King Kong Climber Slot Review
A vine is lashed round the reel frame like rigging and an oversized coconut glows against a hazy sun, but the jungle dressing hides a game that refuses to pay you properly until you’ve worked for it. King Kong Climber locks nearly everything it’s worth behind a single demand: four consecutive cascade wins in one spin. Satisfy it and the ladder pays out at up to 1000x; fall one step short and the climb resets to nothing.
It’s a 6×5 grid where symbols pay anywhere on screen rather than on lines, running at 95.5% RTP, and it’s Reflex Gaming leaning far harder on one mechanic than in 2 Fast 2 Fruity or Get Kraken. The studio has built the whole maths model, base game and bonus alike, around consecutive wins.
Base Game & Features
Symbols pay anywhere on the screen. The total number of matching symbols in view, wilds included, sets the win value, so there are no lines to trace and no left-to-right requirement. Land eight or more of a symbol and it pays.
Winning symbols are removed at the end of each cascade and new symbols drop in from above. Every winning cascade also climbs the Coconut Tree one step, and four or more consecutive cascades in a single spin reach the top. That’s the whole engine of the base game.
Bananas are wild, substituting for every symbol except the scatter, and they carry no prize value of their own.
Giant Symbols
Giant versions of pay symbols and the wild can appear in the reel window. A 2×2 giant counts as four standard symbols and a 3×3 counts as nine, which matters a great deal in a game that pays on total symbol count. When a giant forms part of a winning cascade, it’s transformed into standard-size symbols before being removed, so the pieces keep paying.
The Coconut Tree
Each winning cascade climbs the tree. Reach the top with four or more consecutive cascades and you’re awarded the Coconut, which applies a multiplier to the total won from that spin’s cascades, or adds extra scatter symbols to push you into the bonus.
The multiplier ladder runs:
- 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x
- 10x, 12x, 15x, 20x, 25x
- 50x, 100x, 1000x
Symbol Values
Wins pay as a multiple of stake for the total number of matching symbols in view:
- Lion: 50x for 12+, 25x for 10-11, 10x for 8-9
- Woman: 25x for 12+, 10x for 10-11, 2.5x for 8-9
- Hippo: 15x for 12+, 5x for 10-11, 2x for 8-9
- Parrot: 12x for 12+, 2x for 10-11, 1.5x for 8-9
- Frog/Chameleon: 10x for 12+, 1.5x for 10-11, 1x for 8-9
- Orange: 8x for 12+, 1.2x for 10-11, 0.8x for 8-9
- Plum: 5x for 12+, 1x for 10-11, 0.5x for 8-9
- Coconut: 4x for 12+, 0.9x for 10-11, 0.4x for 8-9
- Kiwi: 2x for 12+, 0.7x for 10-11, 0.2x for 8-9
Golden Bet
Activating Golden Bet raises the stake to 1.25x the standard bet and increases the chance of climbing to the top of the Coconut Tree, which makes the multipliers and the bonus more frequent. The paytable awards themselves don’t change, so it’s purely a frequency buy on the ladder.
Dual Gamble
Any base game win that hasn’t triggered the bonus can be gambled, and operators can set the button OFF, ON, or to appear only on wins of 5x the base bet or more. There are two wheels. The left multiplies the current prize; the right gambles it for free spins:
- Left wheel: multiply the prize by 1.5x, 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x
- Right wheel: gamble the win for 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 free spins
Gambling continues until the prize is collected, the gamble is lost, or the maximum gamble prize of 5000x the base bet is reached. The spins wheel switches off once it would exceed the value of the highest free spins entry level.
The gamble returns an average payout of 100%, so it neither costs nor gains you anything in the long run.
King Kong Climber Free Spins & Bonus Features
Landing four or more scatter symbols in the base game triggers the Free Spins Bonus along with a fixed cash prize. Four scatters award 10 free spins, with two extra spins for every additional scatter beyond four.
Three scatters landing during the round award five extra spins, plus another five for each scatter beyond three, so the round can keep extending itself.
Plane Multipliers
Planes can drop onto the reels during free spins, each displaying a multiplier of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x or 1000x. At the end of a winning spin, all Plane Multipliers on the reels are added together before multiplying the total win for that spin. Several planes stack into one boost rather than paying separately.
The Skyscraper
During free spins the Coconut Tree becomes the Skyscraper, and the climb carries on inside the bonus. The plane at the top displays the minimum multiplier that any Plane Multiplier landing on the reels can show.
Each time the top of the Skyscraper is reached, that minimum increases through 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x and 100x. Future planes display at least that value, and the raise is applied to multiplier planes already sitting on the reels, so a climb late in the round lifts everything on screen with it.
Bonus Buy
The Buy A Bonus button offers two routes straight into the round, and a purchased spin is guaranteed to finish with between four and six scatter symbols in view, awarding the matching number of spins:
- Standard Free Spins: 100x the selected bet size
- Super Free Spins: 300x the selected bet size, starting the minimum Plane Multiplier at 20x
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Most of a session here is spent two rungs up a palm, one cascade short, watching a decent drop fizz out at the third step. That’s not a complaint so much as the whole point: this is a game for people who want the big moment to be climbed rather than handed over, and it’s honest about that from the first spin.
The Skyscraper is the best thing in it, because a bonus round that raises its own floor as you climb means the long rounds pay better than the short ones ever could. The weakness is the base game underneath: outside the ladder there’s very little happening, and four consecutive cascades is a demand the reels don’t meet often enough to fill the gaps.
It’s for players with patience and a bankroll that survives the quiet spells, and for anyone happy to buy the Super round at 300x and skip the wait. If regular small wins are what you play for, the lagoon has nothing for you. For climbers, the view from the top is worth the rope burn.
King Kong Climber FAQs
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What is the RTP of King Kong Climber?
King Kong Climber runs at 95.5% RTP. -
How does the Coconut Tree work in King Kong Climber?
Every winning cascade climbs the Coconut Tree one step. Four or more consecutive cascades in a single spin reach the top and award the Coconut, which applies a multiplier of between 2x and 1000x to the total won from that spin’s cascades, or adds extra scatter symbols to help trigger the bonus. -
How do you trigger free spins in King Kong Climber?
Landing four or more scatter symbols in the base game awards 10 free spins plus a fixed cash prize, with two extra spins for each additional scatter. Three or more scatters during the round award five extra spins, plus another five per scatter beyond three. -
What does the Super Free Spins bonus buy give you in King Kong Climber?
Super Free Spins cost 300x your selected bet size and start the minimum Plane Multiplier at 20x, so every plane that lands during the round displays at least that value. Standard Free Spins cost 100x with no raised minimum. A purchased spin always finishes with four to six scatters in view. -
How many paylines does King Kong Climber have?
It doesn’t have paylines. Symbols pay anywhere on the screen, and the total number of matching symbols in view, including wilds, determines the win value. -
What is the grid size of King Kong Climber?
The game plays on a 6×5 grid, with giant symbols covering 2×2 or 3×3 blocks of it during play. -
Can you buy the bonus on King Kong Climber?
Yes. The Buy A Bonus button offers Standard Free Spins at 100x your bet or Super Free Spins at 300x, the latter starting the minimum Plane Multiplier at 20x. -
When is King Kong Climber released?
King Kong Climber’s release date is 27 October 2026.
