Time for some deep sea diving with developer Pragmatic Play as it heads beneath the waves once again for the ❤️ sequel slot Release the Kraken 2. The original release clearly struck the right note with enough underwater adventurers with its ❤️ bounty of wild types, pick-me treasure chests, and Roaming Kraken Free Spins. For the reboot, Pragmatic Play has rejigged much ❤️ of the gameplay, wedging in Wild Respins, Shifting Stack Wilds, Guaranteed Wins, and a Deal or No Deal element to ❤️ the free spins feature. It sounds like a lot has changed, and it has, but the same bubbly spirit has ❤️ remained, let's take a look.
If anything, Release the Kraken 2 is even bubblier than the original game, located at the ❤️ bottom of the sea, full of weeds, fish, and colourful coral. Injecting extra life into the game is a cheeky ❤️ set of characters on the reels that do this little animation thing when they create a winning line. Okay, a ❤️ small thing, but details matter, and Pragmatic Play is good at combining a bunch of details into one big glossy ❤️ whole. Gotta say the vibe is actually a lot more cheerful than it was in Release the Kraken. The original ❤️ game had more of a menacing feel emanating from its lead Kraken characters. This has largely been erased in Release ❤️ the Kraken 2, replaced with a playful attitude rather than hints of an ominous one.
One thing that has remained constant ❤️ is the game's layout. Release the Kraken 2 is played once again on a 5-reel, 3-row game grid with 20 ❤️ paylines utilised in the base game, increasing to 40 paylines in free spins. It's highly volatile, rated as 5 out ❤️ of 5 by the studio, and has a variety of RTP values depending on how you play the game and ❤️ on the model. At max settings, playing regularly generates a theoretical return of 96.03%, picking stakes of 20 p/c toR$/€100 ❤️ per spin. This increases by 25% when activating the Ante Bet, which in turn increases the chance of triggering the ❤️ feature, as well as altering the RTP to 96.01%.
Nine regular pay symbols appear on the grid, divided into 10-A card ❤️ ranks as the low pays, then four denizens of the deep as the high pays. Landing a five-of-a-kind winning line ❤️ pays out 1-2 times the stake when made up of card symbols or 3-10x the bet when consisting of premium ❤️ tiles. A Kraken is displayed on the wild symbols which appear on all five reels. Wilds substitute for all symbols ❤️ except the bonus symbols and are worth up to 20x the bet for a five-of-a-kind line.
Release the Kraken 2: Slot ❤️ Features