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Let’s talk about Tempting Treats, the new 7×7 cluster game from AvatarUX. Honestly? The base paytable is an absolute joke. You know how you usually get a rush when a huge cluster of symbols drops? Not here. The absolute best symbol in the game pays a flat 1x your bet, and you need a cluster of nineteen or more just to get that. I spun it about thirty times and the biggest cluster I ever connected stopped at fifteen, nowhere near the nineteen that top payout wants. You basically have to treat the regular symbols like they’re worthless, they only exist to dig up the multipliers hiding underneath them.
The Base Game is a Grind (Thank God for the Witch)
Here’s the gimmick: you need five matching symbols for a win. When they pop, they leave behind a multiplier. If you land another win on those same spots, the game adds the multipliers together and boosts your payout.
Sounds fun, right? Well, in the base game, it is a slog. The whole board resets every single spin, so you can never build any real momentum. You’ll be sitting there getting a 0.30x return here, maybe scraping together a 0.80x win there. The base game is basically a graveyard of dead multipliers.
The only thing saving this slot from being totally unplayable is the Witch Wild. She steps in for regular symbols, but the best part is that she walks around the grid. After a win, she moves to a new spot and drags her multipliers with her. Seriously, over half of my wins only happened because she carried them. She’s the only reason the game’s 10,000x max win feels even remotely possible, and trust me, with how highly volatile this game is, it needs her.
The Bonus Buy is a Trap
If you’re the type to just buy the bonus, listen up, because AvatarUX set a massive trap here.
You can buy into the free spins for 80x your bet (which gets you 6 spins) or a premium 240x your bet (for 10 spins). During the bonus, the multipliers finally stick between spins instead of resetting, which is the only way you’re going to make any real money with such a terrible paytable.
But whatever you do, don’t buy the expensive one.
Paying triple the price for just four extra spins is a terrible deal. I bought the 240x bonus, and it did nothing but miss connections until the very last spin, which threw me a 60x hit just to keep the round from being a total disaster. You don’t even have to take my word for it; the game’s own math proves it’s a bad deal. The RTP (Return to Player) is 96.27% on the cheap buy, but it actually drops to 95.61% if you buy the premium one!
When a game builds its entire economy around a top symbol that pays 1x, paying 240x for the version with the lower RTP makes no sense at all. If you’re going to play Tempting Treats, stick to the cheap bonus buy and pray the Witch Wild does some heavy lifting.
