Monkey’s Gold

Monkey’s Gold Review

Monkey's Gold is a slot from Nolimit City, debuting their brand new mechanic, xPays. Even though the setting is a bit cliched and jaded, focusing around Monkey King and his jungle, Monkey's Gold has all chances of becoming yet another Nolimit's hit. Alongside an innovative game engine, the slot boasts a pile of other features and most importantly a top prize of 12,683x of the bet.

Monkey's Gold - Slot Outlook

You never know what to expect from such studios like Nolimit City, for these guys are always into delivering something new to the industry, thus you'll hardly guess what their next release is going to be about. They have released the xNudge mechanic previously this year with their hit title Deadwood, which appeared to be a real banger. Anyway, Nolimit City decided to come from a different angle and bring something new again instead of sticking to the winning formula. xPays definitely resembles Megaways, though, seems to be working oppositely. Will it manage to be a worthy opponent to worldwide beloved Big Time Gaming's engine? Let's take a look and find out.

Monkey's Gold Reel Screen

As the title implies, players will be taken to a deep dense jungle, where Wukong is in charge, looking after his riches. The 6x6 grid is set amidst two massive stone heads, covered in vines, while the backdrop showcases some kind of tropical vegetation. The graphics are modern and lovely, and the soundtrack ads a final touch to the enigmatic general ambiance. As alluded to earlier, the xPays system may remind of Megaways engine at first glance. It's an all-ways pay mechanic, so winning combos will form out of at least 3 matching symbols starting from the leftmost reel.

The symbol collection includes 10 regular symbols split into 3 categories, namely low, mid, and high paying ones. As we head over to the paytable we see a bunch of A-J royals that make up the low pays, followed by 3 medium-paying precious shiny gems and 3 stone masks on the upper side.

Playable on any device, Monkey's Gold comes up with a fairly generous math model. It boasts medium volatility and an RTP of 96.02%, which is a solid average, though, during the Free Spins feature it's boosted to 96.35%. Paired with the hit rate of 23.26% it won't be too challenging to land winning combos here. Unlike Megaways' slots, the betting range is quite wide, offering players to place wagers from 0.2$ to 100$ per spin. What's most impressive about Monkey's Gold is the maximum potential, which is whopping 12,683 times the stake. Considering the volatility level and other fairly nice stats, and especially the fact that the developers make those numbers actually possible to claim, the max payout looks like a solid reason to try this one out.

Monkey's Gold - Bonus Features

Those who appreciate developers' efforts of delivering something innovative to the slot industry will certainly be pleased with Monkey's Gold. It might even seem overloaded with features, resulting in a high barrier to enter, though, there's nothing really complicated about it.

Let's start with the highlight, namely the xPays mechanic. We know that it works somehow oppositely to the Megaways engine, or to be more precise, like a reverse Avalanching Wins mechanic. Any time you score a win, all losing symbols are removed from the grid, while winning ones drop at the bottom of the reel set. Then, other symbols tumble down, and in case another winning combo is formed, the action repeats once again. The xPays feature continues to work until no new winning combos will be available, just like the above-mentioned Avalanching Wins mechanic, allowing to land chains of consecutive wins on any spin.

Filling the entire row with symbols will kick in the Symbols Upgrade feature. Unlike Tetris, filled rows don't get removed from the grid, but upgrade all symbols in view into more valuable symbols. In case there was a top-paying symbol on the grid, it gets a multiplier added to it.

On any drop, Colossal symbols of 2x2 and 3x3 in size may appear at random. Besides being a nice addition to win combos, they also come with random multiplier values of 4x to 500x attached to them. However, those multipliers do not multiply the total win, but the number of symbols collected. For instance, if it's a colossal symbol with a 10x multiplier, it will count as 10 symbols in a winning combo instead of one. Furthermore, in case colossal symbols land and leave empty positions below, those gaps are then filled with Wild symbols.

Anyway, the Free Spins feature is the key to the success in Monkey's Gold, which is triggered when 3 or more Scatters land anywhere onto the grid during the base game. Players will proceed to the bonus game with 10 spins to start, with every additional triggering Scatter awarding +3 additional free spins.

Before the feature kicks off, players will roll the dice to reveal either 1x, 2x, or 3x multiplier. It will come into play whenever you fill a row, increasing the total Free Spins multiplier by the respective value alongside symbol upgrades. The feature can be extended, with any Scatter appearing during the bonus game awarding +1 additional spin, no limits.

Those who desire to skip the less exciting part can use the Feature Buy option to get access to the Free Spins on the next drop. This will cost you 73x of the total bet.

Monkey's Gold - Slot Verdict

Nolimit City has done a great job of developing Monkey's Gold and implementing their brand new xPays mechanic and making it work perfectly paired with other in-game extras. All those multipliers and symbol upgrades manage to make Monkey's Gold stick out from piles of other slots, giving it a dash of personality.

The gaming experience Monkey's Gold offers drastically differs from what Megaways slots do. You still got the all-ways pay system, though, the way it works is a whole 'nother. Instead of leaving winning symbols and substituting losing ones, it takes an opposite approach and works vice-versa. Anyway, it's not just straightforward gameplay that desperately tries to compete with Megaways. In accordance with the above, symbol upgrades and multipliers only complement it, resulting in unique and innovative gameplay.

It's undoubtedly fun and we hope that the same rewarding as well. It's actually nice that Nolimit City provides that players are able to hit some tasty jackpots not only within the Free Spins feature but during the base game also. Moreover, the meticulous approach to the design only makes it worthier to play. All up, you've come to the right place if you seek groundbreaking features and mechanics, which may not only deliver tons of fun but also lead to massive wins.