Casino software providers: who makes the games you play

Which verified casinos name which studios

Not every casino publishes its supplier list. These do, at least in part.

Zodiac's lobby shows titles that look like Games Global content, but the site doesn't say so, and a guess isn't a fact. Betsoft, iSoftBet and BGaming aren't named by any casino on our list: check on site if you're looking for them specifically.

Games Global (formerly Microgaming)

The name changed; the catalogue didn't. Microgaming's games now sit under Games Global, and Apricot is the platform brand you'll see on some Baytree sites. For Canadian players this is the backbone: every Baytree casino on our list names it.

This is the home of Mega Moolah, still the progressive jackpot people mean when they say "the jackpot". Try the classics in demo: Mega Moolah, Thunderstruck II, Tomb Raider 2 and Bridesmaids. Old release news: Countess Cash, Bushi Sushi.

Evolution, NetEnt and Red Tiger

One group, three very different studios.

Evolution is the live-dealer giant: roulette, blackjack, game shows. On our list only PlayOJO names it (60+ live games). More on our live casino page.

NetEnt, now part of Evolution, made its name with polished video slots and a deep set of table games. Our NetEnt demos are mostly tables: Single Deck Blackjack, Double Exposure, Pontoon Pro, French Roulette, Roulette Pro and Mini Roulette. News: Archangels: Salvation.

Red Tiger, also in the Evolution family, is known for daily-drop jackpots. PlayOJO names it. No demo pages for it on our site yet.

Pragmatic Play and Play'n GO

Pragmatic Play is everywhere. Spin Casino, Jackpot City, Ruby Fortune and PlayOJO all name it, and Royal Vegas runs Pragmatic Play Live for its live tables. Slots, live games, bingo: they do a bit of everything, and they release at a pace that's frankly hard to keep up with. That pace is half the reason the "new games" row in your lobby looks different every month.

Play'n GO, the Swedish studio behind Book of Dead, is named only by PlayOJO on our list. Neither studio has a demo page on our site yet; we're not going to fake one.

Playtech

One of the oldest names in online casino software, and a huge table-game catalogue. PlayOJO names it. Our Playtech demos: Blackjack Surrender, Blackjack Switch, Progressive Blackjack, 3D Roulette, Club Roulette and Double Zero Roulette. Playtech also makes branded slots; see our note on The Walking Dead: Cash Collect.

Blackjack Switch, by the way, is the one we'd send a blackjack player to first. Two hands, swap the second cards. Strange. Fun.

IGT

If you've walked through the Casino de Montréal, you've walked past IGT machines. IGT is a land-based slot maker first, and its online versions carry the same titles. Loto-Québec's own online casino runs IGT tournaments too.

PlayOJO names IGT. Our demos: Cleopatra, Da Vinci Diamonds, Wolf Run and Cats. Old-school, simple, and Cleopatra in particular has outlived most of the slots released alongside it.

Betsoft and iSoftBet

Neither is named by a casino on our verified list (check on site). We still keep their demos, because the games themselves are fine for learning the rules.

Betsoft is best known for cinematic 3D slots, but our pages are table games: American Blackjack, European Blackjack, Blackjack, American Roulette, European Roulette, Zoom Roulette and Craps.

iSoftBet: Cherry Trio, Roulette 3D, Roulette Silver and European Roulette Small Bets. That last one is handy if you want to practise with tiny stakes in your head before trying a real table.

Push Gaming, Hacksaw Gaming and BGaming

The newer, louder end of the market.

Push Gaming makes high-volatility slots with big multipliers; PlayOJO names it. Its best-known game is probably Jammin' Jars, which we covered in an old news note. Hacksaw Gaming started with scratch cards and moved into very swingy slots; Spin Casino and Jackpot City both name it. BGaming turns up mostly at crypto-oriented casinos, and none of our verified casinos names it, so check on site.

A warning that applies to all three: high volatility means long dry spells. Don't size your bets for the big win in the trailer. Size them for the hundred spins before it (which may never come).

Other names on the lobby walls

Quickly, because you'll see them: Blueprint Gaming (named by Spin Casino, Jackpot City and PlayOJO), Spribe (Spin Casino; the crash game Aviator is theirs), Big Time Gaming (the Megaways mechanic, at PlayOJO), plus Relax Gaming, Yggdrasil, ELK and Wazdan at PlayOJO.

And two older names from our 2023 pages that aren't on the list above: Realtime Gaming, with Perfect Pairs, Super 21 and Craps, and Rival, with its own Craps. None of our verified casinos names either studio.

Why the provider matters to you

Mostly for RTP. Many studios offer several return-to-player versions of the same game, and the casino picks one. The figure in the game's info screen at your casino is the one that counts; a review site's number (ours included) is only the provider's default.

And partly for trust. Big studios usually have their games certified by independent test labs, and they're choosy about who they supply. A casino listing well-known providers isn't proof it's a good casino, but an unlicensed site claiming dozens of top studios with no footer is a pattern we've learned to distrust. Our new casinos page explains how we vet sites.

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