Release the Kraken

Who is the Kraken? What what’s about this Release the Krane slot?

The Kraken is a big, bad, and many armed undersea monster. The stuff of legend, and of plenty a bad special-effects old movie! It’s probably some sort of version of a giant squid that grew in size and monstrosity in the telling of tall tales by sailors.

Here it’s a bit friendlier, given a nice cartoon makeover by Pragmatic Play, and dumped onto the top of the pay table that might have some very good news for players because this is a big-paying machine – if you hit lucky.

There are multiple bonuses in this complex video slot released in January 2020, and it’s one of a series from Pragmatic Play that mixes high volatility with genuinely big prizes.

This Release the Kraken slot game has a great, original theme, but should you brave the deeps in the hope of lifting up your balance with a jackpot win from this Kraken?

Let’s have a look.

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Release the Kraken Slot Q&A

What game provider developed the Release the Kraken slot?

Release the Kraken slot machine is developed by Pragmatic Play.

When was the Release the Kraken slot released?

Release the Kraken slot was released at the beginning of the year 2020.

What is the Release the Kraken RTP?

With the average RTP of 96.5%, Release the Kraken slot will provide decent win frequencies.

What’s the layout?

Release the Kraken slot comes with 5 reels, 4 rows, and 20 to 40 pay lines. The number of pay lines can increase in the Free Spins Bonus round.

What theme is used in this slot?

The theme of Release the Kraken is sea and mythology. Kraken, the giant squid monster, is a part of Norse mythology. Kraken was spreading terror across the sea attacking sailor and their ships. This slot will take you deep into the ocean on an adventure with the Kraken!

Can I play this game on mobile?

Release the Kraken slot is optimized for mobile devices so you can enjoy this slot on any smartphone.

What is the Release the Kraken variance?

This slot belongs to the set of games with medium to high variance.

What is the minimum bet and the top prize?

You can start playing Release the Kraken slot with a minimum bet of 20p per spin or increase it up to the max of £100. The max to win in this slot is the massive x10,000 the total stake!

Are there any free spins and bonus rounds? What other features comes with?

Release the Kraken slot comes with Free Spins Bonus, ‘pick me’ Bonus, and as many as 4 random features in the base game. Free Spins are played across 40 pay lines and each wild that lands on the screen increases the win multiplier by x1 and stays sticky on the screen and act as a roaming wild moving around on the reels. ‘Pick me’ bonus awards random cash prizes.

Are there any jackpots?

No, there are no jackpots in Release the Kraken slot machine.

Is there anything else that I should know about the Release the Kraken slot?

If you play Release the Kraken slot with the max stake you have a slight chance to win a massive prize up to £1 million. Imagine that!

If I like this game, what else should I look at?

If you like the theme of this slot, you can also check some other sea-inspired slot machines. Some of those you can check out include Ocean’s Treasure, Razor Shark, or Octopus slot machine.

Pragmatic Play – The Developers of Release the Kraken Slot

Pragmatic Play are a well-established and trusted slot developer with some massive hits in the UK regulated casino market.

Their biggest current titles are the twin Gold games, linking iconic big wild animals with old west style and an excellent prize bonus game.

Wolf Gold is the number five title in the UK at the moment and Mustang Gold isn’t far behind.

Chilli Heat, Aztec Bonanza, and John Hunter and the Tomb of the Scarab Queen complete the company’s top five, all in the top 50 UK titles.

That’s a great performance, so you can see why they’re seventh most popular UK slots provider.

They have a lot of titles, 220 at the last count, so they cover every base in terms of style and genre. That makes it hard to tie them down to a particular style, but they are well known for high volatility games with big top prizes.

A bit like Release the Kraken slot!

The Facts and Figures

To start at the top: 10,000-times stake is an excellent top prize.

That also comes with what looks like a very generous looking RTP of 96.5%. This comes with a bit of a warning though: this is an indicative figure from Pragmatic Play, and casino sites are at liberty to change RTP on the site, so check with the game you’re playing to be sure of the RTP. (It’s always a good idea to check the rules, regs, limits and laws on the actual game you’re playing when you play it – just in case.)

It’s a medium to high variance game, which means it is probably best suited to riskier players. Volatility is calculated by ranking the frequency of pay outs with the size of prize – frequent low prizes = low volatility.

The game has a five-reel, four-row grid, which makes the 20 pay lines across the playing surface a somewhat low number.

That 10,000-times prize will be paid out on bets running from 0.2 to 100 coins, usually 20p to £100.

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The Game

This is a complex game, but it’s very easy to play, and any online slots player will soon feel at home here.

The information, sound, and menu buttons cluster together on the right of the control panel, then, reading across from left to right we find: the credit balance and bet amount; the information and win window; the right of the screen is the spin control, surrounded by Autoplay, and the Bet controls.

It’s a very standard set-up delivered with elegant design.

Payouts

Click to open up the pay-table and this is what you should see.

• The card symbols pay from double to a four-times stake for a full house.
• The green and yellow fish pay out five-times stake for a full house.
• The blue Fish pays 7.5-times stake for a full house.
• The turtle pays 10-times stake for a full house.
• The shark pays out 12.5-times stake for a full house.
• The anchor game logo pays 25-times stake for a full house, and this figure is matched by the wild, a bubble.

Release the Kraken Slot Bonuses

From the base game, a random bonus can be triggered via the Kraken.

He – I assume it’s male – drapes three tentacles across the screen, from which players pick one for:

Kraken Lockin – a random pick prize game with extra wilds, a loss, or 2-times multiplier.

A Colossal Kraken puts a giant Kraken wild on the screen.

The Infectious Kraken puts a wild that converts neighbouring symbols to wilds.

If the bonus symbol appears on reels 1 and 3 alongside a chest symbol on reel 5 you get another prize pick game with cash prizes continuing until you pick a miss.

The bonus is a scatter and triggers via the bonus symbol and the free spins symbol, on reel five. A chest pick decides how many you will get. The reels get 20 more pay lines and an increasing multiplier climbs up by 1 (from 1) for every wild that is hit. Wilds stick on the reels once they land.

The Verdict

What’s the big boundary number in slots?

To us, it’s £1 million. And Release the Kraken slot is a £1 million game.

That’s a big big big outside bet, but there’s something magical knowing you could win that amount of money in a single spin.

The Kraken is more than that though, it’s a great quality slot game from the moment you dive in. The look and feel are fun – with something of Finding Nemo (like almost all underwater games) about the graphics – and the sound adds to the atmospherics effectively.

This Release the Kraken slot game has more depth than the Mariana Trench, with bonus games at every stage of the game, and a lot of choices to make that keep the player engaged.

Don’t be afraid of this Kraken, dive in and join in the fun!