The Racaroon 2 Slot Review

Ash Gaming's The Racaroon 2 hit casinos in July 2026, bringing us back to the quirky world of raccoon-run patisseries. While it's officially billed as a sequel to the original game, experienced players will probably notice something else pretty quickly: under the hood, it runs almost the same machinery as another title in the studio's catalog. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's worth knowing what you're getting into.

The gameplay revolves around a center spot on the middle reel called the "Hot Zone." If the wild lands there on the same spin as a bonus symbol, you trigger the Racaroon Respins.

This is basically a classic hold-and-win feature. The board clears out to leave 18 blank spots, giving you three respins that reset every time a coin or a "1 Up" symbol lands. The coins carry cash values that are multiplied by whatever your current multiplier is, while the 1 Up symbols bump that multiplier up one step at a time (up to a max of 10x). If you get lucky enough to fill all 18 spots, there's a fixed 5,000x Grand prize waiting.

The Golden Cake, a second feature, can trigger at the end of the respins or on any base spin where a cash prize lands. This is a standard pick-and-click game with 15 boxes. You pick until you match three colored macaroons to win a corresponding jackpot. A nice touch here is that these four jackpots actually grow during the base game every time a colored coin lands, so they can get pretty decent by the time the feature triggers. Once won, they reset to their baseline.

If you don't want to wait for a natural trigger, there's a bonus buy menu with six rungs. You can pay 22.5x your bet to start the respins with a 1x multiplier, all the way up to 109x your bet for a guaranteed 10x starting multiplier. Interestingly, buying the bonus also temporarily inflates the starting values of the Golden Cake jackpots, which makes triggering the pick feature at the end of a bought round a lot more lucrative. (Note that the RTP does drop just a little when you use the buy feature compared to the base game).

I gave the 109x top option a try during my session. I got about a dozen respins and locked in ten coins, but unfortunately they were mostly small ones, and at 10x the multiplier had nowhere left to climb, so my payout fell a bit short of what I paid. One positive, though: buying a bonus operates on its own track, meaning it doesn't reset your base game multiplier meter, so you don't lose your natural progress.

As a sequel, The Racaroon 2 is definitely a step up from the original. It abandons standard paylines for a 3-4-5-4-3 ways-to-win board, bumps the RTP up to a decent 95.91%, and its 109x buy can reach a 5,504.5x max win, though natural play tops out at 5,190x, a touch below the original's 5,235x.

However, its closest match isn't the first raccoon game, it's Big Bad Wolf: High Steaks. The mechanics line up almost point for point: the multiplier meter climbing via 1 Up symbols, the resetting respins, the 5,000x Grand prize, and the inflating jackpot meters. The main difference is that Racaroon 2 stretches these mechanics over a larger ways board, requiring 18 spots to fill the screen instead of 14, with a 5,504.5x max win through the top buy against High Steaks' 5,000x.

You can see this same central mechanic tweaked in other games, too. Playtech's King of the Barrels runs a similar collect on a ways board but ditches the bonus buy entirely for an extra bet and a symbol-stripping mode. Outside the studio, Scrooge's Bah Humbucks: Workshop Riches uses a similar center-collector setup, but keeps it dormant until the bonus begins, growing the multiplier through respins rather than specific upgrade symbols. The Racaroon 2 keeps its collector active on every single spin, anchoring the whole game to that one cell.

The Racaroon 2 is a solid, entertaining slot. It runs almost the same machinery as Big Bad Wolf: High Steaks, and that machinery is popular for a reason. If you like hold-and-win games with a persistent multiplier element and a fun theme, it's definitely worth a few spins.