New Online Casino Games April (Week 17) 2023 – 36 New Titles Released Last Week!

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We’re now up to 460 new casino games launched in 2023 after another 36 new titles were released since our last report. Within the next week or two that number will break the 500 milestone and put us on course for 1,500 new casino games by the end of the year.

This time around the vast majority of new releases were video slots from leading developers including Big Time Gaming, 4The Player, Pragmatic Play, Blueprint Gaming, PopOK Gaming, and Stakelogic. You can expect themes covering intergalactic space travel, the hunt for treasure in ancient tombs, mining during the gold rush, and more!

Also among the new releases this week is a batch of crash games from Galaxys and a new virtual RNG blackjack game from Switch Studios. Anyhow, let’s just get straight into the new games launched last week. We will start with mini reviews of our favourite slots and then finish up by compiling all the other new games launched.

Last Week’s Report: Although not as many as you will find in this report, our New Casino Games April (Week 16) has another 23 new casino games worth checking out!

Top 5 New Online Casino Slots April (Week 17) 2023

It is never an easy decision when choosing our favourite slots, especially when there are so many great new titles. That said, we had to go with Buster’s Bones (NetEnt), Shadow Raiders MultiMax™ (Bang Bang Games / Yggdrasil), Jane Hunter and the Mask of Montezuma™ (Pragmatic Play), Over the Moon (Big Time Gaming), and 5k Gold Mine Dream Drop (4ThePlayer). By the way, those are in no particular order, just good enough to make our top 5!

• Buster’s Bones (NetEnt)

First showcased at ICE London 2023, NetEnt’s Buster’s Bones has been one of the most anticipated slot releases of 2023 so far. Now, you can join the action and journey through an infinite canyon to arrive at a peculiar universe of lively poodles. This slot boasts high-quality graphics, showcasing a vast canyon basking in a golden sunset as its backdrop. As you keep your eyes on fantastic winnings, entertaining sounds will keep you engaged.

With the avalanche feature and cluster wins, you will remain captivated by the spinning reels. The game offers added excitement through shiny bones that provide increasing multipliers. Additionally, pursuing the bones may trigger random game features, including during free spins. The game also provides a buy feature for direct access to bonus spins.

• Buster’s Bones Feature: If you land the Buster’s Bones special symbol on the same spin as at least 1 bone symbol, you trigger the Buster’s Bones feature. He bounds around the reels collecting all the bones symbols and turning them into wild symbols. Each time buster collects a bone value, it increases a progressive multiplier that applies to all future wins on that spin.
• Random Features: Triggered randomly on any spin, this feature adds bones and the Buster special symbol onto the reels.
• Free Spins: You trigger 8 free spins when you land a Buster’s Bones special symbol and two free spin scatter symbols on the reels at the same time. You are whisked away to a new 6×6 set of reels inside a saloon and during this feature, the Buster’s Bones feature is also in play. This time, however, the progressive multiplier does not reset on each spin and continues to grow throughout the spins.
• Buy Bonus: If you prefer to gamble, you can purchase the free spins bonus outright for 60x the stake.

As with most NetEnt video slots, Buster’s Bones offers polished graphics and animations and has some interesting and lucrative bonus features. Is it as good as the hype suggested? That is up to you to decide but we had a great time testing out this new title. If you’re one of the many NetEnt fans, you might want to check out our NetEnt slot developer overview to see if there have been any other releases you have missed out on.

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: The Buster’s Bones video slot utilises a cluster pays mechanic alongside an avalanche system to create winning combinations. You must land 5 or more symbols in a cluster to create a win. All winning symbols then disappear which means others drop into place for another chance of landing wins. The 15+ symbol payouts are as follows: All Character Symbols (15x) and All Card Suits (5x).

• Shadow Raiders MultiMax™ (Bang Bang Games/Yggdrasil)

Released via Yggdrasil’s GATI distribution network, Bang Bang Games has released Shadow Raiders MultiMax™, a new slot that also features Yggdrasil’s popular MultiMax mechanic. The theme is pirates and the action is grizzly but what you really want to know about, is the bonus features you can enjoy on this 5×3 video slot that has 243 Ways-to-Win, a 15,000x top prize, and a 96.1% RTP.

• Dropdown Feature (Tumble Mechanic): When you land winning combinations, the winning symbols are removed from the reels. One wild symbol takes one vacant position while the remainder is filled with other random symbols.
• Wild Symbols: These will substitute for all paying symbols on the Shadow Raiders MultiMax video slot.
• MultiMax Mechanic: After every win, Skulls above the reels will see their multiplier values increased by 1x. These multipliers apply to any subsequent dropdown wins. This resets at the end of the current spin.
• Booty Bomb: On some occasions, Booty Bombs may drop into vacant positions on the reels, These will transform to reveal the same symbol type or a cash prize. If the latter, that value is multiplied by any reel multipliers above the reel.
• Free Spins: If you manage to land 3 or more scatter bonus symbols, you will trigger 8 free pins. During this bonus round, the reel multipliers do not reset between spins. This can lead to huge multipliers and massive payouts. Also, before the start of the round, you can gamble for more free spins.
• Bonus Boost: For a cost of 50% on top of your stake, you can turn on the Bonus Boost feature which doubles your chances of triggering the bonus feature.
• Buy Bonus: You can also guarantee free spins on the next spin by using the Buy Bonus feature. For 100x your stake, you can purchase 8 free spins while the maximum number of 14 free spins costs 350x.

That’s quite the collection of bonus features and in our opinion, they are what make the Shadow Raiders MultiMax™ video slot. If you’d rather check out this slot without risking your hard-earned cash, why not try the Shadow Raiders MultiMax™ demo?

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers:Shadow Raiders MultiMax™ utilises the popular 243 Ways-to-Win mechanic that does away with paylines. Instead, you just line up 3 identical symbols on consecutive reels starting from reel 1. The 5-symbol payouts on this slot are: Red Pirate (5x), Green Pirate (2x), Purple Pirate (1x), Blue Pirate (1x), Ace/King (0.6x), Queen/Jack/Ten/Nine (0.5x).

• Jane Hunter and the Mask of Montezuma™ (Pragmatic Play)

Just as Play’n GO realised the popularity of the Book of Ra, the Pragmatic Play John Hunter series is following in the footsteps of the famous Play’n GO Book of Dead collection. For fans of book-themed slots, this is great news! I am for one a fanatic when it comes to all 3 collections.

From Rich Wilde to Cat Wilde, the daughter of John Hunter and now Jane Hunter. However, I cannot find the back story. Is she John Hunter’s wife or daughter? Well, who cares, it’s another awesome video slot to join the collection.

We have a 5×3 slot with 10 pay lines, scatters, wilds, free spins, and a bonus buy! However, sadly no book. But it is another journey into the ancient realms of mythology, this time in the Amazon Forest in search of Aztec treasures.

Here are the features:

• Wild: The wild is the Aztec god face symbol. It not only subs as a wild card for all regular symbols, but it is also the highest paying symbol with 2, 3, 4 or 5 on a pay line dishing out 1x, 10x, 50x or 500x the spin bet.
• Scatter: The scatter triggers free spins, and if you land just 2 on the reels, you get 1x your spin bet back in return.
• Aztec Prince: The bonus symbol is the Aztec prince character. He is only on reel 5 and when he appears this triggers a pick-me-style game. When you pick, the chest can reveal 2x up to 40x spin bet multipliers or trigger the free spins bonus game with 10, 15 or 20 free spins.
• Free Spins Bonus: 3, 4 or 5 scatters trigger 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively.
• Money Symbols: In the free spins bonus game, Jane Hunter (10x), the Explorer’s Satchel (5x), the Spade & Pickaxe (3x), and the Binoculars (2x) symbols become money symbols with a starting multiplier value assigned. When they appear anywhere on the reels along with the wild symbol in any position, all money symbols have their totals accumulated and paid out. (In the meantime, their original combination payouts remain the same when they hit a pay line).
• Money Symbol Meter: Each time money symbols appear on the reels, they add to their respective meter count. When the meter is full, the money symbol’s value increases.
• Bonus Buy: If you want to skip directly into the free spins action, it’s a 60x bonus buy.

Big big big tip!!! (Even I am excited about this one)…

If you play the 1good.bet bonus, you could bet the minimum 0.10 per spin, and 60x is 6.00 per spin. That makes this slot one of the rare games you can use the ‘bonus buy’ with bonus money without going over the bonus’s max bet limit!

Symbol Combination Bet Multipliers: If you line up Jane Hunter 2, 3, 4 or 5 times on a pay line she pays 0.5x, 5x, 20x or 200x. All other symbols pay when 3, 4 or 5 hit a pay line. Here are the 5-symbol values for each – Explorer’s Satchel (100x), Spade & Pickaxe (50x), Binoculars (50x), A, K Q, J or 10 (10x). Not bad payouts for symbols!

• Over the Moon (Big Time Gaming)

You can always count on Big Time Gaming to create a good Megaways title – they invented the mechanic after all! This time, you’re taken on an intergalactic journey among the stars, meteors, and more. You can expect a ton of features in this 6-reel, slot game, so buckle up as we launch into them:

• Cascading Reels (Tumble Feature): This feature removes all winning symbols from the reels. New symbols drop into place and can create reaction wins.
• Wild Symbol: This lands on the four middle reels and will substitute for all symbols except the Batteries, Meteors, and Scatter symbols.
• Scatter Symbols: 3 or more of this symbol will trigger the free spins feature.
• Rockets: Up to three rockets can appear to the left of the reels on any spin. These hold multipliers of 1x, 5x, or 10x. They also hold up to 3 fuel cells which determine how many reactions the multipliers will apply to before the rocket falls away.
• Meteor Prizes: These trigger randomly and will have a value of up to 100x the stake. You will receive that payout for each rocket that is present. Plus, the random prize is multiplied by the multipliers held by the rockets.
• Free Spins: There are two free spins features on the Over the Moon video slot. The standard free spins feature is triggered when you land 3 or more scatter symbols. You receive 12 free spins and an additional 2 free spins for a 4th, 5th, or 6th scatter. The multiplier of the rockets increases by 1x each time they appear. If a battery symbol appears on the 6th reel, it will refuel the fuel cells of all rockets in view.
• Enhanced Free Spins: If one of the trigger scatter symbols is an enhanced scatter symbol, you’re awarded the enhanced free spins game. This time, rockets start with 2x and will increase by 2x each time they appear.
• Win Exchange: If you land a win of 80x or more, you have the option to trade it in for 12 free spins. If you land a win of 25x up to that 80x, you can gabble that win in the hope of winning 12 free spins.
• Buy Bonus: If you prefer a sure thing, then you can use the buy bonus to purchase Free Spins (70x your stake) or Enhanced Free Spins (140x your stake)

As there is so much going on in the Over the Moon video slot, you might not want to risk any real cash until you understand the gameplay. Well, you can play the Over the Moon slot demo for free at Big Time Gaming!

Combination Spin Bet Multipliers: Aside from the Purple Gem which pays for 2 matching symbols, you need to land 3 or more matching symbols on consecutive reels starting from the leftmost reel to create winning combinations. 6-symbol combinations pay as follows: Purple Gem (50x), Red Gem (5x), Blue Gem (2x), Green Gem (1.5x), Ace/King/Queen (1x), Jack/Ten/Nine (0.8x).

• 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop (4ThePlayer)

It feels like a new Dream Drop title launches each week, but this time Relax Gaming has allowed another developer to have a go at contributing to its popular progressive jackpot network. I personally have to say that I am very impressed with what the talented iGaming development company has come up with.

This 5×4 slot offers 1,024 Ways-to-Win, a free spins bonus, an entertaining Gold Rush feature, and of course, the Dream Drop Jackpot that could climb as high as 10 million Euros!

This is what you can expect on the 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop slot:

• Wild Symbols: When wild symbols land, they will substitute for all symbols except the scatter.
• Gold Rush Scatters: These trigger the Gold Rush modifiers explained below.

Gold Rush Trail

The main feature and the big attraction of 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop is the Gold Rush Trail feature. You will notice a train track outside of the reels as soon as you power up this slot. It looks and plays like a board game. Whenever you land a Mining Cart scatter symbol, you trigger one of five random modifiers:

• Move: This will move the cart an X number of positions left or right around the board.
• Collect: This will award you the current value of the section the cart is currently sitting. This could be a cash prize, free spins, a mystery prize (moves, cash, collect, free spins, restart, or Dream Drop), or the Dream Drop Jackpot Game.
  Restart: You are moved back to start but also win the current value of the Start square.
• Cash Prize: You will a random cash prize.
• Dream Drop: You’re awarded the Dream Drop Jackpot bonus game.

Aside from that feature, 5K Gold Mine also has a free spins round you can trigger.

• Free Spins Bonus: if you trigger the free spins feature during the Gold Rush Trail, you receive 10 free spins. During this feature, any scatter symbol that lands will either give you a cash prize or move the cart to a new position and instantly claim the value of that section. If you land on a free spins section, you receive an additional 5 or 10 free spins.
• Buy Bonus: Unless you’re in the UK or another country that bans bonus buy, you can purchase one of two features. For 100x your stake, you can trigger the free spins bonus. Alternatively, for 150x your stake, you can purchase 5 scatters with guaranteed collect.
• Dream Drop Jackpot Game: If you’re fortunate enough to trigger this feature, you will win one of the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, or Mega Dream Drop Jackpots. A reel spins to determine where the cart goes around a new board. Once it spins to reveal ‘Collect’ you win the jackpot the cart is currently sitting on.

That is a lot to take in but when you start playing, you will appreciate just how good this jackpot slot is. By the way, if you want to find out about some of the other top jackpot titles, take a look at our best progressive slot machines guide.

Symbol Combination Bet Multipliers: 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop has 1,024 Ways-to-Win and you just need to land 3 or more (2 or more for the Miner) identical symbols on consecutive reels starting from the leftmost reel. The top-paying 5-symbol combinations are as follows: Miner (4x), Bag of Gold (3x), Helmet (2x), Lamp (2x), Tools (2x), Ace (1.5x), King/Queen (1.2x), and Jack/Ten (1x).

Another 31 Hot New Releases!

As you can see in the accompanying box, there is still a lot of other new casino content to get through. In fact, you have another 31 games to check out. The Terminator™ from Inspired Entertainment and Blueprint Gaming’s The Stash are two titles I personally recommend.

This Week: As for this week, you can expect new titles from developers including Red Tiger Gaming, Play’n Go, Yggdrasil, Light & Wonder, and Greentube among many others.Pragmatic Play has also just launched Kingdom of the Dead today!