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Pirots 2 Review: A Dinosaur Park That Will Drive You Crazy (But Keep You Playing)
Okay, let’s talk about Pirots 2. ELK Studios took their massive pirate hit, swapped the boats for a Jurassic Park vibe, and dropped us back in. If you played the original, the core mechanic is the same: you’ve got four colored birds running around a grid, eating amber symbols of their own color. There are no traditional paylines here – wins only happen when a bird grabs what’s right next to it, going from the highest value to the lowest.
When it works, it’s incredibly satisfying. When it doesn’t? Let’s just say you might want to throw your phone.
The Diagonal Curse
Here is the thing that makes this game so maddening: the birds can only move up, down, left, or right. No diagonals.
Do you know how frustrating it is to watch a massive 100x multiplier coin – or an egg that could save your round – sitting exactly one diagonal step away, and your bird just refuses to grab it? The spin just dies on the spot.
Even when you do catch a massive combo, the game can fake you out. During free spins, you might sit through 25 cascading animations, but if you look closely, half of those steps pay absolutely nothing. The birds are just shuffling around the board without actually adding a cent to your balance.
The Sneaky Math Behind the Big Grid
When you finally get a good run going, it’s all thanks to the feature symbols. As your birds collect amber, a meter above the board fills up. Fill it, and the game throws you power-ups – like mushrooms that change symbol colors, or a big red button that calls down a literal meteor strike. The meteor blows up symbols and expands your grid from a 6×6 up to a massive 8×8.
More space means more room for the birds to walk, right? True. But the game quietly moves the goalposts on you. On the starting 6×6 board, you only need 20 symbols to fill your meter. Once that meteor hits and pushes the board to 7×7, you suddenly need 30. At 8×8, you need 40. Having a giant board is fun to watch, but it actually makes it much harder to keep your combo alive.
Brutal Base Game, Expensive Bonus Buys
Here’s the harsh reality of the base game: every time you hit spin, everything resets. The board shrinks, the meter empties, and symbol values drop back to zero. The only time your progress sticks is if you land three dinosaur skulls to trigger the free spins.
If you’re the impatient type, you can buy your way into the bonus through the menu, but brace your wallet. The standard bonus costs 100x your bet. I’ve had rounds where I hit the max 8×8 grid, leveled up all my symbols to the max, and still lost money because the birds just landed in terrible spots.
Then there’s the Super Bonus. It costs a whopping 500x your bet, starts you on the big 8×8 board, and upgrades all the bird colors at once. Honestly? Getting just half of your money back on this is a pretty normal outcome. It is highly volatile.
Why We Put Ourselves Through It
So, why play it? Because the 10,000x max win is genuinely reachable, and the game gives you two ways to get it.
You can do it the hard way – grinding your red amber symbols all the way up to their max 50x payout on a giant board. Or, you can just get lucky. The game has a specific “Max Win” coin. If your bird eats it, boom. The game instantly pays out whatever you need to hit the 10,000x cap, and the round is over.
If you compare this to a game like Huff N’ Puff CollectR (which uses a similar expanding grid but caps at 5,000x), Pirots 2 offers double the upside. The trade-off is the brutal “dead air” in between hits. Because the base game wipes your progress every single spin, you will sit through a lot of drops that do absolutely nothing.
But when those birds finally find a path and set off a massive chain reaction of meteors and upgrades? It’s an absolute blast to watch. You just have to survive a whole lot of nothing to finally see it.
