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Gorilla On The Move does not care about its base paytable. If you’re the type of player who likes a steady trickle of 5x and 10x wins to keep your balance afloat, this 5×4, 10-payline release is going to test your patience.
Instead, the studio has put the entire weight of this math model squarely on the broad shoulders of a single symbol. It’s a highly volatile, all-or-nothing experience, and while the mechanics are genuinely exciting, this game takes no prisoners.
The Math: All About the Multipliers
The base payouts here are deliberately flat. The top premium symbol, the police car, pays a mere 10x your bet for a five-of-a-kind. The cash van pays 7.5x, and a full line of royals will just give you your money back (1x). In fact, hit a three-of-a-kind of almost anything, and you aren’t even covering your spin cost.
So, where is the money? It’s all in the Wild Reel.
The Gorilla acts as a full-reel wild, substituting for any paying symbol. Whenever he drops, he brings a random multiplier ranging from 1x all the way up to 256x. If you’re lucky enough to land multiple wild reels on the same winning line, the game adds them together rather than multiplying them. Still, three 256x reels combining for a 768x line multiplier is nothing to scoff at.
A Brutal Base Game & Risky Feature Buys
I’ll be honest: my base game sessions were incredibly dry. In one stretch of about two dozen spins, my best natural hit was three cash vans for a measly 0.75x. The game clearly wants you to use its feature buys and its Bonus Boost mode, but tread carefully.
Besides buying a bonus outright, there are three special bets:
- Bonus Boost (2x bet): Doubles your spin cost to naturally land more scatters.
- Scatter Spins (50x bet): This one is a bit of a tease. It guarantees two Bonus scatters, putting you one short of a trigger. The third one is still on you, and without it the 50x can come back as nothing at all.
- MAX IMPACT Spins (250x bet): This is the ultimate gamble. It removes scatters entirely and guarantees up to three wild reels, with at least one locked at the maximum 256x. But remember: paylines still read left to right. A 256x reel that lands away from the first column can only extend a line of whatever happens to sit to its left, and if that is a row of royals, the spin can pay well short of its 250x price. Placement is everything.
The Free Spins: Roaming Wilds
The main event is triggered by landing three or more City Skyline scatters, awarding 10 free spins. The bonus has three tiers depending on your trigger:
- 3 Scatters: Standard bonus, wilds start at 1x.
- 4 Scatters: Guarantees a wild reel on spin one, starting at 1x.
- 5 Scatters: Guarantees a wild reel on spin one, but all multipliers start at 8x.
(Pro tip: Any scatter that lands during the feature adds +1 spin to your tally, which is a lifesaver).
Once you’re in the bonus, the Gorilla completely changes the dynamic of the game. Any wild reel that lands becomes sticky for the rest of the feature, but it moves. Unlike Pragmatic Play’s Zeus vs Hades, where multiplier reels lock exactly where they land, this 800-pound gorilla shifts to a random column before every single spin. It turns the bonus into a constantly changing puzzle.
The progression system here is brilliant but agonizing. Every time a wild reel is part of a win, its multiplier doubles, climbing the ladder toward 256x. However, the doubling happens after the payout. So, your current win is paid at the lower multiplier, but you get to carry that newly doubled power into the next spin.
Chasing the 10,000x Dream
With a max win cap of 10,000x your bet, Gorilla On The Move has undeniable potential. Achieving that cap requires a perfect storm: landing multiple wild reels early in the bonus, getting enough small connections to double them up to 256x, and then hoping they roam into the right columns just as the police cars line up. (For context, five police cars running through three 256x reels pays 7,680x on a single line).
This game is incredibly fair about what it is, a hardcore, high-volatility slot designed for players who love chasing massive multiplier setups. The feature buys can be harsh, but when the Gorilla gets moving in the free spins and those multipliers start doubling, it delivers an adrenaline rush that few modern slots can match.
