An Innovative Online Casino Gaming Trend Is Tearing Up the Skies

Ever since the advancements in technology made the appearance of the first online casinos possible in the second half of the 1990’s, constant innovations such as high-speed mobile connections, live streams, and more lately - augmented reality (AR), crypto, and artificial intelligence (AI), have kept the world of online gambling dynamic and fast paced.

However, innovation knows no boundaries and the latest hit trend in online casino gaming - the so-called cash or crash, or simply crash, games, is delivering growth at an unprecedented scale. Last year witnessed the beginning of a true crash game online frenzy that is not only shifting the structure of operator turnovers, but is altering some of the most fundamental concepts that shape online gambling.

Primary industry data for 2022 shared by the SevenJackpots online casino comparison platform reveals just how impressive growths registered by crash games were.

One of the studios that focus on producing crash games - an emerging player on the B2B casino gaming market called Spribe, experienced a 450% growth in unique player count for the first 10 months of last year, starting from 0.44% and ending up at 2.43%.

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As we see in the graph, there was even a massive single jump of 194% (from 0.95% to 2.79%) between July and August.

A quick validation with Google Trends shows that searches in India for “Aviator game” which is Spribe’s biggest hit title have never stopped growing for the last 12 months.

Similar findings from a variety of public sources are reported by SevenJackpots in their dedicated research paper titled “Crash Games Making Waves in Online Gambling” and compared to their internal data observations. They all point to one and the same fact - the interest for crash games is huge and is still growing.

The Unique Features of Aviator and Other Crash Games

As we already mentioned in the beginning of this article, it is not just the massive growth that sets aside cash or crash games from all other casino games, as they have a number of unique features that change casino gaming concepts on the fundamental level.

In most basic terms, Aviator and the whole innovative crash game genre revolve around a quickly growing bet multiplier. Players have the option to cash out any time and monetize whatever value the multiplier has reached at the time of cash out, or wait for the multiplier to get even bigger, but risk a sudden crash event like the red aeroplane of the brave Aviator flying away and making the multiplier a “0”.

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Who Is Holding the Wheel?

In the majority of casino games, the player hands over the control to the live croupier (or the virtual algorithm) after making the initial bet. Even in games like blackjack, where the player gets to decide on a move after receiving their hand, it is the dealer who handles the cards and the whole game.

Crash games reverse the roles and put the control entirely in the hands of the gamer. The player holds the cash out button and may press it any time, weighing the risk and the potential gains if they wait some more.

"Biggest factor for me, what makes them different from the other games is that you do have a choice and it's really good to have a choice. You don't spin the roulette wheel, you don't deal the cards, and with these games you do have a choice and it puts back control to a certain extent in your hands," comments Svilen Madjov, Industry Researcher at SevenJackpots.

Provably Fair Casino Gaming

Handling the control over to players is not limited to the mere gameplay in crash games and extends to the whole technical structure of the game which can be verified for fairness at any point of time by any participant.

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Crash games have their origins in crypto and are run by “provably fair technology” which combines a game server seed with a seed generated by the user’s device in order to generate random outcomes.

Players can browse the game history and check that all round results have been fair and this brings an entirely new level of trust between provider and user.

Fashionable Heavy-Duty Immersive Gameplay Crashes into New Trend

According to numerous primary data-based observations in SevenJackpots industry reports, Indian real money players have a predominant liking for live, immersive and visually heavy content. This preference is perfectly in line with global trends, which have seen casino game developers produce heavier and heavier and more feature- loaded games.

The explosive development of crash games, however, runs in the opposite direction. They are light, simple, fast, don’t require devices with expensive system resources, and never have a live dealer, even though they have a live chat for players.

It remains to be seen where the immense and continuous growth in popularity of crash games will take them and how they will change the landscape of “traditional”online casino gaming, but one thing is sure - crash games are here to stay.

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