Slots Tracker: NetEnt claims Q1 clean sweep with dominant 2023 performance
Starburst holds off the challenge of the Pragmatic Play stable and resurgent Book of Dead in March rankings
NetEnt’s Starburst completed a Q1 clean sweep after retaining its gold medal position atop the EGR Slots Tracker in March.
The leading slot has held onto top spot since the rankings shake up in January and looks to be in imperious form heading into Q2.
Long-term rival Book of Dead by Play’n GO jumped from the third to second spot, seeing February’s second-placed title Sweet Bonanza by Pragmatic Play slip to fourth.
Pragmatic Play’s Big Bass Bonanza jumped from fourth to third place in March as the studio continues to dominate the top half of the rankings.
Pragmatic Play boasts five titles in the rankings, with the quintet all sat within the top 12 places.
In terms of biggest movers, 9 Pots of Gold by Gameburger Studios leapt from 34th in February to 10th in March.
There was a new entry for Spribe’s Aviator as the game debuted in 15th place.
Novomatic’s Book of Ra Deluxe, previously in 13th place, was the highest-ranking title from February to fall out of the rankings.
Elsewhere, EGM also detailed the top-ranking new slots released since 1 January 2023.
Blueprint Gaming’s Fishin Frenzy Even Bigger Catch finished in top sport following its 23 February release.
Triple Edge Gaming’s Fire and Roses Joker (18 March release) and Tippy Tavern by Snowborn Games (14 March release) took the silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the new games rankings.
Fire and Roses Joker was also the title with the latest release date to secure a spot in the top 20.
In January 2023, EGR joined forces with new data partner, eGaming Monitor (EGM), to track casino sites and help collate the monthly rankings.
EGM tracks game pages of more than 2,400 casino sites globally, with the European charts being based on the number of game tiles found for each game across operator sites in regulated markets.
EGM limits its tracking to just the main casino homepage of each site, with the tracker taking in slots, instants, scratch cards, slingo and crash games but excluding table games, live games, video poker, video bingo and others.
In March, EGM tracked 11,419 games from 348 studios in 23 European regulated markets including the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.