Sun Princess Hacksaw Gaming slot review with free demo

I tried Sun Princess from Hacksaw Gaming quite recently, and honestly, out of all the princesses in this series, this one hooked me the most. The slot turned out bright, pleasant, and not nearly as tight in terms of payouts. It feels pretty soft overall, so it does not drain your balance much, especially if you spin at normal stakes.
It has a 7×7 field and cluster mechanics. To win, you need to land at least 5 matching symbols next to each other horizontally or vertically. The main feature of the slot is Sun Ray Frames. The frame appears on the field and after the win is calculated, it starts spreading across it, turning symbols into the same one as the symbol where the frame appeared. And if the ray passes through another matching symbol, Chain Reaction triggers and a new frame can appear. The wilds are done in an interesting way too. If Sun Ray passes through a wild, it gets an x2 multiplier, and with each subsequent hit the multiplier increases by another x2. This works especially well in bonus rounds. There are three free spin options here: Solaris Grove, Sunfire Palace, and the rarer Golden Eclipse. In the last one, Sun Ray appears on every spin, and the wilds become sticky and can stack multipliers.
As for the specs, the slot has medium volatility, the RTP is 96.29%, and the maximum win is advertised at up to 10000x the bet.
All in all, I really liked Sun Princess. Out of the whole princess series from Hacksaw, this is the one I am most interested in spinning so far.

Sun Princess

Visually the slot is very nice, out of the princess series this one is my favorite. Volatility is medium, you can usually spin longer without a turbo drain on your balance, and even a regular spin can bring a big hit, up to the max win (I personally hit up to x500 on a spin). All thanks to the Sun Rays mechanic, which can spread up and down and even fill the whole 49-cell grid, so the payout depends on the symbol value and how much of the field it fills; plus wilds can drop, and their multiplier can also be leveled up. In the regular bonus game the chance of Rays simply increases and usually the game doesn’t do anything special, I haven’t seen more than about x2 the cost of the bonus here, while in the top-level bonus sticky wilds appear and they can change everything – I once hit x700 and change there, but without them (or if they don’t work out) there is no difference from the normal bonus. I haven’t caught the epic one yet, and in that mode you are guaranteed a Ray every spin in addition to sticky wilds, which in my opinion almost certainly guarantees a four-figure win. There is also an extra chance feature, but I wouldn’t recommend it – if the game is set up it will drop anyway, if not that extra chance just makes your balance fly out; there’s an interesting mini-bonus with a guaranteed Ray that usually holds +/- even, but you need a bankroll for at least 20 spins. Overall the slot left a good impression, I visit it pretty often.

Sun Princess – video slot from provider Hacksaw Gaming.

This game I didn’t like either, seemed super weird. It gave a bunch of simple bonuses that didn’t give anything. If a bonus with 3 scatters hits, I look even without much hope and if it even “spits out” x100, I consider myself really lucky. I also noticed the most common scenario: the bonus starts, you spin all the spins for nothing and on the last spin it gives x20-30. In general the regular bonus is not for me. The top one is more interesting, and there were at least some wins around x300-400. I also noticed a trend: Hacksaw has 3 or 4 games with princesses and I’m totally unlucky in all of them. These slots aren’t for me and I usually avoid them or play them very rarely. When Hacksaw is hot across the board, I might play those slots too.

Lately this provider has become disappointing. They release unsuccessful slots in my opinion or started churning out raccoon slot clones. Some even added a hotmode purchase. Feels like the provider has started to slide. So I more often prefer to choose older slots.