Hoist the sails and prepare for adventure with Rage of the Seas! It’s all about the booty as you sail the high seas in this pirate-themed slot by NetEnt. Pirates are salty characters with fierce tempers, so it’s no surprise that the volatility of this game is high. This makes for great winning chances, helped out by a range of entertaining random features that affect the game in unpredictable but potentially win-enhancing ways.
Rage of the Seas is definitely one of the most exciting online casino slots out there. Let’s find out why.
Game overview
When you load Rage of the Seas, you’ll see a 5x4-reel grid set against the backdrop of a pirate ship that looks like the Black Pearl from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films.
The low-value symbols feature anchors, bottles, ship wheels and barrels. Hammerhead shark and parrot symbols pay out medium value, while the high-paying symbols are a motley crew of 3 fearsome pirate characters and their pirate captain. The latter chap is the highest-paying symbol and he doles out 50x booty if you land 5 of him in combination.
The wild symbol, an octopus, substitutes for all symbols except other wilds, scatters or the Boost symbol.
The scatter, meanwhile, is a pirate skull and when it lands on the reels it reveals a cannon.
The game starts off with 1,024 ways to win, but this can increase to 5,488 when the special features kick in. These include spreading wilds, stacked wilds, a 2x multiplier, free spins and extra free spins, not to mention major and minor reel upgrades. This is what makes Rage of the Seas one of the most volatile online slot machines around – and the most fun to play.
How to play
Rage of the Seas is played with different bet values. Set the bet value you’d like by clicking the Bet Settings button. Select your chosen coin value and bet level, and then hit the central spin button to send yourself off in search of booty and adventure!
The autoplay function allows you to choose between 10 and 1,000 autospins. You can use the advanced settings to customise this function: the game lets you stop auto spins on any win, on a single win of a specific amount, if your balance goes up or down by a specific amount, or if you enter free spins.
You’ll find that Rage of the Seas has a much wider bet range than that of most online slots. The betting range goes from $0.20 to $400 per spin. You form winning combinations by matching symbols across adjacent reels from the left, starting on reel 1.
The return to player (RTP) is 96.04%, and the max win is 27,440x the bet per spin or free spin. Wilds, spreading wilds and stacked wilds form the highest possible winning combinations.
Graphics
Rage of the Seas is one of those real online slots where the graphics count a lot. The pirate ship is finely detailed with carved fish and lanterns swinging in the breeze. A collection of decorative skulls adds a fun gruesome touch. The pirate captain and his three crew members are as menacing as they should be. All the other symbols, like the parrot, the hammerhead shark, and the bottle of rum, do ample justice to the pirate theme.
Rage of the Seas also has some of the best animations we’ve seen in any online casino games. The angry octopus wild reaches its tentacles out of its reel to stick more wilds onto adjacent positions – another unique detail you’re unlikely to see elsewhere. A funny monkey scampers up the reels when the Boost symbol opens. The free-spins skull scatter opens to fire a cannon when it lands. And the free spins round turns into a wild free-for-all as the ship’s cannons roll out to fire at an enemy ship.
All of this visual entertainment is accompanied by a salty soundtrack of sea-shanty music, cannon fire and pirates’ curses.
It’s great to know that NetEnt has also optimized this game for mobile, so the sharp detailing is just as impressive on smartphone and tablet screens as on desktops and laptops.
Features
Rage of the Seas has two bonus features – feature spins and free spins. The way they combine is what makes this one of the most original casino slot games you can play.
Feature spins are triggered when the Boost symbol lands on reels 2, 3 or 4. The reel expands to a height of 7 positions and triggers 4 feature spins. When you expand 1 reel, you have 1,792 bet ways. Expand 2, and the number increases to 3,136. An expansion of 3 reels yields a massive 5,488 ways to win. If a reel’s already expanded when the Boost symbol lands, you’ll still get 2 extra feature spins.
The Boost feature also triggers one of 5 extra random features that stays active for as long as the feature spins continue. These are:
- The Spreading Wilds feature, which is triggered when an octopus wild lands on any of the 3 middle reels and sticks up to 2 spreading wilds on adjacent reel positions with its tentacles.
- The Stacked Wilds feature, whose wilds can stack anywhere on the 3 middle reels, covering from 1 to 4 positions.
- The Major Reel Upgrade feature increases potential wins by removing all low-paying anchor and barrel symbols from the reels.
- The Minor Reel Upgrade feature similarly clears all wheels and bottles from the reels.
- Finally, the Multiplier feature applies a 2x multiplier to all wins.
If you collect 3 Boost symbols in the base game or on reels 2, 3 and 4 during a feature spin, you trigger the free spins feature. The reels are fully expanded so you have the maximum 5,488 ways to win.
You can also trigger some free spins by landing 3 or more pirate skull scatters. Boom! Three skulls give you 5 free spins; four skulls, 8; and five skulls, 12.
Any feature spins you haven’t used when you trigger this feature are added to the total of free spins, so there’s real potential to keep spinning and winning.
Bonuses and jackpots
There’s no question that all of these special features make Rage of the Seas one of the top online slots with real money potential. With 5,488 ways to win, it doesn’t matter that there isn’t a progressive jackpot or anything of that nature. At a whopping $10,976,000, Rage of the Seas has one of the highest maximum possible wins of all the online slot machines out there. But remember this is a highly volatile game, so while the wins may be big when they come, they won’t happen very often.
Similar games
If you’re still being drawn by the call of the open sea, then you might also enjoy these other online casino slots with pirate themes:
- Ghost Pirates
- Pirates Charm
- Captain’s Treasure
- Blackbeard
- Five Pirates
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