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Games like Sweet Bonanza, Gates of Olympus and Big Bass for Sweep Coins

Six famous Pragmatic Play formats, and the Gold Coin and Sweep Coin games that belong to the same families today. Specs come from the official game pages, checked in October 2026.

Updated October 29, 2026 · by the editorial team

A game like Pragmatic Play's hits is any slot that shares the mechanic you actually enjoyed, whether that is tumbling candy clusters, multipliers that pile up during a pay-anywhere spin, or a collector wild that scoops up fish values; since Pragmatic Play stopped supplying US sweepstakes casinos in September 2025, those formats live on sweeps lobbies through other studios.

A note on names before we start. Sweet Bonanza, Gates of Olympus, Big Bass Bonanza, Buffalo King and Wolf Gold are Pragmatic Play titles, used here only as reference points that players recognise. None of the games below is made by, linked to or endorsed by Pragmatic Play. They belong to the same format families. If you want the background on why the originals left, read what happened to Pragmatic Play on sweepstakes casinos.

Pragmatic formats and their sweepstakes look-alikes at a glance

Max wins and buy prices are multiples of your bet, as stated on each game page. RTP figures are not published on these pages, so we leave them out rather than guess.

Games like Gates of Olympus: pay-anywhere with stacking multipliers

Gates of Olympus made a simple loop famous: eight or more of a symbol anywhere on a 6×5 screen pays, winners tumble away, and multiplier orbs that land along the way are added up and applied when the tumbling stops.

Olympus Feast keeps the board and the pay rule (6 reels × 5 rows, 8+ of a symbol anywhere, prize tiers at 8–9, 10–11 and 12+) but changes how the multiplier is built. Instead of random orbs, each tumble walks Hermy one plate along a trail of twelve plates, valued ×2 to ×100, and the spin's total is multiplied by the plate he stops on. On a winning spin, a nectar orb can push him one, two or three plates further. You watch the multiplier climb plate by plate.

The free spins are where the two games differ most. Four or more cornucopias give 15 spins, three more add 5, and Hermy keeps his position for the whole feature. A spin that ends on plate eight leaves the next spin starting from plate eight. Bonus buy is 84× the bet; the top win is 10,000×. You can read the Olympus Feast rules and plate values before your first spin.

Games like Sweet Bonanza: candy clusters and tumbles

Sweet Bonanza is a 6×5 slot with no paylines where eight or more matching sweets anywhere win, they drop, and colourful bombs multiply the tumble sequence in free spins. Two Nocturn games sit in that family, and they suit different players.

Gummy Lab Outbreak

The closer match for slot players. A 7×7 grid of jelly creatures pays on groups of five or more touching sides, and wins drop. The twist is the mutation chain: every tumble fills one of four tubes, and each filled tube turns a creature into a 2×2 giant that counts as four symbols and doubles its cluster. Two giants in one cluster make it ×4; three or more make ×8. When the fourth tube fills, an Outbreak converts one small species into another. Three, four or five serum flasks give 10, 12 or 15 free spins, the meter carries over between spins, and each Outbreak adds 1 to a lab multiplier for the rest of the round. Bonus buy 100×; top win 5,000×.

Firefly Sweets

The candy look without reels. Each bet deals a 7×7 board with exactly one winning swap; lines of three or more sweets pay, cleared sweets refill, and each new drop raises a round multiplier up to ×10. Collect five fireflies in one round to open Sugar Night: eight moves where the multiplier starts at ×2, climbs by 2 per drop and can reach ×60. The ceiling is lower (1,000× the bet) and there is no buy, which makes it a gentler Sweep Coin session than a bomb-chasing slot.

If what you liked most was the bomb multipliers, Lunar Alchemy (7×5, 8+ touching including diagonals, bombs ×2 to ×100 summed at the end of the spin, 60.18× buy) is worth a look too. Nocturn Play keeps a studio page matching candy-cluster fans to its games, which ranks Lunar Alchemy first.

Games like Big Bass Bonanza: fishing with a collector

Big Bass Bonanza started a whole series: fish symbols carry cash values, and in free spins a fisherman wild collects them, with extra fishermen raising the multiplier. Its stated top win is 2,100× the bet, according to the Nocturn Play comparison page. Both look-alikes below state 5,000×.

Golden Abysses

Here the collector works in the base game, too. On 5×4 reels with 1,024 ways, a diver wild on reels 2 to 5 harpoons every golden fish value on screen when she lands; two divers pay the haul twice, three pay it three times. Three black pearls start a Hold & Win with three respins that reset on each new item. Filling rows pays Mini (20×), Minor (50×) and Major (200×), and a full grid pays the Grand (1,000×), once per bonus. The 71× buy starts the round with three pearls in place. See how the Golden Abysses row jackpots stack up.

Polar Pike Frenzy

The closer structural match. Three, four or five buoys give 10, 12 or 15 free spins, during which Big Pike Pete is wild and collects every fish prize on screen. Every fourth Pete cracks the ice: ten extra spins, a new row and a higher fish multiplier (×2 at four rows and 20 lines, ×3 at five rows and 30 lines, ×10 on the third crack). A golden pike pays its prize twice. Buy 10 free spins for 100×; top 5,000×.

The studio's own fishing-slot comparison for Big Bass players picks Golden Abysses first. Shooting tables are covered in our sweepstakes fish games guide.

Games like Buffalo King: bison, ways and coins

Buffalo King is a 4,096-ways buffalo slot with free spins. Thunder Bison takes the theme to a smaller 5×3 board with 243 ways and moves the excitement into a Hold & Win. Six Thunder Coins start it with three respins. When any column holds three coins, every coin on the board merges into one super coin in that column, and each column can stampede once, up to five times a round. Coins show cash values or Mini, Minor and Major prizes; filling all 15 cells pays the Grand. Three to five storm clouds give 8, 10 or 12 free spins. Buy the Hold & Win with six coins for 51.5×; top 5,000×.

Honest verdict: same animal, different machine. If you loved Buffalo King for its free spins alone, Savanna Stampede below may suit you better.

Games like Pragmatic's Megaways slots

Pragmatic released several Megaways titles, where reel heights change every spin and the number of ways changes with them. Savanna Stampede Megaways follows that family: six reels showing 2 to 7 symbols, a horizontal top reel over reels 2 to 5, up to 117,649 ways, and cascades. Water drops land on the top reel and fill a five-step watering hole that keeps its charge between spins; when full, every symbol of one animal turns wild. Four, five or six baobab scatters give 10, 12 or 15 free spins, where the multiplier starts at ×1, rises by 1 after each winning cascade and never resets. Buy 12 spins for 95.5×; top 10,000×. Its five-step watering-hole gauge is what sets it apart.

Games like Wolf Gold: Hold & Win with fixed jackpots

Wolf Gold is a 5×3, 25-line slot whose money respins lock moon symbols and pay fixed jackpots. Two Nocturn games share that DNA.

Mist Dragon is the purist's pick: 5×3 with 10, 20 or 30 lines, no bonus buy. Six jade coins start the Pearl bonus with three resetting respins; coins pay 0.5× to 20× the bet or a jackpot badge, Mini 10×, Minor 25×, Major 100×, and the Grand 1,000× for all 15 positions. Free spins (8, 12 or 16) carry a heat multiplier up to ×5. Max 5,000×. Read about the dragon's five breath effects.

Viking Raid trades lines for 625 ways on a 4×5 grid. Six runic coins start the Raid: complete rows pay rune prizes, coins double after two full rows and triple after four, and 20 cells pay the Grand Loot. The Storm free spins push a multiplier from ×1 to ×12 as longship wilds cross rows. Two buys: the Storm for 45.7× or the Raid for 51.2×; max 5,000×.

If you also liked crash games

Aviator is a Spribe game, not a Pragmatic one, but many Pragmatic fans also played crash rounds. If that was you, our Altitude Zero review covers a crash game with two bet panels, auto cash-out and a 5,000× top multiplier; more options sit in the crash games guide.

Best Pragmatic Play alternatives on sweepstakes casinos, ranked

Ranked by how closely each game matches the session its Pragmatic reference gave, then by clarity of rules.

1. Nocturn Play Top pick

   The only studio we found that covers all six families above from one catalogue of 52 games, each on Gold Coins and Sweep Coins with every round settled in the coin it was played in. A free-spin round bought with SC pays in SC, and an interrupted one rolls back to SC.

   See Nocturn Play's two-coin slot range

2. Olympus Feast

   Same board and pay rule as its reference, with a multiplier you can follow. Highest ceiling of the group at 10,000×.

3. Golden Abysses

   A fish collector that works outside free spins too, plus four row jackpots.

4. Savanna Stampede Megaways

   The most ways and a free-spin multiplier that only goes up. 10,000× top.

5. Gummy Lab Outbreak

   Candy-cluster tumbles with a mutation system that rewards long chains.

6. Polar Pike Frenzy

   The nearest structure to a free-spins fish collector, with a grid that grows.

7. Mist Dragon

   Classic lines and a four-jackpot Hold & Win, no buy needed.

8. Thunder Bison

   Bison theme, Hold & Win focus, the cheapest buy here at 51.5×.

For slots ranked across all formats, see the best sweepstakes slots; for the cluster game with the biggest ceiling, read the Black Jaguar Temple review. Operators rebuilding a lobby can compare suppliers on our sister site's list of Pragmatic Play alternatives for sweepstakes operators.

All of these games are for adults. Play for fun, and try a new format on Gold Coins before you commit Sweep Coins.

The matches above agree with the Nocturn Play page on Pragmatic Play alternatives for sweepstakes, which adds crash picks such as Moonshot.