Mimic Munch unfolds in a stone dungeon lit by wall torches and hung with red banners, with gold coins and a jewelled goblet piled on the floor. Beside the grid squats the main character: a wooden treasure chest with sharp teeth, angry yellow eyes, a lolling pink tongue and a padlock for a nose. I played at $1.00 per spin from $1,000.00.
Theme and Gameplay
The symbols are dungeon loot and snacks: a purple spellbook, a green potion bottle, a knight’s helmet with a teal plume, a treasure map, a wedge of cheese, a red apple and a blue fish. The dark grid sits in a riveted copper frame, and the mimic itself is wonderfully cartoonish.
Slot Features
Linked sets reaching five pay, disappear and get refilled until nothing new links up. The mimic is a 2×2 block, or 3×3 once grown, and its cells are wild: they connect groups on either side without counting toward the five needed.
Outside the bonus, the mimic peeks in on roughly 1 spin in 7, eating the symbols under it. In free spins it hops one cell every spin. Each cell it leaves gets drool worth x2, and existing drool doubles up to x128. Each winning group gets the summed drool lying under it as its multiplier, and in free spins drool stays put all feature long.
Eaten symbols fill the hoard: Spellbook and Potion 3 points, Helmet and Map 2, food 1. When a feature finishes, each point pays 0.42x the bet. Vault Raid gives 9 free spins featuring a 2×2 mimic that grows to 3×3 at 34 points and adds 2 spins; Grand Hoard gives 9 spins featuring a 3×3 mimic and starting drool; Golden Hoard gives 12 spins and drool up to x16 from the start.
RTP and Win Potential
Bait costs 3x the bet for more scatters, and Lid Open costs 50x for a single round where a 3×3 mimic hops up to three times. Vault Raid costs 100x, Locked Chest 220x and Grand Hoard 400x. The 15,000x cap covers the whole round, spit included. Volatility is high.
My Thoughts On This Slot
Mimic Munch stands out as a truly original cluster game. The roaming mimic, stacking drool and points-based hoard all work together beautifully, and the dungeon artwork bursts with personality.
The rules take time to master, and base-game peeks are short-lived.