Running Animals Demo Slot - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Running Animals Game Theme

There’s a universal fascination with wildlife that ensures the subject will always be a popular theme with game developers. And if you’ve played any other CQ9 Gaming Free Online Slots before, then you might already be familiar with their obsession with chickens! But for this game, they’ve ventured out on safari, heading to the great plains of Africa, which is quite a stretch for an Asian software house.

But with so many tourists flocking to see wild animals in their native surroundings, it’s perhaps no surprise that CQ9 decided to bring the theme to an Asian and Oriental audience. And now those of us in the west can reap the benefits too, as the game becomes more widely available.

Running Animals Graphics & Soundtrack

If you’re hoping for the sort of graphics and bonus features that you’d find on Siberian Storm, then you’re likely to feel a bit disappointed when you first fire up the reels of Running Animals. The graphics are mediocre at best, and the animations are pretty pedestrian. But as all keen slots fans know, the quality of the graphics doesn’t always reflect the true playability of a game.

The background scene shows the African savannah, with mountains visible in the far distance. A pair of elephants are resting in the shade of a tree, while nearby a couple of giraffes are keeping a lookout for predators. The reels themselves are presented within an inlaid wooden frame, with big, chunky symbols that include the popular playing card icons A, K, Q and J.

The backing music is a peculiar blend of Oriental and jungle beats, which we found slightly irritating after a short spell. But luckily the sounds are easily muted through the settings menu, for those who prefer to play in silence, or to the accompaniment of their own playlist.

How to Play Running Animals

Running Animals is a very easy game to play, with no complex gameplay techniques to learn. So once you’ve decided on the amount of your stake, all you have to do is hit the Spin button, and see whether any cash prizes are coming your way. There’s an Autoplay function, which you can access by hovering over the Spin button and then tapping or clicking on the left-hand side of it. This also gives access to the Turbo button, which speeds up the reels for faster gaming.

Rather than matching symbols across a payline, or collecting clusters of symbols, Running Animals works to a very different mechanic. Players only need to spin up six or more examples of a single symbol to win a cash payout. Those six symbols don’t have to be on the same reels, or in the same rows - they don’t have to be touching, or on adjacent reels. So if you can see six elephants on the screen, for example, in any position, then you’ll have won a prize. In effect, every single symbol operates like a scatter!

Running Animals Min & Max Bets + Top Wins

You can play Running Animals from from 0.80 to 200.00 per spin. Top cash prizes are awarded for spinning up 15 lion symbols across the reels, which in the free spins round triggers a top prize worth 1,250x your stake.

Running Animals Bonus Features & Free Spins

Spinning up three, four or five volcano scatter symbols will trigger the free spins bonus round, as well as awarding a Scatter Pays cash prize. You’ll receive 10, 15 or 20 free spins, with a 6x multiplier applicable to every win throughout the feature round. And free spins can be retriggered, although they’re capped at 100.

Running Animals RTP & Volatility

Unfortunately, CQ9 hasn’t yet released the RTP and volatility details of any of their online slots games. But as the games become more popular in this part of the world, this information will become available. And when it does, you can be sure that we’ll update our review accordingly.

Running Animals Overall Review

Although Running Animals is a solid game with reliable gameplay, we have to admit that it didn’t light up our world in the way that some animal-themed slots can do. But having said that, it delivers some good winning potential, and it’s highly rewarding to see the screen fill with a single symbol, indicating a big win. But until RTP and volatility details are released, we suggest players should keep to playing this game for free.

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