Evolution Group's 2024 Roadmap Preview

In addition to announcing the acquisition of Livespins, the ICE event also saw Evolution Group unveil its ambitious plans for the upcoming year, promising an impressive lineup of over 120 games. Here’s a small snapshot of what's coming from Evolution and its family of brands, including NetEnt, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming, and Ezugi.

Evolution

Lightning Storm and Lightning Dragon Tiger

Evolution is taking the Lightning series live game show experience further with a steampunky Lightning Storm. They claim it to be the biggest, most epic Lightning game yet. It will come with a mega money wheel featuring DigiWheel patented technology. During the base game spins, the digital wheel will randomly distribute features across many sectors, including five bonus games. We’ll be sure to review it as soon as more info becomes available.

Fans of Lightning Baccarat and other quick-outcome card games should keep an eye on Lightning Dragon Tiger – infused with electrifying multipliers and dramatic studio effects.

Ezugi

Fortune Pusher and Magic Claw

Ezugi is set to captivate players with a couple of interesting arcade live games. Fortune Pusher will be the first coin pusher live casino game that will use a real machine for every player, including bonuses. As Magic Claw suggests, will be based on a traditional claw machine with prizes. This time, the stuffed toys will be replaced by coloured balls and the potential for bonus wheels.

There will also be a version called Claw Roulette, which will give the traditional table game concept an entirely new perspective.

NetEnt

Cursed Treasure

NetEnt, Evolution’s slot darling, will soon engage players with a new and adventurous 20-line Cursed Treasure slot. Here’s an excerpt from the game’s fact sheet: “Discover Free Spins at the heart of this adventure, triggered by 3 Dynamite scatters, unveiling only Cash Prizes, Mystery Cash Prizes, and Cursed Treasure symbols. Each symbol resets the spin counter to 3, offering rewards from 0.5x to 10x your bet and mysteries up to 5000x! With the Buy Feature, plunge instantly into Free Spins for 100x your bet.”

Red Tiger

Primate King Megaways

The innovative folks at Red Tiger will release many news slots and one game that Evolution called out is the Primate King Megaways. The sequel will push players to collect gold coins to evolve the Primate Wild, which covers an entire reel, through three stages while filling up the Rage bar to trigger Free Spins. The game is scheduled for late April release.

Big Time Gaming

Trigger Happy

The less risk-averse players looking for bigger wins would want to watch out for this Australian studio’s new online arcade adventure, Trigger Happy. Although BTG is already selling the merch, we only know it’ll have a 5x5 layout and explosive reactions that will be set off by bombs and multipliers. This particular title will come out in May/June of this year.

Nolimit City

Fire in the Hole 2

Speaking of explosiveness, this game is sure to set off an avalanche of crazy wins and losses as it launches as soon as tomorrow. Being a sequel to a highly popular and requested xBomb-mechanic game from 2021, it doesn’t need much introduction. See our blog post on Fire in the Hole 2 for more info on this extremely volatile slot.

Final Thoughts

This is just a glimpse into the upcoming titles, some of which we’ll be sure to take a closer look at shortly. To wrap it up, let’s hear from Todd Haushalter, Evolution’s Chief Product Officer,  who added a bit more colour via the official press release: “We have said many times that we are launching the biggest, most complex, and most expensive game we have ever made – and that is true again this year with our newest game show, Lightning Storm.  With its five distinct bonus rounds, the development of this game is the equivalent of making six different games. The idea here is to show players where Lightning Roulette and the rest of the Lightning family comes from. It gives players a sort of look behind the curtain and I believe it will be our biggest game since Crazy Time.” 

Haushalter added: “Game shows get all the attention and they are the most important games for separating our offering from other live providers. However, the 2024 roadmap also gives plenty of attention to the big three core games of Roulette, Blackjack, and Baccarat, with new innovations coming for each of these. We will also be launching new slot innovations, bonusing systems and new ways to play slots – trying to advance the online slot space as a whole. In other words, there is something for everyone in the 2024 roadmap and we could not be more excited!”