The most popular live casino games in 2022

Tracking the most popular live casino games is pretty easy these days.

Evolution began displaying the number of players on each of their games/tables in their casino lobby some time ago. Other providers followed suit shortly after.

Then the ‘Top Games’ or ‘New & Hot’ became a standard lobby category across the board.

Bottom line is that at any given time, you can easily get a sense of who’s playing what and which games are the most popular (by numbers anyway…not bet volumes).

Game Shows continue to top the list

The trend here is well established. The punters love the live game shows. Take a big wheel, a zany presenter and add some kind a bonus game contraption and players can’t seem to hand over their cash fast enough.

And right now, at the beginning of March 2022, the game capturing the hearts, minds and wallets of the most live game players is Crazy Time. Almost 14,000 active players. Crazy indeed!

Evolution’s lobby showed a bunch of games with player numbers in the multiple thousands. Lightning Roulette, identified in their recent showcase as their most popular game of 2021 had over 4,000 players.

Switching across to Playtech’s live lobby (the Evo-Playtech game switch is one that can be done at most big brands these days), its a familiar story in terms of the most popular game categories. Filling the top spots under the ‘New & Hot ‘ menu are more game shows.

Adventures Beyond Wonderland and  Mega Fire Blaze Roulette topped the lists, both with just over 1,000 players.

Opening Pragmatic Play’s lobby was somewhat of a surprise.

Not the constitution of their ‘Top Games’. Game Shows again.

Rather the number of players. Remembering Pragmatic are relative newcomers to the live games industry (compared to Evo and Playtech that is), it was interesting that their most popular game had significantly more players than Playtech’s.

Mega Wheel had almost 2,000 players.

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Key takeaways

Players game choice seems to be less about theoretical returns, and more about flashing lights. Game shows are king. They will therefore continue to be the focus of new game development (unfortunately).

Pragmatic Play are bigger than we thought they were! Perhaps their big €/£ 6.5 million prize pool Drops and Wins promo is winning over players. Perhaps their games are doing the trick. Either way, players are being won over.

 

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