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Last Updated: December 18, 2025
Written by Yvonne Greenwood
Following another amazing year of slot releases from a wide range of slot creators, developers and publishers, we are taking a look back at the most popular slots and game studios with the most search trends at SlotsHawk over the course of 2025.
Our overview concentrates on the slots, the trends, the developers and players’ interests which shaped the year. The following overview is based on our Google analytics, Google Search Console and internal SlotsHawk player stats.
THE TOP 10 MOST PLAYED SLOTS IN 2025
| RANK | SLOT GAME | NUMBER OF VISITS (Jan to Dec 2025) |
| #1 | Duck Hunters | 4,100 |
| #2 | Fire in the Hole 3 | 4,027 |
| #3 | Medusa Megaways | 3,754 |
| #4 | Wild Buccaneers Triple Treasure | 3,302 |
| #5 | Razor Shark | 2,928 |
| #6 | Secrets of the Phoenix Megaways | 2,766 |
| #7 | Le Pharaoh | 2,741 |
| #8 | Mega Joker | 2,618 |
| #9 | The Catfather | 2,599 |
| #10 | Cash Volt | 2,406 |
It should not come as a surprise that two of NoLimit City’s best releases of the year occupy the top two positions. Whilst Fire in the Hole 3 is our personal favourite out of the two, it has been Duck Hunters which generally received the greater reception out of the two. There is also placed for two other slots released in 2025 too with Wild Buccaneers Triple Treasure by Four Leaf Gaming and Le Pharaoh from Hacksaw games.
Interestingly enough, the rest of the top 10 is filled with slots from previous years. Medusa Megaways, released all the way back in 2019 is the third most played slot of the year. Mega Joker by NetEnt is still the most popular jackpot slot even though it is more 14 years old now.
TOP ONLINE SLOTS PROVIDERS IN 2025
We used the same analytics, search console data and player behaviour to determine the most popular slot provider of 2025.
| RANK | STUDIO | NUMBER OF SEARCHES (Jan to Dec 2025) |
| #1 | NoLimit City | 7,181 |
| #2 | Yggdrasil | 5,958 |
| #3 | Relax Gaming | 5,572 |
| #4 | Push Gaming | 5,220 |
| #5 | Wazdan | 5,164 |
| #6 | Peter and Sons | 4,672 |
| #7 | Pragmatic Play | 3,300 |
| #8 | Big Time Gaming | 3,189 |
| #9 | Blueprint Gaming | 2,953 |
| #10 | Four Leaf Gaming | 2,443 |
The competition between slots providers remains as fierce as ever, but one developer stood out at the top of the pack in 2025 – NoLimit City.
This did not come as a surprise to us given that NoLimit City have released an average of two slot games per month throughout 2025. In addition, many of their new releases have been outstanding.
We are intrigued that a lesser known and newer developer makes our list though – Four Leaf Gaming. In fact it makes a lot of sense given that they are behind two of the best slots of the year with Killer Sharks Action Collect and Wild Buccaneers Triple Treasure. We will continue to watch their progress closely as we head into next year.
The top 10 list proves that there is still lots of demand out there for outstanding new slots. However, it also shows that players still enjoy older slot games which have stood the test of time and remain excellent.
AN ANALYSIS OF SEARCH VOLUMES
We used the Ahrefs tool to look at the monthly UK search volumes of the slots in our top 10 list. This essentially makes tells us the number of people searching for that particular slot game on Google per month.
| RANK | SLOT | SEARCH VOLUME (as per Ahrefs data) |
| #1 | Duck Hunters | 100 |
| #2 | Fire in the Hole 3 | 150 |
| #3 | Medusa Megaways | 30 |
| #4 | Wild Buccaneers Triple Treasure | 10 |
| #5 | Razor Shark | 350 |
| #6 | Secrets of the Phoenix Megaways | 200 |
| #7 | Le Pharaoh | 250 |
| #8 | Mega Joker | 450 |
| #9 | The Catfather | 20 |
| #10 | Cash Volt | 15 |
As you can see, all of the slots have a fairly low monthly search volume according to Ahrefs.
2026 AND BEYOND
We would just like to use this opportunity to thank all of the game developers and workers who work so hard across the year in order to bring us all of the excellent slot games we can play today. We would also like to thank you loyal SlotsHawk readers who continue to read our articles, reviews and guides – without you guys we would not be here, so thank you from the bottom of our heart.
We expect that 2026 will bring about more amazing games. We predict brand-new features, mechanics and more innovation that we have come to expect from the genius developers.
CONTRIBUTORS
Greetings, I’m Yvonne Greenwood
Yvonne Greenwood is our talented writer. In the office she goes by the nickname ‘The Machine’ because of her ability to always smash out excellent and relevant articles for our readers at SlotsHawk.com.
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