New Slots Round Up: 18th April – 24th April 2026

This week we play a selection of high quality titles mixed in with those derivative ‘3 pot’ slots – let’s separate the good from the bad below.

Mortal Bromance from Shady Lady was certainly a competitor for Game of the Week. It literally made me laugh out loud at times because it features the likenesses of 3 famous figures from the strange political climate we seem to have found ourselves in. It has obvious parallels with some of Nolimit City‘s games like Home of the Brave, at least in terms of theme.

And while the title might be a play on that of classic slot Immortal Romance, the gameplay is closer to Mortal Kombat, at least in the Bronus round where landing 3 or more of the characters triggers a fight for a championship belt! Of course, this is a slot, so you have no control over the characters, but it’s still fun to watch them duke it out, with cries of “Finish him!” thrown in for good measure. The belt itself registers climbing multipliers to power up your totals, and the max available win is said to be 20,000x.

The three guys show up in the base game too, creating a mix between all ways pays and scatter pays. Mortal Bromance is another quality title from Shady Lady, although it can feel a little dry at times as it’s incredibly volatile, so be warned. Also be warned that it’s NSFW, with some full frontal celebrity nudity involved!

4 Gym Pigs – Porky Power by Gaming Corps is another iteration of the 3 pot format, but instead of 3 pigs, there are 4 sat above the grid: Boost, Collect, and Multi offer different perks within the Hold & Win bonus round, while Beast combines them all in one. Gaming Corps loves these pig games, but they just feel flat and repetitive to me. Also there’s some blatant AI artwork in the background with fully mangled artefacts – just incredibly sloppy and amateur. And with a 95.79% RTP, I don’t think players will be rushing to play this.

And what’s this? Literally another 3 pot game with pigs! Sometimes the unoriginality of the slots world can be too much. Yes, 3 Builder Piggies by AvatarUX is similar to 4 Gym Pigs. In fact, its visuals reference the fairly tale of The Three Little Pigs, so you might think you’re getting a game in the style of Brick House Bonanza or Huff N’ Puff, and you’d be partly right. The 3 upgrades are Spins, Grid, and Builders, and the latter boosts the value of Coins with a ‘building’ mechanic, but it’s a little gimmicky. Overall this is another 3 pot game with jackpots at heart, and I’ve honestly seen enough of this style lately.

San Quentin Manhunt is another sequel from Nolimit City. We’ve had plenty of them lately, including Punk Rocker 3, The Crypt 2, Duck Hunters: Happy Hour. I could go on, and some are good while others aren’t. At first I was disappointed that San Quentin Manhunt wasn’t actually much like its predecessors, San Quentin xWays and San Quentin 2: Death Row. These are two of Nolimit City’s absolute best games with massive potential max wins of 150,000x and 200,000! However, Manhunt drops the max down to 46,532x (still massive, relatively speaking) and changes the game format to cluster pays with square multipliers.

This format is associated with candy slots in my head, so it doesn’t seem to go with the gnarly feel of a prison theme. Also a lot of the grit has been lost from the visuals and overall feel – for a start, the view is a birdseye one rather than an immersive in-prison feel like in the previous games. I do feel like Nolimit is existing on watered-down versions of its classic IPs at the moment, but once you get over this kind of thing, Manhunt is not a bad game. Maybe just leave your expectations at the cell door.

Royal Beellion by BGaming is essentially a reskin of Hot Chilli Bells from last year, but the theme has been changed to one concerned with bees. It’s traditional paylines here, and you can actually select how many you want in play in the base game – from 20-100. In the Hold & Win round there are a couple of neat features like flaming multiplier squares and the meter which awards a Progressive Mystery symbol when you hit 10, 15, or 20 Bee symbols. Overall it’s fine, but it has been done before.

And we’re still not finished with the 3 pot slots this week, with 3 Cursed Chests coming from…Hacksaw. It’s a little unexpected for this studio to be stooping to such a common format, but the quality is noticeably higher here, at least in the pirate-themed visuals.

Also, the three pots don’t just offer twists on a Hold & Win round. Instead, the first pot offers a spin with extra Wilds, while the second pot…does offer a basic Hold & Win round. But then the third pot essentially triggers a bonus round similar to the base game, where all three pots can be opened again. So the third pot can trigger itself again, but in effect it just adds more free spins. Hmmm. I am really bored of this style now, even in the hands of Hacksaw. The max win is a pitiful 2,500x too.

And we finish this section with Clash of Gods: Anubis vs Hades by BGaming and its partner Golden Goat Gaming. This is the second game this week with an AI art look – in fact, the whole thing feels quite cheap and dated. The gameplay uses duelling wild reels – much like the DuelReels in games such as Duel at Dawn, but instead of two cowboys we have two deities from separate cultures going up against each other? A strange game that’s not been executed well.

Now let’s move on to this week’s best title below.

Game of the Week

I wasn’t expecting this: Guitar Quest from Relax Gaming takes us back to the late 00s with a slot that’s very clearly inspired by Guitar Hero, the famous rhythm game that made rock music cool again. The look of this slot feels so accurate to the source inspiration that you wonder if it’s infringing in some way, but that’s a problem for Relax’s legal team to worry about – we can just enjoy this new slot!

The symbols in play are based on traditional fruit machine emblems like bells, fruit, and 7s but they’ve been given a rock makeover with anarchy symbols and pentagrams glamming them up. And the whole thing just apes Guitar Hero incredibly well, especially in Solo Mode.

Starting with the base game, the action takes place on a 5 x 4 grid with 1,024 paylines (all ways pays). There’s the chance for 4 different features to help create and boost wins though:

• Wild Jam: 1-8 random Wilds are added to the reels.
• Twin Riff Split: 6-10 random positions are highlighted and any symbols that occupy these squares are doubled up, creating double the amount of winning lines.
• Fired Up Multiplier: The total win is multiplied by 2-10x.
• Symbol Upgrade: The four lowest paying symbols are removed.

Then we have two bonus features, triggered by 3 or more Bonus symbols landing. The player can choose between two completely different styles at this point:

• Backstage: The above 4 power ups are still available, and now, if triggered, they stay active for the remainder of the free spins. You can collect more Bonus symbols to boost things even further too.
• Solo Mode: This looks almost exactly like the rhythm game screen from Guitar Hero. Really it’s just a neat way to show multipliers being picked up, and these are ultimately applied to the base wager to create your win for the round. It’s kind of exhilarating though, and the way the visuals speed up reminds me of the excellent 12 Burning Baseballs from a few weeks ago.

As for stats, the volatility is high, the RTP is set at 96.10%, and the max win at 10,000x.

Overall, Guitar Quest is something of a return to form for Relax – when this studio wants to, it can definitely produce amazing games. This one feels particularly high quality and is something unexpected and unique in the world of slots.

Give it a go, and you could be air guitaring round your room in celebration once the wins start racking up.

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