Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild Slot NetEnt

NetEnt’s Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild, is a beautifully animated slot game that takes you deep into the wilderness. The roaring jungle music supports the theme of the game nicely. The base game offers, 243 ways to win on 5 reels with 3 rows. The game features Expanding symbols with the Butterfly effect feature and Free spins that let you decide the Risk, and where the reels change to 1024 way wins. The variance of the game is low to medium, and you should regularly get winning combinations. For me personally is one of those slots, where after some upgrade, unfortunately, the earnings are meager. Proceed with caution!

Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild is a Netent slot with 5 reels and 243 ways to win. The jungle themed slot benefit from a symbol expansion feature. Each symbol part of a winning spin will expand to cover the whole reel if there is a butterfly on the symbol.

The game has a butterfly and free spins feature. Butterfly feature can be triggered randomly on any spin and the free spins feature needs at least three flower-scattered symbols on the reels. The butterfly feature randomly chose a symbol and lands butterfly symbols on them in order to expand. This feature guarantees a win, and most of the time a big if one of the premium symbols are selected.

The free spins feature is triggered by landing three or more scatter symbols. Before the feature starts, you can choose up to five symbols which is the premium symbols. The snake symbol, which is the lowest paying symbol, will award 20 free spins, the crocodile will award 16 free spins, the bear symbol 12 free spins, elephant awards eight free spins and of course, the scary tiger will award four free spins. It is obvious that if you get at least 3-butterfly tigers during the free spins feature you are guaranteed to win x200 you bet. During free spins an alternative set of reels is used, which is 1024 ways, giving you even more chances to win.

I normally choose the bear of elephant, which is a reasonable amount of free spins as well as more chances to win as the symbol, is also an average to good paying symbol. The most I won on this slot was x300 my bet and I often win x100 my bet during the free spins features.

I love this slot and think Netent has a winner here. Always one of my slots I choose to play to complete wagering requirement as I need just that one big hit to start with a hefty balance. I must admit this slot can be extremely cold at times during base game and its empty spin after empty spin.

Whenever a new game is released, there would be players who would grab it as quickly as hot cakes fresh from the oven. Nope, not me though. If the cake looks nice, I'll probably buy it. If not, I'll just skip it. The same goes for new games. I won't buy them unless given a free chance to try them out first, with free spins of course. I've been given this chance at least 5 times so far, but with only 10 free spins each time, so a total of 50 free spins or so cannot really tell much of any game, but I need to express my feelings and experience on this Jungle Spirit game nonetheless.

Typically of NetEnt games, the graphics used in Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild game are beautiful, with realistic images of animals and great animations to go along with them. But beauty alone is never enough. As the saying goes, 'blondes are more fun' but not necessarily more smart. Well, I would say the same thing to this new game as well. The beauty belies the ugliness of the game. The beautiful graphics cannot disguise the blardy low paytable of the game. Blardy low? Nope! Extremely low! And not only that, for once, NetEnt has chosen to produce a game that uses absolutely no Wild symbols of any kind! So, how do you like that? I don't like it at all. Nosirree. Nope, better make that I hate it as far as I can see!

So, without any Wild symbols in the game, only the Flower Scatter symbols come into play to award the Free Spins game. 5 of them pays a low 50x the total bet, a far cry from the usual 100x. 3 or more of the Flower Scatter symbols award a choice of 5 Free Spins mode - 4, 8, 12, 16 or 20 free spins, each with its own separate multiplier, a choice of either 'win big' or 'win often', but with 1024 ways to win. Consider that 4 free spins mode, for example. You may actually end up with a zero win most of the time, but could win big with 5-of-a-kind of the highest paying symbol, the Tiger. The Snake symbol, on the other hand, pays miserably small even with a 5-of-a-kind win. Whichever one you may wish to pick, know that the outcome of the free spins have already been predetermined by the game and choosing either the Snake or the Tiger may not make much difference, except for very lucky players.

What makes this game interesting, up to an extent that is, is in the way any symbol can become a fully Expanded Reel. Firstly, in the base game, a randomly activated Butterfly Boost feature would expand 1 to 3 symbols into a fully Expanded Reel, for a guaranteed win. Secondly, in both the base game and during the free spins, random symbols would be marked with butterflies, and any marked symbol in a winning combination would then expand into a fully Expanded Reel. Nope, don't expect any of these 2 features to happen often. It just doesn't.

As for the paytable and the symbols, the Tiger pays 150x, the Elephant pays 100x, the Bear pays 80x, the Crocodile pays 70x, the Snake pays 60x, and the card symbols all pay 30x, all per line bet for getting 5 of each kind. Mind you, line bet wins and not total bet wins! With such win values for the symbols, the paytable becomes an extremely low one, and I really wonder what sort of payouts this game could actually produce! Only time will tell.

Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild is the newest video slot powered by NetEnt software provider. This video slot takes place far in a deep jungle in an unknown place. Will you be the next who will find some treasure here?

Something about the graphics at first. Everything is beautiful, the colors are all warm of green, purple and red with the majestic animals of the forest. This video slot has 5 reels and 3 rows, during free spins feature there will be one row more – so in total 5 reels and 4 rows. There is 243 pay ways to win. During free spins 1024 pay ways!
The game has a few different features: symbol expansion feature – any symbol that is marked by butterflies and that takes part in a winning combination will expand to cover an entire reel. Second feature here is butterfly boost feature – it is activated randomly in the main game. The butterflies fly around the reels and will expand 1 to 3 symbols that take part in a guaranteed winning combination. The expanded symbol will cover the entire reel.

The most powerful feature here is free spins. Free spins will be playing at 1024 pay ways because you will get an extra row when feature is triggered. To triggered it you need to get at least three scatters anywhere on the reels. Later you have to choose how many spins would you like to have.From 4 free spins to 20 which is maximum here. Less spins have higher risk, but come with a higher winning potential.

I have to say that I liked this video slot when I played it for the first time. It is quite different than the others which NetEnt released recently. When I was playing it I had one decent winning during base game – around x50 bet. I also triggered free spins, I selected only 4 free spins; the winning was under x50 bet. otherwise I think this game could provide some big winnings and I will definitely play it more in the future. My ratio for this game will be 8 out of 10 possible stars.