The end of Summer signals the culmination of the growing season and Sweet Harvest by Microgaming invites you to take to the fields of a local farmer to assist him, his beautiful daughter and a hunky farmhand in the harvesting process.
While many players might not feel generous enough to work up a sweat picking fruit in fields, the fact you could find yourself rewarded with up to 200,000 coins will surely have you filling baskets from dawn to dusk and the country soundtrack will likely have you dancing around the fields too!
Your search for ripe fruits takes place over 5 reels as you try to line up tasty corn cobs and juicy pumpkins across 20 adjustable paylines.
Despite doing the farmer a favour, he’s rather cautious about random people gaining access to his crop, therefore you’ll have to pay a low limit of 20p (assuming you wish to play with all lines active – which I’d strongly recommend) to enter his fields but that could prove to be a small price to pay considering the amount of cash you could get your hands on in the countryside.
That’s because he will lavish you with bonus features for doing a good job with Wild symbols worth up to 100x your stake, entering the barn could see you gain up to 150x your stake and trigger a Free Spins feature that introduces Stacked Wild symbols, plus you can get your hands on a random cash prize via the Harvest Bonus.
As you gather a ripe crop from the fields, you’ll find yourself picking up a selection of letters and numbers. It’s rather disappointing that these have been included by Microgaming considering the abundance of fruits that they could have used instead, however, there are decent rewards for finding three or more of them as up to 5x, 6x, 6.5x, 7x and 7.5x your stake is on offer for gathering sets of 10, J, Q, K and A symbols respectively.
Getting your hands on corn cobs sees the farmer reward you with up to 15x your stake while greater rewards of up to 25x your stake are on offer for gathering pumpkins.
The farmer, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and hat to block out the sun, often shows up to show his gratitude by presenting you with up to 37.5x your stake, while the hunky farmhand and the farmer’s daughter will bribe with up to 40x and 50x your stake respectively for keeping quiet about their secret liaisons.
There Sweet Harvest logo represents the Wild symbol, seeing you gather a maximum of 100x your stake, and it can substitute for all but the two other special symbols – the Scatter and Bonus.
Picking corn cobs and pumpkins in the fields might yield decent rewards but it’s baskets filled with fruit that you’ll be hoping to get to pick from in the Sweet Harvest video slot as you are guaranteed a cash prize.
These baskets represent the Bonus Scatter and their presence on the second or fourth reels see you click on them to reveal a random prize – simple and sweet!