Banana Odyssey Slot Review

Banana Odyssey Slot - Game Information

Banana Odyssey is a fun expedition into deep space led by the astrochimp duo Buck and Chip, created by Slingshot Studios on Microgaming’s Quickfire platform and released on 10 July 2019. It plays on 5 reels and 3 rows with 10 paylines that pay both ways, so wins can land from left to right and right to left. With bets from 0.10 up to 400 per spin, RTP of 96.31% and medium volatility, I find the ride fairly smooth but not too sleepy.

As an online video slot, Banana Odyssey combines simple mechanics with a couple of strong features. The core of the game sits in its expanding sticky wilds, which drive both the base game re-spins and the free spins. Max win is capped at 400 times your stake, so for me this one is more about steady entertainment in space rather than life-changing payouts.

Join Chip and Buck on Their Intergalactic Adventure in Banana Odyssey

From the first spin, Banana Odyssey throws me straight into a cartoonish sci-fi setting where Chip and Buck chase their beloved Banana Planet. The reels appear to float through space with colourful planets and cosmic dust in the background, while a funky soundtrack keeps things lively. The whole presentation feels like a light-hearted space comic, which suits the medium variance, feel-good gameplay very well.

The theme sticks closely to monkeys and bananas, with every visual element built around that idea. Chip and Buck pop up as premium symbols, banana blasters and astro nuts fill out the mid-tier spots, and even the control panel carries that futuristic vibe. On mobile or tablet the slot runs smoothly for me, and the clean layout makes long sessions easy on the eyes.

Banana Odyssey Symbols and Paytable

The symbols in Banana Odyssey follow the space monkey story nicely. At the top of the paytable sit the two astrochimps, Buck and Chip, which are the highest paying regulars. Then come the banana blaster and the astro nuts, followed by card suit symbols as the lower paying icons. Wins land when I hit three to five matching symbols on one of the ten paylines, and because the game pays both ways those lines can start from either side.

On the numbers side, both Buck and Chip pay 10x my stake for five of a kind on a payline, which is as good as it gets for standard hits. The banana blaster pays 8x for five, astro nuts pay 6x, while the card suits sit between 3.5x and 2x for a full line. Three scatters anywhere on the middle reels award 1x the stake and trigger free spins, and the Banana Planet symbol acts as the wild, which I will get to below.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Scatter
	3	x1
	5	x10
	4	x3
	3	x1.2
	5	x10
	4	x3
	3	x1.2
	5	x8
	4	x2.5
	3	x1
	5	x6
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x3.5
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.6
	5	x3
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.6
	5	x2.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x2
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	Wild

Expanding Wilds for Fully Wild Reels in Banana Odyssey

One of the main attractions in Banana Odyssey for me is the expanding wild feature. The Banana Planet wild can land only on reels 2, 3 and 4, and when it appears it expands to cover the entire reel. As a wild it substitutes for all regular symbols, so a fully wild middle reel can connect lots of lines in both directions, which feels particularly satisfying when high-value chimps line up around it.

The expanding wild does more than just fill a reel. Each time it lands and expands, it becomes sticky and I get a re-spin with that wild reel frozen in place. If another Banana Planet appears during the re-spin, it also expands, sticks and adds yet another re-spin. In practice this means I can wind up with three stacked sticky wild reels and a string of re-spins, which is where most of my bigger base game wins have come from.

Because the volatility sits in the middle, those wild re-spins show up often enough to keep me engaged, but not on every other spin. Sometimes I only get one wild reel and a small top-up win, other times two or three reels go wild and the screen lights up with chimp combos. It is a simple feature, yet in this setup it works well, especially with wins counting from both sides.

Free Spins in Banana Odyssey

The free spins feature in Banana Odyssey triggers when three scatter symbols land on the same spin across reels 2, 3 and 4. This awards 10 free spins, and here the expanding Banana Planet wilds really show what they can do. Any wild that lands on the middle reels expands and stays sticky for the rest of the bonus, so by the end of a good round I can have multiple fully wild reels sitting in place. The feature cannot be re-triggered, but when the wilds line up from both directions, the wins can still feel very satisfying.

What is the jackpot (max win) in Banana Odyssey?

Banana Odyssey does not come with any progressive or fixed jackpot. Instead, the max win is 400 times my stake, which matches the figures given in the paytable. With the bet range running from 0.10 to 400 per spin, that means a top single-spin payout of up to 160,000 at the highest stake. Combined with the 96.31% RTP and medium variance, I see this more as a steady, entertainment-focused slot rather than a high-risk, high-reward monster.

Exceptionally Appealing and Rewarding in Banana Odyssey

After plenty of sessions with Banana Odyssey, I see it as a charming, medium variance slot that delivers feel-good space adventures rather than brutal swings. The pay both ways mechanic, re-spins with stacked sticky wilds and free spins with sticky expanding wild reels all work together to keep the gameplay lively. I also like the clean, cartoon-style graphics and funky soundtrack, which fit the light-hearted astrochimp theme perfectly.

On the flip side, the potential is capped quite low, so high rollers chasing huge multipliers might shrug and move on. For me the pros are the re-spins with stacked sticky wilds, free spins that can fill the middle reels with wilds and the balanced hit rate. The cons are the 400x max win ceiling, lack of re-trigger in free spins and no jackpot, but if I just want a fun space slot with steady action, Banana Odyssey does the job.

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