7 Monkeys Slot Review
Moss-furred trunks and creeper-strung branches frame the reels like a canopy window, a heavy liana droops across the bottom of the screen, and a gold-and-red logo sits half-swallowed by the overhanging branches. This is 7 Monkeys, a rainforest slot from Pragmatic Play that takes a position most five-reel games won’t: it’s a bonus round first and a slot second, happy to let seven paylines and one baboon carry everything until the bananas arrive.
The setup is a 5×3 grid with seven fixed paylines, an RTP of 92.71%, low volatility and a 5,000x maximum win, with stakes running from 0.07 to 245.00 per spin. Pragmatic’s shelf has since filled with flashier jungle fare such as 3 Dancing Monkeys and Lucky Monkey, but this one keeps things pleasingly spare. One feature, done properly.
Base Game & Features
The action sits in a steamy jungle clearing, rendered in saturated greens with a glossy cartoon finish. Behind the reels, a softly blurred wall of foliage catches dapples of light. Five monkeys fill the paytable, one each in yellow, green, blue, orange and pink, joined by a banana scatter and a baboon wild. Wins pay from left to right across the seven fixed lines, and every win is multiplied by the bet per line.
Seven lines is a strikingly small number for a five-reel game. Fewer lines means each one carries more weight, and a single wild in the right place can complete combinations across several rows at once. It also means the paytable can afford to be chunky, because the game isn’t spreading its returns across twenty or forty routes to a win.
Symbol pays are multiples of the total bet:
- Yellow monkey: 2.8571x for three, 7.1429x for four, 21.4286x for five
- Green monkey and Blue monkey: 0.7143x for three, 2.1429x for four, 7.1429x for five
- Orange monkey and Pink monkey: 0.4286x for three, 0.7143x for four, 2.1429x for five
- Baboon wild: 7.1429x for three, 57.1429x for four, 214.2857x for five
- Banana scatter: 238.5714x for three, 477.1429x for four, 715.7143x for five
The baboon is wild and substitutes for every symbol except the banana scatter, which makes it the richest line payer by a wide margin. Five baboons on a line are worth ten times the top monkey. The wild pays both ways, in other words: it stands in for other symbols on near-misses, and it carries its own value when a full line of baboons lands unassisted.
The monkeys themselves pay as pairs, so green and blue share a tier and orange and pink share a lower one. The tiers step down steeply from the yellow monkey, which pays three times what the green-blue pair does at five of a kind. A five-of-a-kind orange or pink win barely clears double the total bet, which tells you where the base game’s real money sits.
The scatter’s row looks enormous next to the rest, but bananas don’t pay cash here. Those values are the weight the game attaches to each trigger, and the free spins they award are covered in the bonus section below.
Betting runs from a 0.07 minimum to a 245.00 maximum per spin, set through the bet menu with coins per line and coin value fields. The controls around it are the standard set:
- Bet menu changes the denomination and shows the line count with the total bet in both coins and cash
- Spin speed cycles between normal, quick and turbo settings
- Autoplay runs a chosen number of automatic spins, stopped by pressing the button again
- Settings toggles the intro screen, ambient sound and sound effects, and opens the game history page
It’s a simple economy. The monkeys carry the small wins, the baboon carries the big ones, and the banana carries you out of the base game entirely. With low volatility behind it, the balance leans towards frequent, modest payouts rather than the long silences a high-variance format would produce.
7 Monkeys Free Spins & Bonus Features
The banana scatter pays in spins rather than cash, and it lands anywhere on the screen. It doesn’t need to sit on a payline to count, which matters on a game with only seven of them. Three, four or five bananas open the bonus round:
- Three bananas award 50 free spins at a 1x multiplier
- Four bananas double the count to 100 spins and lift the multiplier to 2x
- Five bananas give the full 150 spins on a 3x multiplier
The trigger count is doing two jobs at once. More bananas mean a longer round and a stronger multiplier running through every win in it, so the gap between a three-banana and a five-banana start is far bigger than the spin count alone suggests. A five-scatter round pays three times as much per win as a three-scatter one, for three times as many spins.
Once the round starts, it runs on the same reels with the same symbols, and every win is calculated the ordinary way: line pays multiplied by the bet per line, then scaled by the multiplier the trigger awarded. The free spins total is added to the payline win at the end, and the round plays through automatically, so a 150-spin start is exactly as hands-off as it sounds.
There’s no pick’em, no wheel and no second mode layered on top; the free spins are the entire bonus. That single-mindedness is the design. Everything the game wants to say, it says through scatter counts and one multiplier figure.
Retriggers are unlimited, and they work on the same scatter rule as the trigger itself:
- Three or more bananas landing during the round add a further 15 free spins to the counter
- There is no ceiling on how many times this can repeat within a single round
A round that keeps feeding itself scatters can run a very long way past its starting count. The retrigger award is flat, too: 15 spins whether you land three bananas or five, so the extra scatters beyond the third are purely decorative once the round is already running.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.3/10
Sitting under this canopy is a patient business. The base game hums along on small monkey wins and the odd stacked baboon, and the only real reason to pick it over a dozen livelier jungle games is that bonus trigger, because few slots of this age start you on fifty free spins.
That round is the game’s strength, and it’s a real one: unlimited 15-spin retriggers mean a good round keeps growing under its own momentum, and watching the counter climb is genuinely satisfying. The weakness is that everything caps out early. The multiplier stops at 3x, so even a marathon round finishes on modest arithmetic, and 92.71% is a thin return by any modern measure.
This is one for unhurried, low-stakes sessions, helped by a 0.07 minimum bet, and for players who’d rather farm free spins than chase a headline payout. Volatility chasers will be asleep in the hammock before the fiftieth spin. Everyone else will find the jungle here calm, green and quietly rewarding.
7 Monkeys FAQs
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What is the RTP of 7 Monkeys?
7 Monkeys runs at an RTP of 92.71%, well below what most modern slots return. That’s the figure to keep in mind before settling in for a long session. -
Is 7 Monkeys high volatility?
No, it’s a low volatility game. Wins tend to arrive steadily but in smaller amounts, which suits longer, lower-risk sessions rather than big swings. -
How many paylines does 7 Monkeys have?
Seven, matching the title. All of them are fixed and pay from left to right. -
How do you trigger the free spins in 7 Monkeys?
Land three or more banana scatter symbols anywhere on the screen. Three award 50 free spins with a 1x multiplier, four award 100 with a 2x multiplier, and five award 150 with a 3x multiplier. -
Can the free spins in 7 Monkeys retrigger?
Yes, without limit. Any three or more bananas landing during the round add a further 15 spins to the counter, and a round can keep doing that indefinitely. The added spins carry the multiplier the opening trigger set. -
What does the wild do in 7 Monkeys?
The baboon is wild and substitutes for all symbols except the banana scatter. It’s also the best-paying symbol, worth up to 214.2857x the total bet for five of a kind. -
What is the maximum win on 7 Monkeys?
The maximum win is 5,000x your bet. -
When is 7 Monkeys released?
7 Monkeys’ release date is 12 August 2015.
