Game of Thrones Slots Casino

Game of Thrones Slots Casino is Zynga's officially licensed social casino built on HBO's series. It uses the characters, locations, music and iconography of Westeros to dress a set of themed slot machines, and it launched on 30 May 2019 for iOS and Android, with Facebook and Amazon versions following.

Zynga is the San Francisco studio behind Words With Friends, Zynga Poker and FarmVille, and the production values here reflect that. Coins are virtual, cannot be cashed out, and the game carries an 18+ rating for simulated gambling.

What makes it worth a look beyond the licence is that Zynga built more game around the reels than most of this category bothers with. There is a 20-player guild system with real competitive stakes, a pet dragon that grows and gives you perks, and a card collection running underneath everything. If you find pure slot spinning thin, this is one of the few social casinos with answers to that.

Houses are guilds of up to 20 players, with their own chat, and they are the centre of the game's social side rather than a decorative extra.

• Coin sharing: You collect coins when your housemates land big wins. In an active House this runs quietly in the background and is genuinely worth having.
• For the Throne: A weekly league where Houses earn points from spins and Keep control, climbing through Divisions for rewards. The top scorer in the winning House takes the Iron Throne.
• Control the Keeps: A timed contest where Houses fight over locations on a Keeps Map, feeding into Division progress.
• House chat: Built in, and used for coordinating during the weekly challenges.

The practical advice is to join an active House early rather than sitting in an empty one. The coin sharing only pays if your housemates are actually playing, and the weekly league needs a full roster to place well.

Added in June 2020, this is the game's pet progression system and the feature least like anything else in the category. At player level 20 you receive a dragon egg, which hatches over time. Spending Dragon Actions speeds that up.

Once it hatches you name it and feed it, growing it from hatchling through juvenile to a mythic beast. It is not cosmetic. A grown dragon changes how the game plays.

• Dragon Respin: A chance to respin the reels after a spin that did not pay, effectively a second look at a bad result.
• Hourly Bonus Multiplier: A time-based multiplier that increases the coins you receive from other sources. Worth being clear about: this is a multiplier on rewards, not a separate bonus you collect.
• Dragon Missions: Send the dragon out on timed missions, paid for with dragon food, and collect coins and Dragon XP when it returns.

Dragon Missions are the part most players underuse. They run on their own clock while you are away, so setting one going before you close the app is free value.

Cards drop from spins and events, and completing a set pays a large coin bonus. They come in Common, Rare and Epic rarities, and cover the major houses across the series, Stark, Lannister, Targaryen, Baratheon and the rest.

This is a long game rather than a daily one. Zynga said players had collected more than 121 million cards within the first couple of years, which gives a sense of how central it is to keeping people playing past the novelty of the licence.

The machines are the familiar shape: pick one, set a bet, spin, and hope for matching symbols, bonus rounds and features. Holding the spin button for about two seconds starts Auto-Spin, which continues until you stop it or run out of coins.

The machines

Named machines include Mother of Dragons, The Iron Throne, The Pack Survives, The Night King and Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Several are gated behind high levels, including Claim to the Iron Islands, Targaryen Dynasty II and The Greens and the Blacks II, the last of which draws on House of the Dragon.

Group Play and the Social Jackpot

Some machines, including Journey on the Kingsroad and 7 Kingdoms of Westeros, put everyone in a shared room contributing Jackpot Symbols to a common trail. When it fills, the payout is shared. It is the one place where playing at the same time as other people directly changes what you earn.

Win tiers

Wins are graded against your bet: 10 to 24 times is a Big Win, 25 to 49 an Epic Win, 50 or more a Legendary Win, and 100 or more a Colossal Win. These names come up constantly in quest objectives, so they are worth knowing.

As with every game in this category, outcomes are random and Zynga does not publish return-to-player figures, hit rates or volatility for any machine.

Experience comes from spinning, completing quests and joining events, and levelling unlocks machines, features and higher bet ranges. The ceiling is a long way up: some machines do not appear until well past level 3000.

Quests unlock at level 7 and are the system most worth engaging with early. They set concrete objectives, such as landing a number of Big Wins on a particular machine, and pay coins for completing them. Some repeat.

Running alongside is the Kingdom Pass, a seasonal reward track in the battle pass mould. There is a free path open to everyone, and a paid path with larger rewards and access to exclusive seasonal machines. New seasons arrive regularly, usually themed around a storyline from the show.

There are more free routes here than in most social casinos, and only one of them involves catching a link. For the links that are live now, see our Game of Thrones Slots free coins page.

• Daily bonus wheel: Spins automatically when you open the game. Rewards climb across a seven day streak and peak on day seven, and missing a day resets it to the start.
• Zynga's web store: The official store at store.gotslotscasino.zynga.com carries a free coin offer redeemable once a day, separate from anything posted socially. Most players never look at it.
• Quests: Coin payouts for completing objectives, available from level 7.
• House rewards: Coins collected when housemates hit big wins, plus whatever the weekly league pays.
• Dragon Missions: Coins and Dragon XP when a mission you sent out completes.
• Group Play jackpots: A share of the trail payout on shared machines.
• Card sets: A large coin bonus each time you complete a collection.
• Posted links: Zynga puts coin links on the official Facebook page and Instagram account. These are the ones with a deadline, usually a day or two.

The web store offer is the standout piece of advice here, because it needs no timing and no luck, and it is the one source that is neither in the game nor on a social feed.

No. Coins are virtual, there is no withdrawal mechanism, and nothing you win can be converted to cash or prizes. Zynga labels the game for entertainment only, and both stores rate it 18+ for simulated gambling content.

Buying coins does not change that. Money goes in one direction and what comes back is playing time. It is worth saying plainly that success here predicts nothing about wagering real money, because the two are different activities with different mathematics.

The game does use the same presentation as a real slot floor, from near-miss animations to escalating win celebrations, and it is worth being conscious of that if you find yourself buying coins to keep a session going.

• iPhone and iPad: Through the App Store, requiring iOS or iPadOS 15.0 or later, at roughly 360 MB.
• Android: Through Google Play, with more than five million downloads.
• Facebook: A web version playable in the browser.
• Amazon: Available through the Amazon Appstore.

Progress carries between devices through Zynga's account system and Facebook Connect, so link the account before you build up a balance and a dragon you would be sorry to lose. Zynga updates the game regularly, with new machines and Kingdom Pass seasons arriving on a steady cadence.

Game of Thrones Slots sits among the licensed social casinos, where the draw is the brand as much as the machines. These are the closest comparisons we cover.

• Wizard of Oz Slots: The other major licensed social casino, with a similar approach of wrapping familiar characters around the reels.
• Jackpot Party Casino: SciPlay, carrying licensed cabinets you would recognise from a real casino floor rather than a television licence.
• Zynga Poker: Zynga's own, if the appeal here is the studio and the social systems rather than slots specifically.
• House of Fun: Playtika, built around collectible albums, which is the closest match for the character card idea.
• Heart of Vegas: Product Madness, with real Aristocrat machines and a much busier reward-link feed.
• Slotomania: Playtika's market leader, a far larger library but without the guild or pet systems.
• Cash Tornado Slots: A useful contrast on the social side, where the team mechanics are lighter than the House system here.

Where this one leads is depth: the House competition, the dragon and the card collection give it more to do than almost anything else in the category, and the licence is used properly rather than pasted on. Where it lags is patience, since the best features are gated behind levels and the highest machines are a very long way up.