Gorilla Mayhem
By Pragmatic Play
Overview
Swing into the heart of the jungle with Pragmatic Play's Gorilla Mayhem, a high-volatility slot promising a thrilling adventure! Prepare for a visually stunning experience with vibrant graphics depicting a lush rainforest teeming with wildlife. This 5-reel, 4-row slot boasts 1,024 ways to win, offering abundant opportunities for massive payouts. Encounter ferocious gorillas, majestic leopards, and other exotic creatures across the reels. The unique golden gorilla wild symbol, with multipliers up to 3x, adds a layer of excitement. The game's free spins round includes a progressive multiplier feature, boosting your chances of hitting the max win of 5,000x your bet. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a casual player, Gorilla Mayhem provides heart-pounding action and the potential for life-changing wins. Experience the raw power of the jungle on any device, with bets ranging from 20 p/c to $/€100.
Gameplay & Features
Keep an eye out for the chunky turquoisecrystalappearing on all reels. This is thescatter symbol, and landing3, 4, or 5of them wins you10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. While free spins are active, landing 2, 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards an additional 5, 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. Free spins have aprogressive collection feature. When the regulargorilla pay symbolor thegolden wildversions hit, they arecollected. Worded slightly macabrely on the paytable, for every40 gorilla headscollected, thelevel increases. At level 1, golden gorilla wilds randomly land with x1, x2, or x3multipliers. Moving up to level 2 means gorilla heads can be x2 or x3 while reaching level 3 means golden gorillas only land with the x3. Each time you reach level 2 or 3, an extra+3 free spinsare awarded. The final point is that players in relevant countries canbuy free spinsinstead of triggering them naturally. The cost is80x the betfor 3, 4, or 5 scatters symbols to land and trigger the feature
Final Thoughts
In the spirit of 'inspiration' that is present in the online slot world, it's difficult to avoid comparisons between Gorilla Mayhem andNetEnt's releaseGorilla Kingdom. The longer you hold the games side by side, the more similarities emerge. We're talking about the same leading character, the same grid/ways set up, almost the same number of free spins, and even the blue jewel scatter is pretty much the same. It's uncanny. Or deliberate, who can tell? The two games are like sibling baby gorillas, separated at birth by poachers or whatever who have just met up and are banging chests at each other across disputed territory, or something like that.
Another thing Pragmatic Play and NetEnt's gorilla games share is a collection/progressive system in free spins. However, here the two slots start to diverge and do different things. WhereasGorilla Kingdomrecreated thePink Elephantsidea of transforming lower value symbols into higher ones, Gorilla Mayhem focuses on its highest value symbol in a different way. In this one, the further you progress, the greater the theoretical chance is of boosting gorilla wins with the x2 or x3 multipliers. You also get extra free spins at the higher levels, and in the Gorilla Mayhem test run, free spins did seem to be awarded a lot. Not just from reaching level 2 or 3, but landing two scatters occurred more often than expected. Then again, maybe we just got lucky. WhereGorilla Kingdomwins out over NetEnt's release is in the arena of max win. This time around, players get a game with winning potential of up to5,000x the betand better odds of hitting it compared to its competitor.
Amongst other things, Pragmatic Play seems to be fostering an interest in our gorilla cousins. The good news is their primate-themed games seem to be getting better, as Gorilla Mayhem is a step up from the last one we crossed paths with,Jungle Gorilla. To sum up, the features in Gorilla Mayhem aren't really anything to get too overly excited about, and the game doesn't quite attain alpha level but has its moments, plus the theme is wildly presented.
