Best Online Pokies in Australia for 2026

Fury Dragon Hold and Win comes from the gallery of Betsoft, which has a fantastic lineup of pokies. The game has 5 reels and 3 rows and medium-high volatility, which is just the sweet spot to deliver generous wins at a solid rate, usually every 4-8 spins. The base game has 20 paylines and several random features, like the Stacked Mystery Symbols, which replace all symbols except wilds and the Golden Dragon.

The low card symbols pay out modestly, but whenever some of the golden (high) symbols connected, the payout was at least 2 times bigger than my bet. While the game accepts half-currency wagers of up to A$1, the maximum is A$50.

Now, the Golden Dragon is the game’s top symbol and the key to the Hold and Win round. You need at least 6 Golden Dragons to trigger the bonus game randomly, but it can easily take around 100-200 spins to get there. The Bonus Buy feature allows you access to the Hold and Win round, and the cost depends on your current bet size.

I paid around A$200 for 3 free spins and 6 Golden Dragon symbols that stuck in place and turned into cash symbols. At the end of the round, I cashed in about A$640, thanks to the re-spin feature, which kept the play going. This brought my winning total to over A$1,300, easily making Fury Dragon one of the best high payout pokies at the moment.

The catchy Chinese theme, solid base game wins, and rewarding Hold and Win feature, where 4 fixed jackpots are up for grabs, make Fury Dragon one of the best online pokies in Australia for 2026.

Sugar Merge Up is one of BGaming’s best games, and that says a lot for a provider known for top-tier games with industry-leading RTPs, such as Elvis Frog Trueways or Gold Rush With Johnny Cash.

This one has an RTP of 97%, so the main game payouts will be high over time. And there are features like the Chance x2, free spins, a bonus buy option, Booster modes, and free spins that make the gameplay exciting.

I started with the Chance x2 mode on, which, for a slight bump in my bet, made it easier to trigger free spins. I got my first free spins in under 150 spins, and even until then, the cluster-pays mechanics and cell multipliers proved very rewarding in the base game, dropping wins from 1.5x to 3x my bet.

Sugar Merge Up also introduces a special ‘Merge Up’ feature where high-level symbols merge and level up into even higher-value symbols, with multipliers.

The Merge Up feature is solid and did at one point land a A$200 payout, but it doesn’t appear often. On the other hand, when I triggered the first free spins (with the Chance x2 mode on), it netted me around A$400, and that’s with a pretty small bet size. The great thing about how the spins work is that every win boosts the cell multiplier, so even the low-symbol combinations get boosted.

If the situation with the special features is slow, you can buy some of the in-game features, such as random multiplier boosters, free spins, or spins with cell multipliers. Despite everything, in the end, time was short, and I had to accept a loss of nearly A$200, but that’s just how it is with pokies.

Holmes and the Stolen Stones is not just one of Yggdrasil’s best-known games but also one of their best overall.

The format is 5 reels and 3 rows, which is the standard format for most video pokies nowadays. There are 20 paylines in the base game, and combined with the medium volatility, the win rate is solid, usually on every 4th to 8th spin, with good payouts. For example, on a A$1.5 wager, the payout was often from A$1.75 to A$2, even with low symbols.

Now, there are two special features that make this one of the best real money online pokies: the bonus games and the free spins. You need 3, 4, or 5 bonus symbols (keyhole symbol) to activate the bonus game, and you get an additional 1,000 and 10,000 coins if you land 4 or 5 symbols, respectively.

The free spins can add an even bigger boost to the payouts, with added multipliers, plus they activate 5 in-game jackpots. You need at least 5 diamond symbols of the same colour to win a jackpot. I didn’t win a jackpot, but the round paid out around A$45, and I wagered less than A$20 before it activated.

The feature activation rate can be a bit slow at times, though the high RTP will balance the money you spend until you activate bonus games or free spins. And when one of these features triggers, it’s a whole different game, with multipliers and jackpots that deliver the game’s best payouts. By the end, I had wagered only about A$400 from my budget and collected A$320.

About 4 years after the release of 5 Lions Megaways, Pragmatic Play introduced an updated version of their hit game that brings back the Megaways engine, free spin features, and multipliers from the original, while adding a few more twists.

Unlike the original’s 5,000x multiplier, 5 Lions Megaways 2 has an 8,000x maximum multiplier, and the in-game multipliers drop at a higher rate compared to the first game. I set a higher wager of A$10, but you can set it at a low A$1 or wager in half currencies, or go up to A$240 per spin.

The A$10 was enough to net me solid payouts every 5 to 7 spins, and by solid, I mean wagering A$10 and winning over A$50, and that is without triggering any features.

For a bump in bet size, you can turn on the feature-activation button and get a 7 times bigger chance to land free spins. After about 15 spins with the feature on, the game landed 3 Yin and Yang symbols and offered 8 free spin modes with multipliers, plus the option for Mystery spins.

Note that the bigger the batch, the lower the multipliers, and vice versa. For example, 25 free spins come with 2x to 8x multipliers, but 5 spins come with 20x to 100x multipliers. I picked 10 spins with 10x to 30x multipliers, which paid out around A$450. By the end of my session, though, I had lost the entire bankroll.

It’s worth noting that apart from the Megaways mechanics, the game has tumbling reels, meaning that after every payout, the winning symbols disappear and random ones tumble down on the reels.

Hacksaw Gaming has 2 of the 3 best Western pokies online: Duel at Dawn and Wanted Dead or a Wild, but it’s the first one that’s the showpiece of Hacksaw’s gallery.

Stylistically, Duel at Dawn looks like Wanted Dead or a Wild, featuring 5 reels and 5 rows, but has a maximum win multiplier of 15,000x against Wanted’s 12,500x.

Speaking of multipliers, the win multipliers are one of Duel at Dawn’s most rewarding features, with multipliers from 2x to 200x included in the special Outlaw Feature. To activate the Outlaw feature, you need at least one Outlaw symbol, which expands on the reel it lands on, making it a wild reel. The feature activates a revolver that fires 1 to 6 bullets into Wild symbols on the grid.

The game also includes Hacksaw’s signature DuelReel and the special expanding VS symbols, which include win multipliers from 2x to 200x on the round’s total payout. There are several other features that you can activate through the Buy Bonus option, including:

• Bonus Hunt feature: When activated, every spin increases the possibility of winning free spins by 5 times.
• Wild Wild West: This bonus unlocks 10 free spins with the possibility of triggering re-spins or special Outlaw or VS symbols during the bonus round.
• Dusk ‘Til Dawn: This is also a free spins round awarding 10 spins where you can trigger DuelSpins with guaranteed VS symbols if you land Outlaw symbols and shoot the entire 6-bullet chamber

Pragmatic Play is like the father of online pokies, known for The Dog House, the Gates of Olympus series, and the Buffalo series.

The Buffalo lineup includes my pick for one of the best Australian pokies online, Buffalo King Untamed Megaways, a 6-reel pokie with high volatility and a mix of symbols and features, including wild multipliers that deliver generous payouts even in the base game.

The minimum bet is A$0.20, and the maximum is A$24, which is quite low, but I don’t mind the limit. With A$24 per spin, the Megaways engine with a modified grid of up to 7 symbols, and the high-value animal symbols can link up into combinations easily over 2x, 3x of your current bet.

I played the first 30-40 spins at A$7.5 per wager and had the feature-activation mode turned on, which tweaks the game’s algorithm to triple the chance of winning free spins. I landed a few solid payouts from A$15 to A$60, but no free spins, so I was ready to accept some loss.

Finally, 4 bonus symbols landed, activating 10 free spins, which paid out a total of A$491 by the round’s end. I wanted to explore more, so I used this payout to buy free spins for A$500. The 10 free spins that I activated proved even better, triggering a payout of over A$800, bringing my total winnings from the base game and free spins to around A$1,200.

Elvis Frog Trueways came out in 2022, but it still feels like one of the most modern pokies online today. It’s a bonus buy jackpot pokie with a Trueways payout mechanic. The grid features 6 reels and 2 to 7 symbols per reel, which is similar to most Megaways games.

The developer has rated the game’s volatility as ‘very high,’ and you feel that as you play: the wins in the main game are fewer and farther between, but they are not small, especially combos with high symbols like the guitar, microphone, or retro car, which pay in a combination of 3 to 6 of a kind.

The real MVPs here are the built-in features, including the Coin Respin, where 6 or more gold Coin symbols bring multipliers from 1x to 100x in the base game. Plus, the Coin Respin game includes a special Lightning symbol that splits the cells into smaller cells, creating more free spots for new symbols to land.

When the Coin Respin is active, you can win one of 4 jackpots, and to win the Mega prize, all 48 positions need to be filled with Coin symbols. A Chance x2 button is included; double your bet, and it doubles your chance to win free spins. I skipped the Chance x2 this time and straight out bought into the Coin Respin for A$400, but you can also buy regular free spins with win multipliers.

Earlier, I said Hacksaw has 2 of the 3 best Western-themed pokies. Well, the third one is Money Train 2 from Relax Gaming, which has been one of the top Australian online pokies for years.

Money Train 2 is my favourite from the franchise, featuring a large 50,000x maximum win, an above-average RTP and a 5×4 grid with 40 paylines, where you need 3 to 5 symbols for a win.

You can randomly win respins in the base game, which land when 2 regular bonus symbols appear, but they are not your usual respins. Instead of the respins ending when there’s a non-winning combo, these respins end when you win. Until that first win, all non-winning respins add a +1 multiplier, which boosts the win.

The base game win rate is slow, which is normal for a high-volatility pokie, but the payouts won’t disappoint. I set a A$2 per spin wager, and smaller wins with low card symbols ranged from about A$1.5 to A$2.5, and the payout jumped significantly from 2x to 15x my bet with the high symbols.

The Money Cart free spin round is the game’s top feature, and you can either buy it or wait for at least 3 bonus symbols to land anywhere. If a reel fills up with symbols, an extra reel is added. Two extra reels can appear, and if all reels are filled with symbols, you will trigger a 500x bet multiplier.

Vikings Go To Olympus, which came out in 2025, is not only the best in Yggdrasil’s Vikings series but also one of the best real money online pokies you can play in Australia.

It is a 5×4 grid with 25 paylines, but the game is packed with features: free spins, a special Berzerk feature, a Zeus feature, and a WildFight with multipliers. Medium-high volatility offers a great balance between a decent win rate and great payouts. On a A$1 wager per spin, my average wins most of the time topped A$1.5 or A$2.

The hit rate of the bonus features is high, and the Wild Respin is probably the one that activates fastest: Viking symbols duel Zeus and Poseidon, and if they win, they turn into sticky wilds.

The Scatter symbols and free spins connect all the dots in this game, linking up most of the features, including the base-game Rage Collection. During free spins, the Wild Respin can trigger, turning Wilds sticky. To activate 6, 8 or 10 free spins, you need 3, 4, or 5 Scatters, respectively.

If just 2 Scatters appear, it triggers the RushingWilds feature with respins where Wild symbols can become sticky and add multipliers on the next respin. In the free spins mode, high-value symbols fight on every spin, basically triggering the WildFight on every spin, and they can become sticky with a +1 multiplier. Also, if new Scatters appear during the free spin game, they add 1 extra free spin.

The Rage Collection is a lineup of Viking symbols, and as you play, some low or high sub-symbols will add 1 or 2 points to the collection. When you finally collect enough of these, the next time the free spins activate, the Viking from the collection will go Berzerk, meaning it will win all WildFights and become sticky.

I’ve played Wazdan games before, but not many, so I started this one with a budget of A$800. The reel-row setup is unique, with several smaller reel setups on the sides of the game with either 2 reels and 3 rows or 2 rows and 3 reels. The game essentially has 29 reels, but the setup is unlike anything I’ve seen before.

The highlights of the game are the Hold the Jackpot and Collect to Infinity Features. The first one needs at least 6 bonus symbols to trigger 3 respins, and the good part is that the special bonus symbols that activate the bonus stick on the reels for up to 10 re-spins during the base game.

The Collect to Infinity feature is linked to the ‘pay anywhere’ engine: there are no fixed paylines, and wins can form anywhere, so long as you trigger from 10 to 22+ symbols of a kind. To really get your wagers’ worth, you need at least 12 low symbols and usually 10 high symbols to win more than you wagered. The wager limits range from a low of A$ 0.10 to a maximum of A$10,000.

There’s also a Gamble feature where you can gamble with a 50% chance to double your wins, up to 7 times in a row. Plus, the game has adjustable volatility, and you can play at low, medium, or high volatility.