In a case seemingly specifically designed to avoid copyright infringement, Yggdrasil Gaming has named their newest slot Jungle Books. Clearly based on the 1894 Rudyard Kipling book of stories that has since been made into a Disney film of an only slightly different name, this slot features a boy protagonist and his friends from the jungle: a bear, a tiger, a panther, and a snake. The unique and fascinating game feature is this: each character plays host in its own realm, where it offers unique bonus features, or acts as a guest in the realm of another character. This element is called Fusion Realms by the design team, and it can make this slot feel like five games in one.
Theme
Jungle Books flows between five realms, each dark, green, and mysterious. Game symbols include a series of fruits, a wood-carved wild symbol, and the four playing card suits. The five game areas are housed in different parts of the jungle, all sharing a very remote, rustic quality. The soundtrack is rich in drums, strings, and winds, lending an adventurous energy to gameplay. Autoplay is available up to 1,000 spins, while separate pop-up menus allow players to see payout and payline details, toggle sound options, adjust advanced autoplay options, and see game rules explained at length.
Betting Options and Functions
In this coin-based slot, bet size is largely determined by coin value, which is adjustable from a minimum of 0.0002 to a maximum of 2.00, for a total bet value from 0.10 to 100.00 times the betting currency per spin. Each realm has a slightly different reel structure (always five reels, with various lines) and number of pay lines (either 58 or 68). The theoretical return to player is a respectable 96.1%.
Fusion Realms are absolutely the element that makes this game unique. Each realm offers unique bonuses based on its host: the tiger offers both stacked wilds on the middle reel and sticky respins for each win; the bear provides the unique Honeycomb bonus feature, and also sees to it that one symbol at random appears stacked in each spin; in the panther’s realm, the highest-paying fruit symbol acts as wild, and multipliers up to fivefold are applied to wins at random; the snake sees to it that all paylines pay both ways and adds a triple multiplier to wins involving the wild symbol; the boy hero keeps adjacent reels of the same height synced, and makes sure that wilds spread from the tallest reel, adding one or two extra wild symbols in random positions. After the transition from one realm to another, the previous host acts as guest in the new setting, bringing one of their features with them, for a few spins where three bonus features are active.
Features
Jungle Books lacks a traditional scatter symbol, but that doesn’t mean players shouldn’t expect big bonuses from time to time. Players' ursine friend provides this bear necessity with the Honeycomb bonus, launched in bear country when the honeycomb symbol appears on the reels. Here, players choose one position from within the comb for a coin bonus – the maximum available is a whopping 50,000 coins.
Our Take
Yggdrasil has pulled out all the stops for this slot, and the results speak for themselves: this slot is simply outstanding, both in terms of gameplay and of design. Players will delight in the different realms and features, and with plenty of big wins to be had, who really needs copyrights anyway?
Slot data and features
- 5Reels
- 58Pay lines
- $1,800.00Max cash jackpot
- 96.1Payout Percent
- YesWild Symbol
- YesMultiplier
- $0.1 - $100Betting Range
- 0.00 - 2.0Coin bet range
- 1Coins per line
- NoProgressive
- 900Max coins jackpot
- 58Max coins
- NoScatter Symbol
- NoFree spins available
- YesBonus Game
- NoBuy feature
- Jungle , Movies Game theme
- Mid-low Volatility
