Shadow Pirates Sets Sail With Just Slots’ Brand-New 2XCOIN Mechanic

Malta-based‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ game studio Just Slots has just released a quite large new game — Shadow Pirates — a dark-themed slot filled with treasures, dueling captains, and an entirely new feature called 2XCOIN™. The game was released on April 23, 2026. This is the first slot of the studio that has been developed on a 4,096-ways engine.

On first seeing Shadow Pirates one can easily mistake it as a standard adventure slot, however it is a slot that focuses on coin collection and colour battles at its core. Shadow Pirates is a 6 reels and 4 rows slot with a jackpot that is capable of going up to 10,000× the bet. Coins are only spun on the middle reels (2–5). Their value ranges from 0.1× to 1,000× the bet. Outer reels (1 and 6) contain the treasure hunters, or collector symbols. When a collector symbol appears together with a coin, it comes to life and bifurcates into two pirates — each with a colour and a multiplier of 50× at the maximum. The loot is only collected by the colour corresponding to the winning line at its multiplier value.

This is where things get really interesting. When both outer reels show collectors of the same colour at the same time, the 2XCOIN™ feature turns on and all coins of that colour are doubled. To make it short – the appearance of the same pirates means twice the treasure.

Three or more Scatter symbols activating the Free Spins feature, during which the coin symbols become sticky, meaning that they remain throughout the spins. Players can increase their odds of hitting Scatter symbols by using the HotSpin ante bet or purchasing directly the feature with the Bonus Buy option. Game’s RTP is about 96.27%, and it can even reach 96.5% in Bonus Buy mode, while volatility is also quite high, which means that the risk is big but so can be the reward.

Shadow Pirates was an exclusive release on Roobet before it was rolled out worldwide. Then it was promoted on Stake.com by means of a promo called “Stake vs Eddie” which took place from May 11 to May 18.

Senior Producer Josué Agüero revealed that the team’s idea was that the visuals and the gameplay should both conflict and complement one another at the same time — “a duel-inspired design embedded in a supernatural pirate plot.”

Established in 2024, Just Slots has fairly rapidly managed to make itself known for coming up with creative mechanics and designing them beautifully. Now, with Shadow Pirates, the studio is possibly enjoying success as if it has come upon a huge treasure — ‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌twice.