Out Of The Ice

Print Studios swaps ice caves and explorers for merfolk in Out of the Ice, setting a frozen floe scene, dusted with winter flowers, behind reels that stay quiet until a win breaks the calm. The grid runs 3-3-4-4-5 across five reels for a 5x5 shape, opening with 76 ways to win.

Every winning hit sets off the Freezing Respin: the leftmost reel drops away, a new five-symbol reel appears on the right, winning symbols lock where they landed, and everything else spins again. That cycle repeats until a spin comes up empty or free spins are triggered, and because the reel count keeps expanding along the way, the ways climb as high as 259 before it's done. The symbol set is custom to the theme throughout - shells in green, purple and gold sit with blue crabs and green snails among the lower-value icons, while purple fish and a trio of coloured dragons make up the premiums, worth 0.5x to 10x the stake for five of a kind.

Merfolk Multipliers can surface on any winning spin, with up to two of the creatures breaking through the ice to attach a multiplier worth anywhere from x2 to x40 apiece; land both at once and each value applies on its own rather than adding together. Reaching four respins back to back in the base game opens the free spins round, where three variants are on offer: a straight 10-spin format with a multiplier that changes on every win, an 8-spin format where multipliers stick permanently to the grid square they land on, and a shorter 4-spin format using the same sticky multipliers but where each new one also awards an extra spin the first time it appears. Whichever is chosen, the round plays out across the full 5x5 grid using the same lock-and-respin pattern as the base game.

Out of the Ice is rated medium/high volatility, hits on roughly one spin in five, and pays out a maximum of 6,000x the stake. Print Studios runs three separate RTP configurations here - 96.55%, 94% and 90% - so the figure that applies depends on which version is live, and stakes run from 0.20 to 100 per spin. The expanding-reel respin chains give the base game a build-up of its own well before free spins even arrive, and once the sticky-multiplier variants are in play, the accumulated value has room to keep growing across several spins rather than resetting each time.