Jungle Games is a gorgeous game themed around Africa, designed by Net Entertainment and offering players sports related action where the main characters are jungle animals. You have rhinos playing ping pong, giraffes playing basketball, gorillas lifting weights and so on. It’s all done with the usual level of quality that you can expect from this company, with African themed images thrown in once in a while. Africa and wild animals have been part of slot machine themes plenty of times in the past, but it’s not as common to see them act out their own Olympic Games.
Jungle Games is your typical 5 reels slot, with 20 lines inside and with a range of interesting features allowing you to enjoy it more than its prize (worth only $4,000) would be able to help out with. Among these features, you will find the wild, its multiplier, a scatter and free spins with up to 5x the usual prizes.
Features of Jungle Games
It doesn’t have bonus games, so the monotony might set in at some point, but you have the typical wild symbol with multipliers attached, plus the scatter symbol and its free spins, also with multipliers.
The Gold Trophy wild is responsible for the slot’s best prizes being awarded, as long as you have a minimum of three, with a maximum of five symbols on that one active payline. The payouts vary from 250x to 10,000x, so the more wilds you have, the better it is. While used as a regular wild, it multiplies prizes formed with its assistance, by 2x. It will not substitute for a scatter symbol, but that’s to be expected.
As for the scatter, it’s the gold medal that takes this role, with the ability to occupy random positions on the reels, and still give away prizes of up to 400x the triggering bet.
Free Games Feature
The free spins are the bonus feature of the scatter, giving you some choices to make, which will tell you the number of free spins you’ve won. 3+ scatter symbols are required to get you to this stage. You also have a multiplier for the duration of the free games, in the range of 1x to 5x. If you retrigger the free spins, you get the same multiplier as in the first round.
Betting options and jackpots
Jungle Games seems to be a title destined for use by players with low to mid-range budgets, as the starting point is the value of a single coin of the lowest denomination ($0.02), while the highest wager is at $40 (80 coins of $0.50 each one). These coins are used with up to 4 of them per active payline.
8,000 coins can be won in Jungle Games, the result of a 2,000x reward, if you used 4 coins for each line in your bet. Its cash value is only $4,000, the only part about this game that is truly disappointing.
Design and symbols
I’m sure you will find this game as attractive as I did. You get to see the African savannah in the background, with white paint lines drawn on it, showing you the area where the athletics events are taking place. There are five reels with an invisible background, so you get to see what happens behind the various symbols. These symbols are part animals doing sports, part objects that they use. They didn’t use playing cards, and the game is a lot better because of that choice.
Symbols: Gold Trophy (wild, 10,000x), Gold Medal (scatter, 400x triggering wager), Lion (1,000x), Rhino (750x), Monkey (500x), Giraffe (250x), Hippo (200x), Boxing Gloves (150x), Ping Pong Paddle (150x), Weights (125x), Basketball (100x), Swimming Goggles (100x) and Whistle (100x).
Is It Worth Playing?
The game is highly enjoyable gameplay wise, but when it comes to prizes I found it to be disappointing. I’d suggest you go with another slot from Net Entertainment, there are quite a few that look just as good, but are more generous.
You will find Jungle Games at any online casino which chooses to use software from Net Entertainment, playable either for free or for real money.
