Esqueleto Explosivo 2 Slot Review

Esqueleto Explosivo 2 - Game Overview

Esqueleto Explosivo 2 is Thunderkick’s follow-up to the original Day of the Dead slot, and it sticks very closely to the first game’s look and feel. I am back in the same Mexican street, with skeleton mariachis stacked on a table of candles, but under the hood the game has been reworked. It still runs on a 5x3 layout, yet it now offers 99 ways to win instead of fixed lines.

The familiar Mucho multiplier sits below the reels, skulls still sing when they form a win, and the golden wild still explodes to clear space. What turns this sequel into a proper high volatility slot for me is the higher potential, the expanded ways system, and the addition of a full free spins bonus, all built around those chaining cascades.

Esqueleto Explosivo 2 Stats: Real RTP, Volatility & Max Win

On paper, Esqueleto Explosivo 2 comes with a theoretical RTP of 96.13% and high volatility. From millions of tracked spins, the real-world return I have seen sits slightly higher, around 96.42%, which lines up well with the stated figure over a long sample. Hit frequency is roughly 30.68%, so you are landing some sort of win about once every 3.26 spins, though many of those will be small cascades.

Variance is punchy, with a measured volatility score of 56.28, and that plays out in how the big wins are distributed. The game is rated for a 5,000x max win, but the heaviest result I have seen reach the screen is 1,792.6x. For context, wins of 10x or more arrive about once in 60.75 spins, and 20x or more about once in 142.26 spins, which suits leaderboard and multiplier chase formats.

Game Mechanics and Paylines in Esqueleto Explosivo 2

The basic setup in Esqueleto Explosivo 2 is still five reels and three rows, but instead of 17 fixed lines you now get 99 ways to win. Combinations form from three to five matching skulls that touch horizontally or diagonally on adjacent reels starting from the first reel. Bets start from 10p per spin, and every win triggers the Dropping Symbols mechanic, clearing successful skulls so new ones fall, all while the Mucho multiplier climbs during a streak.

Bonus Features in Esqueleto Explosivo 2

The Dropping Symbols feature is the core of Esqueleto Explosivo 2. Every winning cluster of skulls explodes, the remaining symbols fall, and new skulls drop in from above, giving chains of wins from a single paid spin. Below the reels, the Mucho multiplier increases with each consecutive win, stepping through x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 and up to x32 in the base game. This is where the slot can spike even without the bonus.

The Explosivo Wild is a gold skull with sunglasses that appears only on reels two, three and four. It substitutes for all paying skulls and then detonates, blowing away three to eight neighbouring symbols around it. In practice, when I land a wild inside a winning pattern, it often extends the cascade, pushes the multiplier to the next level, and can completely reshape the grid for another string of hits.

Free spins are the big addition compared with the first game. Three, four or five robot scatters with glowing red eyes award 10, 12 or 14 free spins. During the feature, scatters keep showing up, with two or more bringing extra spins to keep the bonus alive. Wilds are collected in a progress bar; every set of three removes the lowest multiplier step, so the trail starts at x2, then x4, and climbs until x32 becomes the base level.

Symbols in Esqueleto Explosivo 2

Paytable wise, Esqueleto Explosivo 2 sticks with a full cast of colourful skulls. The highest paying regular symbol is a skull with yellow hair, worth 5x for five of a kind, 2x for four, and 1x for three on the ways system. The next skulls step down through 2.5x, 0.9x, 0.5x, then 1.4x, 0.7x, 0.4x, then 1.2x, 0.6x, 0.3x, followed by 0.9x, 0.5x, 0.3x and 0.7x, 0.4x, 0.2x.

Those figures are win multipliers applied to your stake per spin before the Mucho multiplier does its work, so when you are sitting at x16 or x32 they scale fast. The gold skull with sunglasses is the Explosivo Wild, only on the middle reels, while the robot skull with a key in its ear is the scatter that triggers free spins. All the symbols sit on the skeleton band, and when a win lands they sing, which gives very clear feedback during long sessions.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x5
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x2.5
	4	x0.9
	3	x0.5
	5	x1.4
	4	x0.7
	3	x0.4
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.3
	5	x0.9
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.3
	5	x0.7
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	Scatter
	Wild

Esqueleto Explosivo 2 – Multipliers, Hit Distribution and RTP

Looking at multiplier distribution, most of Esqueleto Explosivo 2’s RTP comes from low and medium wins, with a long tail of bigger multipliers during free spins. The probability charts I have worked with show that while hits above 100x or 1,000x are rare, there is a steady stream of results in the 10x to 50x bracket. That balance makes the slot attractive for tournaments where only defined multipliers, such as 20x or 50x, award points.

Final Thoughts on Esqueleto Explosivo 2

From a player’s point of view, Esqueleto Explosivo 2 is what the original always felt like it was building towards. The jump to 99 ways, the Mucho multiplier starting low and climbing aggressively, and a proper free spins feature with wild collection all give the game more depth. It is still very swingy, so I keep my stake modest, wait for the right pattern of cascades and multipliers, and let the skeleton band do their thing.

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