Jungle Spirit Slot Review

Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild is a video slot from NetEnt with 5 reels and 243 ways to win, which means any three matching symbols on adjacent reels from left to right will yield a win. You can play Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild at online casinos such as Casumo, Mr. Green or Sloty.

Jungle Spirit comes with an obvious jungle theme. Wild animals inhabit the reels here and the setting is the wilderness of the deep, dark and very green jungle. It’s actually really beautiful, even if animal-themed slots aren’t your thing. The details are stunning, the card symbols look like ancient ruins, the special effects of golden butterflies, creeping vines or roaring animals are beautifully rendered and you can just watch the reels spinning on auto-play for a while to admire the details.

The animals on the reels are tiger, elephant, bear, crocodile and cobra, not a combination you’ll easily find in the actual wilderness. They make for the high paying symbols with the tiger paying out as much as 150 coins for a 5-of-a-kind win and the snake paying out no more than 60 coins in a similar combination. That may not seem a lot, but a multiplier comes into play as soon as you have two or more of these symbols on one reel in a winning combination. More on that below, though. The low-paying symbols are made up of standard card symbols from 10 to Ace, which all pay exactly the same. Also, there’s no wild symbol in the game, which you somehow don’t feel as a loss at all.

A slot subtitled ‘Call of the Wild’ cannot possibly be boring and this one has some great features even in the base game. The expanding symbols are one of them. Is a high-paying symbol marked by a butterfly as it comes to rest on the reels and happens to be part of a winning combination, the symbol will expand across the whole reel and a multiplier is applied to the win. Three symbols covered means there is a 3x multiplier. And the multipliers get multiplied again, if another reel is also covered in winning symbols. Indeed, if all five reels were covered with the same symbol, you’d get a 243x multiplier on your win.

The Butterfly Boost feature is also randomly activated during the base game. Here butterflies will circle all reels and once they come to a standstill, symbols in a winning combination will be randomly expanded as well. You do get a guaranteed win here, you just don’t know how many expanded symbols you may get.

The scatter, the lotus flower, appears on all reels and you’ll need at least three of them to trigger the free spin feature. Here you get to choose the following:

• Tiger – 4 spins where all high-paying symbols turn tiger
• Elephant – 8 spins where all high-paying symbols turn elephant
• Bear – 12 spins where all high-paying symbols turn bear
• Crocodile – 16 spins where all high-paying symbols turn crocodile
• Cobra – 20 spins where all high-paying symbols turn cobra

Reels expand to a 5×4 grid and you get 1,024 ways to win. Tiger as the highest paying symbol will yield the biggest wins, but you won’t get many spins to get there.

The return to player (RTP) of Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild is a theoretical 96.47%, which is pretty decent. Anything about 96% is usually good value and once you get into Jungle Spirit, you’ll find that to be true as well. Whilst you won’t see the free spins come around very often, the expanding symbols and butterfly boost features will definitely keep you going nicely. The slot is beautifully done and we quite enjoyed playing it, even though wild animals are not usually a theme we favour. Jungle Spirit is undoubtedly worth a spin and if you can, try out the different free spin features to see which yields the best results.