Thirty-four slots have a confirmed October 2026 release date. Seven of them tell you how often the game pays. One ships with an RTP build as low as 84.25%.
Fifteen studios have dated their October output. What they publish alongside the date varies so much that putting the releases side by side on equal terms is genuinely impossible, and pretending otherwise is how most new-slots lists go wrong.
Nolimit City publishes the odds of hitting its own maximum win. Gamomat publishes no maximum win at all. Red Tiger publishes volatility as a bare number with no scale attached. ELK Studios gives a day and a month but not a year. Play'n GO's numbers are in its own page data rather than on the page a reader sees.
Every figure below comes from the studio's own website, checked on 18 September 2026. Where a studio has not published something, the cell says so rather than borrowing from an affiliate site. That is the same rule we applied to Halloween slots 2026, and it is why this table has gaps in it.
October 2026 releases at a glance
| Slot | Studio | Date | RTP as published | Max win | Volatility | Layout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Potato: Dream Drop | Print Studios | 1 Oct | 94.12% | 30,000x | 10 out of 10 | Not published |
| Carnival of Madness | Gamomat | 1 Oct | 96.03% | Not published | Medium | 5x3, 5 or 10 lines |
| Barbarossa: Beyond the Edge | Peter and Sons | 1 Oct | 96.44% | 30,000x | Very high | 5x3, 243 ways |
| Ghost Booster! GO Guaranteed | Play'n GO | 1 Oct | 96.25 to 84.25 | 5,000 cap | Medium | 5 reels, 20 lines |
| Turbo Gold Deluxe GigaBlox | Yggdrasil | 1 Oct | 96 / 94 / 92 / 90.5 | 10,000x | High | 4,096 ways |
| Pots of Power: Dragon's Blessing | AvatarUX | 2 Oct | 96.07 / 94.03 / 90.52 | 10,000x | High or medium | 25 lines, 8x7 bonus |
| Gator Hunters 2 | Nolimit City | 6 Oct | 96% | 30,000x | 21.39 (index) | 5-5-5-5-5-5, scatter |
| Cosmic Commander | Curious Games | 6 Oct | Not published | 10,000x | Not published | Up to 3,600 ways |
| Bamboo Pandits | ELK Studios | 6 Oct | Not published | 10,000x | Not published | 5x5, 6x6 bonus |
| 3 Dragon Pots Ultimate | Iron Dog Studio | 7 Oct | 95 / 93 / 91 | 7,500x | High to very high | Not published |
| Cocks and Robbers | Red Tiger | 7 Oct | 96.2 | 11,454 (no unit) | 5.05 (index) | 6x3, 729 ways |
| Zoo Busters | Fantasma Games | 8 Oct | Not published | Not published | Medium-high | 6x5, pay anywhere |
| Redtail Robber Cash Vault Heist | Play'n GO | 8 Oct | 96.2 to 84.2 | 15,000 cap | Medium | 5 reels, 20 lines |
| Cloudforge | Relax Gaming | 8 Oct | Not published | 10,000x | Not published | Lines |
| 5 Power Joker | AvatarUX | 9 Oct | 96.14 / 94.19 / 90.79 | 5,000x | Medium | 3x3, 5 lines |
| Power Puff | Red Tiger | 13 Oct | 96.08 | 3,433 (no unit) | 16.19 (index) | 5x3, 20 lines |
| Chain Reaction Hold & Blitz | Iron Dog Studio | 14 Oct | 95 / 93 / 91 | 12,500x | High | Nine reels |
| Demon Beats | NetEnt | 15 Oct | 96.08 | 10,000 (no unit) | 9.9 (index) | 5x4 |
| Flor de Muerto | Gamomat | 15 Oct | 96.12% | Not published | Very high | 5x4, 20 lines |
| Tower Run Treasure Steps | Play'n GO | 15 Oct | 96.2 to 84.2 | 30,000 cap | Very high | 5x5 grid, no lines |
| Beanstalk Grows Wild 2 | Trigger | 15 Oct | Not published | Not published | Not published | Lines |
| Peep the Pope GigaBlox | Yggdrasil | 15 Oct | 96 / 94 / 92 / 90.5 | 9,989.4x | Super high | 5x6, scatter pays |
| Six Feet Under | Nolimit City | 20 Oct | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Wheel of Horrors | Iron Dog Studio | 21 Oct | 95 / 93 / 91 | 10,000x | High | Not published |
| Rotten Potato | Print Studios | 21 Oct | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Koi Falls: Flowing Fortune | Fantasma Games | 22 Oct | 96.23 / 94.4 / 92.74 | Not published | High | 5x3, 243 ways |
| Steve, Larry And Gogo | Red Tiger | 22 Oct | 96.15 | 12,393 (no unit) | 16.88 (index) | 5x5, 50 lines |
| Wrappin' More Gold | Play'n GO | 22 Oct | 96.2 to 84.2 | 6,000 cap | Medium | 5 reels, 20 lines |
| Propaganda 2 | ELK Studios | 22 Oct | Not published | 25,000x | Not published | 6x6 |
| Tempting Treats | AvatarUX | 23 Oct | 96.16 / 94.06 / 90.94 | 10,000x | High or super high | 7x7 cluster |
| 3 Spooky Chilli Peppers | Iron Dog Studio | 28 Oct | 95 / 93 / 91 | 10,000x | Medium-high | Not published |
| Call of the Reaper | Fantasma Games | 29 Oct | 96.22 / 94.37 / 92.52 | Not published | Medium | 6x4, 4096 ways |
| Nunchucks | NetEnt | 29 Oct | 96.21 | 12,000 (no unit) | 9.1 (index) | 3-3-3 |
| Burn the Sevens | Gamomat | 29 Oct | 96.10% | Not published | Very high | 1x1, 1 line |
Cosmic Commander, Beanstalk Grows Wild 2 and Royal Potato: Dream Drop are third party titles distributed through Relax Gaming's Silver Bullet programme, so they are credited to Curious Games, Trigger and Print Studios rather than to Relax. Cloudforge is Relax's own game. Iron Dog Studio releases through the 1X2 Network.
Why several of those cells are hedged
Six studios publish figures that cannot be compared directly with the rest, and flattening them into a tidy table would misrepresent them.
- Red Tiger and NetEnt publish maximum payout as a bare number with no unit, so 11,454 stays as it is rather than becoming 11,454x. They also publish volatility as a bare numeric index with no scale, running from 5.05 to 16.88 across their October slate, so those cells say index rather than low, medium or high. Nolimit City uses the same index but separately states in words that Gator Hunters 2 pays 30,000 times the base bet, which is why that row carries an x.
- Play'n GO labels its figure a win cap, and its numbers sit in the game page's own embedded data rather than in the text a visitor reads, where only the release date, game type and theme are displayed. Its hit rate figures are published on a different basis from everyone else's percentages, so they are discussed separately below and left out of the chart.
- ELK Studios gives Bamboo Pandits as 6 October and Propaganda 2 as 22 October without printing a year. The 2026 here is inferred from the pages themselves, not quoted from them.
- Yggdrasil's Turbo Gold Deluxe page contradicts itself: its reels and rows fields read 4 and 5, while the description copy describes a 6x4 grid. We quote the 4,096 ways figure and make no claim about the grid.
- AvatarUX heads the specification panel for Pots of Power: Dragon's Blessing with the name of a different game, Mummy's Treasure. The figures belong to Dragon's Blessing; the heading is an error on their site.
- Gamomat footnotes every RTP with a line saying additional RTP models are available on request for certain markets, so its single figure is the headline build and not necessarily what your casino licenses.
The operator picks the RTP, and October makes that obvious
This is the most useful thing in the table for a UK player, so it is worth pulling out.
Most of these releases do not have an RTP. They have a menu of them, and your casino chooses from it.
| Studio | RTP builds published | Lowest build |
|---|---|---|
| Play'n GO | Five per game | 84.25% |
| Yggdrasil | Four per game | 90.5% |
| AvatarUX | Three per game | 90.52% |
| Iron Dog Studio | Three per game | 91 |
| Fantasma Games | Three per game | 92.74% |
| Print Studios | Two per game | 94.12% |
Play'n GO's Ghost Booster! GO Guaranteed is published at 96.25% by default and also ships at 94.25%, 91.25%, 87.25% and 84.25%. That bottom build returns £84.25 per £100 staked on the model against £96.25 from the top one, a twelve point spread inside the same game with the same name, artwork and paytable structure. Iron Dog's 91 and Yggdrasil's 90.5% are in similar territory.
Which build you get is the operator's commercial decision, not yours, and nothing on the outside of the game tells you. The paytable inside the game at the casino you are actually playing is the only figure that counts. Our guide to slot RTP works through what a gap that size does to a bankroll over a real session, and it is the same operator-selected RTP problem we took apart in the Big Bass Bonanza piece.
Hit frequency: seven out of thirty-four
Hit frequency determines how a session actually feels, and it is the figure most studios leave out. Seven publish one on a comparable percentage basis.
Cocks and Robbers returns something on roughly three spins in five. Gator Hunters 2 returns something on fewer than one spin in five. Both are published at about 96% RTP. That is the cleanest demonstration you will find of why RTP on its own tells you very little about a session, and our hit frequency explainer goes further into it.
Play'n GO publishes a hit rate for all four of its October titles, at 2.06 for Ghost Booster, 3.58 for Redtail Robber, 2.75 for Tower Run and 3.24 for Wrappin' More Gold. These are not percentages and are not comparable with the seven above, so they are not in the chart. The remaining twenty-three releases publish nothing on hit frequency at all.
Nolimit City is the only studio that publishes its own long odds
Gator Hunters 2 lands on 6 October and is the most completely documented release of the month. The studio's game pagepublishes a 96% RTP split into 63.37% returned through the base game and 32.64% through the bonus, a 30,000x maximum on a 5-5-5-5-5-5 scatter grid paying on 8 or more symbols, an 18.28% hit frequency and a free spins trigger of roughly once in 205 spins.
Then it publishes the figure almost nobody else does: the probability of actually reaching that 30,000x maximum, given as 1 in 17 million. Read alongside the 18.28% hit frequency, that is an unusually honest description of a slot. Most of the return arrives in small amounts, infrequently, and the headline ceiling is effectively a lottery ticket. No other release this month publishes max win odds.
Worth knowing if you go looking: Nolimit City's roadmap page states that no upcoming games are scheduled, while its own underlying data and its individual game pages both carry these two October releases. The game pages are the reliable source. Six Feet Under on 20 October has a confirmed date and its page says specifications will be added as development progresses, so its cells are blank rather than guessed.
Who has not dated anything
The absence is worth recording, because it is why other October lists disagree with this one.
Pragmatic Play, Big Time Gaming, Hacksaw Gaming, Games Global and Slotmill publish no October 2026 release date. Pragmatic Play's calendar stops at 28 September. Hacksaw publishes no roadmap and dates almost nothing, with nothing later than August on the pages that do carry a date. Push Gaming and Blueprint Gaming publish no release dates for anything at all.
Two edge cases. Thunderkick lists Bjorn with a full specification card, at 94.22% RTP, 5,000x maximum exposure and very high volatility on an 8x8 cluster grid, and Hot Potato Battleground at 94.23% and 10,000x on 7x7. Neither has a release date anywhere in the page text; the only date is inside a banner image. That 94.22% is strikingly low for a studio's headline build, and it is published as a single build with no alternatives, but without a date neither game belongs on this list. Stakelogic's roadmap carries two October dates, the 26th and the 29th, with the titles shown only inside artwork and no specifications in text, so there is nothing quotable.
One release needs excluding on purpose. Play'n GO's Three Pots of the Genie shows a 24 October date, but that is its United States date; its general release is 29 September. It is a September game for UK players and is not counted above.
Red Tiger, NetEnt and Nolimit City also publish early access dates roughly a week before each general release, so Gator Hunters 2 appears at selected operators from 29 September and Six Feet Under from 13 October. Those are early access windows, not release dates, and the table uses the general release throughout.
Between them, the studios with nothing dated account for a large share of what a UK player actually sees in a lobby. If you find an October 2026 list naming a Pragmatic Play or Hacksaw title with a specific date, that date did not come from the studio. We will update this page as more are published.
The small print UK players should remember
Every specification above describes the international build. At UK licensed casinos three things change:
- Stake caps apply. Online slot stakes are capped at £5 per spin for over-25s and £2 for 18 to 24 year olds. Our slot stake limits article covers the rules.
- Feature buys are gone. Most of these releases ship with one, and it is not available here. That matters most for Steve, Larry And Gogo, where Red Tiger's own footnote puts the maximum payout at 12,393 with the feature buy and 6,039 without it, and for Royal Potato: Dream Drop, whose higher 94.56% build exists only with the buy. Our article on why you cannot buy a bonus on UK slots explains the rule.
- RTP builds vary by operator. Play'n GO's 84.25%, Yggdrasil's 90.5%, AvatarUX's 90.52% and Iron Dog's 91 are all real products a casino can license.
One pattern runs across the month. Default RTP clusters between 96% and 96.5%, which is unremarkable, but the lower builds behind those defaults go further down than they did in September, and volatility is rated high, very high or super high on a clear majority. October's confirmed slate is a harsher set of games than the one we covered in the September round-up, and the volatility guide explains what that does to a bankroll.
Launch weeks come with promotions, leaderboards and network tournaments designed to concentrate play into the first few days. There is no mathematical reason to play a slot at launch, because RTP is identical in week one and year two. If a release tempts you, set a deposit limit and a time limit before you spin, and use the demo for the free look it is. Our responsible gambling guide lists the tools every UK operator must provide, and free confidential support is available from GambleAware. 18+ only. Please gamble responsibly.
FAQs
What new slots are coming out in October 2026?
Thirty-four have a studio-confirmed date across fifteen studios. The month opens on 1 October with five releases, including Royal Potato: Dream Drop, Barbarossa: Beyond the Edge and Ghost Booster! GO Guaranteed, and closes on 29 October with Call of the Reaper, Nunchucks and Burn the Sevens. Gator Hunters 2 from Nolimit City on the 6th is the most thoroughly documented of them. The full list with dates is in the table above.
Which October 2026 slot has the highest RTP?
Barbarossa: Beyond the Edge from Peter and Sons, at 96.44%. Ghost Booster! GO Guaranteed follows at 96.25% in its default build and Koi Falls: Flowing Fortune at 96.23%. The lowest default is Royal Potato: Dream Drop at 94.12%, and the lowest build available anywhere on the slate is Play'n GO's 84.25%.
Which October 2026 slot has the biggest max win?
Propaganda 2 from ELK Studios, at 25,000x. Three more publish a 30,000x figure, Royal Potato: Dream Drop, Barbarossa: Beyond the Edge and Gator Hunters 2, but Tower Run Treasure Steps is published as a 30,000 win cap rather than an explicit multiplier. Only Gator Hunters 2 also publishes the odds of reaching its ceiling, at 1 in 17 million, which is the useful half of the statistic. Nine of the thirty-four publish no maximum win at all.
Why are Pragmatic Play and Hacksaw missing from this list?
Because neither has published an October 2026 release date. Both will almost certainly release games in October; the dates are not public yet, and we will add them when they are. Nolimit City, NetEnt, Red Tiger, Play'n GO, Relax Gaming and Yggdrasil have all dated October titles, so the larger studios are not uniformly silent.
Why are so many cells in your table blank?
Because the studio has not published that figure, and we will not fill a gap from an affiliate site or an aggregator. Hit frequency is the clearest case: only seven of the thirty-four publish one on a comparable basis, even though it tells you more about how a session will feel than max win ever does.
Can I try these slots for free?
Yes, for most of them. Nolimit City, Print Studios, Fantasma Games, AvatarUX, Peter and Sons and Play'n GO all host demo play on their own sites, and several Red Tiger and NetEnt titles have a demo date about a week before general release. Demo play is the cheapest way to find out whether a game's rhythm suits you before staking anything.
Where can I play new slots when they launch?
Nolimit City, Red Tiger, NetEnt, Play'n GO and Relax Gaming releases reach UK lobbies quickly. Print Studios, Iron Dog Studio, Fantasma Games, Gamomat, AvatarUX, Curious Games and Trigger are smaller studios, so expect slower and patchier coverage. Our new slot sites guide covers the UK casinos quickest to add new games.
