Games
SG Gaming’s catalogue is smaller than some casino games providers, with the review describing a quality-first approach. Its range includes close to 300 titles, mostly online slots, alongside a selection of table games.
Slot Games
Over the last couple of decades, SG Gaming has created 265 slot titles. The collection spans varied themes and several slot types, including Classic Slots, modern video slots and progressive jackpot slots.
Rainbow Riches remains among the provider’s best-known titles. This 5-reel, 20 pay line game combines free spins with a picking bonus and has been a familiar choice at online casinos. Its visuals look dated beside newer releases, but the mobile-friendly slot began as a fruit machine before moving online.
Notable titles also include Raging Rhino and Zeus: God of Thunder, both well-known online slots. SG Gaming also holds licences for slot themes based on Monopoly, Michael Jackson and Wonder Woman.
The slot selection extends well beyond those examples, and many online casino players will have encountered a game from this major provider. It credits the titles’ playability, fairness and clear, carefully made graphics with helping them maintain player interest.
Progressive Jackpots
SG Gaming has released several progressive jackpot slots. These games link to a shared network, with contributions accumulating into one pooled jackpot as people play. A single winner can take the combined prize, which the review says may sometimes reach many millions.
Dancing in Rio and Hot Shot Progressive are examples from the provider. Released by WMS Gaming under the SG Gaming umbrella, Dancing in Rio is a 5-reel, 40-fixed pay line slot. Its features include free spins, wilds and scatters, as well as the chance to win a large progressive jackpot.
Hot Shot Progressive is a newer progressive title from Bally Technologies, another SG Gaming subsidiary. It pairs a classic theme and a polished interface with a mini-reel bonus game, where players can land large multipliers and the game’s jackpot.
Table Games
Slots are central to SG Gaming’s output, though the company has also produced a range of software-based casino table games over the years.
Alongside Original Roulette, the provider offers several takes on the familiar table game: Key Bet Roulette, Monopoly Roulette Hot Properties and Monopoly Roulette Tycoon . Each version changes some of the rules.
The Blackjack selection is limited to Blazing 7’s Blackjack. Poker fans have more options, including Ultimate Texas Hold’em, Let it Ride and Three Card Poker.
Pros
- Extensive experience in the global gambling industry
- Compatible with mobile devices
- Games built using HTML5
- Titles offered in 26 different languages
- Received the Global Gaming Award for ‘Land-Based Gaming Innovation of the Year’ in 2016
- Established provider with games described as fair
Cons
- No live dealer games in the catalogue described by the review
- A relatively modest catalogue beside Microgaming or NetEnt
Conclusion
SG Gaming’s background includes the earlier work of Autotote and Scientific Games. The company’s history touches several parts of gambling: it developed instant lottery games and betting systems used at horse racing tracks around the world, and also made pinball and fruit machines. That record spans more than a century.
In the review’s view, SG Gaming may not generate the same buzz as NetEnt or Microgaming, and its catalogue is not especially broad. Its emphasis is on producing quality games intended to hold players’ interest over time. The review wonders what the company might offer over the next hundred years – if any of us are around.
