The Nines game catalogue, sorted by temperament

Most game lobbies are sorted by popularity or release date. That tells you nothing about how a game will treat your balance. This page sorts the eight titles that Nines highlights by the one property that shapes every session: volatility. Each game has its own page with the mechanics explained, the numbers we could confirm, and the numbers we deliberately left out.

The eight titles

Book of Dead

Side by side

Game	Developer	Volatility	What defines it
Mental 2	Nolimit City	Extreme	Expanding rows, multiplier wilds, xSplit
Dead, Dead or Deader	Nolimit City	Extreme	243 ways, RTP shipped in several versions
Book of Dead	Play'n GO	High	Expanding symbol in free spins, 10 lines
Wild Bandito	PG Soft	Medium	1,024 ways, cascades, growing multiplier
Chicken Train	100HP Gaming	Chosen by you	Difficulty modes, cash out any time
Aviator	see the game	see rules panel	Multiplier climbs until the plane leaves
Pinata Wins	see the game	see rules panel	Fiesta theme, details in the paytable
Wild Bounty Showdown	see the game	see rules panel	Wild West theme, details in the paytable

Picking a game by volatility

Extreme: Mental 2, Dead, Dead or Deader

Both come from Nolimit City and both sit in the top volatility band. Expect long stretches where little comes back, with most of the theoretical return locked inside rare bonus rounds. These games suit large session budgets and players who are genuinely fine walking away without ever seeing a feature.

High: Book of Dead

Play'n GO's classic keeps its big moments for the free spins, where one randomly chosen symbol can expand across whole reels. The base game is quieter than the extreme titles but still swingy.

Medium: Wild Bandito

Cascades and a multiplier that grows with every consecutive cascade produce more frequent, smaller wins. If you want a longer session from the same money, start here.

Your call: Chicken Train

No reels at all. You pick a difficulty mode and decide when to cash out, so you set the volatility yourself. The house edge stays the same whatever you choose.

Unconfirmed: Aviator, Pinata Wins, Wild Bounty Showdown

We have no reliable developer data for these three. Their pages show you how to read the rules panel and paytable instead of guessing.

RTP, volatility and hit rate are three different things

RTP is the share of stakes a game is designed to return over a very large number of rounds: 96.73% for Wild Bandito, 96.06% for Mental 2. Volatility is how unevenly that return is spread. Hit rate is how often any win lands at all. Two games with nearly identical RTP can behave like opposites, one dripping small wins every few spins, the other paying almost nothing and then a lot. For a single evening, volatility is the number that matters.

Look before you stake

Open the info panel before the first spin: paytable, feature rules and usually the RTP of the version you are running. Where the operator offers a demo mode, fifty to a hundred free spins with play money will tell you more about a game's rhythm than any review.

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How a casino catalogue is put together

Lobbies are usually split into reel slots, crash games, table games and live dealer tables. The casino does not build these games; studios do. Play'n GO, Nolimit City, PG Soft and 100HP Gaming are the developers behind the titles on this page, and each one sets the maths, volatility and RTP of its own games.

That is why the same slot behaves identically at different operators, as long as the same RTP version is switched on. The category guides go deeper: slots, live casino and table games.

Games FAQ

Which of these games has the smoothest ride?

Wild Bandito. PG Soft rates its volatility as medium, so wins arrive more often and in smaller steps than in the other slots on this page.

Why do two slots with almost the same RTP feel so different?

Because RTP only describes the long-run average. Volatility describes how unevenly that average is paid out, and that is what you feel in a single session.

Where are the RTP figures for Aviator, Pinata Wins and Wild Bounty Showdown?

We only publish figures confirmed by the developer or several independent sources. For these three titles we have none, so we point you to the rules panel inside each game.

Is the RTP the same at every casino?

Not always. Some studios ship a game in several RTP versions and the operator picks one. The game's own info panel shows which version you are playing.

casino-nines.com is an independent guide, not the operator of Nines. Developer, RTP and volatility figures come from the studios; always confirm the live version inside the game.