Sweet Harvest Pokie
Farming may not be the most obvious theme for an online pokie to follow, but Sweet Harvest, from Microgaming manages to stand out from the crop with a nice 5 reel, 20 payline game that has some rewarding bonus features and even some sexy farmers to look at.
It’s presented in a style that Microgamingpokie fans will be familiar with and comes complete with nice graphics and smooth animations to complement features like free spins with multipliers, wild substitutions and random cash prizes that should help to bring some bountiful rewards to players.
Digging Into Sweet Harvest
Some games have very plain, featureless backgrounds, but behind the reels of Sweet Harvest, players will see rolling fields, filled with crops and a nice blue sky to complete the picture. The controls are set across a piece of wood and these can be used to decide how many lines to play and how much to stake overall.
Options range from just activating a single line out of the 20 for a stake of 0.01, but this means that on average only 1 in 20 wins that appear on the reels will count, so to be sure to qualify for all of them, they can all be in play for just 0.20 per spin.
The value of a coin can then be raised to a maximum of 0.50 and up to 5 coins can be bet per line for an overall maximum stake of 50.00. Winning combinations are formed whenever 3 or more matching symbols come to stop across an active line on adjacent reels running from the left side, except scatter wins that can be in any positions.
Clicking the View Pays button below the reels takes players to information about how much is won with each symbol. The ever-popular playing card icons 10, J, Q, K and A make up the lower end, with little tomatoes, grapes, onions and sweetcorn decorating each one to give them some sort of link to the overall theme.
More is won by landing the picture symbols that are unique to this pokie, with the ears of corn and pumpkins starting it off, while the table is topped by the people who work the land, including a farmer and a couple of attractive farmhands, one for the guys and one for the girls.
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Gathering In Extra Rewards
The highest paying symbol is the Sweet Harvest logo which doubles up as a wild symbol, so it will help to complete winning lines by substituting for all the main symbols if needed.
Symbols that it won’t replace are the basket of harvested fruit and vegetables, which are a bonus icon and the barn which is a scatter. The basket triggers a random bonus payment when it lands on reels 2 or 4, while the barn is a scatter symbol that will pay out some nice wins and starts a free spins round whenever 3 or more stop in any positions on the reels at any time.
To help this occur more often, Sweet Harvest has an unusual feature where landing the scatter on reels 1 and 2 during the base game will set the other reels spinning once more for another shot at triggering a win and the free spins.
12 free spins play out, during which the young farmhands are extra wild symbols, even appearing stacked on the reels for lots more winning chances. If they both land on adjacent reels and help to form a winning line, the value of the win is doubled. There’s some fun animations in effect as well, with the farmer chasing the male farmhand around while the girl, presumably the farmer’s daughter, watches on.
The Cream Of The Crop?
Sweet Harvest may have a slightly unusual theme, but it’s all done with a sense of humour and is a good-looking, colourful game. There’s a suitably country style soundtrack to go along with it, and some nice animations when symbols form part of a winning line, so as far as looks goes, it’s a success.
Gameplay is pretty good as well, with a reasonable bet range that should be fine for all but high rollers and some nice extras that can crop up at any time. The Basket Bonus is a particular treat, as it’s just a random payout with no input needed from the players, while the respins when 2 scatters appear is an innovative feature that will hopefully find its way on to lots more Microgaming pokies in the future.