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GAME DETAILS

Rating
Overall Ranking
#358
Microgaming Ranking
#52
Software
Microgaming
Game Types
Online Slots Video Slots
Game themes
Retro
RTP
96.94%

Big Top Slot Game Review

Big Top’s mean one thing (though be careful if you’re using that search term!): the circus! So, Microgaming – one of the biggest companies in world gaming – want us to run away to the world of sawdust, performing animals (not a modern ethical circus then), and clowns. But should we chuck it all in to click on this online video slot, with five reels and nine pay-lines?

The Big Top slot is a very old-fashioned looking, sounding, and feeling game. Its graphics are simple and so is the gameplay. The music is downright retro – and won’t be to everyone’s taste.

What is very up to date is the theoretical return to player, which is a very entertaining 96.94% on a low volatility slot with a top prize of 5,000-times stake on a single spin. The lowest bet allowed is 0.25 coins, but because you can’t switch pay-lines on or off, that’s a per-spin opener of £2.25, which is a big gamble!

Big red noses

The Big Top slot game is almost charming in its retro simplicity. The graphics could have been made on a 1980’s home computer! The design is plain, with basically just a set of reels and a standard, simple control panel at the bottom.

The symbols on the reels are bright, colorful and very simple. A set of playing cards are the lowest paying symbols on the pay-table. At the top end are the circus-themed guys: a sea lion, elephant, lion, clown and the game logo, which is the top payer, paying out that 5,000-coin prize.

The wild is a googly-eyed clown, and the scatter (which the wild doesn’t sub) is a monkey in clown costume which pays out a multiplier, granting the player 50x stake for a full set on the reels.

Animal magic

And that’s that! Microgaming has released or re-released a number of these games lately: very simple machines with only nine pay-lines. They’re great fun for beginners because they’re easy to use. They’re good for mobile players because they work well on small screen. They’re good for older players because they look and play like the old real-world fruit machines used to play. And they’re good for sit-back-and-watch players because there’s not a lot of interaction required.

You’ll have to decide whether this is good for you! There are a lot of increasingly sophisticated games with amazing graphics and side-shows and near-arcade-style rounds and tons of bonus rounds. Big Top has none of that. And perhaps that’s what people want – after all the idea of slots is very simple, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be distilled into a very simple game.

The low volatility means it’s a great game to play for an extended period with a very generous theoretical return to the player – that’s far from unsophisticated! The biggest complaint about players is likely to be the high entry point.

You can play Big Top slot machine across all platforms, and it’ll be fantastic on the small screen, so log on to your favorite casino and run away to the circus now.