Kraken Spins Slot Overview

Kraken Spins is a new casino slot from Playtech that takes you to the deep sea, where you must fight the mighty Kraken to win the golden treasure chest. Make your childhood dreams come true, become a pirate for a while, and trigger the Kraken Free Spins or the Wild Respin feature to get closer to scooping up the max win of 447X the bet. By unlocking the Door Symbols, you can fill the reels, awarding you the Full Bonus Reel of 200X the bet. It is easy to understand why the pirate theme is popular among slot players, and games like Pirate Pays Megaways and Pirates Party are regarded as some of the most played games in this category. Let’s find out what Kraken Spins has to offer!

Base game where you can see the Kraken to the right.

Kraken Spins is a video slot from Playtech with 5 reels, 5 rows, and 15 paylines. Players can choose between a Min.bet of 0.05 and a Max.bet of 500. This game is created with 4 different RTPs, with a below-average RTP of 95.41% by default, but operators can use one of the lower ones of 94.85%, 93.66%, or 91.78%. The hit frequency is 28.84%, and the Combined Feature Frequency is 56.5 spins in this game. Kraken Spins has a medium/high volatility, a max win of 447X the bet, and the win frequency for wins over 1000X is 1 in 4,500,000 spins. 

This thrilling slot game adventure has some exciting features to help you pursue and land the big wins. The features are Wild Symbol, Wild Respin, Kraken Spins, and the Full Reels Bonus. 

Kraken Spins Slot Information

The game’s design is based on an undersea theme that invites players to the bottom of the ocean, where the mystical sea monster Kraken lives. Stories about the Kraken date back to the 18th century, when the Danish explorer Hans Egede described the monster as a giant octopus, big enough to destroy any ship. The reels are in the middle of the screen in this game, and you can see the dark blue sea bottom behind them. You can find the Reel Bonus displayed to the right and the Spin button below it. You can play Kraken Spins on all mobile devices, desktops, and notepads. You create a winning combination by landing 3 or more of the same symbol types on adjacent reels starting at the leftmost reel. 

The lower-paying symbols are J, Q, K, A, and gold coin. Landing 5 of the same symbol type pays 1X. The higher-paying symbols are a parrot, a dolphin, a female pirate, and a male pirate. Landing 5 of the same symbol type pays between 1.4X and 2X. 

The game’s Wild Symbol is designed as a golden treasure chest and can land anywhere on the reels. The Door Symbol is a green door; after each spin, all Door Symbols in view will open and reveal a paying symbol. The Ship Symbol is round with a blue background and a golden ship, and by landing this symbol simultaneously as a Coin Symbol, the Wild Respin can trigger, and if a Plus One Symbol lands during the feature, it adds an extra respin. This game doesn’t have a Scatter Symbol, let’s find out what kind of features this game has to offer!

Kraken Spins Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot of Kraken Spins?

The max win is 447X the bet. 

What features are available in the slot of Kraken Spins?

The features of this slot game are Wild Symbol, Wild Respin, Kraken Spins, and the Full Reels Bonus.

Kraken Spins feature with three free spins remaining.

Wild Symbol

The Wild Symbol has the design of the treasure chest, substitutes all paying symbols, and helps you create winning combinations. 

During the Wild Respin feature, any landing Wild Symbol will lock on the reels for the remaining feature, and if a Wild Symbol lands in the same position as an already locked Wild Symbol, a 2X Multiplier will appear on that specific symbol and applies to all wins the position is part of. The Multiplier will increase by 1X every time an additional Wild Symbol lands in that position. You can read more about the Wild Respin feature in the next section!

Wild Respin 

This feature can be triggered by landing 1 or more Coin Symbols simultaneously as a Ship Symbol. You are awarded the number of respins equal to the amount of Coin Symbol in the triggering spin; for example, if you land 3 Coin Symbols at the same time as a Ship Symbol, you are awarded 3 respins at the start of the Wild Respin feature. The Plus One Symbol can retrigger the feature with one extra spin whenever it lands on the eels. 

Only Wild and Plus One Symbols can land during this feature, and whenever a Wild Symbol lands on the reels, it is locked in position for the remaining feature. Suppose a Wild Symbol lands in the same position as an already locked Wild Symbol on the reels. In that case, a 2X Multiplier will appear on that specific symbol, and this multiplier will increase by 1X every time an additional Wild Symbol lands in that position and is applied to all wins it is part of. 

The feature ends when there are no more respins or the grid is filled, awarding you the Full Reel Bonus of 200X the bet. Read more about this feature later in the review!

Kraken Spins

This feature can be triggered when one reel during the Base Game contains 5 of the same symbol type, awarding you 3 Free Spins at the start of the Kraken Spins. 

During the feature, before each spin, the reels will rotate 90 degrees clockwise, and whenever a triggering symbol type lands on the reel, it is locked in its position for the remaining feature, and the Free Spins are reset to 3. The Full Reels Bonus can be awarded during this feature by filling the grid with the same symbol type.

Wild Respins feature where you can see golden treasure chests on the reels.

Full Reels Bonus

This feature can be awarded by filling all 25 positions on the grid with the same symbol type, awarding you 200X the bet. Full Reels Bonus can be won during the Base Game, Wild Respins, or the Kraken Spins feature.  

Kraken Spins Slot Conclusion

This game provides an opportunity to become a pirate and fight the Kraken undersea with the potential of winning up to 447X the bet. There have been many famous pirates in popular culture, and Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp, is probably the most popular fictional pirate of the last twenty years. The captain of the Black Pearl has been the main character in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and has a similar look to the highest-paying symbol in this game. There has yet to be added background music to this game; instead, we get ocean sounds, which is hardly exciting but does create a mystic vibe fitting for a sea monster. 

Playtech must be one of the industry's most active providers and constantly releases new games. We have previously seen the pirate theme in Rich Roll: Lust for Gold from this provider, and the two games share similar stats, except for this game’s relatively low max win of 447X the bet. Our favorite feature in this game is the Wild Respin, where you collect treasure chests with the chance to multiply your winnings, which seems like something a pirate would do. 

What makes Kraken Spins stick out among other Playtech games is the rotating reels during the Kraken Spins feature, which rotates the reels 90 degrees on each spin. This animation adds some fun to an eventful feature that is triggered by filling an entire reel with the same symbol type, which locks in position for the remaining feature. We have previously seen this Hold & Spin feature from Playtech, but when the full grid prize is only 200X, it is hard to get excited when you compare other full grid prizes in games like Breaking Bad: Cash Collect & Win. In conclusion, Kraken Spins offers a fun theme and a likable Wild Respin feature but lacks the potential for big wins. 

Kraken Spins is a slot with an enjoyable theme that offers a Kraken Spin feature where you fight the sea monster on rotating reels!