Frozen Age

Peter Sons frames Frozen Age around an explorer named Baptista, digging through ancient polar ice for creatures frozen since a much earlier age — a lighthearted premise that plays out in a chilly cave scene, Baptista on one side and a huge-eyed, ice-bound creature on the other. Despite the playful presentation, the math underneath is classed high volatility, with a default 96.2% RTP and three lower alternate RTP settings available at 94.0%, 90.5% and 86.0%. Stakes run from 0.20 to 50 per spin, with an optional Golden Bet that raises the stake by 50% in exchange for better odds of triggering Monster Blocks and free spins.

Frozen Age's grid runs 6 reels by 6 rows across 50 paylines, and its defining trick is the Monster Block: oversized symbols anywhere from 2x2 up to the full 6x6 grid that land at random and count as multiple ordinary symbols for working out wins. When several Monster Blocks are in play at once, a Synced Blocks event can turn every one of them into matching symbols. Low pays are ice-encased card suits worth 0.6-0.8x the stake for six of a kind, while the high-value tier — purple prehistoric animals including a mammoth and a triceratops — pays 1.5x to 5x. A wild can land on any reel, substitutes for every paying symbol, and is worth 10x the stake across a full line of six.

Wild Respins fire at random in the base game, dropping between one and six wild symbols onto the grid depending on how large the triggering block was, then re-spinning so those wilds roam to new positions after any win — landing on a Monster Block converts the whole thing to a wild outright. Five or more scatters instead open the Free Spins round, handing out as many spins as scatters shown, up to a cap of 36, and every roaming wild collected during the round pushes a multiplier tier upward: x2 up to nine collected, x3 from ten, x5 from twenty-five, and x10 once fifty or more have been gathered, with each new tier unlocking two extra spins and every scatter drawn adding one more. Players who'd rather skip ahead can buy six spins outright for 90x the stake, priced at a 96.1% return, or gamble on a random 6-24 spins for 200x the stake at 96.4%.

Hit frequency on Frozen Age comes in at 20.1%, and the top prize is capped at 8,000x the stake — figures that fit a high-volatility game built around chasing the Monster Block and free-spin mechanics rather than steady base-game returns. It released on 9 January 2024.