March 2024 Slots Design Report
Quick Hits Slots’ Clue has released five Clue-themed machines in the past year. The most recent machine includes several bonuses that strongly evoke the board game without straying far from a classic slots experience.
Quick Hits Slots’ Clue has released five Clue-themed machines in the past year. The most recent machine includes several bonuses that strongly evoke the board game without straying far from a classic slots experience.
A new machine in Pokerist maintains all of its components on a single reel set while still managing to create long waves of anticipation through bonuses. It accomplishes this by adding special symbols directly within base spins and frequently chaining their mechanics together.
GSN Casino’s Holiday Haven follows a major trend of machines that sell bonuses, but it’s one of the first machines we’ve seen to also include an extensive progression of unlockable customization options. This progression increases retention as players seek to unlock more valuable (and expensive) bonuses and earn the tokens to buy them.
This month’s Slots Design Report focuses solely on teardowns of innovative machine releases.
Huuuge Casino’s Nick’s Monsters prolongs engagement by incentivizing players to complete its progression with multiple characters. Each time players finish the machine’s map, they receive a unique bonus based on their chosen character—plus a final bonus once they’ve completed the map five times.
Jackpot World’s Mid-Autumn Fantasy offers one of the most extensive arrays of bonuses we’ve seen in a single machine—including 15 unique bonus mechanics. But the machine’s biggest innovation is how it combines those bonuses with a win streak mechanic to create prolonged waves of anticipation that raise the stakes as streaks progress.