To provide a game machine providing an advantageous game state to a player in the configuration of simultaneously performing variable display of a first special symbol and variable display of a second special symbol and to prevent a unnatural performance even when the first special symbol is forcibly stopped.

When the variable display of the first special symbol and the second special symbol is performed simultaneously, on condition that the variable display of the second special symbol is stopped before the variable display of the first special symbol, the game machine sets a performance pattern to be executed according to the variable display of the first special symbol to a performance pattern corresponding to the remaining time before the variable display of the first special symbol is forcibly stopped at a losing symbol and executes performance control.