98%+ RTP Slots Challenge!

[slot_zombie]

So having taken a bit of a battering (within budget...) on "max RTP" 96% games lately, I thought I'd change things up as a slot player for the month of July, and keep a little per-session record on here to see what happens.

As the title of the thread implies, for one month starting 27/06/25 I will not play any slots with an RTP of below 98%. Effectively this means restriction to Slots Temple's 99% RTP Netents, Book Of 99, and Stake's Enhanced RTP Pragmatic titles.

Rules will be: bank doubled = must cash out and stop for the day. No redepositing on the same day if bankroll busts out. Can also cash out if had enough or just feel like it.

Wish me luck?

 

[YouTubeSlots]

Good Luck el amigo!

 

[satchnz]

Ooh! Will we see spreadsheets?

 

[slot_zombie]

Ooh! Will we see spreadsheets?

No, it's supposed to be a bit of fun haha

...but I will be logging everything down as I go and coming up with a final result!

 

[mulven]

So having taken a bit of a battering (within budget...) on "max RTP" 96% games lately, I thought I'd change things up as a slot player for the month of July, and keep a little per-session record on here to see what happens.

As the title of the thread implies, for one month starting 27/06/25 I will not play any slots with an RTP of below 98%. Effectively this means restriction to Slots Temple's 99% RTP Netents, Book Of 99, and Stake's Enhanced RTP Pragmatic titles.

Rules will be: bank doubled = must cash out and stop for the day. No redepositing on the same day if bankroll busts out. Can also cash out if had enough or just feel like it.

Wish me luck?

Have they got money cart?

 

[satchnz]

Have they got money cart?

Have you played Gladius: Death or Glory (Backseat Gaming)? Similar concept but it has a bit of a base game too.

 

[slot_zombie]

Have they got money cart?

Money cart 2 is around at 98% so that could be an option - thanks. Glad I posted a few days in advance of the challenge. I thought there might be some good suggestions I'd not thought of.

 

[mulven]

Jokerizer, although for the 98% you can never cashout the base wins, always have to roll them into the jokerizer mode until you win 1000 2000 or 6000.

Smartsoft have a bunch of 98%, not sure if available in UK.

Marching legions is another 98% but is fairly repetitive and the bonus is only attainable after a war of attrition collecting the wild reels (hundreds of them).

Not sure if you will have amatics either but they have a few 98.11%, 97.99 and 97.87%

Fruity Beats Xtreme! by Spinmatic is 99.08%

I'm sure you are familiar with 1429 but avoided it due to low volatility, 98.6%

 

[Jono777]

Good Luck

DoA 98% at L&L seems to give a good value for deposit session most times too,

Keep us posted.

 

[slot_zombie]

Jokerizer, although for the 98% you can never cashout the base wins, always have to roll them into the jokerizer mode until you win 1000 2000 or 6000.

Smartsoft have a bunch of 98%, not sure if available in UK.

Marching legions is another 98% but is fairly repetitive and the bonus is only attainable after a war of attrition collecting the wild reels (hundreds of them).

Not sure if you will have amatics either but they have a few 98.11%, 97.99 and 97.87%

Fruity Beats Xtreme! by Spinmatic is 99.08%

I'm sure you are familiar with 1429 but avoided it due to low volatility, 98.6%

Brilliant suggestions thank you.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Jokerizer, although for the 98% you can never cashout the base wins, always have to roll them into the jokerizer mode until you win 1000 2000 or 6000.

Smartsoft have a bunch of 98%, not sure if available in UK.

Marching legions is another 98% but is fairly repetitive and the bonus is only attainable after a war of attrition collecting the wild reels (hundreds of them).

Not sure if you will have amatics either but they have a few 98.11%, 97.99 and 97.87%

Fruity Beats Xtreme! by Spinmatic is 99.08%

I'm sure you are familiar with 1429 but avoided it due to low volatility, 98.6%

The thing with Marching Legions is you're sort of 'forced' to do ~3000 spins (IIRC it was around that) to get your bonus, which can and will do a zero pay on occasion.

As such the sheer weight of numbers required, and the volatility of the bonus, means that even with its 98% RTP it can do a bit more damage than you might expect.

Definitely one to just stick on infinite autoplay with a 100x stop trigger or similar (which it rarely hits in the basegame) and wait to see what the bonus does.

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Good Luck

DoA 98% at L&L seems to give a good value for deposit session most times too,

Keep us posted.

I just played the 98% version on 18p.

Not a single feature in an hour and a half and took £60 off me!!

Nearly 350x without a feature on a not mega hard to bonus game on top RTP.

Just goes to show how easy it is to get fucked over these days.

 

[mulven]

The thing with Marching Legions is you're sort of 'forced' to do ~3000 spins (IIRC it was around that) to get your bonus, which can and will do a zero pay on occasion.

As such the sheer weight of numbers required, and the volatility of the bonus, means that even with its 98% RTP it can do a bit more damage than you might expect.

Definitely one to just stick on infinite autoplay with a 100x stop trigger or similar (which it rarely hits in the basegame) and wait to see what the bonus does.

Yep, exactly why I only ever played it at places I knew wouldn't gub me before I was able to finish it with multiple deposit offers. As a result of that, didn't play it too often.

 

[TheAddict]

I just played the 98% version on 18p.

Not a single feature in an hour and a half and took £60 off me!!

Nearly 350x without a feature on a not mega hard to bonus game on top RTP.

Just goes to show how easy it is to get fucked over these days.

Dunno why you bothered dude. With the way you seem to run, they could put out an exclusive version just for PMKFRUITPRO running at 118.8% and we'd still be reading endless horror stories beyond our comprehension.

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Tbf it was a winning session overall just that game took the absolute piss. Just felt like it was never gonna bonus so I bailed.

Talking of games which I can barely bonus these days…….

Buff king Megaways and madam destiny Megaways.

With the enhanced feature chance on I’m running so bad. On all sites. Appalling frequency. Over tens of thousands of spins. Often going 3-400 x to trigger. Beginning to think pragmatic have had the spanner out on this ‘double’ chance of a feature. Twice I’ve gone over 500x to trigger a feature with it turned on in the last week. Utter bullshit

 

[YouTubeSlots]

I just played the 98% version on 18p.

Not a single feature in an hour and a half and took £60 off me!!

Nearly 350x without a feature on a not mega hard to bonus game on top RTP.

Just goes to show how easy it is to get fucked over these days.

We all know RTP goes out the window when that dreaded DOOM switch is turned on, No matter what game, what stake, its all one way traffic once the switch is hit.

What is the switch of DOOM?

If you know you know.

And if you gamble online you will have experienced the DOOM switch.

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Most times I log in mate!!

 

[satchnz]

Tbf it was a winning session overall just that game took the absolute piss. Just felt like it was never gonna bonus so I bailed.

Talking of games which I can barely bonus these days…….

Buff king Megaways and madam destiny Megaways.

With the enhanced feature chance on I’m running so bad. On all sites. Appalling frequency. Over tens of thousands of spins. Often going 3-400 x to trigger. Beginning to think pragmatic have had the spanner out on this ‘double’ chance of a feature. Twice I’ve gone over 500x to trigger a feature with it turned on in the last week. Utter bullshit

I’ve managed to max BK Megaways twice (once with extra bet and once without), so I’m reasonably familiar with the game. You are correct in terms of it being significantly harder to bonus these days. Gotta love the nerfing of what were good games!

 

[slot_zombie]

Tbf it was a winning session overall just that game took the absolute piss. Just felt like it was never gonna bonus so I bailed.

Talking of games which I can barely bonus these days…….

Buff king Megaways and madam destiny Megaways.

With the enhanced feature chance on I’m running so bad. On all sites. Appalling frequency. Over tens of thousands of spins. Often going 3-400 x to trigger. Beginning to think pragmatic have had the spanner out on this ‘double’ chance of a feature. Twice I’ve gone over 500x to trigger a feature with it turned on in the last week. Utter bullshit

I will be punting the 98% enhanced versions of both those games (well, standard buff king anyway) in this little exercise so let's see how that goes.

Have tried them previously and it does appear the bases are untouched with slightly better bonus results. So still up against the issue of actually landing the darn scatters. Which can be a big problem on the Pragmatics, as we know.

 

[satchnz]

Personally I find the Prag extra bet does next to nothing, and in some instances they state “increased chance” rather than “double chance” or whatever. Too vague for my liking.

 

[Milaroy]

I’ll be waiting for your results with interest. Hope the variance treats you kindly! Best of luck!

 

[slot_zombie]

Off to a flyer in this meaningless little exercise:

Casino: Slots Temple
Slot: Book Of 99
RTP: 99%
Stake: 50p
Spins: 320 (ground out 2 collection bonuses then stopped)
Wagered: £160
Expected Result: £158.40
Actual Result: £103
RTP: 64%
Variance: -35%

 

[slot_zombie]

Update if anyone cares. Although I haven't been keeping meticulous records in a whirl of spins, vape clouds and adrenaline - I can summarise how things have gone.

Book of 99 has been consistently awful, regularly costing about 130x for a feature build. Got nowhere near 99% RTP.

Similar batterings were handed out by Fruit Shop, Twin Spin and Butterfly over at Slots Temple. Butterfly Staxx I think I must have had rose tinted memories of as it seems like a consistently awful game with a dreadful mechanic, even on 99% RTP.

Don't get me started on Stake - the 98% Pragmatics sucked like a vacuum cleaner - the clones of Madame Destiny Megaways, Big Bass Boxing and Gates all horrible.

The redeeming slot so far has been Slushie Party which has consistently paid out whopper bonuses and has covered the losses on the other games... Phew.

 

[satchnz]

@slot_zombie I was going to ask you how your experiment is going. It’s interesting to hear that Slushie was paying well. Having had some very good hits on Fruit Party in the past, I was very keen to play Slushie a lot. But I’ve never got anything of note on it, and I find the lower paying symbols harder to tell apart at quick glance. So I gave up on it.

I’m about to commence a session so I must have to give it another chance.

EDIT: Ooh and I forgot to add: I dare you to repeat this exercise on Hacksaws haha…

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Update if anyone cares. Although I haven't been keeping meticulous records in a whirl of spins, vape clouds and adrenaline - I can summarise how things have gone.

Book of 99 has been consistently awful, regularly costing about 130x for a feature build. Got nowhere near 99% RTP.

Similar batterings were handed out by Fruit Shop, Twin Spin and Butterfly stand over at Slots Temple. Butterfly Staxx I think I must have had rose tinted memories of as it seems like a consistently awful game with a dreadful mechanic, even on 99% RTP.

Don't get me started on Stake - the 98% Pragmatics sucked like a vacuum cleaner - the clones of Madame Destiny Megaways, Big Bass Boxing and Gates all horrible.

The redeeming slot so far has been Slushie Party which has consistently paid out whopper bonuses and has covered the losses on the other games... Phew.

Book Of 99 never impressed me TBH, you basically get an extra feature every so often with the book collection which is nice and all, it's basically a feature guarantee, but it's just a normal feature so it can and will pay completely wank. It doesn't in any way stop a session from being a shitter.

Twin Spin 98% used to be over at Unibet and I played it a fair bit, remember that the original proper version of Twin Spin was (IIRC) 96.5% so it's not a massive boost to RTP, and I always wondered where they'd put the extra RTP, after all if it was just a handful of rare bigger pays then you could go a lot of sessions without seeing any notable difference.

My experience with playing the 98% slots over at Unibet (back when they were still a thing) was that you'd definitely choose them where available, but they weren't any kind of magic bullet and ultimately of course, you'd still lose all your money given enough time, just at a slower rate on average.