Mochimon

Mochimon Slot Review

A mochi van on a pastel Japanese street, a maid with a wooden mallet at the back wheel: Pragmatic Play has dressed this one up like a snack, but Mochimon doesn’t actually pay like a snack game. It’s one of the stingier base games in the studio’s cluster range, and almost everything it promises is deliberately locked away until the free spins round opens the grid up.

The numbers behind the cuteness are serious: 96.50% RTP, high volatility, a 5,000x win cap and bets from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin. That puts it in the same family as Sugar Rush and Gates of Olympus, two of the studio’s better-known tumble games. Whether the multiplier spots get long enough to matter is what every session of this game turns on.

Base Game & Features

Mochimon plays on a 7×7 grid with no paylines at all. Symbols pay in blocks of five or more, connected horizontally or vertically, and only the highest win per combination counts. When several blocks win on the same spin, their values are added to the total.

A block doesn’t have to stay a block, either. Because wins pay and vanish before the next refill, a cluster can shed symbols on one tumble and a different cluster can form in the same positions on the next. Each step of the chain is judged fresh.

Tumble Feature

After every spin, winning blocks are paid and removed. Everything above falls into the gaps and new symbols drop in from the top. Tumbling continues until a refill produces no new win, and the whole sequence’s wins are credited once it finishes.

The chain is the game. A single spin can run one tumble and stop, or it can keep folding new symbols into fresh combinations for a dozen steps, with each one paying on top of the last. There’s no separate bonus mechanic in the base game beyond the spots this chain creates.

Multiplier Spots

Every exploding symbol marks its position on the grid. The second time a symbol bursts on the same spot, a multiplier appears there, starting at x2 and doubling with each further burst on top of it. The ladder runs all the way to x128:

• Second burst on a spot – x2
• Third burst – x4
• Fourth burst – x8
• Fifth burst – x16
• Sixth burst – x32
• Seventh burst – x64
• Eighth burst – x128, the maximum

The multiplier applies to any winning combination that lands across it, and several multipliers in one win add together. A block sitting over a x16 and a x32 pays as if multiplied by x48. That stacking is how the big chains pay far more than the raw symbol values suggest.

In the base game these marks are temporary. They survive the length of one tumble sequence and clear when it ends, so a spot only grows within a single spin’s chain. Short chains pay pennies; long ones turn a corner of the grid into a x128 trap.

Symbols and Pays

The cast is a tray of mochi creatures and a couple of animal friends, and the pink mochi is comfortably the one to watch. All values are multiples of the total bet:

• Pink Mochi – 1x for five, 1.5x for six, 2.5x for nine, 5x for ten, 15x for twelve, 150x for 15 or more
• Yellow/Orange Crowned Mochi – 0.75x for five, 2x for nine, 4x for ten, 12.5x for twelve, 100x for 15 or more
• Blue Mochi – 0.5x for five, 1.5x for nine, 3x for ten, 10x for twelve, 60x for 15 or more
• Pink Pig – 0.4x for five, 1.25x for nine, 2x for ten, 5x for twelve, 40x for 15 or more
• Green Mochi – 0.3x for five, 1x for nine, 1.5x for ten, 3.5x for twelve, 30x for 15 or more
• Brown Bear – 0.25x for five, 0.75x for nine, 1.25x for ten, 3x for twelve, 25x for 15 or more
• Tan/White Mochi – 0.2x for five, 0.5x for nine, 1x for ten, 2.5x for twelve, 20x for 15 or more

Notice how flat the middle of the table is. Every symbol jumps sharply once a block reaches twelve or more, which is exactly the size of cluster a long tumble chain produces. Small blocks are there to keep the chain alive, not to pay the rent.

There’s no wild in Mochimon. The scatter is the only special symbol, it appears on all reels, and its job is purely to open the free spins round.

Mochimon Free Spins & Bonus Buys

Scatters pay nothing on their own. Land enough of them anywhere on the grid and the round opens, with more scatters meaning more spins:

• 3 scatters – 10 free spins
• 4 scatters – 12 free spins
• 5 scatters – 15 free spins
• 6 scatters – 20 free spins
• 7 scatters – 30 free spins

Special reels are in play during the round, which tilts the odds towards longer chains than the base game offers. The difference that really matters is the multiplier spots. During free spins they don’t clear between spins: every mark and multiplier stays on the grid for the whole round and keeps growing with each new burst on top of it.

A spot that reaches x64 early can sit there collecting for twenty spins. Better still, two spots that each mature separately can end up under one late winning block and pay at their combined value. The round’s ceiling builds itself while you watch.

Retriggers work exactly like the entry. Landing 3 to 7 scatters during the round adds another 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 spins, and there’s no stated limit on how many times that can happen. A retrigger late in a round inherits every multiplier already on the grid.

Buy Free Spins

The round can be bought instantly from the base game for 100x the current total bet. The purchase rolls the scatter count at random, so you can land anything from 3 scatters and 10 spins up to 7 and 30. The RTP on the buy is the same 96.50% as the regular game.

One hard rule governs everything: wins are capped at 5,000x the bet in both the base game and free spins. Hit the cap mid-round and the round stops there, the win is paid in full and every remaining spin is forfeited. It’s a ceiling most sessions will never touch.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

Most of your time in Mochimon is spent waiting, and that’s the honest pitch: you grind a base game that pays scraps so you can reach the one round where the grid remembers what it’s done. If that build sounds appealing rather than tedious, this is your game, and the pastel mochi van makes the waiting easier to sit through than most.

The free spins round is the strength, by a distance. Multipliers that persist across the whole round mean the best sessions snowball in a way the base game never hints at, and a late retrigger lands on a grid already loaded. The weakness is everything before it: the base game’s short chains clear their marks almost immediately, so most spins pay next to nothing and don’t build towards anything.

This is for players who enjoy a long build and don’t mind a lean stretch to get there, and it isn’t for anyone who wants the base game itself to entertain them. Worth the patience, if patience is what you brought.

Mochimon FAQs

• What is the RTP of Mochimon?

  The RTP is 96.50%, and it stays at 96.50% when using the Buy Free Spins option.
• Is Mochimon high volatility?

  Yes, Mochimon is a high volatility game, so payouts come less often on average but the potential for big wins in a short session is higher.
• How do wins work on Mochimon?

  There are no paylines. Symbols pay in blocks of at least five matching symbols connected horizontally or vertically on a 7×7 grid.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Mochimon?

  Bets run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin.
• Can you buy the bonus on Mochimon?

  Yes. The free spins round can be bought for 100x your total bet, and the scatter count is rolled randomly, giving between 3 and 7 scatters.
• Do free spins retrigger in Mochimon?

  Yes. Landing 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 scatters during the round awards another 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 free spins respectively, and multiplier spots stay on the grid for the whole round.
• When is Mochimon released?

  Mochimon’s release date is 6 March 2023.
• What is the maximum win on Mochimon?

  The maximum win is 5,000x your bet, in both the base game and free spins. Reaching the cap ends the round at once.