Slots Tracker: Play’n GO closes out 2022 as the supplier to beat
Book of Dead makes it seven in a row while Pragmatic Play continues to flex muscles with new additions to top 20
Play’n GO’s Book of Dead closed out a strong 2022 with a seventh consecutive month atop the iGaming Tracker rankings.
The title continued to hold off the challenge of NetEnt’s Starburst and Pragmatic Play’s Sweet Bonanza, which retained their second and third places from November, respectively.
Although it wasn’t all plain sailing for Play’n GO as its Legacy of Dead game slipped from fourth place to sixth as Pragmatic Play moved in to capitalise on the top-five spot.
Big Bass Bonanza and Gates of Olympus both jumped one place each to end the year in fourth and fifth places, respectively.
There were three new entries in the December rankings including Pragmatic Play’s Bigger Bass Blizzard and Santa’s Great Gifts – in seventh and 20th, respectively.
Pragmatic Play’s Big Bass Bonanza Keeping it Reel, previously in eighth place, was the highest-ranking title from November to fall out of the rankings completely.
The iGaming Tracker also detailed the top-ranking new slots released in November and December.
Pragmatic Play’s Bigger Bass Blizzard finished in the top spot for new games following its 15 November release.
In fact, Pragmatic Play’s titles accounted for the top four new slots released in the period, with Sweet PowerNudge (24 November), Santa’s Great Gifts (8 November) and Fury of Odin Megaways (15 November) dominating the rankings.
The game with the latest release date to secure a spot in the top 20 was Wild Falls 2 by Play’n GO (1 December) after finishing in sixth place.
Blueprint Gaming’s Ted Cash Lock was also released on 1 December and finished in 17th place.
The iGaming Tracker has changed its methodology of data collection and grading of games since October 2020 to give a fairer and broader reflection of the rankings.
Games are ranked by their position throughout the month on 442 of the largest regulated online casino sites in Europe. Only the ‘main’ page of the casinos is taken into account and the top 10 most prominent positions on those pages.
The previous number of sites the iGaming Tracker took into account was just 50.
The iGaming Tracker compiles the slots rankings by tracking casino sites across 24 regulated European countries including the UK, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark.
Each casino page is tracked every day over the month as well as which game occupies what position. Each position is weighted so the top positions on the page have a higher weighting than those on the bottom of the page.
Likewise, the pages, sites and countries are weighted to give a fairer view on the success of casino games.
Table games such as roulette and blackjack are excluded from the rankings, as are live casino games.
1-31 December 2022