Slots Tracker: NetEnt finishes 2020 in with gold medal

NetEnt’s Starburst has secured a third consecutive month atop iGaming Tracker’s rankings after ousting its main rival, Play’n GO’s Book of Dead, once again.

Following the algorithmic restructure of the rankings for October, Starburst wrestled top spot from the once dominated Book of Dead and heads into the new decade leading the chasing pack.

Red Tiger’s Gonzo’s Quest Megaways jumped one place from fourth to third in December, while Bonanza by Big Time Gaming and NetEnt’s Gonzo’s Quest round out the top five.

There were seven new entrants into the December rankings, including NetEnt’s Aloha! Christmas Edition, which finished highest in sixth place, Pragmatic Play’s Christmas Carol Megaways and Microgaming’s Assassin Moon.

NetEnt’s Twin Spin, which finished in ninth place in November, was the highest-ranking title to fall out of the rankings completely.

The iGaming Tracker has changed its methodology of data collection and ranking since October 2020 to give a fairer and broader reflection of the rankings.

Games are ranked by their position throughout the month on more than 500 of the largest 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 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 each position. Each position is weighted so the top positions on the page have a higher weighting than the positions 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 and so are live casino games.

1-31 December 2020