Monster Wins Slot

When I first looked at this Monster Wins game, it instantly reminded me of Space Wars and Energoonz, all having similar icons of monsters, but Monster Wins is certainly lacking in good quality graphics, animations and presentation aspects. Amongst the 3 mentioned games, I would say Energoonz looks and plays the best. The overall presentation and quality of Energoonz is way better and more pleasing than that of Monsters Win.

This game plays with 5 reels and 4 rows, with 1024 ways to win, and with so many more paylines than the usual. The Wild symbol only appears on reels 2, 3 , 4 and 5, and it doesn't do anything else except to substitute for most other symbols. Yep, it's a true blue dumb Wild! A Bonus symbol acts as the Scatter, 5 of which pays 2500x the line bet, 4 pays 500x and 3 pays 100x the line bet, not the total bet amount as Scatters usually pay! 3 or more Scatters award the Boss Monster Free Games, whereby 3 free spins are given, with a Stacked Boss Monster on reel 1 for every spin. More free spins can be retriggered, but I've yet to get them! All other symbols pay from 100x down to 20x the line bet. In short, Monster Wins paytable is monstrously very low!

In the base game, a fully Stacked Boss Monster may appear on reel 1, activating a Unleash The Boss Monster feature, revealing more Boss Monster symbols on the other reels. Sometimes this number can be just 1 or 2 additional symbols, at times it can more than 3, but I've yet to see 2 or more full reels of them appearing. Other than this 2 features, there is nothing more to look out for.

In play, what the paytable promises, doesn't really live up to what the game can and should do in terms of its payouts! The minimum starting bet is 0.50 EUR, but getting 3 Bonus Scatters only pay 1.05 EUR. 5-of-a-kind of the lower Monster symbols don't even pay 1x the bet amount, usually just 0.20 EUR or 0.25 EUR for a 0.50 EUR bet! What the argh kind of blardy low payouts these Monsters are paying! The name Monster Wins certainly doesn't mean getting big monster wins, as everyone would expect it to mean. What it actually does is play the game and the Monster always wins! We, the players, always lose! Don't believe me? Play the game and find out for yourself, but don't say I didn't warn you earlier!

Colorful and weird shaped aliens are the main protagonists of the theme of “Monster Wins” slot. This slot has been created by the company “Nextgen Gaming” under the structure of 5 x 4 reels, and they have equipped this game with the feature 1024 ways to win and for each turn, the player must pay a bet of 50 credits.

This slot has a total of 10 regular symbols and additionally there is also a wild symbol that acts as a substitute for regular symbols and a bonus symbol used to trigger the round of 3 free spins.

One aspect that differentiates this slot from others, and I'm not sure it is a positive difference, is that the only symbol with the ability to generate decent payouts is the symbol with the image of 5 eyes, which is the highest paid symbol in the whole game and often it can appear stacked, and precisely when this symbol occupies all 4 squares on reel 1, it activates a special feature called “Unleash the Boss Monster,” which consists of some tentacles, similar to those of octopus, that are responsible for converting one or more regular symbols into more eyes’ symbols, primarily on the reels 2 and 3; this feature occurs with some frequency, however, “Boss Monster Free Game Feature” is quite difficult to be triggered, and although this round has some potential to create big wins, 3 free spins are not enough to expect that this round will take us forward.

Personally, I think the paytable of “Monster Wins” is extremely tight and its special features do not often enough occur to make this one a real fun game and fair enough for the player; my impression is that these monsters have the mission to eat all the coins they can, the faster the better. In my opinion, this is a rather disappointing game, and that’s a shame considering that NextGen Gaming is one of my favorite gaming software developers.