High variance slots are some of the most popular games at online casinos right now. Ever since Big Time Gaming blew the scene wide open with their Megaways™ slots and cranked the dial up higher than ever before with games like White Rabbit and Bonanza, game studios have been competing to create the best high-risk slots on the market, mixing exhilarating gameplay with creative themes. Every month we see new titles to get your blood pumping. This page is all about showcasing the best.

So, if you like your slots to be cutting edge, stacked with wilds, progressive multipliers, free spins and epic win sequences, then you’re in the right place. Here we list 10 of the best new high variance slots each month and show you casino sites where you can find them. Our current top 10 includes updated classics like Dead or Alive 2 (NetEnt), two titles from high variance kings, Big Time Gaming, and an off-the-wall punk rock upstart from cult studio, NoLimit City.

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• RTP: 95.92%
• Max Payout: 12,500x
• Paylines: 117,649
• Reels: 6
• Features: Cascading Wins, Free Spins, Montezuma Respin Wheel

WMS are one of the game studios to have licensed Big Time Gaming’s Megaways™ game engine. Montezuma is the third release to feature the expanding reels format. It is a re-work of an old game, and with expanding reels produces up to 117,649 win ways per spin. Montezuma Megaways™ uses cascading wins in both the base game and bonus round. Additional features include the Respin Wheel, launched randomly to give a second chance of winning after any spin, and the use of an UNLIMITED progressive multiplier in the free spins round. This is classic Megaways™ action hooked up to a well-loved slot to create something special with up to 12,500x wins per spin.

• RTP: 96.8%
• Max Payout: 100,000x
• Paylines: 9
• Reels: 5
• Features: Wilds, Sticky Wilds, Free Spins, Multipliers

Dead or Alive is perhaps one of the best high variances slots of all time, and giving it a re-vamp may be a risky endeavour. However, NetEnt have come up trumps here by maintaining the thrilling gameplay of the original whilst adding new levels of excitement. Expect sticky wilds, free spins and multipliers galore, plus a quite extraordinary 100,000x top payout. The free spins round comes with a choice of three variance settings, including the super-high variance of the High Noon Saloon format. This game simply cannot be missed.

• RTP: 96.58%
• Max Payout: 10,000x
• Paylines: 10
• Reels: 5
• Features: Free Spins, Expanding Symbols

An addition to the well-worn Book of … series of slots, Legacy of Dead is an Egyptian and archeaologically-themed slot game from Play n Go. There’s nothing revolutionary about this game but it does add some intriguing features to otherwise simple gameplay. Expect free spins with expanding symbols. Which symbol expands is determined at the start of the bonus round. If it’s the top paying symbol, and you land one on EVERY reel simultaneously, you hit the big time – a screen full of identical symbols!

• RTP: 96.11%
• Max Payout: 8,000x
• Paylines: 46,656
• Reels: 5 to 6
• Features: Molotov Wilds, xRiot Respins, Anarchy Free Spins, Civil War Free Spins

Tired of the old slot themes and looking for something a bit different? Then dive into NoLimit City’s brilliant Punk Rocker slot packed with references to the punk movement of the 1970s, and resplendent with London iconography. The game itself uses expanding reels to give up to 46,656 win ways per spin and comes with some clever free spins action featuring jumping wilds and up to 25x multipliers, plus a ‘modifier train’ that runs across the top of the reels dishing out extra features. This is a genuinely original and action-packed slot, but it is also of a very high variance. So beware, and have fun!

• RTP: 96.5%
• Max Payout: 20,000x
• Paylines: Up to 4,096
• Reels: Up to 6
• Features: Multiplier Free Spins, Roaming Wilds, Free Spins, Random Features

Pragmatic Play are a studio famous for slots like Da Vinci’s Treasure and Mustang Gold. They have started out in 2020 with this high variance slot with a haunted theme. It’s key features are Wild Modifiers, including Multiplier Wilds, Wild Mystery Symbol Stacks and a Wild that transforms nearby symbols into more wilds. Then, in the bonus round the reel-set expands to six reels by four rows, and 4,096 win ways gameplay. Look out as well for additional multipliers of up to 12x in the bonus round and roaming wilds arriving at random in the free spins round.

• RTP: 96.43%
• Max Payout: 50,000x
• Paylines: 4,096
• Reels: 6
• Features: Wilds, Multiplier Wilds, Free Spins, Enhanced Free Spins

The first of two Big Time Gaming slot to make it into our list is Lil Devil. Once again, BTG have found a classic rock tune to soundtrack their game, this time choosing an 80s hit by UK rock band, The Cult. Lil Devil bears all the hallmarks of the very best high variance slots. It features Devil and Angel Wilds and multipliers of up to 12x that come in stacks. There is also a free spins round with cascading wins, plus another trademarked Free Spins feature: The Heartstopper! Total class and an epic 50,000x win potential.

• RTP: 96.12%
• Max Payout: 7,777x
• Paylines: 9
• Reels: 5
• Features: Wilds, Unlimited Free Spins, Expanding Symbols

Thunderkick are a superb outfit from Scandanavia who have been pushing out some of the wackiest slots on the market since 2014. If you haven’t tried games like Pink Elephants and Falcon Huntress, it’s time you did. Kraken’s Lair is the first of five high-risk, ‘scary’ slots from Thunderkick for 2020 that promise to mix high variance action with big win potential. It features a wild symbol that doubles as a scatter, as well as expanding symbols and a free spins round with unlimited re-triggers. Win up to 7,777x per spin.

• RTP: 96.25%
• Max Payout: 5,202x
• Paylines: 50
• Reels: 5
• Features: Re-Spins, Free Spins, Wilds

This jungle-themed slot from Sweden’s Quickspin is built on a 5 by 4 reel set with 50 paylines. There is a random Wild Spray feature that adds 3 to 10 wilds at random onto the reels in the base or free spins round. After a serpent scatter unlocks the bonus round 5 free spins are unleashed, with more available in a re-spins feature triggered by any winning spin. Winning symbols are locked in place during a re-spin which repeats until no new wins are created. This is a simple slot with a modest 5,000x top payout, but it’s fun to play and worth checking out on release in March 2020.

• RTP: Up to 97%
• Max Payout: 5,000x
• Paylines: 10
• Reels: 5
• Features: Free Spins, Re-Triggers, Expanding Special Symbols

Book of Ra is another all-time classic that crops up in every list of the best high variances slots. Novomatic are not the most prolific of game developers but this follow up to Ra has been hotly anticipated. Like the original it keeps thing simple and cranks things up only when you land the Book symbol to trigger free spins with special expanding symbols that can drive huge wins. There are unlimited re-triggers for the free spins and the top payout comes in at 5,000x. Not to be missed.

• RTP: 96.39%
• Max Payout: 15,000x
• Paylines: 117,649
• Reels: 6
• Features: Cascading Wins, Reel Adventures, Free Spins

The second BTG slot to make it into our list mixes the iconic British board game, Monopoly, with their very own ground-breaking game system, Megaways™. Monopoly has been used many times before in video slots, most famously by IGT, but no one has quite enshrined the features of Monopoly into a slot in this way until now. So prepare for features including Community Chest, Utilities and Chance that grant you houses that add extra spins to the bonus round. All mixed in with cascading wins, 117,649 win ways and a top payout of 15,000x.