Depths of Fortune 2 Slot Review

A treasure hunt inside a Victorian submarine, built around a sixth reel that stands outside the board and hands out the prizes. It is called the Loaded Reel. It spins every time the main reels do, holds one reward inside a lit window, and any winning combination on the grid collects whatever is sitting there.

AvatarUX took the 2024 original back to the workshop for this one, and the maths came out somewhere else entirely. Volatility is Super High now. The ceiling is 10,000x, half what the first game paid. The board opens at 5x4 for 1,024 ways and grows toward 5x7 and 16,807 ways as the side reel feeds it extra rows.

Everything funnels into a Hold and Win round played on the full 5x7 board: 35 cells, five fixed jackpot tiers, and a Grand that only pays if every last cell fills.

The whole game sits inside a brass diving vessel. Riveted copper pipes, valve wheels, a pressure gauge and a glowing green sonar dial frame the edges, and behind the reels a giant purple octopus drifts through murky water with its tentacles curling around the reel housing. Verdigris green, old brass and deep purple in the reel backs. It is steampunk played for comedy rather than menace, and the art holds up at full size.

The crew are hand-inked caricatures: a red-capped captain squinting past his pipe, a cigar-chewing financier in a purple suit, a green-goggled engineer clutching a wrench, a long-necked passenger in pearls, a bosun in a peaked white cap. The low end is scrawled A K Q J 10 letters on coral-textured tiles, which does no work at all beyond filling space. To the left of the reels a bank of gauges runs GRAND gold down to MINI blue under a round x1 multiplier dial, and the layout reads clearly at a glance. Then the bonus throws all of it out: the scene floods red, a tentacle fills the background, and the board becomes a wall of empty brass coin cells. Big wins arrive on hand-lettered cards with names like TENTACLE GRAB.

Base spins are quiet. The paytable hardly moves the balance, so combinations are not really what a spin is for here. What you are actually watching is the window on that side reel, and whether you can scrape together any win at all before the prize in it rotates away. It produces a strange rhythm. A 0.20 win on a 1.00 bet can be the most valuable thing that happens all session if it collects a grid expansion or the Bonus symbol.

Super High is the honest label. Flat stretches, then everything at once. The bonus is a different game altogether: red walls, no paying symbols, coins thudding into brass cells while the respin counter flickers between 3 and 1. The full board counter is the cruel part. It creeps up two or three cells at a time and most rounds die a long way short of 35, which is exactly what keeps the Grand feeling reachable when it isn't.

Playing the buys will probably feel better than grinding the base, and not only because the return is higher. An 80x round is over in about a minute and resolves cleanly, no drawn-out ceremony.

The rebuild worked. The Loaded Reel earns its billing: it changes what a base spin is for, and keeping it running inside the bonus rather than switching it off is where most of the round's weight comes from. The 35-cell target gives the Hold and Win a shape you can read, which plenty of coin-lock rounds never manage.

What it is not is the game the first Depths of Fortune was. Medium variance became Super High, the cap came down, and the base game got thinner in exchange for a heavier bonus. Anyone arriving from the 2024 version off the back of its numbers should know that before loading it. It is also scheduled rather than shipped, with an August 2026 date on it, so there is no body of player experience behind it yet.