Top 20 games in South African lobbies, October 2026
Our monthly recount of the games South African casinos put in front of their players, from a fresh snapshot of 14 lobbies taken on 1 October 2026.
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The top 20 this month
Places 1 to 20 of our top 100, recounted on 1 October 2026. The last column compares each game with its place in the September count.
| Place | Game | Studio | Since September |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gates of Olympus | Pragmatic Play | same place |
| 2 | Aviator | Spribe | same place |
| 3 | 777 Strike | Red Tiger | same place |
| 4 | Sweet Bonanza | Pragmatic Play | same place |
| 5 | Sugar Rush | Pragmatic Play | same place |
| 6 | JetX | SmartSoft Gaming | up from 11 |
| 7 | Hot Hot Fruit | Habanero | same place |
| 8 | Fire Strike | Pragmatic Play | same place |
| 9 | Joker's Jewels | Pragmatic Play | up from 12 |
| 10 | Crazy Time | Evolution | down from 9 |
| 11 | Hot to Burn | Pragmatic Play | down from 10 |
| 12 | Lightning Roulette | Evolution | down from 6 |
| 13 | Wealth Inn | Habanero | same place |
| 14 | Mystic Fortune Deluxe | Habanero | same place |
| 15 | Skyward | BetGames | up from 19 |
| 16 | Spaceman | Pragmatic Play | up from 20 |
| 17 | Aviatrix | Aviatrix | up from 23 |
| 18 | 5 Lions Megaways | Pragmatic Play | down from 15 |
| 19 | Buffalo King Megaways | Pragmatic Play | up from 24 |
| 20 | Lightning Dice | Evolution | up from 21 |
What moved
The top five did not change: Gates of Olympus, Aviator, 777 Strike, Sweet Bonanza and Sugar Rush hold the same places as in September.
JetX made the biggest climb inside the top 20, from 11th to 6th. Aviatrix rose six places to 17th and Buffalo King Megaways five places to 19th. Lightning Roulette fell the furthest, from 6th to 12th.
Three games left the top 20: Cash Volt is now 21st, Starburst 22nd and Duck Hunters 28th.
How the places are counted
The places follow the same method as the top of our games page, which explains it in full; this post only reports the new count.
Two of the 16 South African lobbies in the September count did not answer on 1 October 2026: YesPlay returned a Cloudflare block (HTTP 403) and Sportingbet a page saying our IP address was blocked. Their rows are missing from this month's count, so part of each move comes from those two lobbies dropping out rather than from a change in the other 14.
Sources
- Lobby snapshot, 1 October 2026. The public lobby pages of 14 South African casinos (Betway, LottoStar, Supabets, SuperSportBet, BetXchange, TicTacBets, Interbet, Luckyfish, Apexbets, Bravobet, Gbets, Springbok, Thunderbolt, ZARbet), read on 1 October 2026; YesPlay and Sportingbet did not answer.
- Lobbies elsewhere in Africa and review sites. The rows of 19 lobbies outside South Africa and the review-site mentions are carried over from the September count, read on 24 September 2026.
- Previous count, 24 September 2026. The September top 100 that the last column compares against, from the snapshot of 16 South African lobbies taken that day.
- The method. How a place is counted, at the top of /games/ on this site.