Jungle Gorilla

Jungle Gorilla Slot Review

A silverback gorilla crouches in the shadows of a moonlit clearing, gold light on the temple columns behind him, watching the reels like he’s guarding them. Jungle Gorilla is one of the rare slots where the most valuable symbol pays nothing at all: the scatter coin’s only job is to leave a multiplier behind on its reel, and the whole game turns on whether a wild turns up to cash it in. That’s a stranger design than the jungle dressing suggests, and Pragmatic Play commit to it fully – there’s no free spins round at all.

Jungle Gorilla runs a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, a 96.57% RTP and low volatility, with a maximum win of 2,806x the bet. It sits in the same animal-and-adventure territory as Great Rhino and Gorilla Mayhem, though it asks far less of your bankroll than either. Bets run from 0.20 to 240 per spin.

Base Game & Features

All symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost, across 20 fixed paylines. Wins are multiplied by the bet per line, and only the highest combination counts on each line. Wins on different lines are added together for the total. It’s a traditional layout: five reels, four rows, no clusters, no ways-to-win variations.

The symbol set leans on the animal kingdom, with the silverback’s jungle neighbours filling the top of the board and card royals filling the rest. The gorilla heads the pays, tailed by the tiger, elephant, parrot and chameleon, with A, K, Q and J bringing up the rear. Values below are multiples of the total bet:

• Gorilla: 1.25x for three, 2x for four, 4.5x for five
• Tiger: 1x for three, 1.75x for four, 3.5x for five
• Elephant: 0.75x for three, 1.5x for four, 3x for five
• Parrot: 0.6x for three, 1.2x for four, 2.5x for five
• Chameleon: 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 2x for five
• Wild: 1.5x for three, 2.5x for four, 12.5x for five
• A: 0.5x for three, 0.9x for four, 1.75x for five
• K: 0.4x for three, 0.8x for four, 1.5x for five
• Q: 0.3x for three, 0.6x for four, 1.25x for five
• J: 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 1x for five

The wild tops that table, out-paying even the gorilla at every combination length. It appears on all five reels and substitutes for every symbol except the scatter coin. Five wilds across a line, with a few multipliers behind them, is where the bigger results live.

Between the animal symbols and the royals there’s a clear gap in value, and the premium animals are where the base wins of any size come from. Low volatility keeps the wins ticking over. A full line of tigers or elephants is still a rare enough sight to notice.

Betting is handled through the usual menu, with coin value and coins per line controls setting the total stake. The bet menu shows the number of lines available alongside the current total bet in both coins and cash. Space and Enter on the keyboard both start and stop a spin.

The credit and bet labels can be toggled between coins and cash views at any time. Autoplay has its own menu, opened and stopped from the same button. Spin speed cycles between normal, quick and turbo, and the settings menu carries separate toggles for ambient sound, sound effects and the intro screen.

Jungle Gorilla Bonus Features

There’s no free spins round here and no bonus game to buy. The one feature Jungle Gorilla carries is the reel multiplier system, and it runs continuously through the base game rather than behind a trigger. Each of the five reels carries its own multiplier, and every one of them starts at 1x.

The scatter coin drives the build. Land one on a reel and that reel’s multiplier climbs by 1x, to a ceiling of 5x. The coin can appear on any of the five reels, so no reel is locked out of the ladder. Reel one and reel four can sit at 4x while the others idle at 1x, and nothing happens until a wild arrives to cash them in.

The coins themselves pay nothing directly. Their entire value is in what they leave behind on the reel, which makes them unlike the scatter symbols in most slots: landing three or more together doesn’t trigger anything, and there’s no count to keep. Each coin is simply a single step up on the reel it lands on.

The wild is the collection mechanism. When it forms part of a winning combination, the multiplier of the reel the wild sits on is applied to that win. If several wilds are involved, the total win is multiplied by the product of all their reel multipliers. A 3x reel and a 4x reel in the same win pays at 12x.

Any multiplier used this way drops back to 1x once the win is paid. Reels whose multipliers weren’t part of the winning combination keep whatever they’d built. That reset is what gives the feature its rhythm: a reel can spend five coins’ worth of climb in a single win and start again from the bottom.

The board is constantly shifting between loaded and spent states. Which reels are worth what at any moment is the single most useful thing to watch while you play, because a wild landing on a spent reel is worth a fraction of the same wild one reel over.

Two further rules govern the build. Each bet level keeps its own saved progress, so going back to a stake you’d built up restores the multipliers exactly as you left them. Change your bet, though, and every multiplier drops to 1x before the new stake’s progress loads, which makes bet-hopping a genuinely costly habit in this game.

The maximum win on a single payline is capped at 500x the total bet, with the game’s overall ceiling at 2,806x. For a low volatility title, that ceiling is generous. Reaching it needs wilds stacked across loaded reels at the same time, which is a long way from the game’s usual diet of small, steady wins.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.6/10

Playing Jungle Gorilla is a slow stalk rather than a chase, and that’s the reason to pick it: every spin nudges something forward, so a session never feels like it’s idling between bonuses. The silverback could have told you as much from his corner of the screen.

Its best trick is that nothing is ever wasted. A coin you land while losing still leaves the reel richer, and five minutes of small defeats can turn into one large win purely because the ladder kept climbing. Its worst is the ceiling: 2,806x sounds fine until you notice a single line can only pay 500x, which keeps the peaks lower than the jungle setting promises.

This is a game for the steady-handed, players happy to sit at one stake and let the reels fill up, and it has little to offer anyone who needs a thousand-x chase to stay interested. For the patient sort, the clearing is quiet and the gorilla pays his respects.

Jungle Gorilla FAQs

• What is the RTP of Jungle Gorilla?

  Jungle Gorilla runs at 96.57% RTP, which sits comfortably above the typical industry average.
• Is Jungle Gorilla high volatility?

  No. Jungle Gorilla is a low volatility slot, so it pays out more often in smaller amounts while still offering the chance of a larger win.
• How does the reel multiplier feature work in Jungle Gorilla?

  Every reel has its own multiplier, starting at 1x. A scatter coin landing on a reel pushes that reel’s multiplier up by 1x to a maximum of 5x. When a wild forms part of a win, the multiplier of the reel it occupies is applied to that win, and several wilds multiply together in the same win.
• What happens to my multipliers if I change my bet in Jungle Gorilla?

  Changing your bet resets all reel multipliers back to 1x. Each stake level keeps its own record, though, so returning to a bet you’d played before restores the multipliers you’d built at it.
• Does Jungle Gorilla have a free spins round?

  No. There’s no free spins feature or bonus buy in Jungle Gorilla; the reel multiplier system runs through the base game instead.
• What is the maximum win on Jungle Gorilla?

  The maximum win is 2,806x your bet. The maximum win on a single payline is limited to 500x the total bet.
• How many paylines does Jungle Gorilla have?

  Jungle Gorilla has 20 fixed paylines on a 5×4 grid, with all symbols paying left to right from the leftmost reel.
• Who makes Jungle Gorilla?

  Jungle Gorilla is made by Pragmatic Play. Its release date is 20 August 2020.