Candy Glyph

Quickspin has already released three ‘Glyph’ games in Golden Glyph and its two sequels. However, the developer has decided to move the action away from the golden sands of ancient Egypt and into a more colourful setting. Enter Candy Glyph, a world filled with all sorts of decadent sweets that will make you want to go rummaging through your cupboards in search of some real gummies.

The visuals of this online slot are as on point as ever and the technicolour candy theme is reinforced by a set of excellent special features, including wilds, win multipliers and free spins. And if luck is on your side, you could even score prizes of up to 13,000x your stake.

So, strap yourselves in and read about all that Candy Glyph brings to the table.

⚡ RTP	96.19% | 94% | 90% | 87%
🎲 Volatility	Medium
💰 Paylines	Cluster Pays
🔼 Maximum Bet	100
🔻 Minimum Bet	0.20
⭐ Bonus Features	Reel Modifiers, Wilds, Free Spins, Win Multiplier, Cascading Reels

Candy Glyph Slot Game Free Demo

Even longtime fans of ‘Glyph’ games will want to try out the Candy Glyph free demo before spinning the reels for real money. The free version of the game is identical to the paid one, so you can experience all of the same mechanics and features here without putting your money on the line. It’s the perfect way to familiarise yourself with everything the slot has to offer, understanding how often wins and special features will trigger. With all this information, you can confidently set an ideal bet level that suits your gambling budget.

Pro Tips:

With a medium level of volatility, wins and special feature triggers aren’t all that uncommon in Candy Glyph. I managed to activate my first set of free spins within 15 rounds and after that, I kept activating power-up features every few spins or so. So, it’s not the most challenging of slots you’ll ever come across. I still suggest being mindful of your gambling budget and making sure you manage your bankroll well, but you can afford to place bigger bets in the hopes of hitting the best wins the game has to offer.

Candy Glyph Slot Bonus Features

Candy Glyph’s sugar rush plays out across 7 reels and 7 rows which can have a maximum of 49 symbols in total and you’ll be keeping an eye out for symbol clusters to dish out wins. Cluster pays need five identical symbols connected in horizontal or vertical directions and the biggest wins are awarded for clusters of over 15 identical symbols.

The paytable is made up of a mix of both low and high-paying symbols. All of the tokens show different types of sweets, including blue triangles, green squares, doughnut circles, kidney-shaped treats, orange slices, a star and red pepper candy. For minimum payouts with five identical symbol clusters, you can get anywhere between 0.1x to 1x your bet. But if you manage to put together clusters of over 15 symbols you can boost that payout, cashing in between 7.5x to 250x your stake.

Another crucial element here is cascading reels. Whenever you score a winning combination, the winning symbols are removed from the reels, making room for more symbols to drop from the top of the grid and fill up the empty spaces. If you put together another win, then the process is repeated once again. Symbols will continue to cascade until there are no more wins on the reels.

That pretty much sums up the basics for Candy Glyph, but the slot’s real potential comes through when you add in all its special features.

Wilds

There are three different wild symbols lurking around the video slot and there are specific actions that need to be performed to activate each kind. But with all three symbols, their function remains the same, with all of them stepping in for missing symbols on a payline. None of them have any value of their own, so they rely solely on forming part of other wins to give you a payout.

Regular wild symbols can be added to the reels through the Bouncy Beans reel modifier and the Pinata Glyph Wild is only available during free spins. So, most of the time, you’ll be getting a helping hand from the Power Wild.

Power Wilds are formed whenever a winning cluster is removed from the grid, landing in one of the empty spaces before new symbols tumble through the cascading reels feature. The Power Wild work just like regular wilds, but whenever they’re removed as part of a win, they unlock one of the Power-Ups from the meter on the left-hand side of the reels. If you still have Power Wilds on the reels when you trigger free spins, they’re transformed into regular wilds. Power Wilds don’t land during free spins.

Power-Up Feature

On the left-hand side of the grid, you’ll notice the Power-Up meter. It’s made up of five symbols, with a fifth, bonus symbol sitting at the very top. The bonus symbol remains present on every spin, but the rest of the power-up symbols change with each new round.

These can include the Bonbon Rocket, Lollipop Rocket or Bouncy Bean reel modifiers. To activate them, you’ll need to consume a Power Wild as part of a winning cluster. The power-ups are activated once there are no more tumble wins on the reels, starting from the bottom power-up and working up to the top. The reel modifiers trigger the following:

• Bonbon Rocket – Lands on a random spot on the grid, removing all high and low-paying symbols in their respective row and column. All of the removed symbols award 1/20 of your stake.
• Lollipop Rocket – Picks a random low-paying symbol type and removes all of its instances from the reels. All removed symbols award 1/20 of your stake.
• Bouncy Bean – Adds between four to 10 wilds to random positions on the grid.

Free Spins

To activate free spins, you’ll need to score five power wild wins in a single round (tumble wins included). Upon activation, you get nine free spins and can add an extra three free spins to your tally by hitting the bonus power-up symbol during the bonus rounds.

The biggest addition here is the Pinata Glyph Wild, which pops up on your first free spin in a random location with a starting win multiplier of 1x. This increases by a value of one for every tumble, as long as the Pinata Glyph Wild has formed part of at least one winning cluster. Rather than tumbling down with the rest of the symbols, the Pinata Wild Glyph together with its accumulated win multiplier move to a new random position with each new spin. The win multiplier remains active until the end of free spins.

RTP & Volatility of Candy Glyph Slot

Quickspin sticks to a similar math model it had with the Golden Glyph series. Volatility is clocked at a medium setting, and while you won’t be landing wins and special feature triggers on every round, they do pop up quite often. That is paired with a variety of RTP settings ranging from 96.19% to 94%, 90% and 87%. I strongly suggest playing the 96.19% version to get the best experience possible.

Golden Glyph is developed by Quickspin, a game provider with an excellent track record for producing quality, fair and trustworthy games. So, you can rest assured that the game is safe to play. I would recommend playing at an equally reputable online casino, ideally one with trusted gambling licenses and robust security features for added peace of mind.

Candy Glyph Slot on Mobile

You can keep popping that sweet bonbons and candy on mobile too thanks to the slot’s brilliant mobile compatibility. The game runs perfectly on both Android and iOS platforms, bringing the same graphics, features and win potential to mobile devices. You can play Candy Glyph in both portrait and landscape modes, with the interface automatically adapting to fit smaller screens while also adding touchscreen controls.

Conclusion

Candy Glyph turned out to be a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, there’s very little to fault. The game takes the formula that made the Golden Glyph series so popular and simply reskins it with a more popular candy theme. So, fans of the ‘Glyph’ series will feel right at home with familiar mechanics and bonuses.

They all still work incredibly well. I love how connected all of the included features are, tying it together to create a strong sense of progression and cohesion. Each mechanic helps in the activation of another, and a lucky round could see you push to free spins and potentially take a shot at that sweet 13,000x max win potential. The medium volatility setting works perfectly well here, giving you enough wins and triggers to keep you hooked, while also making sure you feel challenged. It’s a solid gameplay loop and as the saying goes, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

And yet I couldn’t help but wish that the game tried to push for some form of innovative or original ideas. It simply feels like a clone with a new lick of paint. All that’s been substantially changed here is the theme. It’s an excellent set of visuals too, with a great soundtrack to boot and wonderful animations that make the candy pop and come to life. But I guess I was hoping for more than just a regular rehash of a popular video slot.

In the end, you get the same experience you’d find on any of the Golden Glyph video slots, so the only reason you’d end up picking this over the others is if you’d rather be smashing sweets and chocolates than ancient Egyptian artefacts.