Jungle Gorilla

Theme and Design

The action takes place against a tropical jungle background with lush greens and yellows, streams of sunlight and thick vegetation catching the eye. It’s a little reminiscent of classics like NetEnt‘s Jungle Spirit and Blueprint Gaming‘s Gorilla Gold Megaways. One of the stand out features of the production is the blissed out soundtrack that makes you feel very at peace with the world. Maybe it’s this that is keeping the gorilla looking so benign too.

RTP and Variance

Jungle Gorilla has three RTP settings – 96.57%, 95.44% or 94.21%. Which level you play at will be at the discretion of your slot site so I recommend checking the game info screen before you start to make sure you are getting value for money – hit the ‘I’ in the bottom left to bring this up and scroll through to the RTP page.

This slot is not as volatile as some of Pragmatic Play’s other output, with a 3/5 score by the studio’s own ratings. That makes it a medium variance game.

Maximum Win

The max payout from one spin is just 2,800x, lower than many other Pragmatic Play slots, but not too bad for a medium variance game. If you want a higher paying game from the same provider, check out this list of Pragmatic Play's highest paying slots.

Symbols and Paytable

The game plays on a 5 reel and 3 row set with 20 paylines in play at all times.

Symbol values are mediocre but the use of multipliers throughout the game means their values are quickly enhanced. Wins are scored by landing matching symbols on paylines from left to right.

Low paying symbols are the Jack, Queen, King and Ace valued at from 0.25x for three Jacks up to 1.75x for five Aces.

Premiums are represented by five animals – chameleon, elephant, parrot, tiger, gorilla. Five of the highest paying gorillas pays out 4.5x for five on a line.

Look out as well for the game’s Wild which subs for all other symbols AND pays out 12.5x for five on a line. Wilds interact with multipliers in this game and provide the core feature in the gameplay.

Features and Gameplay

A little short on features, Jungle Gorilla puts all its eggs in the Wild Multiplier basket. There are NO free spins. Here is how it works.

Golden Gorilla Scatters Increase Reel Multipliers

In a nutshell, this it it … each reel has a multiplier displayed above it. They start at 1x and whenever a scatter golden gorilla lands on a reel it pushes the multiplier value up by 1x.

This can happen up to 5 times, so the multiplier has the potential to reach a maximum value of 5x the payout. 

Importantly, they do NOT re-set between spins, but only when they are used as described below.

Wild Symbols Trigger The Multiplier Values

Now, when a wild lands on any reel it takes on the multiplier value at the top of its reel to be applied to any win line it is a part of. And if more than one wild appears in a win line, then their multipliers are multiplied rather than added. So two 3x multipliers would get you a 9x total, not 6x.

And that’s your lot because once a win has been triggered, the multipliers used in that win are re-set to 1x.