Release the Kraken Slot – Free Demo

Choosing a chest, then watching the wilds roam

Most slots launch the free spins the moment they trigger. Release the Kraken stops and makes you choose. Three chests surface above the reels, you open one, and the pick sets how the wilds will behave for the whole round before anything spins. It is the one real decision the feature hands you, and the round wears whatever the chest decides.

My best run of it went nine free spins and closed on a card reading 307.50, just under 154× the 2-credit stake. That one round paid more than everything the base game returned across the session.

The Minty Breakdown: Release the Kraken is for patient players who treat the Roaming Kraken round as the whole event rather than a bonus on top. It is a free spins round with real teeth: mine paid just under 154× off nine spins, and it came around twice in one sitting, which is kinder than this kind of slot usually is. Expect a session that finishes close to even when the wilds roam into the right spots while the multiplier is still climbing, and a slow grind when they don't. The chest pick is a nice touch, but it colours the round's character without changing how big it gets.

Roaming wilds and a multiplier that compounds

Once the chest is open and the board has stretched to forty lines, the round turns the wilds loose. Each wild that lands stays put for the rest of the bonus and drifts to a new position every spin, and the multiplier climbs a step each time one shows. My nine-spin run was the version where that works: wilds piled up early, the grid filled with pink Kraken markers, and by the closing spins the multiplier had enough behind it to turn an ordinary board into 307.50.

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The chests came back a second time and that round settled at 35.50, a little under 18× the stake. Same feature both times. The roaming wilds just never drifted onto the paying lines while the multiplier still had room to grow, so the setup that paid 154× once handed back a fraction of it the next time. The feature came around twice, which is generous on its own; expecting both visits to pay like the first is a different thing. If the roaming-wild round is the draw, it shows up again on a Megaways engine in its sister title, Release the Kraken Megaways.

Between the chests, bubble wilds and stacked anchors

Between the chests the base game is a quiet thing on the five-by-four grid. Royals and reef fish trade the stake back and forth, with a snapping shark turning up among them, and most lines pay a fraction of the stake or a shade over, a 1× or a 2.5× at a time. The bubble wilds give it a pulse. They drift onto the reels and stand in for everything but the special symbols, and once in a while they cluster a paying line into something worth the watch. The best of those landed a touch over 8×, off a spread of bubble wilds that caught a line.

The golden anchors are the ones to watch. They stack up in tall columns, and their real job is the trigger: land enough and the chests come back for another Roaming Kraken round. A column of anchors building is less a win than a promise, and reading it as the run toward the feature instead of a near-miss changes how the grind sits.

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The Sunken Treasure chest never opened for me

There is a second feature I can't tell you much about, because it never triggered. A treasure-ship chest symbol turns up on the reels now and then, the kind you need three of to open the Sunken Treasure bonus, and across my 281 spins the third one never arrived with the other two. From where it sits it looks like a small consolation during the quiet stretches more than a route to anything big, but I'd sooner tell you it stayed shut than describe a round I never saw.

The session finished almost exactly where it started

After 281 spins at the 2-credit stake the balance barely moved. The base game eased it down in fractions. The two Roaming Kraken rounds pushed most of it back, and I finished a little over fifty stakes down. The swings all lived in the feature. The reels themselves never lurched; they just leaked, slowly, until the chests came back and squared most of the damage.

It suits a patient player who likes watching the anchors stack toward something and doesn't mind the flat spells in between. Pragmatic Play put the case for the slot almost entirely into that one round, and on my run it delivered twice. The base game won't pay its own way, so if that is what you want this isn't it, but the fact that the chests turned up twice in a sitting is the kindest thing this run had to say.