Gorilla Mayhem Slot Review

14/08/2022 | Categories: Pragmatic Play Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

Our most reviewed game provider, Pragmatic Play, is keeping up with its incredible release schedule as the Malta-based company is coming close to hitting the 400-slot mark at the start of September. In July 2022, it released seven games, and the fourth one to land in online casino lobbies everywhere was Gorilla Mayhem. Seemingly no one played this spinner upon its debut, but now it has entered the top ten popularity listings in most markets. Moreover, it has gotten heavily promoted by multiple high-end sites as a premium pick for betting contests. Hence, that is ample reason for us to test it and see who this trending slot best fits, if anyone.

Theme & Design

Obviously, this game has a jungle theme, emphasizing the ground-dwelling ape that inhabits equatorial Africa, known to the general public as the gorilla. As every veteran online gambler knows, jungles are a super popular motif in the interactive gaming sphere. While buffalos are most developers’ favorite animals, game providers do not neglect gorillas, as there are close to one hundred games featuring these beautiful beasts, whose DNA is up to 99% similar to that of humans.

Like with most Pragmatic Play reel-spinners, this one also does not have much of a storyline. What it does have are some stunning visuals. We often complement the Pragmatic team with their presentations, practically their graphics. Gorilla Mayhem features painterly visuals, similar to most other of this provider’s releases. However, the ones here have a brilliant highlight-to-shadow contrast. Everything has loads of depth in this game. Furthermore, the colors are saturated but not overly, and the entire palette works excellently.

The reels here spin in front of a densely green forest setting, where leaves blow in the wind and butterflies move around. Some of the background animations in Gorilla Mayhem are repetitive, which is a bit off-putting. The music in this game is praise-worthy as it is a catchy tune that builds excitement during auto-play sessions and enhances the game’s sound effects nicely. Though, we found the audio presentation in the Free Spins unfocused and distracting.

The buttons panel is the same one Pragmatic always uses, so we will not get into analyzing it. If you have played one spinner from this company, you know it well.

Gorilla Mayhem Slot Theme

Specs & Gameplay

Gorilla Mayhem is a 1,024-betway game with a max exposure setting of x5,000 on a max bet of $100. The lowest wager available in this high variance spinner with an RTP of 95.5% is $0.2. It utilizes a 5×4 grid, and its return-to-player percentage can fall to 94.5% in specific markets, but it can also reach 96.5% in others.

The low-paying game tokens of Gorilla Mayhem are A-10 card royals, paying from x1 to x1.5 for five-of-a-kind. The high-paying ones for this slot are a serpent, a parrot, a hippo, a croc, a leopard, and the mighty gorilla. Combos of these award rewards of x1.5 to x4 for five matching symbols from this batch.

Wins here get awarded for three or more identical tokens landing on the grid on the same spin, on a betway, left to right. The word Wild is the game’s Wild, substituting all other tokens, showing up on all reels except the first one. There are also golden gorilla symbols in play here that can appear randomly in the base game and substitute the regular gorilla token. Depending on the number of gorilla heads inside the golden gorilla symbol, up to three, they award a corresponding multiplier valid for all winning combos featuring a regular gorilla token.

A turquoise stone is Gorilla Mayhem’s Scatter.

Bonus Features

As mentioned, the turquoise stone is the Scatter, and hitting three, four, or five such symbols gets you ten, fifteen, or twenty free spins, respectively. You can retrigger the number of complimentary reel rotations in this mode as long as you again land the number of necessary Scatters. Note that there are three levels to the Gorilla Mayhem Free Spins mode. In the first one, golden gorillas can randomly appear carrying x1 to x3 multipliers. In level two, only x2 or x3 multipliers show up. And in the third level, only three-headed gorillas land (x3 multipliers). Every time you reach level two or three, you get three more on-the-house rotations from this slot. To move up a level, you must collect forty gorillas, regardless if these are golden or regular ones.

The cost of buying entry in this mode is x80 your bet.

Gorilla Mayhem Features