Mystery Mice Slot Review

The Mystery Mice Slot Game

Before anything else, I highly recommend reading this review alongside the game’s demo play, linked here for free!

In real life, mice can be destructive and irritating, to say the least. But have you ever thought they could also be handy? Well, according to this Pragmatic Play release. One notable thing about this game is how it maintains a high-quality design synonymous with Pragmatic releases.

Mystery Mice starts you out on the streets with the protagonist bopping on the right-hand side of the reels. He dons a green coat and hat while holding a magnifying lens, and perhaps his grinning face means he’s onto some good leads.

The free spins change the scenery to the inside of an investigative chamber. The visuals, melody, and sound effects create an immersive aura engulfing the simplistic styling.

Symbols and Payouts

Thematic characters, including a police officer and a suspicious character, inject more life into the game. They are among the eight symbols that complete the regular tier.

It’s also important to note that the 6 by 6 playing grid uses a cluster wins technique. So, your objective is to aim for blocks of 5 or more matching symbols connected vertically or horizontally. All the symbol paytable values are dynamic to your bet.

It should be a familiar winning process for most players. But if you’re a first-timer, don’t hesitate to try the free demo as many times as possible until you grasp the winning rules!

I wish Mystery Mice had different symbols for its low-win category instead of the typical Q, K, and A playing cards. Regardless, they pay 0.2-20x, 0.25-25x, and 0.3-30x the bet as listed.

Then, the Smoking Pipe and Cap are worth 0.4-40x and 0.45-50x the stake, respectively. However, the high-paying symbols are the Police Officer, Suspect, and Detective. They are worth 0.5-60x, 0.75-100x, and 1-150x the bet for 5+, respectively.

The “Level Clearance” Poster is the wild symbol, which substitutes for all the regular symbols in win evaluation. Meanwhile, the Magnifying Lens is the scatter!

Mystery Mice Slot Bonus Features

Thanks to the tumble feature, power wilds, and free spins, your leads to magnificent winning chances grow. Oh, and the game has a buy feature for the bonus game!

Tumble Feature

Anybody who’s been around the gambling world for a while should undoubtedly know about this feature. It eliminates all the winning symbols after pays are made, and all the remaining symbols drop to the screen’s bottom.

Then, new symbols from above replace the empty positions. The tumbles continue until no further winning combos appear.

Power Wilds

Whenever a wild appears on the Mystery Mice reels, it will have from 1 to 10 clearance levels. Each time the wild participates in a paying sequence, the number will reduce by one. And the wild doesn’t explode as part of the tumbles as long as the number exceeds one.

Instead, it drops towards the bottom of the screen during tumbles. The wilds only explode if the clearance level is 1 and they are part of a winning cluster.

Free Spins

Manage 3 or more scatters to activate eight (8) free spins! The game pays 1x the stake for every scatter that triggered the feature. Wild symbols persist between the free spins.

Meanwhile, a Power Up symbol can appear during this bonus game and randomly add 1-3 clearance levels to all wilds on the reels. Further, hitting 2+ scatters during the feature will retrigger the feature, and the number of additional free spins equals the number of hit scatters plus 1.  

Bonus Buy

You can fast-track your access to the free spins by paying 100x the current bet through the buy feature option. It changes the RTP to 96.50%. 

How to Win at Mystery Mice Slot

Among the things that make Pragmatic Play slots so popular is their simplicity. Yet, here is another simplistic production from the top-tier game developer.

This time, the action is enacted on a 6-reel by 6-row frame using a cluster pays engine. So, to win, you must aim for at least 5 of the same symbols to hit adjacently in horizontal or vertical positions.

But there’s the aspect of setting up your game before playing.

First, the Mystery Mice bets start from €0.20 and go up to €240. Sadly, the range should suit high-spending players more.

Then, play a single round using your keyboard’s Spacebar or the crowned Spin button. On the other hand, the Autoplay feature should help you gamble several preselected spins successively.

While the “i” button expands the paytable and game rules, the Turbo and Quickspin commands speed up the reel spins.

Mystery Mice Slot RTP & Volatility

If you’re looking for more reasons to like this slot, its theoretical RTP of 96.49% and 5,000x bet top win should do just that! However, the gameplay is highly volatile.  

The Conclusion

It feels so good that I explored a fantasy realm after reviewing another Big Bass slot from Pragmatic Play. If you’re wondering why, it’s because that fishing series is beginning to get on my nerves, considering its repeated features. But I think this fecund slot developer has redeemed itself, thanks to Mystery Mice.

The slot’s highly defined visuals make it an immersive adventure where you help, or at least watch, as a mouse detective, is on the tail of criminals.

However, while its title speaks of mystery, I didn’t get any sense of mystery from its gameplay. While I acknowledge that the power wilds are somewhat unique, it doesn’t beat the fact that the free spins and the buy option are pretty standard.

Either way, in my opinion, this game’s most significant selling point is its simplicity and decent top win of 5,000x stake. And, knowing how Pragmatic Play operates, maybe we should expect a sequel or cloned release in the future.