Games Lab is a small Sydney studio with one big idea about reels: they should grow while you play. Its Towering Pays slots add rows, its Infinity Reels games add whole reels after every win, and the Games Lab casinos in our database are where you will find both.
Below the list: where the studio comes from, how its two mechanics work, what the RTP figures say and what to check before you sign up.
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What is Games Lab known for?
Games Lab is a slot studio in Sydney, Australia, incorporated in 2008 as part of the Blue Wombat group. It is known for its own Towering Pays mechanic, where the grid grows from 5x3 to 5x8, and for Infinity Reels games such as Royal Dragon Infinity Reels, released through Yggdrasil's YG Masters programme together with ReelPlay.
Games Lab did not start out in online casinos. According to its company profile, Games Lab Services was incorporated in Sydney in 2008 as part of the Blue Wombat group, which dates back to 2002, and its team of mathematicians, designers, artists, animators, sound designers and testers has made games for land based machines, mobile, online and social casinos.
The studio ran its own social casino, Slots Central, on Facebook from 2012 and on Android and iOS from late 2013, and in 2015 it even released a fantasy game called Final War: 5 Dragons. The earliest real money slots we can date are Tianlong from October 2016, a 5×3 slot with 10 lines and a respin wild, and Crazy Pop from March 2017, a 50 line game with optional Fizzy and Crazy bets that SlotCatalog says lift the RTP from 95.08% to 96.02%.
SlotCatalog lists 19 Games Lab titles in total. That is a small catalogue, so even the best stocked Games Lab casinos only show a short row of its games.
The breakout came in 2021. Royal Dragon Infinity Reels launched first at LeoVegas in March and went wide in April, released by Yggdrasil and ReelPlay as part of the YG Masters programme. Infinity Reels is ReelPlay’s mechanic, and Games Lab built its own version of it.
This is how a round plays out:
Olympus Infinity Reels followed in June 2021 as a Unibet exclusive, with Zeus as the wild and the same growing multiplier. The dragon came first, the Greek gods second, and the two play very much alike.
Infinity Reels was borrowed. Towering Pays is Games Lab’s own, and trade press called it the studio’s proprietary mechanic when Yggdrasil launched the Viking version.
SlotCatalog dates Towering Pays Babylon to April 2021. Towering Pays Valhalla followed that August, first at LeoVegas and then through YG Masters, and it shows the idea best. Tower symbols land stacked, and when towers hit reels one, two and three the grid grows a row, from 5×3 up to 5×8, while the paylines climb from 15 to 65. Four free spins modes wait at the end: Valkyrie, Loki, Thor and Odin, with Odin the richest.
Towering Pays Excalibur, out in February 2022, put King Arthur on the same growing grid and added a Quest Bet that unlocks a hold and spin feature, a feature wheel and the Avalon spins named after Lancelot, Merlin, Arthur and Camelot.
Towering Ways Aztec from May 2023 starts in a 2-3-4-3-2 diamond with 144 ways and can grow to 4-5-6-5-4 and 2,400 ways, with a Warrior or Shaman bonus at the end.
Figures as SlotCatalog lists them, except where noted:
| Slot | Released | Base RTP | Bonus buy RTP | Max win |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tianlong | 2016 | 95.24% | None listed | 2,400x |
| Royal Dragon Infinity Reels | 2021 | 95.85% | 96.54% | 2,653x |
| Towering Pays Valhalla | 2021 | 95.75% | 96.55% | 10,000x |
| Towering Pays Excalibur | 2022 | 95.7% (95.58% at launch) | Not listed | 6,500x |
| Towering Ways Aztec | 2023 | 95.42% | 96.04% | 20,000x |
Two patterns jump out. Every base RTP in the table sits below 96%, lower than many players assume, and the bonus buy versions pay back more than the base game. That is not a reason to buy. A buy is one large stake, it is not offered to UK players, and the higher figure applies to the buy itself, not to your normal spins.
We found no distribution deal in Games Lab’s own name. Its best known slots were made by Games Lab, distributed through ReelPlay, a fellow Australian studio and YG Masters partner, and released by Yggdrasil on its GATI toolkit. That is why you will often find Games Lab casinos among the ones on our Yggdrasil casinos page, and why the Infinity Reels games sit so close to the ones on our ReelPlay casinos page. Royal Dragon and Valhalla opened at LeoVegas and Olympus at Unibet before going wide.
We found no gambling licence in Games Lab’s own name. The newest title SlotCatalog lists is Towering Ways Aztec from 2023, and we found no later release news, so we cannot say whether more games are coming.
The list at the top of this page shows the open Games Lab casinos in our database, with closed and blacklisted sites left out. With only 19 titles in the catalogue, search the lobby for the exact game you want before you deposit, and if you need more choice, our game provider directory covers the bigger studios.
The licence comes first: it has to cover the country you live in, and if online casinos are not legal there, do not play. Then the withdrawal terms, meaning limits, processing times and when identity checks happen.
Third, the info screen, because the RTP on these games is modest to begin with. Last, the bonus terms. If you plan to play Towering Pays or Infinity Reels slots with bonus money, check that they count towards wagering and whether bonus buys are blocked while the bonus is active.
In Sydney, Australia. Games Lab Services Pty Ltd was incorporated in 2008 and is part of the Blue Wombat group, which was founded in 2002.
Games Lab’s own mechanic. Stacked tower symbols grow the grid one row at a time, from 5×3 up to 5×8, which raises the number of paylines, and in Towering Pays Valhalla reaching the full 5×8 grid triggers a bonus offer. It is the slot to look for first in Games Lab casinos.
No. Infinity Reels is ReelPlay’s mechanic. Games Lab built Royal Dragon Infinity Reels and Olympus Infinity Reels with it, both released in 2021.
In the games we checked, the base RTP sits between 95.24% and 95.85%. Bonus buy versions run higher, for example 96.54% on Royal Dragon Infinity Reels. Always check the info screen in Games Lab casinos, because the figure can differ.
We cannot confirm it. The newest title SlotCatalog lists is Towering Ways Aztec from May 2023, and we found no announcements after that.
Towering Pays Valhalla if you want the studio’s own idea, Royal Dragon Infinity Reels if you prefer reels that keep growing to the right. Both are high volatility, so start with small stakes.
Games Lab is one of several Australian studios behind the growing reel formats, and the index below lists every provider we cover with its open casinos.
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