The calendar logged five new slots for July, up from one in June. Each came from a different provider: AGS (Fu Zhu Bao Bao), Aristocrat Interactive (Lightning Link High Stakes), Gaming Realms (Slingo 49’s), Light & Wonder (Banker’s Breach: Collision Ways) and Yggdrasil (Valley of the Gods).
Three of the five reached a US casino in July. Fu Zhu Bao Bao went live at BetMGM in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and West Virginia on July 6. Valley of the Gods followed on July 21 as one of Yggdrasil’s first US games, at Caesars Palace Online, Caesars Sportsbook & Casino and Horseshoe Online in New Jersey and Michigan. It first came out in 2017, so it counts here at its US debut, not as a new game. Aristocrat launched Lightning Link High Stakes online on July 23, and we’ve since seen it at FanDuel in Michigan and Connecticut. Banker’s Breach and Slingo 49’s haven’t appeared in a US lobby we check.
Four games published an RTP, and the median was 95.53%. The range ran from 94.57% for Slingo 49’s to 96.2% for Valley of the Gods, so nothing crossed the 96.5% line. Banker’s Breach comes in three versions, at 96%, 94% and 92%, and the casino picks one. Lightning Link High Stakes published no RTP we could find.
Fu Zhu Bao Bao had the biggest maximum win, at 12,798x the bet. Banker’s Breach caps at 10,314.5x and Slingo 49’s at 5,000x. Free spins and multipliers were the most common tagged mechanics, in three games each, followed by jackpots in two. Slingo 49’s and Valley of the Gods are the two July games with a free demo hosted by their provider.