Who Makes Online Slots And What Are Their Trademarks?

Microgaming and Playtech are arguably the two most successful powerhouses in the online slot games world, although Swedish developer NetEnt seems to have recently overtaken them in terms of the number or casino's offering their slots. These companies provide games to countless thousands of online casino sites, most of which are considered to be the best quality games available.

But there are also a number of other smaller enterprises that produce top quality games too, and each of those has their own traits and trademarks that make their games unique. Let’s have a quick look at some of the top online slot game producers and what identifies a slot as theirs.

Microgaming

Microgaming are without a doubt the leading power in the business. Microgaming introduced to use their special 243 ways to win system. This system permitted an unprecedented number of pay lines to enable the winner to have a great chance of winning. Microgaming are also behind two of the biggest progressive jackpot slots in existence, Major Millions and Mega Moolah. Microgaming do tend to like their themed slots, with many of them belonging to a specific theme or genre. Because their games can be found in so many casinos, Microgaming’s games cover a wide area of the online gambling scene.

Playtech

Playtech are their nearest rivals, and although they have an equally as impressive progressive jackpot slot in Beach Life – which may be the highest paying progressive of all time – they tend to focus more on their licensed range of slots. These superhero slots are definitely Playtech’s trademark and they look after their Marvel Super Hero slots (and the linked jackpots that go with them) well. Playtech’s games could be criticised for being all too similar (minus the theme), though they do have some pretty original titles too, and they do offer the best graphics of any 2D slot going.

NetEnt

NetEnt is the Scandinavian supplier of games. NetEnt could rightly claim to be third in race for top casino games suppliers, behind Microgaming and Playtech. Net Entertainment is one online slots producer that doesn’t tend to have a trademark as such. They develop both progressive and non-progressive slots and games of almost any theme, genre, playing style. If there is a game that could belong to any of their rivals, and takes the best qualities of them all, then it is highly likely to have been designed and developed by the Swedish Net Entertainment group. Currently NetEnt really are the players favourite after a fantastic couple of years releasing huge slots such as Starburst, Hook's Heroes and Dazzle Me.

Sheriff Gaming

Sheriff Gaming are the masters of the 3D slots, for that is their trademark. Dutch company Sheriff Gaming love to indulge in bringing their icons and reels to life in animation, and offer a unique and quirky sense of humour to their titles. There slots are often funny, although seldom progressive jackpot slots. Sheriff’s slots often contain a gamble feature that a player can play or refuse when they win on any one of their pay lines.

Rival Gaming

Rival Gaming only really launched in 2006 and so is a relatively new company, and is based in Cyprus. Rival Gaming’s trademarks tends to be to produce very cartoony games, such as can be found in their Reel Crime series. That being said, their style of designing slot games with animated stories behind them has been praised all over. Despite their late arrival on the scene, Rival Gaming has grown popular rapidly, although they do tend to have a lack of progressive jackpot slot games. Despite that, their non-progressive jackpot slots are worth a considerable amount if you beat them.

Cryptologic

Lastly, we have Cryptologic, who are the company who seem to spend the most time and care creating their games. Cryptologic is an Irish company who also dabble in the bingo and poker markets. Cryptologic’s games include very colourful, very simple slots and that is their trademark. They also like to use a lot of the high playing cards, and have a similar design structure for all of their slots, although the theme of each slot varies greatly from those of their other titles.