Duck Hunters 2

Duck Hunters 2 Review

Nolimit City has once again thrown us back into the funny and chaotic process of the duck hunt. If you've played the earlier version of Duck Hunters, then I should say you'll want to fasten your seatbelt. This time they've really increased the level of craziness. Following a rather odd detour caused by the Duck Hunters: Happy Hour spin-off, this game takes us safely back to the huge 5x6 grid, which we all know and love, combined with the Pay Anywhere payout feature. To sum it up, this is a rather unhinged event full of slingshots, guns, ticking bombs, and a twangy soundtrack that in fact makes you really want to don some hunting clothes and take part in the hunt to begin shooting!

So what actually sets this game apart from all the others? It's the absolutely crazy position multipliers, which double each time a winning symbol explodes. It's not just a matter of small multipliers either... a single position in the grid can in fact achieve a mind-boggling x16,384! Add to that Nolimit City's characteristic xWays and Infectious xWays icons, reel-clearing bombs, and a huge variety of side bets and Feature Buys, and you have the formula for total destruction. The highest possible win in Duck Hunters 2? A massive 40,000 times your stake! Together with three tiers of free spins that increase the value of your winnings, this restless and volatile game is essentially inviting you to press the start button.

Duck Hunters 2 Play Free Demo

Not ready yet to risk real cash on a duck-hunting rampage? Fair enough - you can play Duck Hunters 2 completely free right here on this page, no download, no sign-up, no fuss. Fire up the Duck Hunters 2 free demo whenever you like, and once you've had your fill of the Duck Hunters 2 demo, you'll know exactly what you're getting into. This Duck Hunters 2 free slot runs on exactly the same math as the cash game, so beginners get a genuine feel for how brutal (or generous) that extreme volatility can be, while seasoned spinners can play Duck Hunters 2 for free to test strategies without burning through a bankroll. As for where to play Duck Hunters 2 with actual cash, you'll spot a link sitting just above the demo launcher button that takes you straight there.​ 

Duck Hunters 2 Bonus Features

We are employing a 5-by-6 grid with a Pay Anywhere payout feature, which guarantees that a payout is granted to you whenever eight or more matching symbols appear in any location on the screen. Slingshots, eggs, canned meat, guns, ducks, and hunters—Fanboy, Gamer, Phil, Granny, and Santa—are all included in the paytable. While a 12-or-more-symbol combination pays between 1x and 6x, a win with 8 to 9 matching symbols returns between 0.1x and 0.3x your stake.

Scatter Wins & Position Multipliers

As soon as you have a winning cluster, the symbols involved blow up and vanish, after which new ones fall down. At the same time, each empty space that was occupied by a symbol that had just blown up is given an x2 multiplier; if that space already had a multiplier, then it is doubled instead, and this doubling continues right on until the maximum limit of x16,384 is reached! All you have to do is have a prize symbol that has to cover those spots repeatedly. Additionally, on some spins, random multipliers are simply placed at the beginning of the grid.

Special Symbols: xWays, Infectious xWays, and Bombs

The base game is absolutely infested with various special symbols. Wilds stand in for standard payout icons, obviously. Then you have xWays icons that morph into arbitrary icons and bump their spot multiplier by x2, x4, or x8! Infectious xWays? Once it morphs into an arbitrary payout icon and a position multiplier is triggered, then it spreads its multiplier to every identical one on the grid. And the Bombs... wow. When there are no more wins on the screen, they blow themselves and everything above them sky-high. The bomb increases its own position's multiplier by x2, the spot above it by x4, the next one up by x8, and so on.

Free Spins

Land three Scatter icons and you'll get 7 Duck Hunt Spins. Land four Scatters, and it becomes 8 Hawk Eye Spins. Land the five Scatters, and you're looking at 10 Big Game Spins. Whatever spot multipliers you accumulated in the main game transfer straight into the bonus, and hitting an Extra +1 Shot icon tacks on another free spin. During Duck Hunt Spins, you'll also be given one of six randomly assigned perks:

• The upgraded xWays replace the standard xWays icons with Infectious xWays icons.
• The upgraded bomb removes itself together with all the symbols that are above and below it on the reel, distributing the multipliers in the same manner as in the base game.
• Extra +2 Shots takes over from the Extra +1 Shot icon and grants 2 spins instead of one when it lands.
• The +2 Upgrades option gives two upgrades instead of the usual one for that round.
• Extra Multipliers adds five multipliers to arbitrary tiles on the opening turn.
• The +1 Extra Spin upgrade starts the round with one additional free spin.

The higher the tier, the more greedy the bonus round gets. As such, in Hawk Eye Spins, you get 2 upgrades rather than one, while Big Game Spins grants you a full 3 upgrades.

xTra Spin

After the bonus round has ended, you may be offered the chance to buy an xTra Spin. This allows you to spin once more without losing the massive end-game position multipliers that you currently have! Instead of this, you can choose to pay a reduced fee in order to spin with all of your multipliers halved.

Nolimit Bonus Buys, Boosters & Side Hustles

If you’re not so patient, the Duck Hunters 2 Bonus Buy feature provides a full buy-in menu that includes almost every price point. You can buy straight into the Duck Hunt Spins for 80x your bet, the Hawkeye Spins for 240x, the Big Game Spins for 700x, or a Lucky Draw for 275x. Want something a little spicier? 500x is 7 xWays Juicer Spins. These are the same as Duck Hunt Spins, except Infectious xWays is guaranteed on every single spin (none of the other upgrades apply here apart from the Upgraded xWays). Or drop 2,800x for 7 spins of Bomb Juicer, the same deal, but with an Upgraded Bomb guaranteed on every spin instead.

Side Hustles let you wager on specific in-game events:

• Character-removal bets pay up to 32.85x.
• Landing 2+ Scatters pays 25.5x.
• Dead spin insurance pays 13.95x.
• Maxing out a tile to x16,384 pays a massive 493.75x side prize!

On the Booster side, there is the Bonus Booster which offers 3x (making sure that a scatter symbol appears on the second reel), the Bonus Hunt at 30x (which guarantees that a Scatter will appear on your first spin as well as on every avalanche that results in a win or a Bomb explosion), and four levels of Day Spins — Day 8, Day 64, Day 512, and Day 2,048 — costing 10x, 90x, 800x and 4,000x respectively. With each of these, the grid is loaded with a starting multiplier corresponding to its name (x8, x64, x512, or an absolutely ridiculous x2,048) on all positions before you have even carried out a spin.

Duck Hunters 2 RTP, Max Win, and Volatility

The Duck Hunters 2 volatility is rated a solid 10/10... officially classified as Extreme! It will absolutely chew up a small bankroll if you aren't careful. This game can be really tough on a small bankroll. Given this is a pure high-variance beast, you will definitely run into quiet stretches in the base game, but the upside potential is practically off the charts.

The premier Duck Hunters 2 RTP setting is calibrated right at 96.00%. However, operators have access to two less profitable profiles: 94.05% and 92.01%. Always check the paytable info before depositing to ensure you know where to play Duck Hunters 2 on its optimal 96.00% configuration.

A fairly clear picture is painted by the hit frequencies. There will be a lot of dead spins because the base game hit rate is only 17.68%. Approximately 1 in 203 spins will naturally hit the free spins. But what would be the prize for all that endurance? A maximum win of 40,000 times your wager in Duck Hunters 2 that will genuinely change your life! 

Our Experience Playing Duck Hunters 2

Well, it's time for me to back up what I've said with money. Although figures and theory are one matter, there's no substitute for carrying out a real session, so I put in €200, settled on a bet of €1 for each spin, ensured that I was using the 96.00% RTP version - the best payout ratio that the game officially provides - and then started off with 300 spins.

The first 100 spins were brutal. My lowest winning base game was €0.1, pathetic, and my highest winning was just €9.6. I only have 16 wins in the base game total. Only 5 were above my bet, 11 were below, and the bonus game? Zero triggers. My balance was draining, at €122.55.

As the second hundred spins got underway, the game started to look alive. My minimum win was still €0.1, but my maximum base game win was now €26. I won a number of significant base prizes, to wit, €26, €18, €16.8, €12.8, €11.1, and €10.10. This time I got 20 base game wins, 9 of which were over my bet. And finally, a bonus game was triggered! The bonus feature awarded me a decent €43.30 total free spin win, and this much-needed action pushed my final gaming balance to €178.40.

Adrenaline ran high during the last hundred spins. I recorded 22 base wins (11 above and 11 below, with a maximum hit of €8.70). What is the true surprise, though? I twice activated the Duck Hunters 2 bonus game! The first one paid a meek €10. However, the second one? Bombs and xWays were chained together by the position multipliers, which went completely ballistic. That feature earned an incredible €632.7 in total! My final gaming balance was an amazing €765.65 as a result of that terrible hit.

Key Session Takeaways

• The balance can vary extremely: rising from €122.55 all the way to €765.65 clearly demonstrates how rapidly a single bonus round can turn your entire session around.
• Sticky multipliers are important—in the base game, the multipliers reset with each spin, but during free spins, sticky multipliers, which double continuously, can result in huge payouts.
• Patience is essential since, with a hit rate of roughly 18%, you absolutely need a sufficient bankroll buffer to get through the long periods of inactivity.

Duck Hunters 2 Strategy and Tips

While you cannot influence the RNG, utilizing smart Duck Hunters 2 win strategy tips will help safeguard your bankroll against this extreme-variance machine. First of all, always check that you are playing on the 96.00% RTP configuration. With the low base hit rate of 17.68%, you need to size your bets conservatively and keep a reserve of at least 250 to 300 spins.

One of the absolute best Duck Hunters 2 win strategy tips is to utilize the Bonus Booster (3x) if your budget allows it; guaranteeing a Scatter on reel 2 drastically cuts down the dry spells between bonuses without instantly draining your funds as the feature buys would.

If utilizing Bonus Buys, the standard Duck Hunt Spins at 80x or Lucky Draw at 275x offer the best balance of cost versus upside. Also, avoid the 2,800x-priced Bomb Juicer unless you have a considerable bankroll. Solid Duck Hunters 2 tips always emphasize bankroll discipline: lock in profits after a massive Duck Hunters 2 win — walking away with your gains is the ultimate Duck Hunters 2 win strategy!

Duck Hunters 2 Verdict

If you choose to play Duck Hunters 2, you're entering one of the most volatile, chaotic, and wonderfully complex games available at the moment. The developers at Nolimit City have taken all the features we enjoyed in the first game, such as the multiplier system, and have doubled the highest multiplier so that it now exceeds 16,000x, slightly increased the maximum win limit to 40,000x, and added some new features: xTra Bet, Side Hustles, xWays Juicer, and Bomb Juicer. The artwork remains funny, the music suits it perfectly, and when the multipliers reach into the thousands during the free spins, the excitement is just phenomenal.

So who is this game intended for? People who enjoy High-Volatility, high-payout gameplay, who enjoy combining complex mechanics, or who are high rollers and like to take advantage of a variety of bonus purchases or special bets will really enjoy it. On the other hand, someone who plays casually and prefers frequent, small wins or who gets fed up with long sequences of dead spins might end up being driven mad by it.

Should you find the xWays and the bombs a bit too complicated, I would gently suggest giving games such as Sweet Bonanza or Gates of Olympus a try—they provide the same kind of Pay Anywhere fun but are far easier to understand. However, if you're still feeling bold and would like to go ahead with the duck hunt, then all the best to you! If you're still unsure where to play Duck Hunters 2, you won't have any difficulty in locating it by using the link above the demo play button.