Pragmatic Play · 2022 · tested 2026-09-07
Release the Kraken 2
Release the Kraken 2 opened the first chest of the Kraken Offer in all 83 logged bonuses, and the demo returned 86.00% against a 96.03% RTP that assumes every offer is rejected.
- RTP measured / declared 86.0% 96.03%
- Hit frequency 27%
- Max win · no bonus 122x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.78x
- Free spins, natural 33 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 3.3 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 86% against 96.03% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 27.4% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 303 rounds (33 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 38.4x the stake, mean 51.5x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.78x of their price on average, 78% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 199.5x; the longest dry run was 23 spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.03% |
| RTP measured | 86.00% (approximate 95% CI 75.4–96.6) |
| Hit frequency | 27% · every 3.65 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 23 / 3.61 |
| Median hit | 0.80x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 122.4x · round 6375 |
| Free spins, natural | 33 · 3.3 bHz · every 303 spins · mean bonus round payout 51.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 97,200 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.78x · median 0.433× price (USD 86.50) · 39 of 50 below price · best 5.22x · worst 0.01x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 9.8 / 4–20 |
| Extended | 0.0% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
The selected chest sets the opening spin count. This feature cannot retrigger; a longer chest award is not an extension during play.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 7,762.2077.62% · approximate 95% CI 50–105%
- Net
- −USD 2,237.80−11.2 buys
- Break-even or better
- 11 / 5022%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 5 / 5010%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~303 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 303 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 3157 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 3864 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 4174 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
9 rules screens from the game
Five reels, four rows, twenty lines in the base game and forty in the feature, paid left to right. The shark tops the paytable at 10x for five, the octopus wild pays 20x for five on its own and starts paying from two, and the bonus symbol appears on every reel. Nothing cascades. Three random features can fire on a base spin: four or more wilds start a Wild Respin in which the wilds stay and wander while the rest of the reels spin again, a Shifting Stacked Wild on reels two to four slides fully into view and adds 1x to a multiplier for every position it moves, and on a losing spin the Kraken can rearrange the symbols into a guaranteed 20x to 60x win. The log shows 31 rounds with respins, the best 41.1x on round 3803, and the largest base spin, 122.4x on round 6375, was a single evaluation.
Bonus symbols, three or more of them, do not start free spins directly; they open the Kraken Offer. Sixteen chests each hold a combination of spins and multiplier, from 4 spins at 2x up to 20 spins at 10x depending on how many bonus symbols triggered the round. One chest is picked for you at random. You can open it and play what is inside, or reject it, remove chests in groups of four, four, three and three, and take a fresh offer equal to the average of what remains. The rules state the theoretical return on the basis of always rejecting.
The lab accepted the first chest every time, in the 33 natural rounds and the 50 purchases, so every bonus figure here describes that policy. Across those 83 rounds the chest most often held 15 spins at 4x (ten times), then 5 spins at 2x (nine) and 8 spins at 2x (eight); the best chest opened was 20 spins at 6x, once, and 15 spins at 10x, once. Inside the feature wilds stick and move after each spin, a golden wild adds 1x to the round multiplier, and there is no retrigger.
The standard purchase costs 100x and triggers the offer with three to five bonus symbols; the VIP purchase at 250x guarantees five and was not measured. Ante play, 25 units a spin, makes the offer appear more often and leaves buying unavailable. The rules call the game low volatility, cap wins at 5,000x, declare 96.03% (96.01% with the ante, 96.05% for the VIP buy) with stakes of 0.20 up to 300.
Wild symbol
Sticky symbol
Multiplier
Respin
Free spins
Scatter symbol
Bonus game
Bonus buy
Extra bet
Bet range USD 0.20 – 300 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
9 frames from the demo session
Verdict
who it suits, who should skip itFor the first three thousand spins this looked like a winning game: 172 bets up at spin 500, a peak of 449 up at round 1765, still 39 up at spin 3,000. Then the bonuses thinned out and the slope turned. The balance was 566 bets down at 5,000, 908 at 7,000 and 1,400 at the close, which was also its lowest point; the 50-bet stake lasted 3,157 spins, the 100-bet stake 3,864 and the 200-bet stake 4,174, among the longest survivals in the lab, behind only Wolf Gold, because the slide was gentle rather than deep.
The reels between features are what the label promises: a win every 3.65 spins, a median hit of 0.8x, only three dead runs of 20 or more (the longest 23, rounds 6906 to 6928), 58 base rounds above 20x and one above 100x. The random features showed up as 31 respin rounds and a handful of multiplied single spins, 122.4x, 83x, 75x and 64x among them.
Here the feature is where the policy matters. Thirty-three natural triggers, one per 303 spins with a 1,031-spin gap between rounds 5299 and 6330, averaged 51.5x with a median of 38.4x; four passed 140x, all of them chests with 10 to 15 spins, and nine finished under 10x, most of them 5- or 6-spin chests. The offer you accept decides the round before it starts: round 1697 opened a 5-spin chest and paid 2x, round 1743 opened a 12-spin chest and paid 199.5x.
The fifty 200-unit purchases returned 7,762, or 0.776x, with a median of 0.4325x. Twelve of the fifty came back below a tenth of their price, 39 below price, eleven at or above it; the five above 2x were led by buy 8 at 5.22x from a 15-spin chest, and the floor was buy 26 at 0.007x. The 96.03% theoretical figure assumes rejecting every offer. This log always accepted the first offer, so its 0.776x purchase return cannot isolate the effect of that policy from sample variation.
- Fixed bankrolls lasted 3,157 to 4,174 spins, among the longest in the lab
- Natural bonuses of 144.8x to 199.5x, four of them, in the first third of the run
- A win every 3.65 spins and no dead run past 23
- No Kraken Offer for 1,031 spins, between rounds 5299 and 6330
- Purchases came back at 0.776x, twelve of fifty under a tenth of the price
- Nine natural bonuses out of 33 stayed under 10x, the smallest 2x
- The balance ended at its lowest point, 1,400 bets down
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 27%rounds that paid
- 200xbiggest round
- 1 / 303natural bonus rate
- 0.78xmean of 50 buys
- 23longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-07 measured return86.00%-10.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 75.4–96.6%
- rounds that paid
- 27%
- biggest round
- 200x · round 1,743
- longest dry streak
- 23
- natural bonuses
- 33 · one per 303 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.78x · median 0.433x · 78% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,200
- deepest drawdown
- 1,849x
10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.03%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-07.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the logWhy is every Kraken Offer accepted in the lab's runs?
For the same reason it buys the standard feature and takes the first free-spins option in other games: one fixed policy makes 83 rounds comparable with each other and repeatable next time. The cost is that the game's declared return is computed for the opposite policy, always rejecting, so this run's 86.00% is not the number the rules promise and should not be read as a measurement of it.
What was inside the chests?
Across 33 natural rounds and 50 purchases the first chest held 15 spins at 4x most often, ten times, followed by 5 spins at 2x nine times and 8 spins at 2x eight times. The top of the table, 20 spins at 6x and 15 spins at 10x, each appeared once. A three-symbol trigger cannot hold the 20-spin chests at all; those need four or five bonus symbols.
Is rejecting the offer really better?
Yes, on paper: the rules say the theoretical 96.03% assumes it, which means the elimination rounds carry the value on average. The lab cannot confirm the size of the difference because it did not play that way; what it can say is that accepting produced a 38.4x median natural bonus and a 0.776x return on purchases in this run.
Between bonuses, what does the base game do?
Quietly and steadily, as the low-volatility label suggests: 27.4% of spins paid, the typical win was 0.8x, and the longest run without a win was 23 spins. Wild Respins fired 31 times for up to 41.1x, and multiplied single spins reached 122.4x once. None of that was enough to offset a slow slide from round 1765 onward.
Standard buy or VIP buy?
The lab tested the standard 100x version, which triggers the offer with three to five bonus symbols at random; it returned 0.776x over fifty tries. The VIP version at 250x guarantees five symbols, which unlocks the 20-spin chests and the 10x multipliers, and was not measured.
Does the ante bet change the offer itself?
No, it only changes how often the offer appears: at 25 units a spin rather than 20 the trigger rate rises and the purchase control is greyed out. Regular play triggered once per 303 spins here. The chests and the reject-or-accept mechanics are the same in either mode.
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