been sweetened, depending on which mode you are playing. The symbols in the game pay from 5x the total bet to 1.33x the total bet, for 5 of each kind. The paytable is damn low, as is with Lost Vegas too.

In the base game, 2 other features can be randomly awarded at any time, namely the 'Sugar Rush' feature, whereby all high symbols on the reels get paid, and 1 Scatter symbol would award the Free Spins game, and the 'Goody Bag' feature, whereby a random instant cash prize is awarded. The Sugar Rush feature is the one to look out for. You can win cash prizes and a Free Spins game at the same time. The Goody Bag feature is a big disappointment, with instant cash prizes that are hardly worthy at all.

Well, some players love playing the game Lost Vegas, so these same players may also love playing Fruit vs Candy. Sorry, not for me. Lost Vegas was disappointing for me. Fruit vs Candy was even more disappointing, what with its old look and uninteresting icons. A complete waste of releasing another clone, in the name of releasing another new game, in my honest opinion. And the payouts from the game still remain mediocre, with mostly small wins. Not my kind of payouts, even though I do like the Infected Reels and the Sweetened Reels mode.

“Fruit vs. Candy” is one of the most recent video slots created by the company “Microgaming” and we see that this company has wanted to delight both the sugar and fruit fanatics allowing them to choose between a set of reels and features different for fruits and for candies.

The Bag and Sugar Rush are common features to both modes, but on the other hand, the biggest difference between Fruit mode and Candy mode is the special feature attached to each round of free spins, and each kind of round has its own charms.

Thus, during spins in Fruit mode, all the symbols depicted with letters that land on the reels, they will be immediately converted into a cash prize one by one and then deleted, leaving an empty space for new symbols to fall, similar to which it would happen in a cascade-type slot.

In Candy mode, spins will last indefinitely until all 5 reels have been sweetened up to a maximum of 50 spins. Here, each reel is sweetened whenever any candy occurs stacked on an entire reel, and the advantage of a sweetened reel is that each individual wild symbol landing just on one of them, it is turned into stacked wild.

The Bag, for its part, it is a feature that is randomly triggered and which in my case has always given me relatively modest prizes, not much to say about this.

As for my first session with this slot, at the beginning and for a while, all kinds of good things happened, bags, free spins at relatively short intervals, a good wild symbol population, etc., but there came a moment where the source get exhausted and then my balance began to plummet quickly; suddenly my streaks of non-winning spins were longer, my payouts smaller, the bag practically disappeared from the map, and free spins were hardly happening and my winnings in these rounds were not as good as before; for example, during my penultimate round of free spins I won a total of 50x my bet per spin, and during my last round, I could only win the modest sum of $3.60 which was 3x my total bet only; after that I decided to quit the game.

In short, I think “Fruit vs. Candy” is a video slot that has been equipped with special features extremely interesting as well as fun, but the numbers do not add up to me, and on second thought, even in the period when the features were triggered with relative frequency, my balance never surpassed $5.00 in gains (only betting $0.30 or $0.60 per spin) which raises many concerns about prices of the paytable.

Nice slot, but I do not think I'll stick with this one.