Trying out new slots is always a gamble, but new games are often where you’ll find the latest innovations in slot features, the most up to date graphics, and the smoothest gameplay.
For those of you bored with the same old motifs this is also where game providers will introduce novel themes to keep your interest. And new slots are worth a try for the obvious reason that new features spell new ways to win big, whether it’s a new mini-game, stacked wilds, multi-way wins, or multiple grids.
We’ve put together a list of new slots for you from provider giants Wazdan, and Red Tiger.
Or so says a recent trend among game providers to design retro style games – fruit machines and one arm bandits – and ‘tart’ them up with new features that draw in the nostalgic crowd and make it worth their while! Red Tiger and Wazdan have leaned heavily into this new theme with their first two offerings:
Cash Volt is a glitzier, more streamlined version of the traditional fruit machine; the gameplay is smoother and there are many more ways to win. This slot is a 5×3 reel machine with 20 possible paylines; it offers a maximum jackpot of 2500x and has a medium volatility range, so payouts are fairly frequent but vary greatly in value.
Red Tiger have kept to the old familiar symbols such as red 7s, bells, horseshoes, bars and fruit – the only new symbol being the cash volt logo, which acts as a wild and triggers the wild reels feature.
Not a standard of old school slots, landing a reel of three logos makes them stick to the reels while the remaining reels spin wildly before coming to a stop. Every spin gives you the chance to land even more cash volt logos, and six or more of these symbols across the reels will trigger the Cash Volt jackpot.
There are also colossal 2×2 and 3×3 symbols which count as the equivalent of 4 or 9 standard Cash Volt logo symbols. The Cash Volt RTP is 95.71% – low, but not low enough to ruin the game.
This slot is so retro it wouldn’t be out of place as a one armed bandit in a saloon! Unlike most modern slots, Grand Wheel only has a single reel and one payline. It hearkens back to a time when slots were simple and the features didn’t require a degree to understand!
Grand wheel has a 3×1 reel so only a single payline, but to compensate, they do have two bonus features. The bonus features are both stake multipliers, the first is called Wheel Bonus which is awarded when two wheel bonus symbols land on the reels.
The second is triggered when all three reels contain a wheel bonus symbol; the screen scrolls upwards until it reaches a large multiplier wheel with wins of up to 1000x your stake! RTP is 96.2%, with a minimum stake of 0.20 coins and a maximum stake of 100.00 coins.
Sizzling 777 Deluxe falls firmly into the retro fruit slot category, although technically it is an upgraded version of Sizzling 777 rather than a new slot. The game design screams loud 80s fruit machine, from its bright red, purple and gold colour scheme down to its funky music and sound effects.
This is a 5-reel, 3 line game with 20 paylines and a top prize multiplier of 5000x. Unlike a traditional fruit machine, this game has a scatter in the shape of a large red and gold star, and landing between 3 and 5 of these bad boys across the reels offers bonus multiplier payouts of your total bet!
Typical of Wazdan’s brand, Sizzling 777 Deluxe has a volatility toggle that lets you choose low, medium, or high volatility, and a speed toggle that lets you choose between fast or slow gameplay.
There’s a gamble feature, which is initiated once you hit a winning payline: a window pops up and asks if you would like to gamble your winnings or just claim them; click gamble to choose a red star or a blue star. Click wisely because you can either double your winnings or lose it all!
Joker Explosion is what happens when the Joker steals a time machine, goes back to the eighties, steps on a butterfly and immediately returns to his current timeline. It’s a wild mixture of old school arcade game graphics, animations, and music, and more features and bonuses than you can shake a glow-stick at.
Add to this heady mixture the shrill maniacal laughter of the joker that crops up every time his symbol lands on the reels, and you have a potent concoction for an excellent retro game that anyone would enjoy.
Joker Explosion is a progressive slot of medium variance with 7 paylines and a betting range of 0.10 to 90.00 coins. This slot has three special features in addition to Wazdan’s usual box of tricks: a wild (the joker); a scatter symbol (dynamite) to trigger free spins and respins; and a gamble feature for when you win big.
Landing 3 or 4 dynamite symbols will trigger the free spins bonus feature, which grants the player 10-20 free spins. This can be re-triggered within the mini game for more free spins, and any wild that lands will stick to a reel until it’s used in a payline.
Like the previous game, Joker Explosion has a gamble feature, although this time it’s a choice of black or red playing card that will decide your fate
If not, then these next four slots might just change your mind. In another game theme craze, magic seems to be on the tip of everyones’ tongues. From wizards to fairies, to even Hatters gone wild, everyone is getting entranced with this trend
This slot comfortably straddles the divide between retro and magic, with its artwork and animations more closely resembling a Dungeons and Dragons campaign book than a slot game, and its creepy, yet reassuringly cheesy sound effects and music. The Great Book of Magic is a 5-reel, 3-row slot of low-medium volatility with four special features:
The Wild Hatter boasts truly beautiful game design that would be right at home in a Lewis Carol novel. The game grid is set up like a purple and paisley chess board, resting on a checkered lawn behind a forest of mushrooms. A subtle animation of floating fairy dust lends this game an air of magic and mystique.
This is a 5-reel, 4-row slot with 30 possible paylines and two big features: a wild (Hatter) and a mini-game triggered by that wild. When a Wild Hatter hits the reels he immediately tosses his hat into the air, which then spins and expands to reveal a random symbol. The hat comes to rest at the top of the reels, still displaying the random special symbol, which then fills the reel below the hat and is locked into position.
Each time the special symbol hits the reels it becomes locked in place and triggers more respins. The aim of this bonus game is to fill the board with the special symbol – more symbols equal more money. Any wilds that land during the bonus game will upgrade the locked symbol to one with a higher value, increasing your ultimate payout. Each successive re-spin also increases a multiplier by 1x. The calculated maximum multiplier of the game is 3333x with a minimum stake of 0.10 coins and a maximum of 500.
The Wild Hatter has an RTP of 94.8% and, as you would expect from this top-hatted maniac, high volatility.
This slot has a 5×5 reel game grid set against a background of snow-laden fields and trees. Winter Wonders is run by Tinkerbell’s scantily clad older sister, the golden fairy, who can make all your wishes come true by triggering four of the five bonus features! The game has 40 paylines and boasts no fewer than six special features!
Five of these features are triggered by the golden fairy; her symbol acts as the wild, and whenever she flies across the reels she initiates an exciting feature! One magical moment, she is turning reels wild with the big wilds feature; the next, she’s replacing all low value symbols with higher value symbols in the Special Reels feature; before you know it, she’s duplicating winning paylines while triggering the Magic Reels feature; or perhaps she’s just giving the reels a magic nudge, which gently bumps your landed reels to give you a more favourable outcome, a feature which Red Tiger assures guarantees a win.
There is also a scatter symbol which triggers a mini-game that starts with three larger gem symbols appearing in the middle of the reels – you need to select one of the three to continue. Each gem will reveal the number of free spins you’ve won – between 9 and 15. Our fairy friend is still active during the bonus game and will randomly trigger one of four bonus features by flitting her way across the reels.
One thing you can say about tried and tested slot themes is that a makeover can do them wonders. Luckily for us, the following two new slots on the list have embraced old themes – Greek Gods and Chinese festivals – and have reworked them into beautiful pieces of art with more bonus features than you can shake a lightning bolt at!
Gods of varying pantheons have always been a popular slot machine theme – whether Egyptian, Roman or Greek, it’s all been done before…but not like this it hasn’t! Wazdan’s latest theistic offering is a spectacular example of using a known theme to introduce an array of new and exciting bonus features to the market.
Power of Gods: The Pantheon is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 20 paylines. It has 5 explosive features, starting with Poseidon scatters, which activate the ink-credible bonus game, Kraken Free Spins, where you’ll find multipliers, re-spins and moving reels. There are also Zeus Spins and Aphrodite Spins, which are triggered once you have collected 6 of their respective tokens. Once all 6 of the Zeus Wild tokens have been collected, they activate a bonus game with 5 free spins, and after each spin up to 6 wilds overlay other symbols at random.
It is in this game that the biggest jackpot of 2000x your total stake can be won. The Aphrodite Free Spins feature is triggered by collecting 6 of her gold rose symbols and entitles you to 5 free spins with cascading reels and multipliers of up to 7x.
This has all the regular Wazdan bells and whistles, including a much more recent inclusion of the shopping cart, which allows you to jump the gun and purchase one of the bonus games! The RTP of this game is at 96.20%, and both speed and volatility can be set to your preference
Chinese culture, design, and even architecture have been frequently employed themes in slot design. So, thematically, 9 Lions is not a new concept. However, it is how Wazdan has used the theme to bring us a truly attractive and dynamic design, with some great features.
This is a 3×3 configuration slot with 9 paylines and adjustable levels of volatility and speed. The online slot offers four features including free spins, a scatter, a wild, two bonus games and a jackpot. Landing a row of three dragon heads symbols across the reels gives you a shot at one of the three dragon jackpots. Collecting 9 lion symbols triggers the lion bonus game, which awards you with nine free spins with sticky symbols.
The game also features Wazdan’s gamble function and has an RTP of 96.00%.
Whether they’re new, revamped or just re-launched, these slots all have some great functions and features which make them well worth your time!
