About Pragmatic Play
If you haven’t heard of Pragmatic Play, chances are you’ve been living under a rock, with their games plastered front and centre across casino lobbies around the world.
The Gibraltar-based provider has built one of the biggest and most instantly recognisable catalogues in the industry, spanning everything from colourful cluster-pay games to classic slots and its hugely recognisable Big Bass series.
The studio is perhaps best known for blockbusters like Sweet Bonanza, Gates of Olympus, Big Bass Bonanza, and Sugar Rush, but as this list sets out to prove, there’s plenty more hiding in its catalogue.
With four to eight new releases every single month, it’s definitely easy for older games and more experimental ideas to get lost. If you want more information on the studio, check out our Pragmatic Play provider page for demos, information about the studio, and our latest Pragmatic Play reviews.
10 Pragmatic Play Games You May Have Forgotten About
Peking Luck
While it sounds like a play-on-words of someone’s takeaway order, Peking Luck, released in 2018, introduces players to the glamarous world of Chinese opera.
It looks deceptively simple with its 3×5 grid layout, 25 fixed paylines, and Asian-inspired symbols, but we bet you didn’t know that there’s a massive win potential lurking behind the curtain at 180,000x your bet.
The method to nabbing that max win for yourself is simple (in theory) – choose the symbol with the 18x multiplier hiding behind it in the Free Spins round and somehow get a full screen of Wild symbols. Easier said than done of course, but this stat is groundbreaking in Pragmatic’s catalogue, and a title we don’t see get much love.
Release the Kraken
Beneath the wave of Big Bass Bonanza slots from Pragmatic Play partner, Reel Kingdom, it was easy for other underwater-themed slots to get lost in the sheer sea of them and buried beneath the tide.
Nautical puns aside, Release the Kraken is one such slot, bringing the deadly cephalopod from tales like Moby Dick to life on the reels, paired with friendly Finding Nemo-looking fish as the high-paying symbols.
This slot had its quirks, like Roaming Kraken Free Spins always awarding the same number of spins despite the option for players to ‘choose’ their chests, but that just adds to its charm, and doesn’t take away from its strong win potential and random base game modifiers.
Great Rhino
Original is often the best, whether it comes to movie remakes or slots, and Great Rhino is a classic example. It laid the groundwork for the Great Rhino games that stampeded after, with expanding symbols, free spins, and multipliers combining to create some seriously chunky wins.
Of course, Great Rhino Megaways came along and promptly left the OG in the dust, but there’s something to be said for going back to the blueprint rather than always chasing the newest, shiniest thing.
It might not have the bells and whistles of its successor, but Great Rhino remains an accessible yet punchy Pragmatic Play slot that deserves more attention.
Gates of Olympus POP
Pragmatic Play decided to shrink their popular Gates of Olympus series down into a pocket-sized version with Gates of Olympus POP, aimed at regions like LATAM and Asia where mobile gaming reigns supreme.
Gameplay is business as usual if you’ve played slots like Gates of Olympus, just with the feel-good factor dialled up, with the usual tumbles, multipliers, and free spins.
It’s not as widely recognised as its predeccesors, but don’t let Zeus’ size fool you, though. Beneath the unusual portrait-mode 3×5 grid and pint-sized deity, there’s a huge 25,000x maximum win possible if you land 3 POP Symbols in combination with at least three scatter symbols.
Down the Rails
From Olympus to the London Underground, Pragmatic Play sure know how to take players on a globe-trotting adventure. Next up is a Pragmatic Play slot not many players will know, and that’s Down the Rails, released in 2022.
It plays into extreme stereotypes as the high-paying characters are modelled after well-known historical figures and British luminaries, such as William Shakespeare, Florence Nightingale, and King Henry VIII, complete with massive red schnozzes and buck teeth.
Gameplay is more feature-packed than you might expect from a Pragmatic Play slot, much like The Tube during rush hour, going on a whistle-stop tour through several well-known stations in the bonus, with five modifiers such as Wild Strike and Bonus Blitz available in the base game.
Oracle of Gold
Moving swiftly on, Oracle of Gold is a slot that keeps its cards close to its chest. The fortune teller theme might not look like much at first glance, especially if you’ve played Madame Destiny, but stick around and the mystical side starts to reveal itself, particularly once those free spins get involved.
That’s where the Oracle’s prophecy gets interesting, with wild multipliers able to multiply each other alongside a global multiplier, creating some seriously powerful combinations in your future once you get going.
With a 10,000x max win and the potential for the action to escalate quickly, this is one prophecy that might actually be worth listening to.
Aladdin and the Sorcerer
The story of Aladdin was made famous in the West by Disney, but in Aladdin and the Sorcerer, Pragmatic Play swaps the nostalgic, animated magic for a few reels of slot-machine sorcery.
There’s no Robin Williams as the lovable genie in this rendition, but there’s still enough magic lamps and an Arabian Nights-esque soundtracks to make the connection immediately obvious.
The gameplay itself is Pragmatic Play at their best, with a Re-Spins bonus feature where the Sorcerer and Aladdin go head-to-head with health bars and three segments each. If the Sorcerer (Jafar, if you know your lore) wins, the bonus ends, but if Aladdin wins, you move up to Level 2 Re-Spins, with wild multipliers and a decent shot at the 6,250x maximum win.
Magician’s Secrets
Magician’s Secrets is one of those Pragmatic Play releases that has quietly slipped under the radar while flashier releases hog the spotlight. But what’s this magician got hiding in his hat?
Expanding wilds and random multipliers make for plenty of surprises in the fast-paced base game, while the bonus choice is a particularly nice touch, letting players have their pick between Expanding Wilds or Sticky Wilds, keeping gameplay spells feeling dynamic and fresh.
It might not have the show-stopping production of some of Pragmatic’s bigger releases, but there are enough tricks up this wizard’s sleeve to make Magician’s Secrets worth a closer look.
Monster Superlanche
The ‘pay anywhere’ slots in Pragmatic Play’s catalogue are amongst some of their best, like Gates of Olympus or Sweet Bonanza. But one game that’s fallen slightly by the wayside is Monster Superlanche, one of their most out-there (literally) slot creations.
They’ve added their own twist with a tumble-esque feature. Rather than winning symbols being removed like we’re used to, all non-winning symbols are removed instead, with all winning symbols dropping to the bottom of their reels and locking in.
This works in tandem with the reel multipliers. During Tumbles, if a reel is filled with locked in symbols, the reel multiplier becomes active, and is applied to the total win at the end of Tumbles, up to 100x.
Coven Rising
You might be wondering how a slot that released just this month can be considered underrated, but Coven Rising is easily one of the more interesting games in Pragmatic Play’s catalogue and there’s not nearly enough hype about it.
It’s a cluster-pays number, set on an unconventional 1-4-7-6-7-6-7-4-1 game layout fitting into the paganistic circle perfectly, with four sorceresses surrounding it fitting into gameplay by bringing their own unique modifier.
The unorthodox grid and cluster-paying gameplay feels very experimental for Pragmatic Play, with a charmingly bewitching presentation to neatly tie everything together.
Final Thoughts
Pragmatic Play might be best known for its smash hits like Sweet Bonanza, Gates of Olympus, and Big Bass Bonanza, but there’s a lot more to this provider than meets the eye.
Spend a little time digging into their enormous catalogue and you’ll find everything from forgotten classics and quirky themes to genuinely experimental mechanics that have been overshadowed by the studio’s more mainstream releases.
That’s exactly why we wanted to shine a light on some of the games that don’t always get the attention they deserve.
So, the next time you’re browsing the Pragmatic Play lobby, maybe give one of these hidden gems a spin. You can play many of these titles for free in demo mode right here on Fruity Slots, and browse our game reviews to see our full thoughts.
Comments