Sunset Beach Slot Review

What is better than playing one great slot? Well how about playing four great slot, at once, all combined within one all-encompassing game and bet? If that sounds like something you’d enjoy and perhaps something a little different to the norm, then take a closer look at the Sunset Beach slot from Playtech.

Available to play now at the popular Coral Casino, this is a slot that takes a very simple premise, a group of girls heading to a gorgeous beach to enjoy the summer sun, and then turns it on its head by offering you four sets of reels to play on each spin.

On each set of reels there are a total of 20 pay lines in play and that means to cover all 80 paylines would cost you a minimum bet of £0.80 per spin. However, this is also a game that higher rollers can enjoy as you can ramp up the bet size to £25 per line meaning a total bet of £2,000 per spin is also possible.

The backdrop to the slot is a pristine beach decorated with flowers and with azure seas lapping at golden sands. The reels sit atop this and all four reels contain the same symbols. There are the usual playing card low symbols which go from 10 through to the Ace and which offer a range of wins from 5 coins up to 100 coins.

The medium value symbols include the volleyball, soda can and cocktail and they offer payouts of 15 coins to 400 coins. The three lovely beach-going ladies are the highest value symbols on the reels as well as being the Expanding Wild symbols. These can offer you from between 50 coins to 3,000 coins on a successful pay line depending on the number of symbols landed.

However these three ladies symbols also do a lot more than offer you a chance at the highest payouts in the base game as we shall explore in the key features section outlined below.

Sunset Beach Slot Key Features

One of the most pleasing aspects of this slot is that when you load it up, it looks very complicated to play, but after a few spins, you soon realise that this is arguably as easy to play as any 3-reel retro single pay line game. The reason for that is there are not too many features you can trigger.

In the base game, when you trigger one of the three ladies Wild symbols, it will Expand across the reel to cover it entirely, however that is not all. Depending on which reel set the Wild appeared on, it will also cover the corresponding reels on any reels not yet finalised in the spin. So if you land this symbol on the first reel set on the middle reel, it will turn the middle reel of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th reel set wild. Whereas land it on the 3rd reel set in the central reel and it will just turn that reel wild on the 3rd and 4th reel sets.

This is a very simple bonus and it works well as you can often trigger multiple line wins on different sets of reels when you land one Wild and if you can land more than one, then your chances of landing one of the bigger base game pay outs is considerably increased.

The only other bonus feature of the slot is the Free Games scatter symbol, which appears on all four reels on the central reel. If you can land this symbol on the third reel of all four reel sets on a single spin, then you will trigger the Free Games bonus.

During Free Games, you receive 15 free spins which take place on all four machines at once, just as in the base game.  There are no other changes to the reels during free spins unfortunately, which is a little disappointing, but the good news is that every Free Games scatter you land during your free spins round will add a further 2 free games to your total. Furthermore, there is no limit on the number of additional free spins you could add to your initial 15.

How to win at the Sunset Beach Slot

In truth, winning at the Sunset Beach slot isn’t particularly difficult to do. With four reels in play and 20 pay-lines in play on each, plus plentiful Wilds which Expand across the reels and the reel sets, there is always a good chance each spin of you landing a win.

However, what you will find is that most of these wins are generally very small amounts and they can be as little as 1/20th of your stake size. Of course, that’s not going to see you rack up a profit any time soon, but these little wins do help keep your bankroll topped up a little while you wait to land the bigger wins.

The key to landing bigger wins on this slot is patience. Play at a lower spin amount and maximise the number of spins you have available. That will give you more opportunities to trigger the spins and bonuses that do land you better value wins.

In the base game, that is landing the Wild symbols on the early reels and then watching them expand across the reels. Single Wilds expanding won’t usually offer you a big return, but having multiple chances of winning increases the overall size of your win on that spin. Better value wins come when you can land two or more Expanding Wilds across multiple reels. Then you can land some very sizeable wins.

Essentially, Free Spins is the same story although at least when you trigger free spins you are not paying a stake per spin and this is where you can maximise your profitability. However if you can land more of the Scatter symbols during the bonus round you can earn extra free spins and these can come in very useful as the longer you expand your free spins bonus round, then the greater your chances of hitting a decent win.