7 Monkeys Slot
Having first started appearing in top online casinos as recently as July last year, 7 Monkeys is a relatively new title from Octopus Gaming that features vibrant graphics and an engaging jungle theme.
As the title would suggest, all manner of monkeys adorn the game’s 5 reels, and – unsurprisingly – there are 7 fixed paylines on which players can notch winning combos. The game features both wilds and scatter symbols, with a massive 150 free spins on offer for matching five bunches of bananas.
Though 7 Monkeys is lacking in additional features, according to the developers themselves this was all part of the plan, with Octopus Gaming not wanting to detract from a title that is both easy for even novice video slot players to get to grips with and rewarding enough to keep the veterans on side.
Hail To The Chimp
Featuring just seven paylines, 7 Monkeys can be played from as little as $0.07 per spin – which again is definitely in keeping with Octopus Gaming’s assertion that the slot was built with the casual players in mind – but if you’re looking for a bit more oomph you can wager up to $5 per line for a total of $35.
In terms of payouts, the lowest value symbols will award a minimum of 3x your stake per line for matching any three in sequence, but this can be as much as 20x your stake per line for three golden monkeys. The bigger prizes on offer for five-of-a-kind payouts, meanwhile, range from 15-150x your stake for regular icons and a whopping 1,500x your stake for finding a wild on each of the 5 reels.
What’s more, with only seven individual symbols in total, these payouts do come around relatively frequently, meaning you don’t often have to invest much before you start reaping your rewards.
The Apes Of Wrath
As you’d fully expect from the subject matter, 7 Monkeys is a bright and colourful slot machine that plays out on a lush jungle background. Save for the scatter symbols, all other icons depict monkeys of some description, with pink, orange, blue, green and gold primates all featuring unique designs.
The wild symbol, meanwhile, is a shrieking baboon in rainbow colours and the scatter symbol is a big bunch of bananas. All in all, it is a consistent theme that thankfully isn’t diminished by the presence of regular playing card symbols, making 7 Monkeys a well-designed and unique looking video slot.
In terms of audio, 7 Monkeys does not feature a great deal of variety in its music. There are, however, enough appropriate sound effect to keep things ticking along nicely, which, when combined with the simple graphical theme, make it a pretty well presented game across the board.
Going Bananas
While 7 Monkeys is intentionally a simple game to get to grips with, it does offer one bonus feature that can be pretty rewarding at the higher levels. As a free spins feature, this won’t do anything radical like transporting players to a separate gameboard or anything like that, but it will give them the chance to win up to 150 risk-free bonus turns – and all with the benefit of a 3x prize multiplier.
Before you get ahead of yourselves, we should point out that this is the top award for finding the bananas scatter symbol on all five reels. More commonly, the free spins feature will triggered by landing three scatter icons anywhere on the board, which gives players 50 spins and no multiplier.
The middle ground is the 100 free spins and a 2x multiplier that is awarded whenever four scatter symbols arrive during a spin, but even at the lowest level, 50 free spins is an incredibly generous award compared to other slots and can certainly help you on your way to some big prizes. This free spins figure can also be re-triggered, meaning you’ll have a good shot at chaining your wins together.
Jungle Is Massive
While it may appear to be a fairly basic slot at first glance, 7 Monkeys is a nicely designed title from Octopus Gaming and features one of the most generous free spins features you’re likely to find anywhere in the slot industry. Though available for very low stakes, the game has enough scope in betting to appeal to serious players and payouts come around frequently due to the low number of symbols.
