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With so many slot games at UK slot sites released in 2024, it’s hard to know which ones you should play. Whilst the top slots are subject to personal preferences, our King of Slots Chris Taylor has picked his 10 best slot games of 2024.
Featuring games from the best and most reputable slot game providers, you’ll discover a synopsis of each of the top games as well as free demo slots so you can try for free before going on to play for real money. I also highlight the top Megaways and progressive jackpot slot of 2024 as well as the best slot game provider.
Top Slot Games of 2024
# | Slot Game | Provider | RTP | Volatility | Max Win (x Bet) | Minimum Bet | Release Date |
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1 | San Quentin 2: Death Row | Nolimit City | 96.13% | Extreme | 200000 | £0.20 | 24/09/2024 |
2 | Kenneth Must Die | Nolimit City | 96.06% | Extreme | 69000 | £0.20 | 07/05/2024 |
3 | Tarasque | Print Studios | 96.30% | High | 20000 | £0.10 | 22/02/2024 |
4 | Sweet Bonanza 1000 | Pragmatic Play | 96.53% | Very HIgh | 25000 | £0.20 | 03/06/2024 |
5 | Fire in the Hole 2 | Nolimit City | 96.07% | Extreme | 65000 | £0.20 | 22/02/2024 |
6 | Donut Division | Hacksaw Gaming | 96.30% | Medium | 12500 | £0.10 | 12/12/2024 |
7 | Deadwood RIP | Nolimit City | 96.09% | Extreme | 100000 | £0.20 | 04/06/2024 |
8 | Pond of Plinko | Print Studios | 96.10% | Very High | 30000 | £0.10 | 10/12/2024 |
9 | Ancient Tumble | Relax Gaming | 96.10% | Medium-High | 10000 | £0.20 | 25/06/2024 |
10 | Nitropolis 5 | ELK Studios | 94.00% | High | 50000 | £0.20 | 23/07/2024 |
I’ve narrowed down the list of new slot games released in 2024 to just 10 titles. With quite a few slot sequels in there, there are 4 slots from Nolimit City as well as games from Print Studios, Pragmatic Play, Hacksaw Gaming, Relax Gaming and ELK Studios. Below are my best 10 games of the year:
1st Place: San Quentin 2: Death Row (Nolimit City)
Released in September 2024, San Quentin 2: Death Row had a lot to live up to with the first game (San Quentin) being the highest-paying slot around at the time of release (January 2021). Set in the infamous prison, San Quentin 2 has 5 reels and 1,024 ways to win. Playable from 20p a spin, the RTP rate is 96.13% with a 26.9% hit frequency rate.
With sharper and more intense imagery than its predecessor, the game is all about Enhancer Cells which reveals high-paying inmates, Sheriff Badge Wilds, Razor Split and xWays symbols. Featuring Split Wilds which gives you more ways to win, you play the Green Mile Spins feature with up to 3 Jumping Wilds. With the option to gamble for more, you can play with up to 5 Jumping Wilds or risk your free spins for a chance to win up to 200,000 times your total bet.
If you play the free spins, you’ll play with up to 5 reels with Enhancer Cells as well as a 2x multiplier if you have 4 or 5 Jumping Wilds. The max win probability with 4 or 5 Jumping Wilds is 1 in 1,000 or 170 spins respectively. With 200,000 times bet max wins, San Quentin 2: Death Row is a superb game from Nolimit City that makes it stand out versus its predecessor and all other slot games released in 2024.
2nd Place: Kenneth Must Die (Nolimit City)
Released in May 2024, Kenneth Must Die from Nolimit City is the most controversial slot game of the year. Bonkers and unique, the suburban setting is not what it appears to be as it has a BDSM theme focusing on sordid parties and secret double lives by the game’s characters. Beginning with 5 reels and 480 ways to win, you can play from 20p a spin. It has a 96.06% RTP rate and has a 21.06% hit frequency rate. Offensive yet humorous, it comes with xWays symbols for more ways to win, avalanches for continuous wins and Big Balls multipliers.
With Kinky Hookups, Gimp and Gimpier Transformations, xNudge Wilds increase the win multiplier with every nudge. NLC introduced the xHole mechanic which sees symbols sucked in and spat out to random positions with split symbols up to 8 symbols in size. Then you have the free spins features where the symbols and the setting change with each feature: you’ll see mourning family members, a dead Kenneth, Kenneth with a ball gag and sex toys! You’ll also come across strippers and bondage parties.
With 69,000 times bet max wins, Kenneth Must Die also offers you a 10,000 x bet/censored version which is a lot milder. What is certain is that Nolimit City has created a very creative slot game which will offend many. Yet, I found it innovative, humorous and ludicrous ensuring it’s a slot game that will divide opinion.
3rd Place: Tarasque (Print Studios)
Released in February 2024, Print Studios’ Tarasque takes you to medieval France (Tarragon) where you aim to tame the beast. A visual masterpiece, it’s played on an 8x8 grid with Cluster Pays. Playable from 10p a spin, the RTP rate is 96.3% with the hit frequency rate at 31.71%.
Quirky, cheeky and like nothing I’ve ever come across visually, it’s very ‘Monty Python’ which will please British players. There are Morphing Clusters which see 1 symbol transforming a winning cluster to an adjacent symbol which in turn can lead to more cascades and wins. Wins also charge the meter where the Tarasque devours and collects adjacent winning symbols which in turn unleashes Progressive features which become more powerful the higher the level.
If you reach the last level, the Tarasque will unleash all devoured symbols on the grid which can lead to huge wins. Offering 20,000 times bet max wins, Tarasque is a superb Cluster Pays slot that stands alone in 2024.
4th Place: Sweet Bonanza 1000 (Pragmatic Play)
Released in June 2024, Sweet Bonanza 1000 is part of Pragmatic Play’s 1000 slot series. You head to a sugary wonderland which is full of colour, fruit, candy and sugar. Play on a 6x5 grid with Scatter Pays, you can spin away from 20p a spin. The RTP rate is very high at 96.53% and there is a 42.92% hit frequency rate (a win every 2.33 spins on average).
With tumbles that lead to successive wins, the focus is on the Free Spins feature where you begin with 10 free spins. With unlimited additional free spins up for grabs, keep an eye out for Rainbow Bomb Multipliers which come with a random multiplier up to 1000x. When a tumbling sequence ends, all Rainbow Bomb Multiplier values are combined and applied to your total win.
With 25,000 times bet max wins, Sweet Bonanza 1000 has become one of the most-played slot games in the UK and for good reason.
5th Place: Fire in the Hole 2 (Nolimit City)
Released in February 2024, Fire in the Hole 2 is another sequel from Nolimit City. Featuring NLC’s favourite dwarf, it begins with 6 reels and 486 ways to win. Playable from 20p per spin, it has a 96.07% RTP rate and a 25.09% hit frequency rate. More explosive and extreme than its predecessor, it comes with 11 bonus features.
Winning combinations lead to collapses which add extra rows for up to 6 rows and 46,656 ways to win. With xBomb Wild multipliers, buried symbols and xSplit symbols, Fire in the Hole 2 is all about the Lucky Wagon Spins feature which benefits from more enhancers and persistent features.
With 65,000 times bet max wins, Fire in the Hole 2 is much more explosive and volatile than the first outing as the dwarf is armed with more powerful tools. Hopefully, Nolimit City will follow this game up with a third instalment.
6th Place: Donut Division (Hacksaw Gaming)
Released in December 2024, Donut Division is from Hacksaw Gaming and has a 1970s feel. With cops fighting crime, you join a quirky police crew who have sniffed out more crooks than sprinkles on a donut. Superbly designed, it’s played with 6 reels and 19 paylines from just 10p per spin. With a 96.3% RTP rate, the hit frequency rate is 24.89%.
With Gooey Gun symbols that contain multipliers up to 100x, they transform into Gooey Gun Wilds which apply their multiplier values to winning combinations. Donut Division gives you the choice of 2 free spins features. The Warehouse is all about flashlights that trigger special symbol effects such as adding multipliers, multiplying multipliers, light switches and battery symbols which expand the area to illuminate all symbols. In the Stakeout, there is an increased chance of landing Gooey Gun symbols with higher multipliers.
With super versions available, Donut Division comes with 12,500 times bet max wins. Offering a unique theme, Hacksaw Gaming has delivered a fun slot game that is certain to keep you coming back for more.
7th Place: Deadwood RIP (Nolimit City)
Released in June 2024, Deadwood RIP sees you join El Gordo, Edda Star and Skinny Joe again on 5 reels and 384 ways to win. Playable from 20p a spin, it comes with a 96.09% RTP rate and a brutal 8.29% hit frequency rate. This Wild West-themed slot game follows on from Deadwood and Tombstone RIP.
With bleak visuals and a superb rock soundtrack, you can fire shots at the symbols. With xNudge Wilds that see multipliers combine in the base game and multiply in the 2 free spins features, xSplit Wilds gives you more ways to win and double the xNudge Wild multiplier. There are Quick Draw and Shootout extras which double symbol multipliers and transform low-value symbols into wilds.
In the Salvation Spins, xNudge Wilds increase the win multiplier and the Hog Me Tight Scatter is a wild and splits symbols after every free spin. With 100,000 times bet max wins, Deadwood RIP is another brilliant slot from Nolimit City which takes the best bits from the Deadwood and Tombstone RIP favourites.
8th Place: Pond of Plinko (Print Studios)
Released in December 2024, Pond of Plinko is the third game in the Plinko series from Print Studios. Set in a watery world of mechanical wonder, it’s played on 5 reels and 20 paylines. The minimum bet is 10p per spin with the RTP rate at 96.1% and the hit frequency rate at 31.25%.
The randomly-triggered River Prize feature in the base game can award 10,000 times bet max wins but it’s all about the ball-dropping Plinko Bonus feature. With up to 6 enhancers available, I particularly like the Bumper Buckets and Golden Ball drops. There are extra drops up for grabs as well as prize bucket increases and barriers for more prizes.
With 30,000 times bet max wins, Pond of Plinko offers more enhancers to make the Plinko Bonus feature more appealing as well as bigger max win potential than its predecessors.
9th Place: Ancient Tumble (Relax Gaming)
Released in June 2024, Ancient Tumble is part of Relax Gaming’s Tumble series and has 6 reels and 46,656 ways to win, Set deep in the rainforest, this action-packed slot game can be played from 20p a spin. It has a 96.1% RTP rate with a 20.65% hit frequency rate.
With 10 bonus features, there are tumbles and unbreakable wilds as well as 4 free spins features. They come with coin wins with multipliers, multiplier stone blocks, colossal symbols up to 5x5 in size and multiplier ladders up to 100x! If you’re lucky enough to trigger the Super Free Spins feature, all extras play out together.
With a total of 10 bonus features, the focus is on the free spins features. Offering extras such as coins, coins with multipliers, multiplier increases, a multiplier ladder up to 100x and colossal symbols up to 5x5 in size, there is an enhanced Super Free Spins feature where all extras play out together.
With 10,000 times bet max wins, Ancient Tumble takes you on an epic adventure that is packed full of extras and an experience you won’t forget anytime soon.
10th Place: Nitropolis 5 (ELK Studios)
Released in July 2024, Nitropolis 5 is the final game in ELK Studios’ epic Nitropolis slot series. Beginning with 6 reels and 4,096 ways to win, you can spin away from 20p per spin. With a low 94% RTP rate, the clans unite in the ultimate showdown to take down the evil Sergeant Nitro Wolf to reclaim the city of Nitropolis.
Packed full of extras, there are expanding reels, big symbols up to 3x3 in size, Nitro Reels, Nitro Multipliers, avalanches and NPD Holding Cells. With a Boss Battle where you face off against Nitro Wolf, the Bonus Game feature begins with up to 20 free spins. Here, all Nitro Reels remain in play with each win advancing the safety level up to 8. This can lead to the Super free spins where you play with maximum rows and both ways payouts plus the NPD Holding Cell on each free spin.
With 50,000 times bet max wins, the Nitropolis 5 slot game rounds off the Nitropolis series in style making it our top ELK Studios slot.
Best Slot Provider of 2024
With over 500 slot games reviewed at OLBG, our focus in 2024 was to bring you detailed reviews and slot demos of the best slot games available. Covering games from the best slot providers, you’ll find titles from the likes of Play ‘n GO, Pragmatic Play, Nolimit City, Relax Gaming, Push Gaming, Playtech and many, many more.
Looking at the online slot games released in 2024, it’s clear that one slot provider stood out above all the rest. Creating unique games that are unique and controversial, Nolimit City has gone big in 2024. Now with over 100 games to their name, 4 of the top 10 games were created by NLC. The first game to catch my attention this year was Land of the Free which sees you join the Langford family in all their starred and striped glory.
With excellent releases such as the horror-themed Possessed, the war-inspired D-Day, the hilarious Loner and robbery-based Stockholm Syndrome, their best releases include many sequels such as Punk Rocker 2 and Blood and Shadow 2. Munchies offers a unique concept/mechanic and Tanked introduced a new xLoot mechanic.
However, Nolimit City has gone above and beyond with Deadwood RIP, Fire in the Hole 2, Kenneth Must Die and San Quentin 2: Death Row in my opinion. All superb games in their own right, it’s clear that NLC’s creativity and uniqueness shine through in each of their releases.
Nolimit City will surely be one to watch in 2025 as the upcoming Tombstone Slaughter (January 2025) will come with 500,000 times bet max wins: the highest max win slot game ever!
Best Jackpot Slot of 2024
With more and more progressive jackpot slots released each year, the thrill of chasing a truly life-changing jackpot win hots up. Relax Gaming has led the way in 2024 with lots of Dream Drop jackpot slots released.
Released in October 2024, my favourite jackpot game this year is 4ThePlayer’s 5 Doggy Millionaires Dream Drop. With 5 reels and 1,024 ways to win, you get to put your paws up and live the good boy life from 20p per spin. It comes with a 94% RTP rate and a 28.25% hit frequency rate.
With frisbees randomly flying over the reels to rearrange symbols for a win, there is a Money Ways feature where cash prizes up to 200 times your total bet will be collected when part of a winning collection or if the Collect Scatter lands. In the Respin Bonus, you aim to collect cash prizes which are double if a frisbee flies over the reels.
Then you have the randomly-triggered Dream Drop Jackpots feature where you spin the Fortune Wheel to win 1 of 5 progressive jackpots. The Mega Jackpot is the big one with up to €3 million on offer. At the time of writing, there have been 6 Mega Jackpot winners in 2024 with the minimum being €2.77 million.
Best Megaways Slot of 2024
With so many Megaways slots released every single year, I would say there were fewer Megaways games than in previous years. Virtually all slot providers offer Megaways titles these days as they added the iconic shape-shifting mechanic to popular releases.
Released in October 2024, my favourite Megaways game in 2024 was Big Time Gaming’s Danger High Voltage 2. A much-anticipated sequel, it’s another electrifying game to use Electric Six’s iconic song of the same name. With 6 reels and up to 117,649 ways to win, you can play from 20p a spin. With a 32.59% hit frequency rate, the RTP rate is high at 96.64%.
With Reactions for successive wins, it uses Big Time Gaming’s Megadozer mechanic where Bonus Coins drop onto the reels to award win multipliers, Scatters and wild multipliers up to 5x. With a choice of 2 free spins features, Bonus Coins will reveal persistent wilds, extra free spins, Supercharge Wild Multipliers and Wild Multipliers.
With 52,980 times bet max wins, Danger High Voltage 2 kept true to the spirit of the iconic release with the added extras of the Megaways and Megadozer mechanics. What more could you ask for?