7 Monkeys

Animals and jungle themes have been used in online slots for a long time. Pragmatic Play has combined the two with the 7 Monkeys online slot, a game that's based on a set of colorful baboons. There are only a few symbols in this game, and they always show up stacked, so you have chances for a lot of wins. On top of that, this game gives you a chance to win the most free spins in one go that we can remember having seen in an online slot. The top jackpot is also not bad at all.

Format and Layout

Five reels, three rows and seven paylines form the basic layout of Pragmatic Play's 7 Monkeys slot. This creates some atypical betting levels with coins running from $0.01 to $0.50 apiece and the ability to bet anywhere from one to ten coins on every payline. Along these lines, your betting range runs from $0.07 to $35 per turn, which will cover everyone from low stakes fans to high rollers. The atypical betting amounts will bother some players for sure, but we don't expect that to be an issue for most.

Wild Symbols and Payouts

The wild symbols show up on every reel. Like the other symbols, they show up stacked as well, so there's a lot of value waiting to be had for players who get these guys on the reels. Five of a kind pays a great 1,500x win, the largest normal win in the game. You can also pick up 400x for four of a kind and 50x for three of a kind, which are both respectable on their own. The wild symbol is especially important in the normal game, but it also holds a lot of value in the bonus feature, and it drives a lot of the gameplay.

Massive Free Spins

The banana symbol is scattered in this game. They don't give payouts, but they are the key to the bonus feature. You can get them anywhere on the reels to trigger the feature. Three of them will give you 50 free spins with a 1x multiplier. Get for to earn 100 free spins with a multiplier of 2x. Finally, five of a kind will give you an incredible 150 free spins with a multiplier of 3x on all of your payouts. This makes the top jackpot 4,500x and gives you 150 chances to win it, along with all of the other solid pays.

We have to take a moment here to point out how this is an incredible video slot bonus feature. We've never seen this many free spins offered at once. Additionally, if you get three of more banana scatters during the bonus feature, you'll get an extra 15 free spins added on, though the multiplier stays the same. You can do this indefinitely, so you could end up with even more free opportunities to win with this feature.

Regular Payouts

There are only five other symbols in the game aside from the scatter and the wild. This creates a total of six monkeys, which is kind of funny considering the name of the game is 7 Monkeys, but maybe they're just monkeying around with the humor. The yellow monkey pays the highest with 150x. The green and blue monkeys both pay 50x for five. Finally, the red and purple monkeys will give you 15x for five of either on an activated payline. This is a pretty flat pay schedule, but most of the value in the game is packed into the free spins feature. Likewise, this game has a high volatility.

Overview

Players will find that Pragmatic Play has made their 7 Monkeys slot pretty atypical. The small number of total symbols (seven counting a scatter and a wild) along with the huge number of free spins that you can earn in the feature and the fact that the game has seven paylines are all unusual. With that having been said, the gameplay is pretty fast-paced, and chasing that big bonus feature with 150 free spins and a 3x multiplier with stacked wilds and other stacked symbols is very exciting.

Overall, we would have liked to see better payouts for some of the normal wins, even if it meant cutting off some of the free spins to slightly lower numbers. With that having been said, this is definitely a game that stands out as not just being a copy of other jungle-themed games out there, and we recommend players take a look at it.