Week 22 2022 (May) New Casino Games Report – A Staggering 32 New Games Hit the Casinos Last Week!

Our Week 22 (2022) May new Casino Games Report reveals 32 new casino games waiting for you at the online casinos as we speak! (Image from @casinoplusbonus)

In the last few weeks of our weekly new casino games reports, we have seen 20-something new slots each time, which is far from bad as we expect an average of 20 per week these days. However, in this Week 22 2022 (May) New Casino Games Report, we can reveal that there was an astonishing 32 new casino titles launched between 24-30 of May.

That is a huge number and while we always value quality over quantity, it is hard to argue that this week’s collection is not both. We have titles from most of the major casino developers including NetEnt, Red Tiger Gaming, iSoftBet, Quickspin, Yggdrasil, BetSoft, Wazdan, Play’n GO, Relax Gaming, Greentube, and dozens more! Pragmatic Play has even launched three new titles in a week, the second time this prolific brand has managed that in recent months.

Across that selection of new titles, you will find video slots, virtual table games, and even a brand new live casino game. Plus, if you like the Megaways reel mechanic you will find four excellent new video slots that feature that popular reel mechanic.

During the week, we already gave a review to the massively anticipated new title, Azticons Chaos Clusters from Quickspin. The 2022 IGA Slot Provider of the Year has once again shown its quality by creating this epic cluster pays title that offers tumbling reels, chaos clusters, wild symbols, and a bonus buy feature!

Just to refresh your memory on that fantastic new slot, we have also added it as one of the 6 titles we will give mini-reviews to this week. It joins titles including the long awaited Funk Master from NetEnt, and Yggdrasil’s Boilin’ Pots that features expanding reels and up to 16,807 paylines.

Recap Last Report: While you will not find as many new titles as we have for you this week, you still might want to check out our previous week’s report if you have not yet had the chance. Standout releases from that report include NoLimit City’s Karen Maneater, Big Cat Rescue Megaways from Red Tiger Gaming, and BGaming’s Penny Pelican.

Week 22 2022 (May) – 6 Mini-Reviews Coming Your Way

To be honest with you, I cannot remember a more difficult week to pick out 6 titles to mini-review. 32 new titles are great on its own but it is the quality of both the games and the developers that have made the decision this difficult. Still, you can still try all the games we did not review as we list them all at the end. Below, you will find new slots from Wazdan, Quickspin, Pragmatic Play, Yggdrasil, NetEnt, and Betsoft.

Boilin’ Pots (Yggdrasil Gaming)

Reels turn and cauldrons bubble, Yggdrasil is back to cause some trouble! The award-winning slot developer has just released Boilin’ Pots, a witch-themed slot that will have you cooking up all kinds of spells and potions!

The magic that you will want to see is the reels expanding one in height every time you land an ‘Up Arrow’ symbol, as that is when the paylines and your chances of wins, increase in equal measure. The 5×3 reels can increase up to 7×3 in size, meaning a staggering 16,807 paylines. Plus, when a wild symbol lands once you expand the reels, you get a free respins with those wilds locked in place!

That’s not all, as 3 or more bonus symbols trigger the ‘Rising Reels’ bonus game that could land you a top prize of 5,000x your stake. Land a coin or jackpot symbol on the middle payline and you will win a multiplier of your stake or a jackpot. Plus, each time you land a symbol on that middle row, your 3 lives are reset so that you can carry on collecting wins.

Throw in graphics and animations that work flawlessly across all platforms and devices, and the quality gameplay you would expect from such an esteemed provider, and Boilin’ Pots is a slot well worth checking out!

Combination Wins Bet Multipliers: Line up 3, 4, or 5 matching symbols from left to right on an active pay line to trigger a combination win. Pink Spellbook (2x, 4x, 10x), Red Jewel (1x, 2x, 4x), Yellow Jewel (0.70x, 1.5x, 3x), Blue Jewel (1.50x, 0.70x, 0.50x), Green Jewel (0.50x, 0.70x,1.5x), Potion (0.20x, 0.30x, 0.50x), Bats Wing (0.20x, 0.30x, 0.50x), Eyeball (0.20x, 0.30x, 0.50x), Severed Hand (0.20x, 0.30x, 0.50x), Turnip (0.20x, 0.30x, 0.50x).

Cleocatra (Pragmatic Play)

Ancient Egypt is a common theme but for a reason, they are popular. In Celopatra, Pragmatic Play has found another angle for this well-used theme. Ancient Egyptians believed that cats brought good luck – so instead of Cleopatra, we have Cleocatra! This 5-reel, 4-row video slot delivers the standard quality aesthetics that Pragmatic is renowned for while also making sure you’re never short of lucrative features.

As you spin the reels of this eye-catching slot, you will come across wild symbols with 2x or 3x multipliers, a respin feature which triggers when a full stack of cat symbols hits a reel and a free spins round that could deliver 8, 12, or 16 free spins. If you’re short of patience or just like to gamble, then you can even just buy that feature outright for 100x your chosen stake.

It is those features that will deliver the knockout payouts, so as long as you have the patience and the bankroll for this high variance slot, you should experience some good-sized wins along the way. As for the base game, it is the wild multipliers that will aid you on your quest to keep your bankroll ticking over. All in all, this is another solid, if unspect-cat-ular (on this occasion) slot from Pragmatic Play. They have released 3 new titles alone this week, as you will see from our list at the end. Check them all out by visiting Pragmatic Play here.

Combination Wins Bet Multipliers: Line up 3, 4, or 5 alike symbols from left to right on a pay line to trigger a combination win. Pink Cat (1.5x, 5x, 20x), Red Cat (1.25x, 3.75x, 12.50x), Green Cat (0.75x, 2x, 7.50x), Purple Cat (0.50x, 1.25x, 5x), Ankh (0.35x, 0.75x, 2.5x), Crook & Flail (0.25x, 0.5x, 2.50x), Ace/King (0.15x, 0.30x, 1.50x), Queen, Jack, 10 (0.10x, 0.25x, 1x).

9 Burning Dragons Hold the Jackpot (Wazdan)

Wazdan’s 9 Burning Dragons is the most recent slot from our media partner gaming studio. It comes with a buy feature, a gamble feature, and includes the developer’s trademark Hold the Jackpot non-progressive jackpot feature. The reels use a 3×3 grid putting this slot into the ‘modern classic slots’ category of online casinos, but with a twist to its gameplay.

Another characteristic of Wazdan’s slots is the software provider’s use of ‘Pay Anywhere’ reel mechanics. You can find out more here on the Wazdan casinos and bonus guide where we have a section dedicated to Wazdan Pay Anywhere slot titles.

What is Pay Anywhere? There are 0 pay lines and combinations do not need to connect on adjacent reels or positions on the reels. If you are familiar with scatters, which trigger by landing anywhere in view on the reels, this is exactly how all 7 symbols on Wazdan’s 9 Burning Dragons online slot behave. Check out the ‘Pay Anywhere Bet Multipliers’. With this feature in place, you’ll rack up a fair few combination wins.

To land the 9 Burning Dragons slot title’s biggest wins, keep spinning for 3 ‘Gold Dragon’ bonus symbols. When you land 3, you get 3 re-spins on new reels. These new reels collect ‘bonus coins’ and pay multipliers or they will trigger one of the jackpots. The Grand, Major, Minor or Mini jackpots pay 2,187x, 729x, 243x, or 81x your spin bet.

Pay Anywhere Bet Multipliers: Gold Hat (2x, 4x, 8x, 15x, 40x, 200x), Gold Horseshoe (1.5x, 2.5x, 4x, 8x, 15x, 50x), Gold Cauldron (1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 15x), Ace Symbol (0.8x, 1.5x, 2.5x, 4x, 6x, 12x), King Symbol (0.8x, 1.2x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x), Queen Symbol (0.5x, 0.8x, 1.5x, 2.5x, 4x, 6x), Jack Symbol (0.5x, 0.8x, 1.2x, 2x, 3x, 4x).

Azticons Chaos Clusters (Quickspin)

Quickspin has released another cluster slot title into its game portfolio, and this time it comes with a new random symbols reel mechanic. There are 7 reels but anything between 5 and 9 symbols can land on any given reel after each spin thanks to larger Chaos Cluster symbols. We already gave this slot a full review in the week, but we thought we would give you a reminder of its quality once again.

As with all cluster pays slot titles, the traditional cascading reels feature is available. This gives you the chance to net multiple cluster wins from a single spin by removing all symbols from a winning cluster and dropping in news ones in search of linking more clusters via the newly dropped in symbols.

Additionally, in both the base game and free spins bonus, you can land additional wins via a ‘Turning Twin’, link up more wins via a ‘Wild’ symbol, plus link up Chaos Clusters that only need to touch a part of their symbol to create a win across the reels, while regular symbols can link up in L-shapes, T-shapes, vertically, horizontally, in rectangles, squares, and a range of other shapes.

Just by reading what’s coming from Azticons Chaos Clusters pays above, you get the feeling this is going to be an action-packed slot – and you are not wrong. What’s more exciting is that we haven’t even gotten to the free spins bonus yet.

In this bonus game, all the above features are activated along with a ‘Progressive Multipliers’ feature. Each time the ‘Tumbling Reels’ feature creates a new win, the multiplier increases. And this multiplier never resets, so the next time a cluster win appears and the reels cascade, the previous multiplier applies and increases by x1 once again, which could lead to a mega 25,000x your spin bet windfall.

Cluster Wins Bet Multipliers: In the paytable, for each of the 11 symbols, there are 9 possible cluster combinations 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10-11, 12-14, 15-19, and 20+ symbols in a cluster. Yellow Mask, Red Mask, Purple Mask, Green Mask, Blue Mask, Yellow Gem, Red Gem, Purple Gem, Green Gem, Blue Gem, and Grey Gem.

Funk Master (NetEnt)

The Funk Master video slot by NetEnt is a funky retro disco-themed game laid out across 8×8 reels with cluster pays combinations of 6 up to 20+. As long as a symbol connects to another alike symbol on an adjacent position on the grid, and you get 6 or more, then Funk Master will dish out the win. In other words, the symbols must connect by one of its 4 edges, as all symbols are squares. That means you can form all kinds of patterns across the grid to get paid, and with 8×8 positions, there are 64 spots for symbols.

After every win, an ‘Avalanche’ feature removes all winning symbols from the reels, and new symbols drop in. If the new symbols create another cluster win, these will also be eliminated, and more symbols will drop in to replace them. This process continues until no more wins are present.

Altogether there are 7 brightly coloured disco balls which are regular symbols, and wild symbols to help you link these symbols into clusters. The wild becomes a ‘Dancing Wild’ during the ‘Avalanche’ feature if it helped as a wildcard to complete a cluster win. While Funk Master removed all winning symbols, the wild symbol remains for each ‘Avalanche’ and will dance up, down or digitally into new positions. Also, look out for ‘Dancing Wild Hot Spot’ in which you can earn additional dancing wilds by unlocking the designated hot spots, helping you earn even more from cluster wins!

For the big wins on the Funk Master video slot, look out for ‘Multiplier Symbols’ worth x2, x3, x5, or x10 your win. There is also a lucrative free spins game triggered by 3 ‘Dancing Wilds’ which will remain on the reels throughout the free spins feature. There is also a chance to increase the reels area during free spins up to 12 rows high by unlocking ‘Dancing Wild Hotspots’.

Cluster Wins Bet Multipliers: In the pay table, for each of the 7 symbols there are 15 possible cluster combinations – 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20+ symbols in a cluster. The min-max pay outs for each symbol are as follows. Red Disco Ball (0.25x to 25x), Yellow Disco Ball (0.10 to 10x), Green Disco Ball (0.10 to 10x), Pink Disco Ball (0.10 to 10x), Light Blue Disco Ball (0.10 to 10x), Purple Disco Ball (0.10 to 10x), Blue Disco Ball (0.10 to 10x).

Gemini Joker (BetSoft)

BetSoft’s newest slot title takes you back to the days of classic slots, but on 5×3 reels. The slot retains the classic fruit symbols and the wild joker made famous by early slot releases. And back in the day, the good old wheel of fortune was one of the most common bonus games on mechanical slots. It was usually a LED-lit wheel with prizes, while today BetSoft has the benefit of digitalisation to bring the same feature to its fantastic Gemini Joker video slot, which is a belter!

There are 7 regular symbol combination wins as outlined in the ‘Combination Wins Bets Multipliers’ highlight box below. 2 of those combinations are made up of the ‘Joker Wild’ symbols. That means both Jokers have double roles by acting as the Gemini Joker online slot’s wildcard symbols as well as combining to bring you the highest winning combos. What’s more, is that both these wild symbols also come with multipliers of 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, or 32x applied to winning combinations the wild symbols help to complete.

Adding to the fun is a ‘Multiplier Wheel’. When you line up 5-symbol combinations wins, you get 1 spin on the wheel, which contains 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x, 9x, and 10x multipliers applied to your win. The fact that BetSoft has pulled together classic features and crated simplicity at its best with potentially huge wins will perhaps make Gemini Joker one of the brand’s stand out slots for the future. In fact, I am going all out right now by venturing as far as to say this slot is almost certainly lining up for a sequel.

Combination Wins Bet Multipliers: Line up 3, 4, or 5 alike symbols from left to right on a pay line to trigger a combination win. Yellow Wild Joker (5x, 10x, 25x), Blue & Red Wild Joker (5x, 10x, 25x), Star (2x, 5x, 10x), Yellow Dice (1x, 2x, 5x), Watermelon (0.7x, 1x, 2x), Plum (0.5x, 0.7x, 1x), Cheery (0.2x, 0.3x, 0.5x).

The Full List of New Casino Games Launched in Week22 2022 May

Just check out the accompanying list to see the quality of new games that have launched this week on top of the 6 we mini-reviewed. There are titles from iSoftBet, Play’n GO, Relax Gaming, Amusnet, Stakelogic, Pragmatic Play, and a whole heap of other leading iGaming developers. CreeRoomz has released its latest live casino title while you will also find several new virtual table games in the list.

Well, that is it for another hectic week of casino game releases and one that will take some beating. Still, the iGaming world never surprises us, so could we have another 30+ week next time out? Let’s wait and see!