This one comes with sticky wilds, count down wilds, a treasure chest that awards up to 1,000 coins and a free spins bonus round where you have the pick 1 of 3 bonus extras. Available across all devices, play from between 25p and £125 per spin.
Good visuals are usually a given when it comes to Yggdrasil Gaming-powered slots and that's the case with Monkey King which looks fantastic - the reels are set against an Asian mountain backdrop and include crowns, potion bottles, shields, scrolls, cauldrons and goblet. Keep an eye out for the Monkey King himself who can jump onto the reels and randomly change a symbol to create a better winning combo – this is known as the Monkey King feature.
Legend of the Golden Monkey comes with 2 types of wild. First up are the sticky wilds which can only land on reels 2 and 4. When they form part of a winning combination, they will remain frozen in position until you have a spin that doesn't win. The other wilds are count down wilds - these can only appear on reel 3 and will remain in place for 3 spins.
Look out too for the treasure chest appearing on reel 5 as you can look forward to a cash prize of up to 1,000 coins or a triggering of the Free Spins feature - you can also activate the feature by landing 3 or more of the free spins symbol anywhere on the reels. Trigger it with 4 or 5 symbols and you can look forward to a payout of 1,000 or 5,000 coins too.
Before the free spins play out, you'll be given a choice of 3 bonus extras. These are:
- Incremental Wilds – 6 free spins, 1 wild added until you have 6 wilds on the last free spin.
- Stacked Wilds – 8 free spins with a triple stacked wild that can hit on the middle reel (reel 3).
- Starting Wild – 10 free spins with a sticky wild positioned in the middle of reel 3 for the duration of the feature.
On top of this, sticky wilds can appear in any of the 3 modes and are permanently sticky for all free spins. As a result, we found Monkey King to be a highly entertaining game. The free spins feature was a typically slick affair but where we enjoyed greatest success was with the sticky wilds. With them frozen in place at the top and bottom positions of reels 2 and 4, we enjoyed big win after big win.
This is another impressive effort from Yggdrasil Gaming - the sound and imagery are top notch as usual and there's plenty on offer under the hood as far as gameplay is concerned. There's variety as well as plenty of action which is an ideal combination. I found it to be a medium to high variance game with wins of up to 1,200 times your stake available.
Yggdrasil Gaming is rapidly coming one of our favourite developers - if Legend of the Golden Monkey is anything to go by, we hope to see plenty more of the same high quality games in the future. I also recommend you try other games of theirs such as Vikings Go Wild which is high variance. If you like the theme, Playtech’s Sun Wukong is also based on the monkey king.