New Casino Games January (Week 5) 2023 – 35 Exciting New Casino Releases!

Another top week of casino game releases! Our New Casino Games January (Week 5) 2023 Report brings 35 brand new titles! (Image from casinoplusbonus.com)

Another week has gone by and that means can only mean one thing! A glut of exciting new casino games hitting the iGaming wires.

It fact, the last 7 days was the most prolific week of 2023 to date!

There were 35 new casino game titles that made their debuts. That makes it 112 we’ve reported for the year so far, which is not too shabby considering we’re only on week 5.

Almost all of the new games you will find in this update were video slots. However, OnAir Entertainment has crashed the slots party by releasing its latest live dealer title, Live Blazing Dragon Tiger.

As for the video slots, there were some pretty big releases this time around. For example, Red Tiger Gaming launched a continuation of its sister brand’s Blood Suckers and Blood Scukers 2, aptly names Blood Suckers™ MegaWays™ thus adding a third slot to this immensely popular series.

Plus, progressive jackpots players have two exciting releases to ponder as Blueprint Gaming’s Jackpot King progressive jackpot slot, Deal or No Deal™ Box Clever Jackpot King is out now and BetSoft has also punted out Hearts Desire, which both come with to-notch graphics and gameplay!

We also had many big-name developers getting in on the act with new releases. Quickspin, Wazdan, BGaming, Big Time Gaming, Play’n Go, Pragmatic Play, and Relax Gaming were just some of the names that released new casino content in a compact list below the top 5 slots of the week mini reviews.

Last Week’s Report: The 35 new titles released over the past 7 days (24 – 30 Jan 2023) just beats the 31 launched the week before. You can out previous 31 via the New Casino Games January (Week 4) Report here. As we release this report so early, if any new casino game titles hit the iGaming wires today, we’ll be sure to add them into next week’s update.

TOP 5 Video Slot Releases – New Casino Games January (Week 5) 2023

In this section, you will catch a mini-review of the aforementioned Deal or No Deal™ Box Clever Jackpot King slot. Joining that review is reviews of four other new slots including Double Lucky Mushrooms DoubleMax™ from Reflex Gaming/Yggdrasil, and BGaming’s Potion Spells.

• Potion Spells (BGaming)

BGaming’s anticipated Potion Spells 7×7 Cluster Pays is out, released on Friday last week, and I must say its brilliance took us by surprise. We knew this was going to be special as it is the first cluster pays slot released from the developer’s innovative iGaming studios. However, it turned out even more impressive than any of us anticipated thanks to its feature-rich action junkie appeal.

The cluster pays spins are rampant with features including cluster wins, refilling reels, additional wilds, exploding clusters, big symbols, a bonus buy as well as a flurry of other features. And all this is set on a calm and tranquil theme in a slow-paced fantasy world of magic with all the ingredients you need on the reels to concoct positions. In fact, some of it might could briefly make your stomach a little queasy when mixing eye balls and frogs with pink feathers and mushrooms, but not for long as when you start to concoct big wins on the reels, queasy turns to excitement!

Here’s all the features you’ll find on Potion Spells by BGaming:

• Cluster Pays: 5 or more alike symbols on adjacent positions anywhere on the reels will trigger a cluster pay. If you land 15+ frogs, you’ll be in for a mega 750x spin bet multiplier.
• Wild: Substitutes for any of the other symbols on the reels by acting as a wildcard.
• Second Chance: If there is a non-winning spin, the second chance feature can trigger randomly turning a random number of symbols wild. It almost always results in one or several wins.
• Big Symbol: When 4 symbols form a square on adjacent positions, it converts into a 2×2 ‘big symbol’. If this square is a part of a larger winning cluster, then the win is doubled.
• Backlit Symbol: When lower paying symbols light up at random, and they are part of a winning cluster, they will be replaced by wilds.
• Progress Bar: Above the potion pot are 4 containers. Each spin that produces a win will fill the potion bottles above, and when they are full, they will tip into the pot. When this happens, the ‘Detonation’, ‘Promotion’, ‘Separation’ or ‘Reduction’ feature will trigger.
• Detonation: This features take 3 to 6 symbols and converts them to wilds. Each wild will then destroys 4 symbols the position to the left, right, below and above.
• Promotion: The Potion Spells slot randomly chooses one of the 8 regular symbols. Then this symbol will convert all other alike symbols into any of the other 7 regular symbols.
• Separation: The game places a wild slap bang in the middle of the 7×7 grid. It then converts all symbols diagonally (north-west, north-east, south-west and south0east) into wilds forming a cross of wild symbols.
  
• Reduction: When this features triggers, all lower paying symbol explode from the reels and new symbols drop in to create more cluster wins.

Cluster Bet Multipliers: Clusters pay for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10+, 12+ or 15+. The 15+ clusters award multipliers as follows: Frog (750x), Mushroom (300x), Pink Feather (150x), Eyeball (75x), Green Potion (10x), Red Potion (10x), Purple Potion (3x), Blue Potion (3x). Find more video slots from BGaming here.

• Hearts^TM Desire (BetSoft) – Progressive Jackpots

Another excellent progressive jackpot slot to join the army of progressive slots that have long thrilled fans of the BetSoft software provider. Let’s face it, that pretty much means all slot players. BetSoft has been around since the beginning of iGaming and still produces some of the most innovative slot titles out there, while its early jackpot releases like Good Girls Bad Girls, Greedy Goblin, The Slotfather, A Night in Paris and many more are still in high demand.

The slot plays out on 5×3 reels with 30 pay lines, and for those of you that enjoy a touch classic slot class, the fruits are back in business on the Hearts Desire video slot.

Check out all the features in the bullets below:

• Wild: The wild appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. It is the wildcard for all 7 regular symbols. It does not substitute for either of the heart scatter symbols.
• Stacked Mystery Symbols: Prior to every spin, there are stacked mystery symbols on every reel. One of the regular symbols or the gold heart symbol will replace the stacks. Therefore, on each spin, any of these symbols could be stacked – the beauty of it is in the name – it’s a complete mystery!
• Free Spins: The gold heart symbol is the scatter symbol. Land 5+ anywhere in review to trigger the free spins bonus round. The value of all scatters adds to the ‘cumulative meter’. Also, stacked mystery symbols are active during free spins.
• Additional Free Spins: Each time the gold scatter lands, the slot awards you with an additional free spin.
• Free Spins Cumulative Meter Scatter: As well as an additional free spin via scatters during free spins, the cumulative meter will increase by +1. When the special scatter land, which is a pink heart, it will award a win value according to the meter. This is x2, x3 or x5.
• Progressive Jackpot: There are 4 progressive jackpots – ‘Mini’, ‘Minor’, ‘Major’ and ‘Mega’. Any of the jackpots can hit any time as they trigger randomly falling into the laps of lucky players fortunate to be spinning the reels at the time one of them drops.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: All symbols pay when there are 3, 4 or 5 across any of the 30 pay lines. The following multipliers show 5-symbol combination payouts. Diamond (33x), Red 7 (10x), Orange (6.67x), Banana Bunch (2x), Grapes (2x), Watermelon (1.67x), Cherries (1.67x). Play the Hearts Desire slot demo here.

• Hot Slot™: 777 Stars (Wazdan)

If you’re as much a fan of Wazdan as we are, you will know about some of the features the iGaming firm is famous for when developing video slots. In Wazdan’s latest slot release, Hot Slot™: 777 Stars, many are there once again. That means you can enjoy a ‘Choose Your Variance’ feature and the same levels of animation speeds that you will find in many of the developer’s other titles.

Hot Slot: 777 Stars is actually the fifth instalment in the Hot Slot series and this time you can look forward to a 5×3 reel format, 20 paylines, and the aforementioned features on top of a gamble feature and 4-fixed jackpots.

This is a classic slot, so if you’re expecting bonus features aplenty, you’re going to be disappointed. This title has no free spins or Hold and Win style bonuses. That said, there are plenty of other aspects of Hot Slot™: 777 Stars to look forward to.

• Choose your Volatility: This is a bonus feature that is unique to Wazdan and it essentially, allows you to choose the variance you want to play at. You can choose a 1, 2, or 3 chilli setting to play in low, medium, or high variance mode, respectively.
• Gamble Feature: As with many other titles from Wazdan, there is a gamble feature you can utilise after every win. When you click the ‘x2’ button after a win on the reels, you’re taken to a gamble game which has the potential of doubling your win. It is a 50/50 game that involves choosing a colour and hoping it comes in.
• 4-Fixed Jackpots: Winning the jackpots does not involve any kind of bonus game. Instead, the number of Star scatter symbols you land determines your win. 6 rewards you with the Mini Jackpot (20x), 7 delivers the Minor (50x), and 8 and 9 get you the Major (150x) and Grand (500x), respectively.

As for the graphics, these are delivered in high definition and are of the high quality you would expect from a leading developer like Wazdan. By the way, if you want to see what other slots Wazdan has to offer or want to find out more about the firm, you can use our Wazdan software developer page.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: You need to land, 3 matching symbols on a payline from left to right starting on the first reel to create winning combinations. The top 5-symbol combination wins for each symbol are as follows: Red Seven (250x), Watermelon (25x), Blueberries (25x), Plums (10x), Oranges (10x), Lemons (10x), Berries (10x).

• Double Lucky Mushrooms DoubleMax™ (Yggdrasil/Reflex Gaming)

Reflex Gaming has released its first slot of the year and if you’re a fan of the lucky/Irish theme featuring Leprechauns, Clovers, Wishing Wells, and the like, it is well worth checking out. Double Lucky Mushrooms DoubleMax™ launched during the week via Yggdrasil’s Gati distribution network.

On the face of it, it looks like a simple slot but as you dig deeper, you will find it actually has a ton of cool bonus features.

• Expanding Wilds: Wilds can appear expanded on the reels and can essentially fill an entire reel.
• Wishing Well (Pick Me) Bonus: Land at least 3 Wishing Well scatter symbols and you will activate the Wishing Well bonus game. This is a pick-me game, so you just choose one of the 3 wishing wells to receive a random cash prize.
• Free Spins: Landing 3, 4, or 5 ‘Free Spins’ scatter symbols triggers 8. 12. or 16 free spins, respectively. During this feature, the Mushroom symbols hold a random cash prize. If these symbols land on the same spin as a Lady Lcuk symbol (only lands on the 5th reel), that symbol will multiply those wins. How much it multiplies the win depends on how many of those symbols have landed previously. Starting from 2x, each new Lady Luck double the multiplier of the previous one.
• Free Spins Gamble Feature: If you landed 3 or 4 free spins symbols to trigger the free spins bonus, you have the option of gambling for more free spins. However, if you lose, you lose the spins you previously won.
• Buy Bonus: For a cost of 65x your stake, you can guarantee one of the bonus features on your next spin. You will trigger either the Wishing Well Bonus or the Free Spins feature.

As you can see, there’s quite a lot going on in Double Lucky Mushrooms DoubleMax™. Add all that to a top potential payout of 19,999x your stake and you have an impressive slot. Why not check it out for yourself over on the demo at Yggdrasil?

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers:To form winning combinations, you need to land 3 or matching symbols on an active payline. These start from the first reel and move from left to right. As for the top combination wins for each symbol, these are as follows: Double Lucky (25x), Pot of Gold (25x), Lucky Clover Super Wild (25x), Mushrooms (12x), Irish Hat (10x), Ace/King (8x), and Queen/Jack (5x).

• Deal or No Deal™ Box Clever Jackpot King (Blueprint Gaming)

The final slot to make it to our top 5 this week is another in a long line of Jackpot King jackpot slots from Blueprint Gaming. Deal or No Deal™ Box Clever Jackpot King is a 5-reel, 3-row, and 10 payline slot that is crammed full of features and offers the chance to win millions from a progressive jackpot. It is also another slot in the Deal or No Deal series.

As you spin the reels, you have the chance of benefiting from the following bonus features:

• Noel Wild Symbols: Noel Edmonds, the famous host of the Deal or No Deal television gameshow is the wild symbol. It appears on reel 5 only and will substitute for all symbols apart from the Telephone scatter symbol.
• Cash Collect Feature: If Noel lands on the same spin as Deal or No Deal Box symbols, he collects the values for you. Throughout the feature, you can collect Noel Wilds to earn additional spins and to collect the values in the boxes.
• Free Spins: To trigger 10, 15, or 20 free spins, you need to land 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols, respectively. These can be anywhere in view and do not need to run along a payline. On some occasions, the Feautre Box symbol can land to trigger a bonus game that lets you play directly against the banker. Two wild symbols can also appear during the feature, when they do, they award modifiers. The first is adding additional box symbols to the reels and the second triggers continuous respins that end only when a new box symbol does not land.
• Progressive Jackpots: Finally, if you land 5 Jackpot King Deluxe symbols, you will trigger a jackpot minigame. At a minimum, you will win a multiplier of your stake while you could also land one of the Royal, Regal, or Jackpot King progressive jackpots.

So, what do you think? We think it is another great addition to Blueprint Gaming’s vast range of Jackpot King progressive slots. If you’re new to jackpot slots, you can check out how to play progressive jackpots here.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers:To form winning combinations, you need to land 3 or matching symbols on an active payline. These start from the first reel and move from left to right. As for the top combination wins for each symbol, these are as follows: Double Lucky (25x), Pot of Gold (25x), Lucky Clover Super Wild (25x), Mushrooms (12x), Irish Hat (10x), Ace/King (8x), and Queen/Jack (5x).

30 More Hot Releases Over the Past 7 Days

In the accompanying box, you will find another 30 new casino games that have come fresh off the iGaming conveyor belt. Our recommendations from this list have to be Blood Suckers™ MegaWays™, Game of Gladiators: Uprising, and Monster Superlanche™.

While you are at it, or before you get down to business, check out the no deposit casino deals page. Many of the newly released slot titles in this report (not the progressive jackpots) are available for bonus bets. Plus, you always have the option to spin reels using the slot’s demo mode, which should be available at your existing online casino!

This Week: Can week 6 deliver as well as week 5? We will have to wait and see but we’re sure there will be at least another 25 new casino games for you to check out in our report over the next 7 days!