Release the Kraken 2

Pragmatic Play are the developers of this new slot, Release the Kraken 2 and are well known for their other games like Gates of Olympus, Bigger Bass Bonanza and Rainbow Gold. This is a 5x3 game with 20 fixed paylines in the base game. And this figure doubles to forty in the Free Spins at no extra cost to the player!

And that's not the only bonus, with features kicking in randomly in the base game and a great Free Spins round that starts with the player trying to out-negotiate the Kraken!

On the grid, there are 10-A card low pays, then a moray eel, an angler fish, a puffer fish, and finally a shark as the most valuable symbol, worth 10 x the total bet for five. The betting range is from 0.20 to 100.00 per spin.  

The Kraken is the Wild, standing in for all regular symbols to help form wins. And it gives its own payouts for two or more on a payline, as well as playing an important role in some of the bonus features.

The Scatter is a Golden Kraken, and three or more will trigger the Free Spins. These can’t be retriggered from the round, so during them, the Golden Kraken lands as a Wild instead. 

Release the Kraken 2 has almost as many bonus features as the Kraken has tentacles. There are great random features in the base game. These are Wild Repsins, Shifting Stacked Wilds, and Guaranteed Wins. And if that's not enough, there are also Free Spins with win multipliers and sticky roaming wilds.

Wild Respin

Four or more wilds landing on one spin in the base game trigger respin mode. The Wilds remain on the grid, moving around to random positions, while the rest of the symbols respin. If more Wilds hit, another respin is awarded. 

Shifting Stacked Wilds

The Shifting Stack Wild appears randomly on reels 2, 3, or 4 in the base game and nudges to fill the entire reel, increasing the win multiplier by + 1 for every extra position they cover.  

Guaranteed WinThe Kraken may appear after a losing spin in the base game and rearrange the symbols on the grid to grant a win of 20-50x the bet. Alternatively, an explosion will blast three scatter symbols onto the reels to trigger the Free Spins.

Free Spins

Three or more Scatter symbols anywhere on the grid trigger the Free Spins. But the number of Scatters doesn't decide the number of spins in the round. Instead, before the Free Spins starts, the Kraken turns banker, offering various combinations of Free Spins and starting multipliers in a Deal or No Deal style mini-game.  

During the Free Spins, there are forty paylines active, a regular Wild and Golden Wild. When the latter hits, it increases the win multiplier, which is applied to all wins, by +1. And both Wilds remain on the reels for the remainder of the round after they land, jumping around to new positions on every spin. 

Release the Kraken 2 is even more exciting and thankfully less ominous than its predecessor. It’s also highly volatile, so always set a loss limit before playing. Good Luck.