Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild, New Real Money Slot by NetEnt

There’s a new real money slot game on the internet these days, and it’s calling upon the ‘wild‘ side of interactive slots fans. NetEnt, famous for its graphic-rich 3D iGaming productions, released Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild at the end of March.

Like all of NetEnt’s recent game releases, Jungle Spirit is imbued with stunning graphics and HD quality animations designed to wow players. It also comes equipped with a new feature the company is calling a Butterfly Boost that’s guaranteed to boost player’s profits when triggered.

Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild Slot Review

If you read The Jungle Book, this new real money slot may bring back some memories. It’s not officially themed on the book or any of its theatrical adaptions, but the familiarity is uncanny, (minus the human main character).

Jungle Spirit is a 5 reel, 243-bet way slot machine built in Java and HTML5, providing optimization for gameplay on all desktop, mobile and tablet devices. It comes with a realistic sound track that really helps immerse players into the predatory jungle theme.

Standard symbols include a stalking Tiger, Indian Elephant, Grizzly Bear, Crocodile and Cobra, followed by low-paying card values of 10-A, fashioned from ancient engraved stone. Each time a higher-paying wild animal symbol makes up a winning combination, it comes to life with striking animation.

Jungle Spirit Features

Jungle Spirit doesn’t come with any wild symbols in the base game or during special features. The Pink Lotus is the Scatter, and will award free spins when 3 or more appear anywhere on the reels in a single spin. Players will get to choose how many free spins they want – 4, 8, 12, 16 or 20 – but there’s a catch.

The more spins you choose, the lower the risk, and lower the winnings will probably be. Choosing fewer spins comes with higher risk, but higher rewards. Also, during free spins, the music intensifies and the reel set expands to a 5×4 grid, increasing the paylines from 243 to 1024, which also helps create a lot of winning combinations.

NetEnt incorporated a brand new feature into Jungle Spirit: Call of the Wild, called the Butterfly Boost. During the base game, a golden butterfly can appear at random on any of the game’s wild animal symbols.

If such a symbol is involved in a winning combination, a swarm of butterflies will emerge and the entire reel will expand to be covered by that animal, greatly boosting the chances of creating more winning paylines.

Is Jungle Spirit Slot Worth Playing?

This new real money slot definitely succeeds in the entertainment factor, as all NetEnt 3D slots do. After taking a few hundred spins on it myself, I’ve determined it has a medium variance, meaning you won’t hit winning combinations too often. But when you do they should at least payout out the amount you wagered, if not a lot more.

It took about 80 spins to trigger the free games, and I never did hit it a second time, but I quit soon after because it took my bankroll up just over $100 in profit. I chose the Elephant (8 free spins) and lined up 4 elephants twice (pays 2000 credits). Cha-ching!