Macaco Sortudo

Macaco Sortudo Slot Review

A red-pillared temple gate fills the screen, its green-tiled roof curling into gold finials, blossom trees blurring out behind it, and a cartoon monkey in a red silk jacket leans out over the reels from a shrine above, offering up a gold ingot. Macaco Sortudo dresses like a big festive spectacle, but it plays like the opposite: a patient, tight little collector that pays you steadily and asks for very little in return. The gilding is doing all the shouting; the maths barely raises its voice.

The interesting thing here isn’t the decoration, it’s the maths underneath. This is a 5×3 grid with just 5 paylines, running at 97.50% RTP on low volatility – a combination you almost never see from Pragmatic Play, whose festive games usually run far spikier. Stakes run from 0.05 to 250.00, and sister titles like Lucky Monkey and Touro Sortudo offer a sharper ride.

Base Game & Features

Five reels, three rows, five fixed paylines. Wins pay left to right on those lines only, and with this few of them, a single line carries real weight. That’s the whole format, and it’s refreshingly easy to follow.

There’s a consequence to the five-line setup that’s worth spelling out. On a 20 or 40-line game, a spin can return several small line wins at once and still feel like an event; here, a winning spin is usually one line and one symbol. The flip side is that each of those lines is worth proportionally more.

The paytable is built entirely from Lunar New Year icons, with every symbol paying for three of a kind across a payline:

• Gold Pot / Ingot – 10x stake for three
• Red Envelope / Coin Purse – 4x stake for three
• Golden Snake – 2x stake for three
• Red Lantern – 1x stake for three
• Firecrackers – 0.6x stake for three
• Orange – 0.4x stake for three

The ladder has no middle rungs to speak of. Everything from the Snake down returns your stake or less for three of a kind. In practice that means the base game’s rhythm is small, steady payments from the lower half of the table, with the Gold Pot and Red Envelope doing the occasional damage.

Each pay also scales with only three matching symbols needed, so there’s no four-of-a-kind or five-of-a-kind tier to chase. A win either forms on a line or it doesn’t, and the symbol involved determines the size of it.

The Wild appears on all reels and substitutes for every symbol. It’s collected by the monkey mascot as it lands, though that collection is purely for show – the monkey hoards wilds for entertainment, not for any payout purpose.

Macaco Sortudo Bonus Features

There are no free spins here. The game’s one bonus is the Prize Feature, and it can trigger on any spin without warning – the monkey gets excited and leans right over the reels to set it off.

One random symbol is chosen to become a MONEY symbol, and every instance of it on screen picks up a cash value from a fixed set: 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 30x or 50x the total bet. From there, the count of MONEY symbols on screen decides what happens next.

If three or fewer land, their values are simply paid out and the spin moves on. Four to eight is where the real feature lives:

• All MONEY symbols lock in place
• Only blanks and other MONEY symbols spin
• Three respins are awarded, resetting to three whenever a new MONEY symbol lands
• The round ends when respins run out or the screen fills
• Every locked value is then added together and paid

The respin mechanic is a familiar hold-and-collect shape, and it works exactly as you’d hope here: each new MONEY symbol buys three more attempts, so a hot streak can keep the round alive for a long time while the grid fills. Any new symbol that lands during a respin takes its own value from the same set.

A late 50x drop on a crowded screen can change the total considerably. Because the respins only ever spin blanks and other MONEY symbols, the screen can’t reset backwards – locked value stays locked.

The only way the round ends is three consecutive spins without a new MONEY symbol, or a completely full grid. Low volatility softens the ceiling, but a screen of locked high-end values is still a serious number.

The Full-Screen Wheel

Fill the screen entirely with MONEY symbols and a wheel appears. It awards one of four multipliers – x2, x3, x5 or x8 – applied to the total value of everything collected, or a MAX WIN wedge that pays the maximum possible win in the game outright.

The wheel itself is just a graphic flourish; the outcome it shows is what you get, applied to the full collected total. It’s worth being clear about one thing: no maximum win figure is published anywhere for this game. The MAX WIN wedge exists on the wheel, but the number it represents isn’t stated – so any ceiling you might see quoted elsewhere is a guess.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

Playing this is a long, calm sit by the temple gate rather than a sprint. You pick it for the Prize Feature – the respin round where every new MONEY symbol resets the counter and the grid quietly fills is the one genuinely gripping thing here, and a full screen with the wheel on top is a proper payoff for the wait.

The Monkey’s strength is generosity at low cost: 97.50% RTP on a five-line game that lets you spin from 0.05 makes it one of the cheapest ways to run a collection mechanic for an evening. The weakness is that ordinary spins rarely excite – one line, one symbol, and a ladder where half the table pays less than your stake back, so the base game can feel like marking time between features.

This one suits players who like the slow build of a hold-and-collect round without the bankroll swings that usually come attached; anyone hunting four-figure multipliers will find it far too gentle. If steady wins and a gilded monkey sound like a good evening, Macaco Sortudo delivers exactly that.

Macaco Sortudo FAQs

• What is the RTP of Macaco Sortudo?

  97.50%.
• Is Macaco Sortudo high volatility?

  No. It’s a low volatility slot, so wins tend to arrive more frequently but in smaller sizes than a high-variance game.
• How many paylines does Macaco Sortudo have?

  Five fixed paylines on a 5×3 grid.
• How does the Prize Feature trigger?

  Randomly, on any spin. The monkey mascot gets excited and leans over the reels, one random symbol becomes a MONEY symbol, and every instance of it on screen picks up a cash value.
• How do the respins in Macaco Sortudo work?

  If four to eight MONEY symbols hit, they all lock in place and three respins are awarded. Every time a new MONEY symbol lands, the respin count resets to three. The round ends when the respins run out or the screen fills with MONEY symbols, and all locked values are added together and paid.
• What happens if you fill the screen with MONEY symbols?

  A wheel appears and awards either a multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x8 applied to the total collected value, or a MAX WIN that pays the game’s maximum possible win.
• What does the wild symbol do in Macaco Sortudo?

  It stands in for any of the six paying symbols to complete a line. Wilds that land are collected by the monkey mascot, but that collection is purely visual and has no effect on payouts.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Macaco Sortudo?

  Stakes run from 0.05 to 250.00 per spin.
• Who makes Macaco Sortudo?

  Pragmatic Play.