Monkeys Wild Party — a 5x5 grid built around chain reactions
Monkeys Wild Party is PG Soft's take on the cluster grid, released on 29 June 2026. It puts twenty-five positions on screen, pays for groups of touching symbols rather than for lines, and adds two mechanics that feed each other: wilds that spread across the grid and a multiplier that climbs with every cascade. This page sets out how those pieces connect and which figures the studio publishes.
What the game is
The playing field is five columns by five rows. A win needs four or more matching symbols connected to each other — any shape, anywhere on the grid, with no lines to follow and no left-to-right rule to satisfy. Paid symbols are removed and the empty positions are refilled from above, so a single stake can resolve as a run of consecutive results. The round ends when a refill produces no new cluster.
PG Soft publishes a theoretical return of 96.75 percent and classes the volatility as medium, which sits this title between the calm fruit machines and the punishing high-variance grids elsewhere in the catalogue. The maximum a round can return is 10,000 times the stake, and stakes themselves run from 0.60 to 180.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft (Pocket Games Soft) |
| Format | 5x5 grid, cluster pays from 4 connected symbols, cascades |
| RTP | 96.75% |
| Volatility | Medium |
| Maximum win | 10,000x the bet |
| Bet range | 0.60 to 180 |
| Released | 29 June 2026 |
Spreading wilds and a rising multiplier
The Wild Mushroom is the symbol that starts things moving. When one lands it turns the Monkey symbols adjacent to it into Wilds, and each of those converted Monkeys passes the effect on to its own neighbours. On a grid where monkeys happen to be sitting side by side, a single Mushroom can convert a whole chain of positions at once — which is where the large clusters in this game come from, rather than from luck with the base symbol distribution.
The second mechanic keeps score of the chain. Every winning cascade raises the multiplier by one step, and it keeps rising for as long as the cascades continue. Crucially it works in the base game as well as inside free spins, so an ordinary spin that happens to cascade four or five times pays its later clusters at a considerably better rate than its first. The free spins round is the same idea given more room to run, and it is where the longest chains are most likely to develop.
Bets and limits
With a range from 0.60 to 180 the stake is worth deciding before the first spin rather than adjusting mid-session. The usual arithmetic applies: divide the money you have set aside by the number of spins you want it to cover, and use the answer. Medium volatility helps here — the balance moves less violently than on a high-variance grid — but a stake near the top of the range still consumes a modest budget in a couple of dozen spins.
The firmer limits live in the account: deposit caps, loss limits, session reminders and time-outs, all described on the responsible gambling page, together with the self-exclusion options. How money reaches and leaves that account, along with the minimums involved, is covered on the payments page.
Demo play and bonus wagering
The title opens in a demo mode with play credits and the same mathematics as the paid version. That is a genuinely useful place to watch the mushroom-and-monkey interaction, because reading about a spreading wild is much less clear than seeing one convert half a grid. What the demo cannot do is tell you anything about the spins that follow it — each round is independent, and a strong free session predicts nothing.
If bonus money is in play, the share of each spin that counts towards the wagering requirement is fixed by the operator's bonus terms rather than by PG Soft, and those terms may also cap the stake permitted while a bonus is active. Read them on the bonus page before you start. The other grid and reel titles covered on this site are listed on the games hub.