Get Kraken

Get Kraken Overview

Get Kraken by Yggdrasil takes the player down to a shipwrecked seabed, and the presiding character is not the menacing sea monster the name suggests. The kraken here is a grinning purple octopus with oversized eyes, peering out from behind a battered treasure chest – comic rather than threatening, and drawn in the slightly cartoonish style the studio uses for its lighter releases.

The setting around him is genuinely well built. Shafts of light fall through purple water, bubbles drift up past the reels, sunken chests sit open on either side spilling coins, and the whole scene has enough depth that the grid appears to be floating in front of it rather than pasted on top.

Grid, Paylines and Stakes

The layout is a 5x3 grid running 40 paylines, filled with sunken loot: gold coins, cut gems, jewelled scrolls and royal-blue playing card symbols carved as if salvaged from a wreck. Stakes run from 0.10 to 100 per spin.

Forty paylines is unusually high for a game with this much machinery attached. Most collection slots run ten or twenty lines so the base game stays quiet; here the reels compete with the collection for attention – there is almost always something paying, and the kraken count advances almost as a by-product.

The Kraken Collection

The heart of the game is the kraken collection. Every kraken symbol that lands is counted on a panel down the right-hand side, and filling that meter unlocks the bonus rounds in sequence – not one bonus, but three, arriving one after another.

The panel lists them in order: Boost Bonus first, then Multi Bonus, then Respin Bonus, with a line beneath reading “All krakens active!” at the bottom. Each one lights up as the collection reaches it, so a session that never reaches the top has still passed through two or three genuine improvements along the way.

That staged structure is the game’s best idea. Most slots hold their feature behind a single threshold: you either trigger it or you do not. Here the collection has four distinct milestones, and the base game always has somewhere to be going.

Boost, Multi and Respin

Boost is the entry level, improving what the round pays. Multi adds a multiplier layer on top of that, so the same collected values are worth more. Respin is the one that changes the structure rather than the arithmetic – it keeps the round alive rather than simply making it richer. Reaching all three means you are playing a version of the feature in which the values are higher, the multipliers are applied and the round can extend itself, all at once.

A Busy Base Game

Between rounds, sticky symbols, nudges and random multipliers keep the grid moving, and a wild steps in for the regular symbols. The usual approach is to keep the reels quiet so the meter is the only thing happening; Yggdrasil has deliberately gone the other way, and the balance does not simply drain while the meter fills. There is a genuine second layer of activity, and it makes the wait for the krakens considerably more tolerable than in a game where the grid is deliberately silent.

Jackpots

Four fixed jackpots sit alongside the reels in coloured plaques: Grand, Major, Minor and Mini. At a $25.00 stake the Grand read $25,000.00, the Major $2,500.00 and the Mini $125.00 – multipliers of 1,000x, 100x and 5x respectively, scaling with whatever you stake. A WINNER banner drops over the plaque when one lands.

That is a spread of two hundred to one between the bottom and top rungs. The lower jackpots are pleasant interruptions rather than results that change a session, and the Grand is the only one that genuinely matters – even though the game gives all four plaques identical visual weight.

Free Spins

The free spins add their own coin values and jackpot chances on top of whatever the kraken meter has unlocked. A round in our session ran to twelve spins with the counter showing progress along the bottom of the screen, and coins carrying $25.00 and $62.50 values sat on the grid while it played – one to two and a half times a $25.00 stake per symbol.

Golden Bet and Buy Bonus

For players unwilling to wait there are two shortcuts. The Golden Bet side wager raises the stake in exchange for a better chance of the bonus arriving, and the Buy Bonus button purchases direct entry.

The Golden Bet is the more interesting of the two on a game built like this. Side bets that improve feature frequency are usually priced so the return stays roughly constant – you are buying a different distribution, not an edge. But because each bonus advances the meter towards the next tier, a higher trigger rate gives you more progress, not just more bonuses. It is the single most useful thing to test during a demo session.

RTP, Volatility and Max Win

The RTP is 96%, exactly on the industry standard, and the volatility is medium to high – a fair description of a game where the base reels pay regularly but the real value is concentrated in a staged feature that takes time to reach.

The maximum win is 8,666x the bet, an oddly precise figure that reflects how it is reached: the top of the collection with the multipliers and jackpots compounding. It sits well above the 1,000x Grand, which confirms the ceiling comes from the feature rather than the plaque.

Presentation

The jackpot plaques stack down the left, the kraken progress panel runs down the right, and the reels sit between them with the octopus behind – three columns of information that never crowd each other, and it scales down to a phone without losing either panel. The comic tone is a deliberate choice: sea-monster slots usually reach for menace, and this one reaches for charm instead. Whether that appeals is a matter of taste, but it does give the game an identity in a lobby thumbnail, which is half the battle for any new release.

Who It Is For

It suits players who like collection mechanics and want one with more than a single milestone to aim at – the three-stage bonus ladder gives a session a structure that most collectors lack. Anyone who prefers a quiet base game, or who wants a single decisive feature rather than three arriving in sequence, will find it busy.

It is worth spinning the free demo on the left to get a feel for the game before committing real money.

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