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Monkey King Path to Treasure Slot Review

I once went on a hike 🚶with a girlfriend👩‍❤️‍👨, a buddy, and his girlfriend👩‍❤️‍👨. Hiking isn’t my thing, but I liked the girl and my buddy.

We were on the trail for about 2 hours, and as you can imagine with most hikes, it got dull. So we decided to go off the trail a little and find a waterfall that we had been told about.

After an hour of treacherous bushwhacking, we finally found the waterfall. And it was beautiful. We sat next to the river at the bottom and decided we would rest for a couple hours and perhaps take a dip.

Not 10 minutes later, a hippy couple with 3 little kids, and guessing by the size of the lady, another on the way, appeared on the other side of the river.

We exchanged friendly waves. It’s a big river with a big enough waterfall. We could share.

Quicker than you can fall to the bottom of a waterfall, the whole damn family stripped naked🙈.

I’m not against nudity in the slightest, but it went from a very pretty, picturesque scene to an awkward one where you didn’t know where to look.

Sometimes the more traveled path is more traveled for a bloody good reason. Like avoiding nudists.

I think Monkey King Path to Treasure slot from Mancala should have done the same with regards to their Free Spins.

Gameplay

It’s back to the world of Chinese mythology with Monkey King Path to Treasure slot.

You’ll play on 5 reels with 4 positions each. There are 20 paylines to land matching symbols from left to right to create a win.

There are 6 paying symbols: an ox, a tiger, a fish, a lily, a lotus, and some kind of bean-looking thing.

You’ll see there is a progress bar above the reels; this is the titular Path of Treasure, which comes into play when triggering Free Spins. See below under Free Spins to find out more.

There is also a win multiplier that increases by 1x any time you land 3 or more Wild symbols on a spin. The multiplier doesn’t reset until after a Free Spins round.

This is a low-volatility slot with an RTP of 95%.

There are no limitations on what currency you can play with. The only limit is how much you can win. You can score a decent €100,000 maximum if you manage to achieve the highest** multiplier of 500x**.

Bets start at just €0.20 and go up to €200. So there are plenty of options for low- and high-stakes play.

This game is ideal for mobile, but it works on PC just as well.

Features

WILD

The Wild symbol is a mist-covered temple. It can substitute for all paying symbols to contribute to a win.

If you land 3 or more Wild symbols in the base game, the win multiplier increases by 1x. The multiplier resets after a round of Free Spins.

SCATTER

The Scatter symbol is the Monkey King himself. There are no payouts for Scatter symbols, but the number you land on the reels eventually awards a number of Free Spins when you eventually trigger them.

  • 3x Scatter symbols = 1 Free Spin
  • 4x Scatter symbols = 3 Free Spins
  • 5x Scatter symbols = 10 Free Spins

COIN SYMBOLS

During Free Spins, Coin symbols are added to the reels that carry the same multiplier value as the win multiplier.

FREE SPINS

Triggering Free Spins in this game is a lot harder than in other slots.

Above the reels, you’ll see a map with 10 slots. You’ll need to land 3 or more Scatter symbols to progress one slot. When you reach the 10th slot, you’ll trigger a round of Free Spins.

The number of Free Spins you have will depend on the total number of Scatters that appeared in all the previous spins leading up to the Free Spins round. This means you could receive anywhere from 10 to 100 Free Spins.

The win multiplier you reach in the base game will carry over into the Free Spins round.

During Free Spins, a sticky 1x4 Wild symbol is placed on the center reel and stays in position until the end of the feature. No other Wild or Scatter symbols are on the reels.

BUY BONUS

You skip traveling along the Path to Treasure and automatically trigger a Free Spins round with a random number of Free Spins up to 30 with a maximum of a 5x win multiplier.

The round will cost you 58x your current bet.

Performance

Monkey King Path to Treasure slot performs great on mobile and PC. I tested it out on my Windows laptop and Android phone and didn’t encounter any bugs or glitches.

Maximum Win

The minimum wager is merely €0.20, and the maximum is €200. A 500x multiplier is the largest possible, and it can earn you a sweet €100,000, this slot’s top prize.

Conclusion

Monkey King Path to Treasure slot is a fantastically well-done Chinese mythology-inspired game. So it’s even more of a shame that I think it suffers from trying to be more creative with its Free Spins.

You cannot trigger Free Spins by landing the required number of symbols on a spin. No, you have to land the required number of symbols 10 times.

Which means you’re potentially paying for 100 spins or more to even get within whiffing distance of the game’s only feature. And then you could only be rewarded with as little as 10 Free Spins!

And what is so special about these Free Spins that they warrant all your time and money? A sticky stacked Wild symbol on the middle reel. It hardly feels worth the effort.

The audacity.

Thankfully, or perhaps mercifully, Mancala Gaming included a Buy Bonus option to trigger a random number of Free Spins up to 30 instantly.

The game does have a win multiplier that you can build up during the base game and carry over into the Free Spins.

I don’t recommend this game, but if you’re after a low-volatility game and want to spend a lot of time on it, at least you’ll know what to expect going into it after reading this review.

Slot Details

Software: Mancala
Game Type: Video Slots
Paylines: 20
Reels: 5
RTP: 95%
Bonus Round: No
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 500x
Max Win: €100,000
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