Some of them cater quite conveniently to newcomers to the online gaming world, while others offer up a more advanced experience. With that being the case, gamers can’t go far wrong when opting to choose a slot game to play.
Slot Types is an index page: its job is to list what the library holds under the heading and to be honest about what the heading covers. There is no scoring here and no shortlist — the ranking pages say so in their own titles, and everything else is simply the set.
The set is drawn from the sheets and entries on this site, which is a smaller thing than the market. A count on this page is a count of pages we hold, never a claim about how many games or operators exist; where our coverage of something is shallow the list is short, and that is a fact about the library rather than about the subject. Nothing is added to a list to round it up to a pleasing number, and nothing is left off because a partner would prefer it missing.
If you are looking for a payment rule rather than a page, Slot Mechanics is the faster route; for the figures behind any game, Slot Math; and for the whole archive in one place, the site index.
«Slot type» is used to mean three different things, which is why lists of types rarely agree. It can describe the cabinet the game imitates — three-reel classic, five-reel video, grid. It can describe the way a spin pays — fixed paylines, ways to win, cluster pays, all-ways. Or it can describe the money model, which is where progressive jackpots and buy-in features live. A single game normally belongs to one category from each of the three sets at once.
The distinction worth keeping straight is between layout and payment rule, because the promo banner usually names only one of them. A six-reel game with symbols paying in adjacent columns is a ways-to-win game whatever the marketing calls it; a grid that pays groups of touching symbols anywhere is a cluster game even when the studio has trademarked a different word for it. Read the rules screen for what makes a win, not the badge on the thumbnail — that single habit resolves most of the confusion this section exists to describe.
Each type below has its own page with the games we hold under it. The payment rules themselves, family by family and studio name by studio name, are in Slot Mechanics, and what each layout does to volatility and to the published return is in Slot Math.
However, while it can be considered great to have so many different paths to take in a gaming genre, it’s not so fun when you have to figure out which ones do what, what’s included in each of them, and whether or not it’s suitable for you. The various slots types that are available can often be quite confusing, which is why it’s easy enough to work your way to the product or products that are better to suit your needs via our informative descriptions of such. Here, we touch on all the great features and methods of play that can be utilised in the various different types of slot games, enabling players to thoroughly decide on a course of action to take when it comes to picking the right slot product for them.