Week 52 New Casino Games Report December – 16 New Games!

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Wherever you are in the world, the team here at CasinoPlusBonus hopes that you enjoyed your Christmas. Many of you will be full of food, sat with new gifts, and with the satisfaction that you have made others happy with yours.

Now that the big day is now done with, perhaps you have some spare time on your hands? Perhaps you’re thinking of enjoying some time at the online casinos and would like to play some brand-new casino games?

If that is the case, then we are your metaphorical Santa Claus for the day as we have some great gifts to give you. In this Week 52 new Casino Games Report, we have news of 16 new casino games that were launched in the last 7 days.

The number is not as many as you (and we) might be used to. Still, for the week before Christmas, that is actually pretty good going. The likes of Pragmatic Play, NoLimit City, Spinomenal, Tom Horn Gaming, Amusnet Interactive, and Gamzix have made sure that you have some new casino content to enjoy in the run up to New Year.

Almost all new releases were video slots but if you’re something of a live casino connoisseur, there is a new Roulette title that you can enjoy as well.

Last Week’s Report: 16 new titles is a lot less than we’re usually able to deliver, but then again, it is Christmas! The developer’s have lives too. Still, if you want more new casino games to check out – you will find 28 in our Week 51 New Casino Games Report. Hot Slot™ Mystery Jackpot Joker from Wazdan and Quickspin’s Good Luck Clusterbuster™ are good slots to get started with.

TOP 5 Video Slot Releases – Week 52 New Casino Games Report December 2022

As we have with all other casino game reports this year, we have spent some time deliberating among ourselves to come up with the top 5 new casino slots launched last week. This was easier than usual due to the reduced number of new titles. This time around we have decided that Play’n Go’s latest Rock band-inspired slot, Mötley Crüe is definitely worth a spot. Joining that title is Riches of Rumpelstiltskin Megaways (iSoftBet), Dead Canary (NoLimit City), Starlight Princess (pragmatic Play), and Piggy Bjorn 2 – Winter is Coming (Gameart).

• Mötley Crüe (Play’n GO)

One of the most successful heavy metal bands in the history of the genre is now a Play’n GO slot title. The new game compliments the software provider’s already awesome collection of music-themed casino game titles.

The slot stars the heavy metal band’s famous artists Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Tommy Lee – the partiers known for their wild antics on and off the music scene. And you get to become one of the Mötley Crüe on the reels!

Spin away with the band over 20 pay lines on 5×3 reels. And just to get you started, the base game already comes with 3 head-banging features. Look out for ‘Wild Side’ with ‘Stacked Wild Symbols’ on reel number 5. When this random feature kicks in, you get paid and then the stack moves to reel 4 on the next spin, then reel 3, reel 2 and finally reel 1 before dropping off the slot.

Another base game feature is ‘Kickstart My Heart’, which at any given time, and as random as the behaviour of the Mötley Crüe themselves will multiply win when the ‘Wild Side’ stacks are moving across the reels.

Then there’s ‘Live Wire’ adding wilds anywhere on the reels.

Adding to these 3 base game extras is the ‘Shout at the Devil’ feature. Land 3 Pentagram Scatters, which will then take you into a random bonus game that will decide how many free spins you’ll receive. While the free spins bonus is in action, the ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ music video will splash onto your screen. The idea is to land the ‘Lips Symbol’ on the middle reels 2-3-4 which then fall into the heart of the Mötley Crüe experience giving you big wins.

Play other Play’n GO slots with music themes by searching through the software provider’s video slot game portfolio. There’s a list here in the heavy metal IP video slots section here.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: Link up symbols from left to right. 3-, 4- and 5-symbol combinations must show alike symbols on reels 1-2-3, 1-2-3-4, and 1-2-3-4-5, respectively. Nikki Sixx (25x), Tommy Lee (20x), Mick Mars (15x), Vince Neil (15x), A (3x), K (3x), Q (2.5x), J (2.5x).

• Piggy Bjorn 2 – Winter is Coming (GameArt)

Win up to a massive 80,000x your spin bet playing the latest Piggy Bjorn 2 video slot, the sequel to the ever-so-popular Piggy Bjorn GameArt casino game. What’s more, this slot comes with a super high 96.91% RTP, and a bonus round with an array of bonus symbols, combined symbols and collection features that will ramp up your wins in no time – simply brilliant!

The slot comes with a good mix of base game and free spins features, and it all begins with the ‘Piggy Loot Symbol’, which will show a multiplier between 1x and 50x. If the ‘Piggy Collect Symbol’ lands on reel 5 at the same time as the reels showing the ‘Piggy Loot Symbol’, all multipliers add together and pay according to your spin bet. What a great start!

Another cool feature that gives you a win from any non-winning spin is the ‘Snow Storm’ feature. It can breeze onto the reels randomly when a spin doesn’t produce any features or combinations. It then freezes symbols on the reels and then reveals a ‘Mystery Symbol’.

As for the Piggy Bjorn 2 video slot’s main feature, this is the ‘Raid Bonus’. Land 3+ ‘blue’ scatters to kick start this action-packed bonus round. You’ll have 5 free spins, and the game always starts with a feature.

You can check out the Piggy Bjorn 2 – Winter demo slot. In the slots pay table, at the bottom, you will see a list of ‘Raid Bonus’ symbols and features. Here’s a taster of what you’ll get:

• Bronze Bonus – 1x to 20x multipliers
• Silver Bonus – 21x to 100x multipliers
• Gold Bonus – 101x to 200x multipliers
• Taxes – pays visible values in the tax collection box
• Hammer – pays between 5x and 200x your spin bet

There is also a ‘red’ Mega scatter that can combine with the blue scatters to give you a mega bonus round. This is the ‘Raid Bonus Fury’ round and comes with even bigger wins where you can land that 80,000x your spin bet. Once again, you can check the pay table where you’ll find the massive wins this feature offers enhancing those that come within the standard ‘Fury Bonus’

There are also two features available. Use the ‘Bonus Buy’ and you have 2 options. 3 scatters via Free spins (100x) or free spins with the mega scatter (500x). If you use the ‘Feature Buy’ option, this gives you the ‘Snow Storm’ bonus, which costs 15x your spin bet.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: Land 3, 4 or 5 symbols on any of the 50 pay lines to qualify for a winning combination. Payouts for 5-symbol combos are as follows: Hammer (20x), Axes (10x), Swords (5x), Bow & Arrow (4x), Shield (3x), A (1.5x), K (1.5x), Q (1.5x), J (1.5x).

• Riches of Rumpelstiltskin Megaways (iSoftBet)

Themed on one of the more twisted fairy tales ever written, Riches of Rumpelstiltskin Megaways becomes iSoftBet’s final slot release of 2022. This offers the popular 6+1 Megaways reel format that has been doing the rounds for some time. There are 6 standard reels and then a horizontal reel that spins above them. As for the paylines, the Megaways mechanic can create up to 117,649 on each spin.

This new slot also uses a cascading symbols mechanic that removes winning combinations and replaces them with new symbols. As you know, that allows new symbols to fall into place that can potentially create further winning combinations. The more you get, the better, and in some cases, you can create numerous wins from a single spin of the reels.

There is a wild symbol that can aid your attempts at creating winning combinations, and this will only land on the top reel. Of the other bonus features, there is a Max Megaways feature that triggers randomly. When it does, it forces the reels to their max 117,649 ways-to-win configuration. However, it is the Rumpel Respins feature that has the potential to deliver the biggest payouts.

You trigger that feature when you land at least 5 of the Pot of Gold Scatter Symbols that hold a cash value. The trigger symbols are locked to the reels and a Hold and Win style-bonus game kicks into action. You receive 3 re-spins of the reels and must fill empty positions on the reels to reset those respins. This carries on until you have filled all positions or have run out of respins. You win the value of the Pots of Golds symbols you collected.

During that feature, the top reel can grant additional benefits. When you collect 3 of one type of power-up, it activates. The powers you can gain are extra lives (respins), a reels boost that can increase the number of symbols of up to 2 reels, a multiplier boost that increases the global multiplier, and a prize boost that doubles all values in view.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: The Megaways mechanic means you need to land 3 or more matching symbols on the reels from left to right to create a winning combination. The 6-symbol combination payouts as a multiplier of your stake are as follows: Rumpel Stiltskin (12.50x), Miller’s Daughter (5x), Loom (2.5x), Key (2x), Ace (1.5x), King (1.5x), Queen (1x), Jack (0.9x), Ten (0.5x) Nine (0.5x).

• Starlight Princess (Pragmatic Play)

Of course, the most prolific slot development company in the industry is not yet done for 2022. The Starlight Princess marks what feels like the firm’s 100th title of the year to date. Actually, it probably is not too far short of that as Pragmatic Play averages at least 5 new slots per month but often releases more.

The firm’s latest release, Starlight Princess, is an anime/mange-inspired title that offers features including a scatter pays mechanic, cascading symbols, multipliers, a free spins round with increasing multipliers, and a buy bonus feature. It carries a high variance and the chance of winning a 5,000x your stake top prize.

Starlight Princess is a 6×5 slot that utilises the scatter pays mechanic to determine payouts. That means landing 8 or more matching symbols anywhere in view will see you paid. A tumble feature ensures you stand a chance of landing multiple wins each spin by removing all winning symbols. On top of that, random multipliers of between 2x and 500x can land on the reels. When they do, the win multiplier of a symbol combination is multiplied by that value.

Those multipliers also play a part in the main free spins feature which requires 4 or more scatter symbols to trigger. During this feature, whenever a multiplier lands on the same spin as a winning combination, it not only applies to that win but also increases a global multiplier. That multiplier then adds to any future multiplier wins throughout the duration of the feature.

You do not even have to wait to trigger that feature either. You can opt to buy straight into it via a buy bonus feature that costs 100x your stake. Another option is to pay 50% of your current stake for double the chance of landing the required scatter symbols.

If you want to check out this latest Pragmatic Play title or one of the many others the firm has released in 2022, you do that easily by visiting the Pragmatic Play website.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: Creating winning combinations on the Starlight Princess online slot involves landing 8 or more matching symbols anywhere in view. The best payouts come when you land 12 or more matching symbols. The multipliers of your stake that you win for those largest combinations payout as follows: Scatter Symbol (100x), Sun (50x), Heart (25x), Moon (15x), Star (12x), Red Gem (10x), Blue Gem (8x), Green Gem (5x), Turquoise Gem (4x), Yellow Gem (2x).

• Dead Canary (NoLimit City)

There is a big reason behind Evolution acquiring NoLimit City this year and that is because this iGaming development is as innovative as they come. While the brand sometimes skates close to the edge in terms of slot themes, there is nothing that can be said against the quality of gameplay, mechanics, and graphics it perpetually produces.

Dead Canary is the last title the firm will launch in 2022 and in my opinion, it is arguably the best of them. This slot is themed around the fact that miners used to take Canarys down to the mines with them. They were used as an early warning sign if there were poisonous gasses in the air.

The base game starts with a 3-3-2-2-1-1 reel configuration with 36 Ways-to-Win but that increase as you unlock other positions via xBomb Wild Multiplier symbols. Those symbols alongside cascading symbols and a Wild Mining feature help you to form payouts during the base game. However, it is the Canary symbols and the Hold & Win-style bonus feature they can trigger that offer the most fun and potential.

You need to land 3 or more silver or gold Canary scatter symbols to trigger this bonus feature. During this feature, the reels change to a 4-3-4-3-4-3-4 configuration with 4 vaults with multiplier values in the corners. The triggering Canary symbols start the round with a 1x multiplier and 3 lives. Those symbols collect coin values, multipliers, and a variety of enhancers triggered by other symbols including a Rat and a Dwarf. They collect from symbols that land close to them.

The catch is that you only keep the multiplier values of the Canaries if they lose all their lives. Bomb and Gas symbols landing near them will remove a life. Dead Canaries then respawn with a 1x multiplier again. As for the vaults, xBombs must explode near these to unlock them and add to your total multiplier total at the end of the round.

There is literally so much going on in Dead Canaries that it is better you just check it out for yourself. You can find it on many platforms that offer NoLimit City’s titles and you can establish which they are via the reviews on our casino reviews portal.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: You need to land 3 or more matching symbols on the reels from left to right to create a winning combination. The 6-symbol combination payouts as a multiplier of your stake are as follows: Dwarf (7.5x), Rat (3.75x), Compass (2.5x), Water Bottle (2x), Rope (2x), Ace (1.5x), King (1.25x), Queen (1.25x), Jack (1x) Ten (1x).

Check Out Another 11 Casino Games to Enjoy for the Run up to New Year

To help fill the time until the New Year, there are another 11 new titles on top of the 5 we reviewed above. Amusnet Interactive has launched its Russian Roulette live casino game while you can also expect video slots from the likes of Synot Games, Tom Horn Gaming, Mascot Gaming, and Hacksaw Gaming.

This Week: Again, we’re not expecting too many slots to launch this week. Many development companies will be on their own holidays over this festive period. Let’s see how it goes, anyway.