Esqueleto Explosivo 2 Slot Review & Free Play

Esqueleto Explosivo 2: Serenade the Sugar Skulls for 64x Fiesta Multipliers

After the successful first version of Esqueleto Explosivo, Thunderkick thought it was only natural to continue the series. The storyline is inspired by Día de Muertos, Mexico's Day of the Dead, which turns remembrance into a colorful fiesta. That's why, on a five-by-three grid, you'll see sugar skulls with roses and marigolds, while a skeleton mariachi band sings along.

Feature-wise, we have cascading reels, exploding wilds, up to 14 retriggerable free spins, multipliers up to 32x, or 64x in free spins, and a bonus meter that raises your starting multiplier. Interestingly, every symbol on the reels is a skull.

The next thing you'll notice is that every time you hit spin, the whole grid drops out of sight before fresh skulls fall in from above, as if the designers wanted to show off. On a winning combo, those skulls burst, new ones drop into their place, and it keeps going for as long as each drop brings another win.

It wasn't that hard to keep gathering returns between 0.4x and 26.8x my bet almost every spin in the base game, because I had a few helpers. 

First, there's the gold wild in aviator shades. He fills in for everything except the scatter and blows up 3 to 8 skulls around him, though scatters and the lady survive. Then there's the multiplier, which doubles from x1 through x2, x4, x8 and x16 up to x32. It climbs a step with every win on a drop and whenever a wild shows up.

Unfortunately, that's as much as I managed to unlock in this session. Three, four or five scatters award 10, 12 or 14 free spins, and retriggers inside the round add 7, 10 or 12 more. Each scatter past five adds 2. 

Meanwhile, every third wild you collect adds a spin and removes the lowest multiplier, so each spin starts higher. Once x32 is the starting point, x64 unlocks, and a full meter gives one last spin.

Overall, I admired the design and profited in the main game thanks to a few useful features. I missed all the bonus game fun, but I would do it all over again.