Mount M Slot Review

Mount M Slot Overview

Mount M from Play’n GO drops me into a deserted ice age valley, with snow-covered peaks, drifting clouds and a frozen mammoth staring down from the mountain. The slot runs on 5 reels with 4 to 8 rows and up to 8192 ways to win. Wilds carry orbs that can expand the three central reels and upgrade animals, so even the base game feels like a slow climb towards the top feature.

By default I play Mount M with 1024 ways active, betting from 0.10 up to 100 per spin, which suits both testing sessions and more serious shots at the peak. Volatility is very high, so long dry spells are common, but the game can pay up to 13000 times the stake. When the middle reels hit full height and the mammoths take over, the screen can explode with stacked wins.

Mount M Slot Information

Mount M opens with a short animated sequence around an ancient rock carved with humans and animals, before the camera swings to the frozen slopes where the reels sit between primitive spears and wooden markers. The soundtrack is slow and tribal, with a constant feeling of tension. Wins form by landing at least three matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left, and the slot runs smoothly on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Symbols and Paytable in Mount M

On Mount M the lower-paying symbols are card royals fashioned from animal teeth, running from J through to A and paying up to 0.3 times the bet for five of a kind. Premiums are a set of prehistoric animals, starting with a bird and a hyena or wolf-like creature, then a bulky rhino-style beast, a sabre-toothed predator and finally the mammoth, which pays up to 2 times the stake for five.

Every pay symbol in Mount M can appear stacked, with the mammoth capable of landing in huge blocks covering four positions on a reel, which is vital when the ways to win expand. A golden W carved into stone acts as the wild symbol on reels two, three and four, substituting all regular symbols. The burning campfire or eternal flame symbol marked Bonus works as the scatter, responsible for triggering the Evolution Free Spins.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x2
	4	x1.5
	3	x1
	5	x1.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.7
	5	x1
	4	x0.7
	3	x0.5
	5	x0.8
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.3
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Scatter
	Wild

Mount M Slot Features

In the base game of Mount M I am always watching for the frozen frame that can surround reels two, three and four. When this appears and a wild lands inside it, the Shatter Respin, also called Expanding Reels, springs into action. The highlighted reels extend by one to four extra rows, pushing the layout up to a possible 4-8-8-8-4 format, and at the same time some of the animal premiums upgrade into mammoths.

Once the expansion has finished, Mount M gives a single respin with the new reel height locked in place. Each added row turns one more premium into the top mammoth symbol, so with a full build the game can show only mammoths and royals. It sounds dramatic, but the feature can still end without a win, which is where the high volatility really shows, especially when you hit several dead modifiers in a row.

Three, four or five scatters anywhere on the reels in Mount M award 10, 15 or 20 Evolution Free Spins. Wilds can land with flaming orbs that fill frozen positions above reels two to four. Collecting 5, 10, 14 and 17 orbs shatters the four icy rows one by one, each time adding a permanent row, +1 spin and upgrading a premium to mammoths. Extra scatters add 3 to 10 spins, up to a total of 68.

Mount M Slot Money and RTP

When I sit down with Mount M I treat it as a proper high risk slot. The main RTP setting sits around 96.2%, but there are confirmed alternative profiles at 94.25%, 91.25%, 87.25% and 84.25%, so I always check the game information. Bets range from 0.10 to 100 per spin, and with such volatile behaviour the 13000x max win comes at the price of aggressive swings in balance.

Mount M Final Verdict

As a slot regular I find Mount M can feel quite slow in the base game, especially when the frozen frame drifts by for several spins without a wild landing in it. Low symbol values mean many hits barely move the needle. On the other hand, when the Shatter Respin actually connects and stacks of mammoths roll in across 8192 ways, the game reminds me why I keep climbing this mountain.

The Evolution Free Spins in Mount M are where the slot really wakes up for me, as each shattered row cranks up the tension and narrows the symbol set towards mammoths and royals. Not every bonus reaches the summit and some runs end with hardly any rows opened, but when the orbs line up and you hit a fully opened grid with spare spins left, the potential for big prehistoric hits feels very real.

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