Captain Kraken Megaways: Design and Theme
🖼️ Graphics
In its base game, Captain Kraken Megaways looks like a classic pirate slot: bright daylight, a wooden deck, a cannon at the side and the sea with a skull-shaped island on the horizon. The reels themselves are built from wooden planks and feature letters and numbers with metal edges, anchors, an octopus and character symbols — a bearded captain and a pirate woman holding a pistol.
When respins begin, the visuals darken. The background shifts into a night storm, the cells are covered with purple tiles marked by rocky skulls, and a separate horizontal row of modifiers appears above the reels. The entire scene turns into a coin-hunting field with cash-value coins and flashing Minor/Major labels highlighting active values.
🎶 Sound
The soundtrack is based on an orchestral theme with a subtle pirate flavour. In the base game, you hear calm strings and muted drums that mainly underline cascades and small wins. During respins, the music becomes noticeably heavier: the tempo rises, the bass line deepens, and a choir effect creates the atmosphere of a naval battle, making it easy to sense from the sound alone how many attempts remain in the round.
Captain Kraken Megaways Mechanics
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🥁 Grid size |
6x2–8 |
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📊 Ways to win |
200,704 |
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➕ Bonus game |
✅ |
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🤑 Jackpot |
✅ |
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💸 Extra bet / Ante Bet |
✅ |
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🪂 Fixed multipliers |
❌ |
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♻️ Respins |
✅ |
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❎ Gamble |
❌ |
Winning combinations
Top symbols
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Symbol |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Captain |
x0.5 |
x1 |
x2 |
x5 |
x10 |
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Pirate woman |
— |
x0.75 |
x1.25 |
x2.5 |
x6.25 |
|
Octopus |
— |
x0.75 |
x1 |
x2 |
x3.75 |
|
Anchor |
— |
x0.3 |
x0.5 |
x0.75 |
x1.5 |
Low symbols
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Symbol |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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A |
x0.3 |
x0.5 |
x1 |
x1.5 |
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K |
x0.2 |
x0.3 |
x0.5 |
x1 |
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Q |
x0.2 |
x0.3 |
x0.5 |
x0.75 |
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J / 10 / 9 |
x0.1 |
x0.2 |
x0.4 |
x0.6 |
Special symbols
To understand how Captain Kraken Megaways works, it helps to look closely at the special symbols, as they control coin values, prize collection and the bonus trigger.
- Wild (ship with sails): substitutes for all regular symbols except coins and bonus symbols, helping to complete Megaways combinations. Appears only on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and does not pay on its own.
- Coin (gold coin with a skull): appears on all main reels except the top row and receives a random value from x1 to x25, or one of three jackpot values — Minor x40, Major x200 or Grand x2,000 of the bet. In the base game, coins can be collected instantly via the Collect symbol; in respins, they become sticky and keep their values until the round ends.
- Collect (chest): appears only on the sixth reel and collects all coins in the base game. When it lands together with coins, their values are simply added together and paid out in a single win.
- Respins symbol: also appears only on the sixth reel and triggers the respin bonus round.
- Collect Reel (red coin with a reel icon): a top-row modifier in respins that collects the values of all coins in the column directly below it and adds them to the total round win.
- Collect Screen (red coin with a screen icon): when it appears in the top row, it collects the values of all coins on the entire screen.
- Multiply Reel (blue coin with a reel icon): multiplies all coins in its column by a random multiplier of x2, x3, x5, x10, x50 or x100.
- Multiply Screen (blue coin with a screen icon): the most aggressive respin modifier, multiplying all coins currently on the grid by one random multiplier from the same range up to x100.
Bonus game
In Captain Kraken Megaways, there is one active bonus mode — respins with coin hold and modifiers on the top row, which gradually increase the total prize.
- The mode is triggered when the Respin symbol lands on reel 6 along with at least one coin on the field.
- All regular symbols disappear, leaving only coins and empty positions, and the reel height configuration remains fixed exactly as it was when the round began.
- The player receives 3 respins, and every time a new coin or modifier appears, the counter resets back to three.
- During this feature, the top horizontal row contains only modifiers: Collect Reel, Collect Screen, Multiply Reel and Multiply Screen.
- The respin round ends when the attempts reach zero and no new symbols land, after which all coin values (including jackpots) are summed and paid as a single win.
RTP, volatility, Max win
RTP — 96.55%. Volatility is high. The maximum win is capped at x5,000 of the bet.
Our verdict
Captain Kraken Megaways is quite straightforward about its core idea: the key is waiting for the right combination of coins and modifiers rather than expecting every spin to deliver. In the base game, the slot runs fairly steadily: cascades, occasional premium symbols and periodic collections through the Collect symbol keep things moving, but the real action happens during respins, where each new coin or modifier can dramatically change the outcome.
A maximum win of x5,000 is relatively modest for a high-volatility Megaways slot, but part of the potential is moved into the fixed jackpots, which makes the respin feature feel more like a hunt for specific values rather than a purely abstract max-win chase.
The slot will suit players who enjoy Hold & Respin mechanics focused on coins, who are comfortable with long, quiet stretches in exchange for a few intense bonus rounds, and who appreciate visuals and sound that deliver the pirate theme without excessive exaggeration.
If you want something more unusual from the same provider, you might look at Lava Balls — a slot where the bonus ends with a partially crash-style mechanic combined with Plinko elements — or switch to Aloha King Elvis, which offers two different bonus types: in one, the middle reels merge into a single massive symbol, while in the other only the highest-paying symbols remain on the grid.
