Big Bam-book is a Push Gaming online slot. If you have read my previous reviews, you know that I love Push Gaming’s creations, as most of the stuff this London-based provider puts out is high-class. I’m sure many have similar expectations for Big Bam-book, a Kung Fu Panda-style spinner.

The reel-spinning fun here takes place on a usual five-reel, three-row grid, which is accompanied by a left-side meter. The volatility here is high. The default RTP stands at 96.31%, and the top win you can hope to someday land on this slot’s ten paylines is 10,000x.

While some consider Big Bam-book a sequel to Push Gaming’s Big Bamboo from 2022, we see no connection between the two, aside from the Asian animals they feature. The ones here are warrior-centric, and they inhabit a colorful mountain village.

The gameplay here is spiced up with coin prizes, a book-style mechanic, expanding mystery tokens, and free spins. If that sounds exciting, along with the noted theme, read my Big Bam-book review below to learn more about this novel Push Gaming creation.

As noted above, in Big Bam-book, the base game set is a nice-looking peaceful village at sunset, where the reels spin inside a wooden frame in front of idyllic little houses. In the free spins, the nightfall starts coming, and the backdrop changes as things get a bit more dynamic.

The theme is ninja-type combat, with various anthropomorphized Asian animals acting as warriors. Naturally, the panda takes center stage here, as it is Big Bam-book’s highest-paying symbol.

The lack of music in the base spins and much of the bonus mode entertainment here is disappointing, as you primarily only hear bamboo sound effects. The few animations you see here are decent, and the music that plays during big win tallies is nice enough.

The spin button and the other main controls in this online slot are stacked vertically off the 5x3 grid.

Choose a bet and press the big semi-transparent spin button to start playing the Big Bam-book slot. Before you do this, you must select a wager size from 10c to $100 per spin ($140 with Push Bet active).

You form winning combos in Big Bam-book when you land three to five matching tokens on this game’s ten paylines. These symbols are separated into three groups. The first are four card royals, paying up to x10 your stake. Then come the sai, the throwing stars, and the nunchucks. These can deliver wins up to 25x. And the four animal premiums can produce wins up to 500x for five-of-a-kind combinations.

The wild is the word itself in this game, and it also pays as high as the panda (500x) while substituting the other pay tokens.

I have quite a lot to tell you on the bonus front here, and I shall do it using bullets. Let’s go:

• Mystery Bamboo – This is a symbol, and when three or more hit, they cover an entire reel, revealing a wild, a random pay token, or a Golden Mystery one. The latter awards instant prizes. These can go up to 100x, and Golden Mystery Bamboos can also reveal scatters, boosting free spin entry chances.
• Free Spin Bonus – You access this round through three or more landed scatters. Depending on how many scatters you trigger this round with, you will receive a different number of on-the-house spins and multipliers. During this feature, landed scatters are collected to a meter, and when you get four, a new level is unlocked, supplying five more spins and a higher multiplier value.
• Push Bet Option – Selecting to use this feature, you boost your odds of landing Mystery Bamboos and scatters for a cost of 20% or 40% of your staked funds per bet.
• Bonus Buy – Yes, Big Bam-book has a bonus buy button that opens the door for you to purchase entry in the free spin round. Depending on how many activating scatters you want this bonus to trigger, this will cost you from 63.6x your stake to 187.6x for five.

Testing my luck on the Big Bam-book slot was something I would rate as a decent experience. I used my standard budget of $100, spinning at $1 per spin. I did not do well at first, as I quickly wound up $64 in the whole, and feared I would lose all my funds in my session rather quickly.

Thankfully, things started to improve, and following two above $100 wins, I was in good shape for the rest of my planned four-hundred-spin session, which ended with a profit of $23.

I must say that the free spin round paved my way into profitability, as if I had not entered it when I did, I would have probably lost my entire bankroll in under ten minutes. But Lady Luck smiled at me this time. Yay for her and me!

Big Bam-book’s RTP has gotten set at 96.31% at default. All casinos online will feature a high volatility model with a max win of 10,000x for the Big Bam-book slot.

Is Big Bam-book one of the best things Push Gaming has ever put out? No. Is it one of the more exciting new online games you can enjoy right now in top casinos? No.

Is Big Bam-book a total miss? That is another no. 

Look, this is a pretty acceptable online slot from Push Gaming. It looks good, plays well, has several features, and pretty expected specs. I found it enjoyable, but I understand it will struggle to wow most online slot veterans. Casuals who prefer fun themes and not overly complicated gameplay are bound to love it. Thus, if you classify yourself as this, give it a whirl.

Other Kung Fu Panda-inspired slots for you to try are Games Global's Panda Bonanza, Eye of the Panda by Hacksaw Gaming, and Pragmatic Play’s famous Fat Panda slot.