The Biggest Online Slot Jackpots

What better way to start a year than with a nice, juicy payout from an online slot game. It’s a fairly regular occurrence that we all see stories of lucky players picking up multi-million jackpots from various progressive slots, and no doubt there’ll be another soon!

For many players, the occasional spin on a progressive jackpot slot is a worthy cause, just in case it happens to land. However, the nature of progressive jackpots means that the jackpot is higher at one than another, and that can change in a second. Also, many progressive jackpot slots simply aren’t much fun to play, which is fine if you win, but as this is incredibly unlikely, it’s nice to have a game you can enjoy playing for a bit.

There’s a few high-profile software developers who have mastered the art of the progressive jackpot slot, so let’s take a look at them, and some of the games they have on offer.

NetEnt

Arguably the Kings of the progressive jackpot slot, the two most well-known NetEnt jackpot slots are Mega Fortune, with has an average win of over £4 million, and its little sister Mega Fortune Dreams, which follows up with an average win of around £2 million. Paying out every few months, Mega Fortune Dreams is an impressive slot, and has led to some life-changing wins, but there’s no competing with the original.

Paying out at a startling swift rate of around once every 11 weeks, Mega Fortune has changed the fortunes of many players, including one immensely lucky player, who picked up the highest ever win on Mega Fortune, at over £17.8 million!

Mega Fortune currently sits at €1.2 million, while Mega Fortune Dreams might well be ready to pay out soon, with the jackpot creeping towards €4 million.

Not to be forgotten, Hall of Gods is another popular NetEnt progressive jackpot slot, currently offering a jackpot of just over €2 million, with the highest ever Hall of Gods payout being £7 million, and the average being over £5 million, it could be a while before this one makes another millionaire, while new kid on the block, Cosmic Fortune, is yet to have paid out, so somebody has to be the first!

Microgaming

With over half a billion euros having been paid out thus far, Microgaming is a developer that can certainly stand up to NetEnt when it comes to the development of top-quality progressive jackpot slots.

While NetEnt branched off from Mega Fortune to create Mega Fortune Dreams, Microgaming have taken that concept to an entirely new level with their Mega Moolah series.

Mega Moolah itself is a five-reel, 25 payline slot with an African Savannah theme. It doesn’t look all that different to other slots, but with a four-tiered progressive jackpot system, with the Mega Jackpot never going below €1 million, there’s still a lot to love about it.

The popularity of Mega Moolah saw a plethora of spin-off games, including Mega Moolah 5 Reel Drive, Mega Moolah Summertime, and Mega Moolah Isis. Unlike the NetEnt siblings, the jackpots are linked here, meaning that there is only one prize to be won, but also meaning that the jackpot progresses quicker than the average, it currently sits at €2.5 million.

Playtech

Finishing off what we can call the “Big Three” of online progressive jackpot slot games, Playtech ran into some trouble back in 2016 when they lost the rights to the Marvel franchise, and therefore the progressive jackpot slots based on those stories, but not to be defeated Playtech came back with a host of new progressive jackpot slots.

The most notable of this is the Age of Gods series, several epic video slots with a linked progressive jackpot that focus on Greek Gods and legends.

Playtech offers around 30 progressive jackpots in total, with the most tempting at the time of writing being Jackpot Giant, which is sitting at over £8 million, which is nearly twice the slot’s average payout.

It should be added that some sites offer payouts for Playtech progressive jackpots that are limited at €10,000 a month, which is appalling, and should be avoided, but there are many sites, such as Mr Green, Betsafe, bet365, Ladbrokes, and many more which offer the full payout if you are lucky enough to win a progressive jackpot.

Obviously, many other software developers offer progressive jackpots, but these are the three providers to aim for if you’re just starting out.

It’s no secret that the chances of winning the big one on these slots are incredibly slim, but somebody has to, and with a few slots fir to burst at the moment, it might be worth a few spins, just in case the next story that’s published about a newly created millionaire is all about you”