How our best lists work
Every list here comes from public Engine Insights data and one formula: score = 50 × players position + 50 × RTP position, worked out inside a pool of the 100 most played games. Our own games are never ranked.
The lists
- Best Stake Engine slots: the score below, top 25
- New Stake Engine games: the past seven days, by players
- Crypto slots you can check: games whose results anyone can check, by players
The formula
- Pool. The 100 games with the most players in 30 days (13 Oct to 11 Nov 2026). Every one of them has far more than 50 players.
- Taken out. Our own games. Games whose name says keno, blackjack, roulette, plinko, mines, dice, poker, limbo, hilo or crash, because the data has no genre field. Games with a max win under 1,000×. Same maths from the same studio (same RTP, max win and standard deviation) counts once, the most played copy stays.
- Players position. The share of the other pool games with fewer players, from 0 to 1. Ties count half.
- RTP position. The same for RTP, as the game reports it to Engine Insights.
- Score = 50 × players position + 50 × RTP position. 100 would mean most players and highest RTP at once.
| Step | Games |
|---|---|
| Most played games | 100 |
| Out: not a slot by name | 2 |
| Out: max win under 1,000× | 1 |
| Out: same maths, second copy | 0 |
| Scored | 97 |
Top score this month: Waylanders Forge, 98.4.
Why players and not turnover
Turnover can come from a few big bets. Waylanders Forge had $980.3m turnover from 92,079 players, $10.27 per bet. Counting players shows how many people chose a game.
What we leave out on purpose
- No stars or scores we made up, and no "tested by us".
- No casinos, no bonus codes, no links to places to play.
- Nobody pays to be on a list.
- Every column sorts, so you can ignore our weighting and use your own.
Our own conflict
Beltastic is an Engine studio too. Our own game, Pop Parade, is not out yet. It is never ranked in these tables; once it has data, it gets its own line below them, marked as ours.
Data and changes
- Raw data: all games as CSV, all studios as CSV. Engine publishes the API openly and asks for credit (terms).
- Refreshed once a month. The date sits above every table.
- 12 Nov 2026: first version.
Our game
Pop Parade
A match-3 slot where you swap the stones yourself. Balloons stuck in the stones add to the multiplier, and a full chest starts the bonus round, the March Past. It comes out on 24 November 2026.
Questions
What is RTP in online slots?
Return to player: the share of all stakes a game pays back over a very long run. A 96.7% game pays back $96.70 per $100 staked on average. Any RTP under 100% means players lose over time.
Sources
- Engine Insights (public API, snapshot). 30 days, 13 Oct to 11 Nov 2026 Checked 12 November 2026
- Engine Insights API terms Checked 12 November 2026
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