Best Sports Themed Slot Games
Below you will see a great list of popular free slots, including: The Beauty and the Nerd, Football, Aussie Rules, Offside and Seek, Slota-Bonita, World Soccer, Game On, Tennis Stars, Centre Court, World Sports, and Track and Field Mouse. No matter which slot you choose, you will certainly highly value its good sound effects, wonderful graphics.
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- Most of dream about playing sports for a living, or watch those who do enviously on TV. However, there's a wide variety of sporting themed online slot games that allow you to play sports and get paid for doing so – and all contain a variety of prizes and bonus games that will keep you entertained right up to the final whistle.
What are the best sports-themed slots online? There is a wealth of options available to you, so we will try and break down our quest by solely looking at one slot for each major sport. Ultimately, it is down to you to decide which sports slot fits the bill, based on what you like to see in casino games. However, in our humble opinion, the following sports slots are well worth a look…
Frankie Dettori’s Magic 7
Few sports slots have remained as popular over such a long period of time as Playtech’s Frankie Dettori’s Magic 7. This horse racing-themed slot features 5 reels and 25 lines and is notable for its non-progressive prize, which is worth 7,777x a bet. The game comes with a free spin bonus, as well as a boardgame style racetrack bonus.
Break Away Deluxe
Microgaming’s Break Away was already the most popular ice hockey-themed slot around. What could top that? A deluxe edition of the same game. With a Rolling Reels feature, ample super-stacked wild symbols, and guaranteed wins with Smashing Wilds, there is plenty to play for in Break Away: Deluxe.
Top Trumps: Football Legends
There are many different football-themed slots you can opt to play. However, Playtech’s Top Trumps: Football Legends are arguably the best. It features licensed imagery of real legends of the game, as its title suggests. The RTP rate in this game is 95.96%, and the slot regularly pays out. It also carries a non-progressive jackpot worth 10,000 coins.
Hole in Won
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Rival Gaming may not be known for developing many world-class slots, but Hole in Won is one of them. This 5-reel, 15-line slot, is cheap and affordable and is themed on golf. The slot even has a fun-filled bonus round which will see you try to sink a few putts to win cash prizes. Expanding wilds and mad money multipliers also make Hole in Won well worth a spin.
Lucha Libre 2
If wrestling is your sport of choice, then RTG’s Lucha Libre 2 should fit the bill nicely. The original game was already entertaining, but Lucha Libre 2 takes it to new heights. The game comes with added cheese (most notably the taco references), but the prizes and features in the release are no laughing matter. A wealth of wrestlers can provide free spins, multipliers, and other goodies here.
Honourable Mentions
There are many sports-themed slots which were just a whisker away from making our list. It only seems right they should at least get an honourable mention. There are several Sporting Legends slots themed on horse racing, such as AP McCoy and Ascot, while Microgaming’s Basketball Star is also worth a look. People who want a more risqué sports-themed slot may wish to try Football Girls. Meanwhile, Bicicleta, Cricket Star, Football Star, Football: Champions Cup, Knock Out, Racing for Pinks, Rocky, Ronnie O’Sullivan: Sporting Legends, Rugby Star, Scudamore’s Super Stakes, Shoot, and Subbuteo could all fit the bill if you are looking for top sports-themed slots.
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With a spring and summer full of major sporting events approaching, Maria Luisa Malfasi (pictured below) – Business Development Manager of ESA Gaming – believes that now is the right time to combine ‘elements that sport fans know’ with its quick-fire casino titles.
Bookmakers are preparing for the flurry of activity that comes with some of the prime calendar events taking place, including the rescheduled Euro 2020 and the Olympic Games in Tokyo. This year, the excitement is expected to be even higher as many competitions were cancelled or postponed last year, including one of the UK’s biggest betting events of the year, the Grand National horse race.
It is not only the bookmakers who want a slice of the cake though. We have recently seen several slot developers introduce sport-themed slots to appeal to sport fans. Football, tennis, boxing and racing games are just some that now feature in online casino lobbies.
At ESA Gaming we launched our first football-themed title Goal Mine last year. The game is a part of our EasySwipe™ family that integrates into sportsbooks to allow bettors to enjoy the best quality casino games without interrupting the betting experience. For us, it was therefore a natural move to include elements that sport fans know and love into our games.
By bringing in aspects of sports, the title fits the environment in which it is positioned, namely sportsbooks, and brings something that is instantly recognisable to our target audience, the bettor themselves.
We are effectively trying to create a new vertical by offering quick fire-side casino games within the betting experience, so providing something which is familiar to the audience in terms of theme and gameplay is crucial. Goal Mine has proven to be very popular with players since its launch and two new sports-themed titles, Basket Mine and Tennis Mine, will follow later this year.
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It is not only the sports theme which resonates with players but also the simple format and differing final rounds which create genuine progression and culminate in sporting action. This offers the audience excitement and entertainment while adding that level of familiarity from the actual sport.
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When launched in conjunction with major sporting events, this type of content can help drum up the publicity around the game, but it works best when coupled with the right positioning and/or cross-promotion. You also must think to build a game which will outlive the short-term ‘noise’ of a big sporting event and which provides a genuine addition to the player experience.
Sports-themed slots have not always been loved by the slot community and I think this may be because the traditional slot audience is not looking for it, so sticking too closely to what is expected of a slot does not work. Perhaps there is more need for innovation. As an example, we are currently looking at how to convert our sports-themed games into innovative slots.
This can be challenging especially if you embrace an ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ philosophy behind game development. However, focusing on mobile and on certain key game components as we have done may be able to provide just enough innovation, without reinventing the wheel.