Monkey Gods of the Inca Slot Review

Let's be honest right out of the gate: Relax Gaming has built this idea before. Tiger Shrine ran the same collect-and-expand trick in the same jungle for the same 10,000x cap back in 2024, on a bigger grid. This one lands between Nuclear Tumble and Money Train 5, and it feels like a template dressed up to give a massive, expensive Bonus Buy menu a place to live.

Visually, you're looking at an overgrown ancient temple guarded by three stone monkeys. (Side note for the history nerds: the Incas didn't actually have monkey gods, that was the Aztecs, but we'll let that slide because the jungle artwork is genuinely great).

As you spin, you'll see colored tokens detach from symbols and fly up to feed a green gorilla, a blue deity, and a red orangutan on the roof. Let me save you some frustration right now: this is purely for show. The flying tokens don't actually trigger the mechanics they seem to be feeding. It's just background noise to make the game feel busier than it is.

On paper, this is a medium-high volatility slot with a 5x4 grid, 1,024 ways to win, and a 96.10% RTP (though beware, there is a 94% version floating around out there).

To put it bluntly, the base game is an absolute desert. You'll only hit a winning combo on about one in five spins, which feels incredibly thin. And when you do win, the payouts are tiny, even the top-tier gold jaguar mask only pays out 8x your bet for a full line of five.

Those three monkeys on the roof are supposed to trigger modifiers:

• Green Gorilla: Expands the grid by up to two rows (pushing it to 7,776 ways).
• Blue Deity: Upgrades symbols to the highest visible one and guarantees a win.
• Red Orangutan: Drops up to three wild reels with multipliers up to 10x.

Sounds awesome, right? Well, in reality, these features are basically non-existent in the base game. You can easily sit through hundreds of dead spins without seeing a single expansion, upgrade, or wild reel.

To get free spins, you need three orange Bonus tablets (which act as dead blocks on the grid, annoyingly). Three gold ones trigger the Super Free Spins.

There's also a persistent Coin Bonus that holds jackpots up to 1,000x. But here is a massive warning: if you change your bet size, your coin progress wipes completely. It's a nasty trap for players who like to adjust their stakes. Ultimately, though, the coins are so incredibly rare that the jackpots are mostly just decoration.

It becomes obvious very quickly that the base game is just a wait before the "Supercharge" buy menu. This is where the actual mechanics are locked away.

• Standard Buy (60x your bet): Gives you 5 free spins with one guaranteed feature per spin. In this session it handed back just under 20x.
• Super Buy (200x your bet): Gives you 6 spins with two guaranteed features per spin (and a chance at all three).
• Feature Spin (25x your bet): Forces a single modifier.
• Bonus Reels (10x your bet): Strips all paying symbols so you only land bonus tablets (this option weirdly disappears if you bet over $2.00).
• Enhanced Spin (+40% to your bet): Boosts your chance of triggering the bonus naturally.

What the game gets right is its visual design. I love how the top two rows of the grid are covered in ivy until the green gorilla clears them, it's a nice, honest way of showing you exactly what you're missing out on.

But the gameplay is harsh. To hit that 10,000x max win, you absolutely need the expanded grid combined with the wild multiplier reels, and the base game flat-out refuses to give you that.

Even if you pay for it, be prepared for heartbreak. Drop 200x on a Super Buy and you can watch two wild reels land at once and pay nothing, because a wild reel counts for zero unless the first column starts the way. Three spins in a row did exactly that in this session before the round paid anything, and watching the board celebrate a high-multiplier wild reel that returns nothing is infuriating.

Monkey Gods of the Inca is just a quiet, empty base game designed to push you into an expensive, unforgiving bonus buy menu. Play it if you love high-risk feature buys, but don't expect the base game to show you any love.