Jungle Spirit Megaways Overview
Back in 2017 NetEnt released a game called Jungle Spirit. A very nice looking game that made quite an impact back in the day. Especially since it came with a, for those days, high maximum payout and used some great mechanisms.
Now they have released a Megaways version of this classic with the same name, Jungle Spirit Megaways.
The game looks almost identical with the reels set inside a thick jungle and symbols consist of different type of animals like a tiger and elephant.
Jungle Spirit Megaways comes with 6 reels that are between 2 and 7 symbols high during each spin. Giving a maximum of 117.649 Megaways per spin
Just like the original you will find standard card symbols and high paying animal symbols. The scatter flower is also still present and can appear on all reels. Wild symbols don’t appear on this game.
Jungle Spirit Megaways comes with a solid maximum payout of 6.547 times your bet. Lower than the original which went up to 7.678 times bet.
Features
Avalanches
Winning combinations are removed and all remaining symbols fall down. New symbols than fall on top and can create the option for another win. This keeps happening until no more new winning combinations appear. This game also removes and collects any scatter symbol that appears, even when there are no winning combinations.
Symbol Expansion
During normal play and the free spins feature, butterflies can land on regular, high paying, animal symbols.
These symbols will then expand to cover the entire reel and will have a multiplier which is equal to the number of symbols that were on the reel when the symbol expanded.
Butterfly Boost
During normal play and during free spins, the screen might light up a little and butterflies will land on 2 or 3 of the same animal symbols, only one butterfly per reel.
These symbols will then expand, just like above, and will guarantee a winning combination.
Free Spins Feature
When you get or have collected 3 scatter symbols during normal play, you will trigger the free spins feature.
You now get to pick the animal that is present during free spins. All non chosen animals don’t appear during free spins.
- Cobra – 20 free spins
- Crocodile – 16 free spins
- Bear – 12 free spins
- Elephant – 8 free spins
- Tiger – 4 free spins
After picking your animal you are also to double your free spins by spinning a wheel. But this may also result on winning no free spins at all.
Bonus Buy
Some casinos offer the option to buy free spins for 50 times your bet.
Verdict
When Big Time Gaming started licensing their Megaways mechanism we’ve seen a flood of Megaways slots from all providers. It seems that the hype has passed and we now get a new Megaways slot, once in a while.
Somehow NetEnt never released new, original Megaways slots. But always uses the mechanism on classic NetEnt titles. We’ve seen games like Blood Suckers Megaways, The Wishmaster Megaways, Wild Turkey Megaways and many more. All known titles that gotten the Megaways added.
I’m not mad about it. I still have a soft spot for the classic NetEnt games. And I think releasing a Megaways version will introduce the game to a whole new group of players. And somehow they all seem to work.
Jungle Spirit Megaways is a fun new game for all new players, but also a great title for players that are already familiar with the original. And the Megaways work well.
The only small negative is the fact that somehow the Megaways version has around 1.000 times less of a maximum payout. Where normally Megaways slots have bigger payouts than normal slots. But the difference is small and doesn’t really bother me.
Check out Jungle Spirit Megaways at all NetEnt casinos.
