Pirots 2

A studio that writes its own passport

Pirots 2 arrives with a document most slots never get, an official product sheet that states the game’s figures in one page. ELK Studios released the game on 7 November 2023. The studio announced the date in advance and confirmed it the day of, in its own news feed. The sheet is the fourth disclosure style this catalogue has met, after printed pages, demo configurations and a studio’s client files. It is also the most complete of the four, and the review below is largely a reading of it. Where other studios scatter their figures, this one binds them into a page.

What the sheet prints

The stated return is 94.0%, and it is the game’s only published configuration, one figure for every market. No second version exists to hunt for, which retires the version question this catalogue asks of every other game. Volatility is graded 8 of 10 on the studio’s own ten point scale. The scale is a third notation system in this catalogue, after words and a five point meter. The sheet’s frequency line reads 25.4%, and close to every fourth spin pays something at that rate. The sheet even caps the studio’s own liability in writing, with a maximum exposure of 1,000,000 euros. It also names the game in code, with a game id of 10202, the sort of housekeeping most studios keep internal. Bets run 0.20 to 100.00, and the stated limit is 10,000x, which the game page words as “potential 10,000x bet”. For once the lobby’s paytable can only confirm rather than surprise, though reading it remains a habit worth a player keeping.

Birds that collect

The engine has no paylines at all, and the sheet’s paylines field carries the word “CollectR” instead. Four bird characters stand on a 6×6 grid and walk it, each collecting gems of its own colour. The collected values pay as they go. Collection feeds a feature meter, and a full meter opens three chests of feature symbols. The grid itself grows as play develops, the behaviour filed under Dynamic Grid. The collection idea is the fullest expression of Collect Symbols in this catalogue, applied to the whole game rather than to one bonus.

Eight feature symbols can land in the flow. They cover instant coin wins, symbol upgrades, wilds, grid expansions, redrops, transformations, popcorn and bonus symbols. Amber symbols upgrade their payout level up to 7 times, so the same gem colour is worth more late in a round than early. A player reading the rules meets a vocabulary rather than a paytable, and the vocabulary repays the effort, because every term names a printed behaviour.

The bonus, and what persists

The Popcorn feature and the bonus ladder sit above the base collection. Inside the Bonus Game the grid size, the meter progress, the amber payout level and any extra bonus symbols all persist from spin to spin, the structure filed under Bonus Game. Nothing resets until the round ends, and the rules say so in as many words. A Super Bonus version runs the same idea at a heavier setting. Persistence is the game’s real currency, since a long round builds a board that pays differently from the board it started with. A player deep in a round is playing a different machine from the one they opened.

The X-iter menu

Where a market allows the feature purchase, the X-iter menu prices five entries. 3x the bet buys a bonus hunt mode the sheet words as “more than 3x chance to trigger bonus”. Popcorn Fiesta costs 10x, a middle mode 25x, the Bonus Game 100x and the Super Bonus 500x. The 500x price is the tallest purchase in this catalogue, and the menu’s spread is the widest. The rules print each price, and a player can weigh the ladder against the printed frequencies before spending anything.

What it costs to play

A 94.0% return prices $100 of $1 spins at $6.00 kept over the long run, the dearest rate in this catalogue by $2.50 against the Pragmatic Play standard. The sheet does not hide it, and this review will not either. What the price buys is the persistence engine and a 25.4% frequency of something happening, and what it costs a player is $2.50 per $100 more than the counting grids one shelf over. Unless the persistence engine is the draw, that rate argues for the cheaper shelves. The 10,000x limit carries no published odds, so the far end of the game stays unpriced, unusual for paperwork this thorough. For the record, $6.00 per $100 is a rate rather than a session’s bill, and short runs will land anywhere.

Within the series

The first Pirots opened the line on 7 March 2023, on a 5×5 grid with the same collection idea and a printed 26.8% frequency. This edition grew the board to 6×6 and the ladder upward. The line has since run to 8 entries on the studio’s own games page. A wild west third game, a space fourth and a Pirots 5 of 23 July 2026 mark the march. Every entry keeps the 94.0% figure and the one version policy, so a player moving along the series is choosing scenery and pace rather than price.

Disclosure grade and score

Disclosure earns a B, and the top of the band. The sheet prints return, volatility, frequency, exposure, bets and prices in one place, and the single configuration ends the version hunt entirely. The missing odds on the 10,000x top are the one blank, and they keep the A out of reach. The game scores 7 of 10. The collection engine remains the most legible idea in the catalogue, and the persistence gives long rounds real shape. The $6.00 rate per $100 is the honest reason the score is not higher, because the best paperwork in the list prices the dearest game in it. Players wanting the cheaper maths have eleven other studios’ entries here to weigh.

One check before you play

1. Read the feature symbol glossary in the rules before playing, since the game’s eight terms do the work a paytable does elsewhere.
2. Treat the 94.0% figure as the price of admission and decide on it plainly, because no better priced copy of this game exists anywhere.

Sources

Every number in this review can be traced to the material below, read on 25 September 2026.

• Official game page (features, X-iter)
• Official product sheet (RTP, volatility, frequency, exposure)
• Official release post, 7 November 2023

The method behind the check lives on the Review Method page.