New Slots Round Up: 20th December – 2nd January 2026

Fresh slot releases tend to slow down around the holidays, but we now have enough stacked up to create our first round up of 2026, so let’s take a look!

Ore No Konbini (literally ‘My Convenience Store’) from Peter & Sons is set in Japan, home of the konbini. It’s a cluster pays slot set on a 6 x 6 grid, and if you’ve ever been to Japan, the egg sandwich, bottled tea, and instant ramen symbols here will surely bring a smile to your face.

The main special feature is the way that wins add multipliers above the reels. For example, if a winning cluster covers reels 1 and 2, a 2x multiplier will be added above those reels. If another win happens there, it will make use of the multiplier and double it for next time. It’s a lot like the famous Sugar Rush slot and leads to a fun, but relaxed rhythm. There’s also a max win of 20,000x!

Fins of Fortune by Gaming Corps is a clone of Anubis vs Horus: Twin Titans from September last year. In both games, we have two characters who can show up randomly on pre-defined squares (top and bottom of reel 3). When this happens, they can perform actions like act as a Wild, add Coins to the grid, collect the values of Coins, and trigger the free spins round.

It is fun when either the Shark or the Orca appear, but other than that, Fins of Fortune can feel a bit dry (ironic for an underwater slot), and with an RTP of 95.82%, the stats aren’t really on your side either. I feel like Anubis vs Horus: Twin Titans is the better slot, as the theme and visuals made it more exciting.

Wild Fox from BGaming isn’t quite a clone, but it does imitate Wolf Gold by Pragmatic Play pretty accurately. We’re working with 25 paylines on a 5 x 3 grid, we have a bonus round in the hold and win style, and there’s also a free spins feature with a giant 3 x 3 symbol, making long lines easy to form. Building on Wolf Gold, there’s also the addition of a round called Highborn where only higher value symbols are present.

Wild Fox is also low volatility, if that’s your bag. To be honest, I enjoyed the medieval kingdom-type theme, but unfortunately the stats don’t look great as this slot has a low RTP of 94.98% and a max win of only 2,000x.

Mystery Heist, also from BGaming, is centred around a bank robbery, complete with a Mission Impossible-esque theme tune playing in the background. The most noteworthy feature is the Mystery Prize symbol – these are safes which show up and stay sticky for at least 3 spins, and when you collect 4, they all open to reveal instant wins. Other than that, this is pretty standard fare, and again, we have a max win capped at 2,000x, but at least the RTP is higher at 97.13%.

Jewel Boom Super Drop is our third game from BGaming this week and it does a lot with not very much. It’s set up like a classic 3-reeler, but crams in various modern mechanics despite its limited grid. Landing bronze, silver, and gold Coins triggers an instant payout, while bronze, silver, and gold Collectors trigger a feature reminiscent of hold and win. Landing Diamonds will also lead you to the Jackpots bonus feature where you win one of the four tiers by matching jackpot pairs.

But now let’s move on to Captain Coil from Bullshark because it’s our Game of the Week.

Game of the Week

Captain Coil from Bullshark Games (partnering with Hacksaw) is the most interesting slot this week, but in a normal week, it could just be an average slot.

Much like Ore No Konbini, it’s a cluster pays game set on a 6 x 6 grid, and the general idea is to land clusters of 5 or more of the same symbol. As for the theme here, it feels pretty random! It appears to center on a purple snake who’s experimenting on other animals in a laboratory setting. It’s not the most obvious story to base a game around, but we can ignore this for now and focus on the gameplay.

Aside from the 8 base symbols, we have a few special symbols to learn. The first is the Wild, while the second is the Snake Pod, which introduces a snake (Captain Coil) to the board. He will slither across the grid in a way that reminds me of another recent game: Snake Arena 2.

However, in Captain Coil the snake leaves a trail of Wilds in his wake, helping us form cluster wins. In the base game, the amount of squares traversed ranges from 2-25, while in the bonus rounds, your reach is limited by Food symbols – each time you collect one of these, it adds 1 to the length of the snake.

We should also mention the global multiplier, which is increased every time the Captain travels over a pre-existing Wild or over himself. As you can imagine, the longer he becomes, the more likely he is to trigger multiplier additions, and this is the key to scoring big in Captain Coil, although it doesn’t seem to happen too often.

In the bonus rounds, the rules are largely the same as the base game, but the global multiplier builds over the whole feature, rather than resetting with each spin. If you do manage to pump it up past 5x, you will start to see some worthwhile wins, but other than that, you’ll be getting pretty predictable, low-scoring clusters.

Bullshark Games seems to enjoy adding various counters to its games – this aspect reminds me of other recent releases like Grunt Gold and Godly Gains. There is some fun to be had here, but you’ll probably end up having to buy the bonus rounds to kickstart it, and even then, big wins can feel hard to come by.

Still, some players will appreciate the way the snake can gradually transform an otherwise quiet grid into something more dangerous. It’s not a must-play, but during a slow period, it does enough to justify a look, particularly for fans of cluster pays slots who enjoy slow-burn setups. RTP sits at 96.29% and you can check it out as a demo below.

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