Slots Tracker: Play’n GO strengthens grip on first place with hattrick of top spot finishes
Book of Dead staves off the challenge of Starburst as Pragmatic Play titles jostle for best of the rest honours
Play’n GO’s Book of Dead secured a third consecutive month atop the iGaming Tracker rankings in August as it continued to hold off its rival Starburst.
NetEnt’s Starburst retained its silver medal position having been knocked off top spot in June.
Sweet Bonanza by Pragmatic Play jumped one place into third as it swapped positions with fellow Pragmatic Play title Big Bass Bonanza.
Two further Pragmatic Play titles shifted positions in August, as Gates of Olympus replaced Big Bass Splash in fifth.
There were two new entries in the August rankings as Red Tiger’s 10,001 Nights Megaways entered in 10th place and Black Bull by Pragmatic Play landed in 19th.
Snowborn Games’ Pile Em Up was the highest-ranking title from July (eighth) to fall out of the rankings completely.
The iGaming Tracker also detailed the top-ranking new slots released in July and August.
Black Bull by Pragmatic Play finished top of the pile when it came to new games, following its 28 July release.
Elk Studio’s Cygnus 2 came second while Just For The Win’s Amazon Kingdom ended in third, having been released on 2 August and 19 July, respectively.
The game with the latest release date to secure a spot in the top 20 was Down the Rails by Pragmatic Play (16 August) after finishing in 15th 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 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 more than 26 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 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 August 2022