Amazon Queen is one of those WMS leftovers that quietly migrated into the HTML5 era and somehow still holds its own. It's a 2014 release, originally Williams Interactive, later folded under the SG Digital and then Light & Wonder umbrella. The frame is a stone-arched temple doorway choked with vines, and behind it sits a standard 5×3 grid running on 20 fixed paylines. Bets stretch from $0.20 up to $100, RTP sits at 95.94%, and the math leans medium-high volatility. Max win is capped around 2,000x the stake.
Two things make this game stand out from the dozens of jungle-themed slots WMS churned out that decade. First, the Gorilla. He's the only symbol on the reels that pays both left-to-right and right-to-left. Every other premium and card follows the standard leftmost-start rule, but the gorilla quietly doubles his winning paths. Is it a huge edge? Probably not, but landing a four-of-a-kind from the wrong direction always feels like the game made a mistake in your favour.
Second, the Free Spins ladder. Three scattered Feature symbols award 10 spins, four bumps you to 25, and five lands the full 100 spins in a single hit. No staggered top-up, no buy-in option, just one trigger. You have to click a CLICK TO START button to launch the round, which feels archaic but at least you can pause and think. Retriggers stack on top with no cap. And the bonus loads an alternate reel set, so the math shifts under the hood.
The stacked Wild only drops on reels 2, 3 and 4, which means full-reel coverage in the middle column is the dream scenario. The card symbols are the fiddly bit. They're rendered as polished gemstones, split into top-half and bottom-half pieces, and the two halves substitute for each other within a column. Honestly, it takes a few spins before you stop squinting at the paytable. Premium icons include the Queen herself, a tiger, a blue-and-yellow parrot, gold coiled snakes and spiked durian fruit.
The visuals are dated. There's no getting around the chunky bronze control bar or the static background. But the rule set still rewards patience, and that 100-spin trigger remains one of the better single-hit bonuses from that WMS vintage.