Pokies Starter Guide
A 17-Pokie Starter Guide To Here2Win Casino
This guide walks through all seventeen pokies covered on this site, sorts them by volatility, and groups them by the eight studios behind them, so you know what you're loading before you spend a cent.
The Full Catalogue
Seventeen Pokies On The Here2Win Casino Live Floor
Eight studios, seventeen titles, three volatility bands. Here's how the whole catalogue fits together before you pick a first spin.
Between them, Pragmatic Play, NetEnt, Microgaming, Big Time Gaming, Red Tiger Gaming, Nolimit City, Blueprint Gaming and Playson cover almost every mood a pokies session can call for — quiet and steady one night, loud and swingy the next. I've sorted the lot by provider further down so you can see what each studio actually brings to the reels, rather than treating "pokies" as one big undifferentiated pile.
If seventeen titles feels like a lot to take in on your first look, Adventure Pokies is the smaller set sitting alongside this guide — three exploration-themed picks without the full spread. Either way, it's worth a squiz at Bonus first, since it lays out exactly what your first few deposits unlock before you start spinning.
I built this list the way I'd talk a mate through a wine list at a cellar door: start broad, note what's steady and what's a bit more of a gamble, then let them pick what actually suits the mood they're in.
Read This First
The Low, Medium And High Volatility Scale
Every pokie page on this guide tags its title with one of three volatility bands. Here's what each one actually means at the reels.
Low volatility titles pay out more often, in smaller amounts, so a session tends to run longer on the same budget with fewer dry spells. Four of the seventeen here sit in that band, all from NetEnt and Microgaming's steadier end of the catalogue.
Medium volatility sits in between: wins come less often than the low band but hit harder when they land. Three titles carry this tag, including both of Blueprint Gaming's Megaways entries.
High volatility is the swingy end — longer stretches without a win, offset by the chance of a much bigger one when a bonus round lands. Ten of the seventeen titles here, mostly from Nolimit City, Big Time Gaming and Pragmatic Play, sit in this band.
Low volatility · 4 titles
Smaller, more frequent wins
Medium volatility · 3 titles
A balance of pace and payout size
High volatility · 10 titles
Quieter stretches, bigger swings
By Studio
The Catalogue, Grouped By Provider
Same seventeen titles, sorted by the studio that built them, so you can see each one's house style side by side.
Pragmatic Play's two entries here both run high volatility with a Bonus Buy option sitting in the paytable, dressed in nature-and-card-symbol reels rather than a single loud theme.
Pragmatic Play
NetEnt's three titles are the calmest corner of this catalogue: all three sit at low volatility, built for longer sessions rather than big single hits.
Microgaming's single entry, a spy-themed low-volatility pick with its own bonus rounds, rounds out the steadier end of the lineup.
Microgaming
Big Time Gaming's two entries swing hard: Apollo Pays leans into Greek mythology across card and gem symbols on high-volatility reels, while Bonanza Falls stacks a Bonus Buy option on top of its own bonus rounds.
Big Time Gaming
Red Tiger Gaming's one title here sets an Arabian Nights scene of legends and magic across high-volatility reels.
Red Tiger Gaming
Nolimit City is the biggest single group here, four titles deep, all high volatility and all carrying a Bonus Buy option across crime, inferno and apocalypse settings.
Blueprint Gaming brings the two Megaways titles in this catalogue, both medium volatility, both built around an animal theme with a Bonus Buy sitting alongside the bonus rounds.
Blueprint Gaming
Playson closes the list out with a festive high-volatility jackpot title and a calmer fruit-and-777 medium-volatility classic.
Two Terms Worth Knowing
Bonus Buy Options And The Megaways Reel Format
Two mechanics show up again and again across this catalogue. Here's what each one actually changes at the reels.
Ten of the seventeen titles here carry a Bonus Buy option, meaning you can pay to jump straight into a bonus round instead of waiting for it to land naturally. Pragmatic Play's 3 Buzzing Wilds is a good example: high-volatility, nature-and-wild-heavy reels, with a Bonus Buy button sitting right there in the paytable alongside the regular bonus rounds.
Two titles, Almighty Bear Megaways and Buffalo Rising Megaways, run on the Megaways reel format. That means reel height and the number of ways to win can change from spin to spin, so a quiet-looking base game can suddenly widen out — a mechanic explained in more detail here.
Worth knowing before you use one: a Bonus Buy spends a larger slice of your balance in a single click than a regular spin does, so it pays to check the bonus terms first if you're part-way through a wagering playthrough.
Budget First
A Bonus Buy is a bigger single spend than a normal spin. Set what you're happy to lose on it before you click, same as you would for any single bet.
Pick A Lane
Seventeen Pokies, Eight Studios, One Sign-Up
Low volatility for a longer, steadier session, high volatility if you don't mind the quiet patches for a shot at something bigger — either way, the whole catalogue sits under one account.