Games
SG Gaming’s catalogue is smaller than that of some casino games providers, with the review describing a quality-focused approach. Its range contains close to 300 titles, mostly online slots, as well as a selection of table games.
Slot games
Over the past couple of decades, SG Gaming has created 265 slot titles. The collection covers a variety of themes and several slot types, including Classic Slots, modern video slots and progressive jackpot slots.
Rainbow Riches remains one of 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 next to newer releases, but the mobile-friendly slot began as a fruit machine before moving online.
Other notable titles 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 range goes well beyond these examples, and many online casino players will have come across a game from this major provider. The review credits the titles’ playability, fairness and clear, carefully crafted graphics with helping sustain player interest.
Progressive Jackpots
SG Gaming has released several progressive jackpot slots. These games connect to a shared network, where contributions build a pooled jackpot as people play. A single winner can claim the combined prize, which the review says may sometimes reach many millions.
Dancing in Rio and Hot Shot Progressive are among the provider’s titles. Released by WMS Gaming under the SG Gaming umbrella, Dancing in Rio is a 5-reel, 40-fixed pay line slot. 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 combines a classic theme and polished interface with a mini-reel bonus game, where players can land large multipliers and the game’s jackpot.
Table Games
Slots are at the heart of SG Gaming’s output, but the company has also developed a range of software-based casino table games over the years.
Along with Original Roulette, the provider offers several variations on the familiar table game: Key Bet Roulette, Monopoly Roulette Hot Properties and Monopoly Roulette Tycoon . Each version changes some rules.
The blackjack selection is limited to Blazing 7’s Blackjack. Poker players have more options, including Ultimate Texas Hold’em, Let it Ride and Three Card Poker.
Advantages
- Extensive experience in the global gambling industry
- Works on mobile devices
- Games built with HTML5
- Titles available in 26 languages
- Received the Global Gaming Award for ‘Land-Based Gaming Innovation of the Year’ in 2016
- Established provider with games described as fair
Disadvantages
- No live dealer games in the catalogue covered by the review
- A relatively small catalogue compared with Microgaming or NetEnt
Conclusion
SG Gaming’s background includes the earlier work of Autotote and Scientific Games. The company’s history spans several areas 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. Its track record stretches back more than a century.
The review suggests SG Gaming may not attract as much attention as NetEnt or Microgaming, and notes that its catalogue is not especially broad. The company instead focuses on making quality games designed to keep players engaged over time. The review wonders what it might produce over the next hundred years—if any of us are around.
