2 New NetEnt Slots Out 24th Oct: Halloween Jack VS Wild Bazaar Showdown

This week NetEnt released not one but two slot videos of two totally different games, both due out on the 24th of October 2018. What are they and which will grab your attention?

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NetEnt, as far as we can remember (and we can remember far longer than we care to admit) has never released two slot games on the same day.

For years they were a “one slot a day” type of software casino studio. Recently they’ve been seen releasing two new slots every other month or so, maybe giving one casino or other exclusive rights to a game weeks before it’s general release.

But two new casino games? Out on the exact same day? Competing for your attention and your money?

That’s unusual enough that we ask the important questions: what are these games? Why are they being released at the same time? And which one will win this showdown?

Here’s everything we know about these two new NetEnt video slots.

Halloween Jack slot features, bonuses, and gameplay

We start with the release of the very first video we got this week, the spooktacular Halloween Jack slot for mobile and online casinos.

Now come on. If you didn’t a couple of chills down your spine just by looking at the still of this video, you probably did when you started watching.

There’s a reason this new casino game is being released so close to Halloween, with a macabre setting that only the spookiest of haunted houses can achieve.

If death, vampires, and hell dogs aren’t your thing, you’re probably not a fan of all hallows eve anyway, so might as well jump over to the next game.

What do we know about this 20 payline slot?

A fair amount actually, thanks to the lovely people at NetEnt being a sharing caring kind of company. Or the fact that they just very good at pushing their slots to the front of every casino online.

• Halloween Jack is a 5 reels and 4 rows slot with 20 paylines
• Min/max bet: 0.10 to 100 per spin and RTP of 96.28
• Wild symbol will walk from right to left and gives you free re-spins as it walks across the screen
• Scatters triggers 10 free spins where you can collect 3 different sizes of walking wilds
• Win over 3,000 times your bet in a single game round (so free spins would count as one game round).
• Probably a medium to high variance machine

Starting to sound familiar? Some of you may recognise these mechanics from the every popular Jack and the Beanstalk game by the same provider.

But more on that later. Let’s just say, this Halloween Jack mobile slot looks good, has some great features and the wins look impressive.

Now let’s take a look at what’s behind door number 2.

Wild Bazaar slot features, bonuses, and gameplay

If Halloween Jack embraces the winter darkness, then Wild Bazaar goes completely the other way instead, bringing to you an exotic location and the promise of summer.

We can’t think of a casino slot theme less suited to be released a week before Halloween.

Yet, aside from that, you can’t deny that this Wild Bazaar slot game has a certain exotic charm that could be fun to play when you want to escape somewhere a little more exotic.

Instead of trying to head back in time to the Arabia of one thousand and one tales as is popular when we head to the Orient, here you could be in any street market in Marrakesh, Istanbul or Cairo in the 21st century.

The electronics have a retro-modern look that is fun, even if the symbols within are fairly generic.

What do we know about this 26 payline slot?

Again, we have a fair amount to disclose here, but we advise you watch the video to fully understand the features within.

• Wild Bazaar is on 5 reels and 4 rows slot with 26 fixed lines
• Min/Max Bet: 0.20 . 400 per spin
• Max win of around 390 times your bet with an RTP of 96.15%
• Four possible wild features that trigger free spins including Mega Wild Symbols, Stacked Wilds, Linked Wilds and Multipliers on the wild.
• Looks like it will probably be a low variance machine.

Basically the idea behind it is simple; you want to trigger the free spins as often as possible.

And it looks like you will as all you need is a win with one of the four different coloured chest symbols, and that will decide which of the four wild features you’ll play your bonus round.

It’s not as hard-hitting as Halloween Jack, but it will appeal to a very different type of casino player, so who’s to say it won’t be able to compete against the Pumpkin King?

Why do we get two slots on the same day?

It may seem strange but it makes some sense.

As we mentioned these are two very different games that will appeal to two incredibly different types of gamblers and bankrolls.

Whilst we’d have to admit that we think the Halloween Jack theme is vastly superior to Wild Bazaar, it has very dark and goth-like overtones that won’t suit those who prefer fairytales and kittens.

Wild Bazaar, on the hand, is fairly inoffensive and few will mind taking a few spins in a sunny bazaar in an exotic location.

Do you prefer familiar spins or original content?

The main reason the two games can be released at the same time is that NetEnt is confident that they won’t compete for the same audience.

You also can’t get away from the fact that Halloween Jack shares most of its DNA with Jack and the Beanstalk fame, easily one of the most popular NetEnt slots of all time.

So you know what you are getting. And if you don’t like dark and dreary, then stick with Jack and the Beanstalk or try something new like Wild Bazaar slot.

Because this slot wgame is wholly original with completely new bonuses, easy wins, and quick features. It will get the curiosity of most players for that first week, though we’re not sure it will survive much past Halloween.

Do I play Halloween Jack? Or Wild Bazaar slot?

Now if you are going to ask us which of the two games appeal more to our sensibilities, we think we’ve already given away the answer above.

The Halloween Jack video slot is going to be the superior game. It has more impressive wins, it’s got better graphics, and it has mechanics that we know and love.

We will play Wild Bazaar because there’s a curiosity factor and (honestly) it’s kinda our job to play casino games and report back to you.

But we know which one has our attention and come October 24th we’ll have to see if we were proven right.

Till then we highly recommend you check out the original Jack and The Beanstalk slot machine at one of our brilliant recommended NetEnt casinos like the one on the link below.