Banana Rock Slot Review
Banana Rock is a video slot from Play’n GO with 5 reels and 10 paylines. Originally released in November 2018, this game can be played at online casinos such as Twin Casino, Spinit or Rizk.
Theme and basic information
How to describe Banana Rock? A funky monkey (and ape) neon rock slot. That about sums it up. Without seeing it, you’d still be hard-pressed to imagine a slot like that. It is certainly quirky, unusual and unique. Funky. The monkey band rules the reels, the colours are bright, the loud speakers are vibrating, and the simian fans are clapping their hands. This is one cool-looking slot.
And it sounds great as well, with a rockin’ background sound and the crowds cheering as well.
On the reels you’ll find the purple bongo player, the blue bass player, the orange keyboard player, the green drum player, and the yellow guitar player. The coolest of them all is the lead singer, who is also the wild. Five of him will pay out 40x your bet. The guitar player also pays out 40x your bet in a 5-of-a-kind win. The drummer pays out 20x your bet for such a winning combination and the keyboard player still pays out 16x your bet. The bass player and bongo player pay out 12x and 8x your bet for such a winning combination.
A handful of neon card symbols from J to A make up the remaining symbols here. A bunch of Bananas, the game’s logo, is the scatter in the game, which only shows up on reels 1 and 5.
You can play this game from 0.10 to 100.00, making it suitable for most budgets.
Wild re-spins in the base game
Playing Banana Rock is a lot of fun even without the extra features. But the features do make it worthwhile as well. During the base game, whenever you land at least two wilds anywhere on the reels, you will activate the Rock’n Roll Re-spin. The two (or more) wild symbols will then be connected with each other. The rightmost wild will wander along the reels and connect all wilds along the way with more wild symbols. You’ll get a trail of wilds on the reels, which can be two or three or six, depending where the wild lands. It is also feasible that the two wild symbols land beside each other and no trail will be left.
Still, you’ll get a free re-spin and usually some cool wins are possible. Plus, the feature hits fairly frequently and helps to keep you going.
Action-packed free spins
The free spins are triggered when the scatter lands on reels 1 and 5. You’ll get 10 spins to begin with. Above the reels, counters are added and whenever a monkey lands on his reel, a multiplier is added to the counter. This will be important for the final spin, the Encore Spin.
In the meantime, another free spin is added whenever a scatter shows up on the reels, the Rock’n Roll re-spin is also active and as it happens, more wilds are spinning on the reels to make them happen.
Often, you’ll play at least 15 spins, but more are possible.
During all of this, you’ll be hoping to see at least a few fully stacked monkeys on the reels, who will increase their counters above their reels. When all spins have played out, you’ll receive the Encore Spin, when the multipliers you have collected are multiplied with each other and you get a final spin with only the monkeys on the reels. The counter for each monkey can go up to 5x, meaning you can get a maximum multiplier of 25x. Big wins are possible on the final spin.
Conclusion: Funky rock slot with great features
The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) for Banana Rocks is 96.6%, which is excellent value and mostly you will feel it. The re-spins in the base game and the free spins are activated frequently enough to keep you going just about forever. We triggered the free spins roughly 3 times during 200 spins played and that’s a good average unless you hit a dry spell.
Still, even the re-spins will keep you going for a while and the wilds added to the reels can make great wins possible.
Banana Rocks would be a fun and funky slot even without the great features. The Encore Spin rounds the whole experience off and you’ll be playing this game for quite a while. And you will probably come back to it time and time again.