With so many new slot releases every day, it’s easy to get lost in the reels of it all. Which is why we’ve put together a list of all the best new 2021 slot games coming in January.
One thing is for sure: if you love high variance slot machines with big wins, you are going to love what 2021 brings you.
With huge wins, these high-risk machines will bring you big thrills and wins of up to 30,000x your bet – all without needing a jackpot.
Knock Out Diamonds – 5th Jan 2021
This Knockout Diamonds slot is the 8th game in the ELK Classic Series. And if you are not excited for a 3 reel classic slot, then you clearly haven’t played on this series by this game provider.
Why are we excited about this new slot? Two words: Knockout spins. If you manage to land 3 Knockout Diamonds symbols you’ll get 3 free spins, and every time you land a diamond symbol on a payline the counter will reset. Collect 10 diamonds and you’ll win the max amount of 2,500x your bet.
And that’s without mentioning the wild multipliers and the ringside rumble slot feature.
If you are thinking of skipping this one, consider reading our Diablo Reels review or play on the Vegas Diamond slot. You’ll soon understand why we are excited about it.
- Volatility: Medium-high
- Max win: 2,500x your bet
- RTP: 96%
- Min/Max Bet: 0.25 / 100
Coils of Cash – Play’n GO (7th Jan)
Play’n GO studios have four great games out this month, but this isn’t a ‘best new 2021’ slot list if we put everything we find on the world wide web.
This Coil of Cash slot got on the list because it’s like nothing we’ve seen this game studio do before. Sure, their Miner Donkey Trouble grid slot released on the 14th of February will undoubtedly be good, considering Play’n GO made the grid slot popular, but we like it when a studio takes a chance.
And this Coils of Cash is a 7-Reel video slot with 2304 payways, 6 vertical reels and 1 horizontal reel (Power Coil) is a big chance.
With cascading reels, wilds, and scatters and random multipliers on cascades, is this Play’n GO’s solution to the rise of the Megaways slots? It certainly sounds like it.
With a total maximum multiplier of x625 and up to 25 free spins bonus available, we are excited about seeing something new from this provider.
- Volatility: High
- Max win: 30,000x your bet
- RTP: 96.20%
- Min/Max bet: 0.10/100
Loco the Monkey – Quickspin (12th Jan)
The Loco the Monkey slot takes you straight to the Amazon where one Monkey will decide whether you get your fill of the sweet nectars of the jungle, or end up down in the dirt.
Loco the Monkey slot is a feast for the eyes, filled with exotic plants, pineapples, bananas, mango and blueberries.
It might also be a feast for the wallet with wins of almost 7,000x your bet thanks to wild symbols that trigger respin in the base game, and free spins with richer reels.
This new 2021 January slot could go either way. It could be a fun 4×5 slot with 50 lines slot where the free spins multiply the paytable for a real bonanza of wins, or it could a frustrating banana split. Either way, intriguing enough to make it on the list.
- Volatility: Mid to High
- Max win: 6,829x your bet
- RTP: 96.15%
Mysterious Egypt – Pragmatic Play (14th Jan)
At face value, this Mysterious Egypt slot just looks like a copy of the Book of Ra Deluxe game. 5×3 slot with 10 paylines? Check. Wild and Scatter symbol? Check. Free spins? Expanding scatter pay symbols? Ancient Egyptian theme? Check, check and check.
But look a little closer and you’ll notice that there is something a little bit different happening here. For one, you have a mystery symbol that can expand vertically randomly on every spin.
During the Free Spins, you’ll get not one but two mystery expanding symbols that can pay like a scatter.
The top win may be more or less the same, but let it not be said that Pragmatic Play games don’t give you surprises and their own twists on the classics.
- Volatility: High
- Max win: 5,533.00x your bet
- RTP: 96.50%
- Min/Max bet: 0.10/100
Regal Streak – Red Tiger (Jan 14th)
This Regal Streak slot might have 5 reels and 3 rows of symbols, but it comes with only 3 paylines, making this more of a classic fruity than a modern video slot.
Still, simply doesn’t have to mean lame, as Red Tiger Gaming has promised wins reaching as high as 9,500x your bet thanks to 15 free spins where a random symbol is chosen as the multiplier symbol.
Each win with that symbol will increase the multiplier bar and more multipliers mean bigger wins.
In a month filled with complicated games, it’s nice to know that in the middle of the month we can look forward to a classic style slot with huge wins.
- Volatility: High
- Max win: 9,500x your bet
Emerald King Rainbow Road – Pragmatic Play (18th Jan)
Look, we don’t add the Pragmatic Play slots on this best 2021 casino games list because they make clever themes. And yes this is basically another basic looking Irish slot theme.
But we do add them to the lists because they keep surprising us, and because this is technically created by their sister studio Reel Kingdom. For two there’s a huge top win of 20,000x your bet in this game, which immediately caught our eye.
The Emerald King Rainbow Road slot is 3×5 videoslot with 20 paylines with three main bonus feature. One is a click me feature, much like in the Rainbow Riches slot, another is a mini-slot reel bonus game, much like in Reel King slot.
Then you have Eliminator bonus where the Scatter symbols can award money prizes. A strange wonderful mix that we can’t wait to discover on 18th Jan.
- Volatility: High
- Max win: 20,000x your bet
- RTP: 96.71%
- Min/Max bet: 0.10/240
Skeleton Key – IGT (21st Jan)
What makes this Skeleton Key slot by IGT interesting isn’t the otherworldly theme. Or the fact you get mystery symbols and have a free spins bonus with increasing win multipliers.
That caught our eye. But what makes this IGT slot game worthy of the most anticipated slots of 2021 is the fact that you have 3×5 reel set with can expand to 6×5.
That means you start with 243 ways to win, and by finding key symbols on the reels, you trigger the reel expansion and get up to 7,776 ways to win.
More ways to win = bigger wins = our interest. One to watch.
- Volatility: Medium – High
- RTP: 96.49%
- Min/Max bet: 0.10/200
Cosmic Voyager – Thunderkick (27th Jan)
What will you find beyond the stars? This weird and freaky looking Cosmic Voyager slot. It looks like if Dr Fate had a child with some acid and then left it to fend for itself.
You have to give it to this studio – the Thunderkick slot games are rarely boring and tend to stand out of the back – from the excellent Esqueleto Explosivo review to the Birds on a Wire classic.
So what can you expand on the 27th of January 2021? Cosmic Voyager is a video slot with 5 reels and 10 pay lines that features a wild that also acts as a scatter and an expanding symbol feature in the base game.
Add some free spins with lots of chances to re-trigger and a decent theoretical return to player rate of 96.14% and we will certainly open up this game at the end of the month.
- Volatility: High
- Max win: 5,000x your bet
- RTP: 96.14%
Fruit Shop Megaways – NetEnt ( 28th Jan)
After the success of Piggy Riches Megaways game, the Gonzo’s Quest Megaways review and the Twin Spins Megaways slot, you just knew that NetEnt were going to keep this series going.
And by this series, we mean simply taking an old familiar theme of some of the best NetEnt slot games around, and then add the Megaways slot mechanics to make them feel fresh and modern.
Is it a little bit of a cheat? Maybe. Are we going to lap it up come the 28th of January because we love the original Fruit shop slot? Definitely.
The Fruit Shop Megaways slot game will give you 6 reels of ever-changing rows of symbol to give you anything from 64 to 117649 ways to win, with avalanching reels, free spins and multiplier.
But, much like the original machine, all you need is a win on a fruit symbol to get a free spin on the reels, giving you added value for money and plenty of fun fruity spins.
- Volatility: High
- Max win: 20,000x your bet
- RTP: 96.71%
- Min/Max bet: 0.10/240
Lord Merlin and The Lady of the Lake – Play’n GO (28th Jan)
The Rise of Merlin slot is one of the best games by Play’n GO studios. Why? Because it’s basically their popular Book of Dead game, but with an Arthurian theme.
So when they told us they were doing a sequel and it would be out on the 28th of Jan, we got curious. What could they do to improve on an already great game?
Well, the can double the wins potential of the original, give you the same great expanding scatter pay symbols in the free spins AND add nested free spins (the Excalibur spin) which will get you to win big.
We are enjoying watching the adventures of Merlin by Play’n GO slots, and we think you’ll like this too.
- Volatility: High
- Max win: 10,000x your bet
