Provider
Yggdrasil Gaming
Paylines
Variable Ways (243 to 16,807)
Yggdrasil's Raptor 2 DoubleMax dropped in January 2026, and it's the sequel nobody really asked for – except fans of the original have been begging for years. The studio leaned into Jurassic Park energy without crossing the licensing line. You get a wooden cabinet wrapped in vines, a misty prehistoric ravine behind the reels, and golden light bleeding through cliff faces. Symbols are stylised dinosaurs (blue diplodocus, magenta T-rex, an orange raptor head) plus four card suits carved roughly into wooden tiles for the low pays. It looks gorgeous. The multiplier ladder glows in green numerals down the left rail, which is honestly the part you'll be staring at the whole session.
The base game runs on a 5×3 grid with 243 ways, but the real hook is the DoubleMax multiplier ladder. Every Avalanche win doubles a global counter – x1, x2, x4, x8, and so on, up to a hard cap of x2048. One losing tumble and the whole tower collapses back to x1. So base play feels like a sprint. Chain wins or lose the ladder. The Raptor Wild softens this slightly: every successful avalanche drops an extra wild onto a winning position before the refill, which keeps chains alive more often than pure cascade math would suggest.
Free Spins are where the math gets interesting. The multiplier persists the entire round – no reset between dry spins or failed avalanches. Three footprint scatters give you 5 spins, four give you 15 spins, and five drop you straight onto a maxed-out 5×7 grid for 15 spins with 16,807 ways. And if you land 3+ scatters during the feature itself, the board adds rows on the fly. Five scatters in-feature triggers Last Bite, adding one extra spin on top of the expansion.
Bets run $0.10 to $10, RTP sits at 97.0% in the top configuration (operators can dial it down to 90.5%, so check before you commit), and volatility is high. The Buy Bonus mirrors the trigger tiers cleanly: 80x bet for 5 spins on 5×3, 240x for 15 spins on 5×5, or 880x for the premium 5×7 round from spin one. That last one is really the only realistic path to the 9,493x max win.
And here's the quibble. The original Raptor capped at 20,000x. The sequel less than half that. Yggdrasil traded ceiling for hit-rate stability, which is defensible design, but if you played the first one chasing the dream, the new cap stings a bit. Is 9,493x still life-changing on a $10 spin? Sure. Just don't expect the original's lottery-ticket feel.
Bottom line: a sharper, prettier, more grindable sequel. The persistent multiplier in Free Spins is the standout – few cascade slots commit that hard to letting your tower survive a dry patch. The base game punishes greed (one bad tumble wipes the ladder), but the bonus rewards patience. Worth a session, especially if you can stomach the high-vol pacing.