Games Like Pragmatic Play Slots

You don’t have to look far to find alternatives to Pragmatic Play’s Big Bass Bonanza, with most software providers offering one. Hacksaw Gaming’s Marlin Masters is one of the better options, though, and it’s available at Rolla Casino. A touch less volatile, Marlin Masters has significantly larger payouts (7,500x) and lower maximum stake caps. It’s also played over 14 lines, compared to Big Bass Bonanza’s 10, giving you more ways to win.

Progression-based free spin rounds and fish symbol collection mechanics all share similarities with the Pragmatic Play hit. For starters, fishermen can collect the value of Marlin symbols, and there are three free spin rounds with upgradable elements and guaranteed multipliers, some of which can hit 15x. There’s even a sequel to consider, Marlin Masters: The Big Haul, which not only mirrors other Big Bass slots but also offers more in terms of its LootLine and golden sticky fishermen mechanics.

With even the names similar, it won’t surprise you to learn that Luxor Gold: Hold and Win is a close counterpart of Pragmatic Play’s Wolf Gold. Developed by Playson and available at Pulsz Casino, Luxor Gold: Hold and Win offers the same volatility level, number of lines, and a similar RTP, albeit with a shiny ancient Egyptian theme.

The most significant similarity comes from its Hold and Win mechanic, both of which require six coin symbols to appear simultaneously to activate the round. Moreover, coins replace moons as the only symbols appearing, with each new one resetting the re-spin tally to three, as in Wolf Gold.

Where they diverge is the free spin bonus, with Wolf Gold offering you five spins with the three central reels synced, while Luxor Gold plays its spins out on a different set of reels, with low-paying icons removed. It’s an interesting twist, and one that offers higher-value wins.

If you’re not put off swapping ancient Greek mythology for Irish luck slot themes, then 3 Oaks’ Lucky Penny is a striking alternative to Gates of Olympus. Available at Sixty6’s sweepstakes casino, Lucky Penny features a 6×5 playfield, with both gaming options utilizing a Scatter Pays-style setup, each requiring 8+ symbols to trigger a win. However, Lucky Penny is more generous, offering four times the max win seen in the classic Gates of Olympus.

Lucky Penny’s random multipliers are worth up to 1,000x, twice what you get in Gates of Olympus, and where the latter lacked a conventional wild in the base game, Lucky Penny has included one, making it arguably more prosperous. You’ll land a minimum of 15 spins in Lucky Penny (just like in Gates of Olympus), and global multipliers pop up in both slots. Expect buy-a-bonus options in both titles as well. While similar in many ways, Lucky Penny clearly has advantages that Pragmatic Play deemed too beneficial to the player to include.

Booming Games’ TNT Bonanza may have a different theme, but it has the same sort of gemstone-inspired imagery on its reels. The slot is also played over six reels, with Scatter Pays mechanics, just like Pragmatic Play’s Sweet Bonanza games. In fact, apart from the RTP rate being marginally higher (96.6% to 96.4%) in TNT Bonanza, and its volatility being a touch greater (high versus medium-high), it’s generally the same slot repackaged with a more neutral theme.

Like Sweet Bonanza, there is a tumbling reels mechanic in play in TNT Bonanza. The title logo takes on a similar role to its counterparts’ lollipop symbol here, triggering a free spin bonus. Both slots make use of bombs in their respective free spin bonuses, too, allowing you to bag impressive multipliers when playing at sweepstakes casinos like Crown Coins. TNT Bonanza is a slot that facilitates quick-paced action, an uncomplicated mining theme, and its gameplay is just as sweet as that of its Pragmatic Play rival, making it a near like-for-like alternative.

Found at sweepstakes casinos like Spinfinite, there isn’t much to separate Pragmatic Play’s Sugar Rush 1000 and Crystal Clusters from BGaming in terms of gameplay. The two slots are so alike they are virtually clones, save for one very good reason – Sugar Rush 1000 has a non-progressive prize worth five times what’s up for grabs in Crystal Clusters, and its multipliers can rise to 1,024x, far more than the 128x that Crystal Clusters offers. To make up for that, Crystal Clusters is a touch less volatile.

In terms of features, though, both games offer doubling multipliers in exploding symbol spots when cascading wins occur (from the second in onwards), and both offer up to 30 free spins with sticky multipliers remaining in place when they are activated for the duration of the feature. Even the buy-a-bonus options are mimicked. Crystal Clusters may not offer quite the same prizes or multipliers, but in terms of how its goodies are triggered and played, it’s a perfect Sugar Rush 1000 clone.

You shouldn’t be surprised to see similar slots to any John Hunter game, least of all Book of Tut, which is based on the ancient Egyptian exploration theme and book slot mechanics. There are dozens of these out there.

Booming Games gets closest to this Pragmatic Play slot, though, with Book of Tombs available at Funrize and other social casinos supporting its software. Both feature scatter wilds, expanding symbols in free spins, and the same reel and payline structure. They are also highly volatile and have optional gamble modes.

There are differences if you look hard enough, though. The biggest is that when retriggering the round, Book of Tut gives you 10 extra spins, but Book of Tombs offers 8 spins, but crucially, an additional expanding symbol at random, with up to 9 of those possible if you keep triggering the feature. Max win being worth 500x less, an RTP difference of just 0.8%, and the fact that Book of Tut is part of the John Hunter series, and Book of Tombs is a standalone game, are negligible differences.

There aren’t many slots like The Dog House, and there definitely aren’t many games that share bizarre, randomised wheel bonuses that determine how your free spin bonus gets started. Massive Studio’s Rooster’s Revenge is built in the same vein, though.

Sharing RTP rates, pet-themed gameplay, and highly volatile action isn’t enough to link these two games – but sharing the crazy random bonus wheel mechanic definitely makes them alike. This occurs every time the free spin bonus begins in The Dog House, meaning you will land between 9 and 27 spins at random. In Rooster’s Revenge, the free spin wheel only occurs when golden scatters trigger the feature. The basic bonus (via regular scatters) offers you 12 spins with a maximum 25x multiplier. The golden bonus delivers up to 25 free games with multipliers worth up to 100x.

Apart from the similarities in free spin bonus wheels, the free spin rounds themselves work a little differently. While The Dog House gives you sticky multipliers which may (or may not) boost your wins, the multipliers in Rooster’s Revenge don’t take up space on the reels, are determined beforehand, and apply to every win – without exception. See for yourself by having a crack at Rooster’s Revenge at Stake.us and other sweepstakes casinos where Massive Studios’ slots are popular.

Big Bad Bison is Big Time Gaming’s alternative to Buffalo King Megaways, and you can start playing it at WOW Vegas, among other sweepstakes casinos, today. With both slots offering up the same Megaways mechanic of six reels, cascading wins, RTP rates of 96.5%, and highly volatile gameplay, there’s little to choose between them.

There are subtle differences, though. While Buffalo King offers up to eight rows of symbols, Big Bad Bison has up to seven rows. Another key difference is that Buffalo King Megaways and Big Bad Bison have 200,704 and 117,649 ways to win, respectively.

What makes Big Bad Bison worth a punt is the max win, which tops 67,000x, compared to the paltry 5,000x in its counterpart. Both offer free spin features with wild multipliers, so neither game benefits from the progressive multipliers you commonly see with cascading wins in Megaways slots. Subtle differences aside, if you’ve played Buffalo King Megaways, you’ll be more than comfortable with how Big Bad Bison handles.

Much like with my The Dog House and Rooster Revenge comparison, there are similarities (and a few differences) between Madame Destiny Megaways and Big Time Gaming’s Extra Chilli. Both slots feature the Megaways mechanic right down to the additional row, although in Madame Destiny, it appears above the reels, and in Extra Chilli, it’s below them. Similarities also occur in that both free spin bonuses allow you to spin a fortune wheel to determine how the bonus begins. Where better place to test that, then, than the appropriately named Fortune Coins?

Differences can also be found in the games. While Madame Destiny Megaways tasks you with spinning the fortune wheel to determine how many spins and which multiplier you’ll start with via a two-ringed wheel, Extra Chilli’s fortune wheel simply determines how many spins you begin with OR if you want to gamble what you have – you do not have to do this at all, and you can take the initial spins and run.

The result is that in Madame Destiny Megaways’ bonus, your multipliers are applied to all wins, while in Extra Chilli, multipliers are uncapped and apply to cascading wins. In most other respects, the two games are nearly identical, except for their themes and maximum win caps.

These two games have one thing in common – multipliers in the base game and free spins. Pragmatic Play’s ancient Egyptian-inspired slot features multiplier wilds on the three central reels, allowing multiple multipliers to be combined. Backseat’s Barrel Bonanza is notable for supporting a somewhat similar mechanic. The King Kong-ripoff has no qualms lobbing barrels onto the reels via its Going Bananas feature, with these random barrels offering wilds, multipliers, or, in some cases, multiplier wilds.

Similarities between the two games can also be found in their respective free spin features. While Fortune of Giza randomly assigns you spins, and Barrel Bonanza’s are determined by how many scatters you acquire, both free spin mechanics effectively involve sticky multipliers, with wild symbols gaining a new value on each spin in the latter. These subtle differences arguably give Barrel Bonanza the edge. To experience the best Backseat Gaming slots, I recommend exploring what Shuffle.us has to offer.