Dinosaur Rage: Slot Overview
Dinosaur Rage is a prehistoric adventure slot from Quickspin that puts you alongside Anna the Explorer as she battles enraged dinosaurs in some kind of Jurassic nightmare. It runs on a 5-reel, 1,024 pay ways grid with a Pay Anywhere engine borrowed from Tiger's Glory. Honestly, it looks proper decent; bright jungle backgrounds, slick animations, and a fun B-movie vibe that mixes Lara Croft with Jurassic Park.
Anna actually first appeared in Ark of Mystery, but Quickspin have cranked things up massively for this sequel. Volatility is rated 5 out of 5 and the max win jumps to 17,794x your stake. RTP sits at 96.11% by default. Bets range from 20p up to 100 quid, so there is room for most budgets. Fair warning though; the cartoon-ish art style might put some people off. It is a bit childish looking, which seems to be a Quickspin thing.
Symbols and Paytable
Anna the Explorer is the top paying symbol at 5x your bet for five of a kind. She appears in a tall 1x4 size and triggers the Pay Anywhere feature when she lands fully in view on a reel. Four dinosaur premium symbols sit below her, worth between 1.75x and 2.5x for five of a kind. These dinos also come in expanded sizes from 1x2 to 1x4, but they only pay anywhere once they get enraged during the bonus round.
Low symbols are your standard 10 through Ace royals, designed to look like bones and teeth. Decent touch for the theme, I suppose. Scatter symbols are dinosaur eggs; you need three or more anywhere to kick off the free spins. Symbol values across the board are pretty low though, which means you really need those multipliers working to see proper returns.
Symbol Payouts
Bonus Features Breakdown
During the base game, Anna symbols can be randomly nudged to fill an entire reel. When she covers a full reel, the Pay Anywhere mechanic activates, meaning matching symbols pay regardless of position on a payline. Nice little tease, but the real action happens in free spins.
Land 3, 4 or 5 dinosaur egg scatters and you trigger Dinosaur Rage! Free Spins with 10, 15 or 25 spins respectively. You also get 1, 2 or 3 symbol upgrades, which enrage a random dinosaur. Enraged dinos become expanded 1x4 symbols with the Pay Anywhere ability. You can retrigger by landing more scatters during the round. Once all four dinosaurs are enraged, any further upgrades increase a win multiplier by +1 each time. Getting all four dinos enraged early is absolutely crucial.
For players outside the UK, there is a Bonus Buy option. Pay 75x your bet for 3 guaranteed scatters or 150x for 4 scatters on the next spin. RTP bumps to 96.75% and 96.95% respectively with these options. Everything else plays out the same as a naturally triggered round.
Bonus Buy Options
Dinosaur Rage! Free Spins
Land 3, 4 or 5 scatters to trigger 10, 15 or 25 free spins respectively, with 1, 2 or 3 symbol upgrades that enrage random dinosaurs for pay-anywhere ability. Once all 4 dinosaurs are enraged, further upgrades increase the win multiplier by +1.
Pay 75x your bet to guarantee 3 scatters on the next spin, triggering the free spins round.
Feature Cost: 75x betRTP: 96.75%
Pay 150x your bet to guarantee 4 scatters on the next spin, triggering the free spins round with extra upgrades.
Feature Cost: 150x betRTP: 96.95%
Volatility, RTP and Max Win
Volatility here is brutal. Quickspin rates it 5 out of 5, their absolute maximum, so expect long dry spells between wins. RTP defaults to 96.11%, which is decent enough. Max win potential is a whopping 17,794x your stake, but reaching anywhere near that requires all dinosaurs enraged plus a healthy multiplier running. Without multipliers, even the bonus round can disappoint because individual symbol values are quite low.
Compared to Anna's first outing in Ark of Mystery, which had medium volatility and a 6,500x cap, this is a completely different beast. Not everyone will enjoy this level of volatility for a casual session. You need patience and a decent bankroll to ride the swings.
