PG Soft: Mobile Slots and the SEA Catalogue

PG Soft is a Malta-licensed games studio, trading formally as Pocket Games Software Limited, that builds slots for phone screens first and sells them to online casinos rather than to players. Its titles, Mahjong Ways and Fortune Tiger among them, are a staple of Southeast Asian casino lobbies, and each game page on its site publishes an RTP, a volatility rating and a maximum win. The surprise is on its own company page: PG Soft says its services are not available in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan. This page sets out what we could verify about the studio, what its published numbers mean, and what that regional list tells a player in Asia who sees its games in a casino lobby.

A note on sourcing: PG Soft’s website refused our requests, so its own statements below come from archived copies of its pages, dated in the sources list. The licence details come from the Malta Gaming Authority’s live register, which we checked on 19 October 2026.

Who Is Behind PG Soft

PG Soft’s company page says the brand, “also known as Pocket Games Soft”, was founded in 2015. It made its first trade-show appearance at ICE in London in 2017 and said at the time that its games would be released in the fourth quarter of that year. The page describes a team of games, film and television veterans “working in tandem with the Maths graduates from Oxford and Cambridge University”, and claims protection from nine patent certificates issued by European authorities. Those are the company’s own descriptions; we have not checked them.

The address in the site footer is Valletta Buildings, South Street, Valletta, Malta. That matters, because it is how we matched the brand to a licensed company.

Like any studio, PG Soft is a supplier. It does not open player accounts, take deposits or pay out winnings. Every one of those relationships is between you and the casino that runs its games.

The Malta Licence, Checked on the Register

PG Soft’s website shows a single regulator’s logo in its licensing panel, the Malta Gaming Authority’s, without a licence number. The MGA’s own licensee register fills in the gap:

Field on the MGA register	What it showed on 19 October 2026
Company name	Pocket Games Software Limited
Registration number	C 76195
Authorisation number	MGA/B2B/435/2017
Authorisation type	Type 1 Gaming Service
Status	Licensed
Registered address	Valletta Buildings, Fourth Floor, Suite 20, South Street, Valletta

The “B2B” in the number means a business-to-business licence. The MGA describes a critical gaming supply licence as one “to provide or carry out a critical gaming supply”, which covers supplying and managing the software that runs games and records their results. “Type 1” is the MGA’s category for casino-style games: its definition lists casino games, including live casino, roulette, blackjack and baccarat, poker played against the house, and lotteries. In plain terms, the regulator has approved this company to supply casino games to other licensed operators.

We also searched the UK Gambling Commission’s register of gambling businesses, using its full downloadable list of 2,632 businesses last updated on 18 October 2026. It holds no entry under PG Soft, Pocket Games or Pocket Games Software. We have seen PG Soft described elsewhere as UK-licensed, but the regulator’s own data does not support that today.

PG Soft names two testing bodies, BMM and GA, and says all its products “have been validated and certified” by them. As with any studio, that is its own statement, and a lab certificate covers one version of one game rather than every casino that later installs it. If you want to check what an operator’s licence is actually worth, our guide on how to check a casino licence walks through the registers that matter.

The Regions PG Soft Says It Does Not Serve

This is the fact most players in Asia will not expect. PG Soft’s company page, in its section on currencies and languages, says its games support “a wide range of legal currencies and over 40 languages”, and then lists where its services are not currently available:

• United States
• Australia
• Israel and Iran
• Singapore and Malaysia
• Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau
• the United Arab Emirates
• North Korea

Put that next to what players see. PG Soft’s mahjong and fortune-themed slots are among the most recognisable games in Malaysian and Singaporean casino lobbies, and two of the casinos we have reviewed, W88 and BK8, list PG Soft among their providers while marketing to players in the region. We cannot tell from the outside how those games reach those lobbies, whether through a reseller, an aggregator or an outdated provider list. What we can say is that a casino offering PG Soft slots to a player in Malaysia or Singapore is offering them somewhere the studio says it does not supply.

There are practical consequences. Any protection that comes from PG Soft’s Malta licence is aimed at the markets it does serve. If something goes wrong with a game at a casino in a market the studio has excluded, the studio has no obvious reason to help you, and the casino’s own licence is the only one in play. Our Malaysia online casino hub sets out the local legal position and how the casinos we reviewed for that market are licensed.

This also makes the famous names a poor signal of quality. A lobby full of familiar PG Soft titles tells you that the casino has the games, not that it got them from PG Soft through a channel the studio approves.

What PG Soft Publishes for Each Game

Unlike many studios, PG Soft gives every game page a small specification panel: game type, “Session Volatility”, RTP, “Maximum Win”, download size and compatible devices. Here is what that panel showed for some of its best-known slots:

Game	Layout (from the game page)	RTP	Session volatility	Maximum win
Mahjong Ways	5 reels, 4 rows	96.92%	Medium	25,000x
Mahjong Ways 2	5 reels, 4 rows plus extra rows on reels 2 to 4	96.95%	Medium	100,000x
Fortune Tiger	3 reels, 3 rows	96.81%	Medium	2,500x
Fortune Ox	3 reels, with a 4-row middle reel	96.75%	Medium	2,000x
Treasures of Aztec	6 reels, 5 rows	96.71%	Medium	100,000x
Lucky Neko	6 reels, 5 rows plus a top reel	96.73%	Medium	100,000x
Wild Bandito	5 reels, 4 rows	96.73%	Medium	25,000x
Wild Bounty Showdown	6 reels of 3 to 5 rows	96.75%	High	5,000x

The archived pages store the volatility rating as a code, and the site’s own script translates 1, 2 and 3 into low, medium and high. We read it the same way.

To see the catalogue as a whole rather than a handful of hits, we read every PG Soft game page we could retrieve from the archive: 131 of them. Most slots with a single RTP sat in a narrow band, 90 of 130 between 96.70% and 96.99%. The lowest were older titles such as Win Win Won at 94.14% and Medusa II at 94.96%, and the highest figure was 99.63% for European Blackjack, a table game. On volatility, 87 pages said medium, 32 high and 11 low.

Two cautions. First, these are the studio’s numbers for the game as PG Soft lists it. Its pages do not mention alternative RTP versions, and we found nothing on them about whether casinos can be supplied a different one, so the figure that counts is the one in the game’s information screen at your casino. If it is missing there, treat the return as unknown. Second, “medium” is PG Soft’s label, not an independent measurement. Our explainer on slot volatility and RTP covers why the swing in a game matters more to one evening’s play than its RTP does.

Built for the Phone in Your Hand

The “mobile” in PG Soft’s pitch is not marketing filler. The company’s stated vision is to “revolutionise mobile app gamification”, and it says its games run in the browser and on iOS, Android, macOS and Windows “in one expansive game world”. Each game page lists the same set of compatible platforms plus HTML5, along with a download size: 9 MB for Mahjong Ways, 13.4 MB for Mahjong Ways 2 and 18.5 MB for Fortune Tiger.

The layouts are small enough to read on a phone screen. Fortune Tiger is a three-by-three grid and Fortune Ox adds just one row to its middle reel. Where the newer titles grow, the game pages describe extra rows or reels bolted on to a familiar grid: Mahjong Ways 2 adds a row to each of its three middle reels, and Lucky Neko adds a reel across the top of its 6-by-5 grid.

A game that fits one thumb and loads in a few seconds is easy to start and easy to keep going. That is a reason to decide your stake and stopping point before you open the app, not after.

How the Best-Known Slots Work

The mechanics below come from PG Soft’s own game descriptions.

Mahjong Ways. A 5-reel, 4-row slot featuring what PG Soft calls “Wild symbol transformation”. Three scatter symbols anywhere award 12 free spins, with two more for each additional scatter, and during free spins “all wins can be multiplied by up to x10”. Mahjong Ways 2 keeps the idea and adds rows to the middle reels. During its free spins, symbols on the centre reel turn into golden tiles, and golden tiles that form part of a win become wilds.

Fortune Tiger. A 3-reel, 3-row slot built around a feature that “may be randomly triggered during any spin”. When it triggers, all reels respin again whenever one or more additional symbols, either the chosen symbol or a wild, appear, and when every symbol on the reels is part of a win, the win is multiplied by 10. Fortune Ox uses a similar idea: when its first and third reels show the same symbols, the reels respin until there is a win, with the same x10 for a full-screen win.

Treasures of Aztec and Lucky Neko. Both are 6-reel, 5-row slots built around a feature PG Soft calls “Wilds-on-the-Way”. Treasures of Aztec adds multipliers that increase in both the base game and free spins, with four scatters awarding 10 free spins. In Lucky Neko the win multiplier rises by 2 whenever one or more cat symbols appear, and four scatters award 10 or more free spins.

All of these share one trait: a large part of each game’s return is held back for rare events, such as a long chain of cascades, a fully filled grid or a high multiplier during free spins. Fortune Tiger’s headline feature is randomly triggered, and its x10 needs every symbol on the reels to be part of a win. The maximum wins in the table describe the top of each paytable. They are not a target, and most sessions on these games end below where they started.

How It Differs From the App Slots Players Confuse It With

In Malaysia especially, players often meet PG Soft-style themes alongside agent-distributed slot apps such as Mega888 and 918Kiss. The two are different things. PG Soft is a named studio with a licence you can look up and a published specification for every game. The apps we reviewed run in-house titles and name no independent studio we could confirm, as our Mega888 vs 918Kiss comparison explains. If an agent offers you “PG games” through one of those apps, treat it with suspicion rather than as reassurance, especially given that PG Soft says it does not serve Malaysia at all.

Before You Play a PG Soft Slot

Whichever casino you are looking at, four checks will tell you more than the studio’s name:

1. Check the casino’s licence, not the studio’s. PG Soft’s MGA licence covers PG Soft. The operator answers under its own licence, which may be far weaker or impossible to verify.
2. Check where you are. If you are in a market on PG Soft’s excluded list, the games in front of you are reaching you outside the studio’s own stated footprint.
3. Open the game’s information screen. Compare the RTP there with the figure on PG Soft’s page, and treat a missing figure as unknown.
4. Set a limit first. Decide on a spending limit and a time limit before the first spin, and stop when you reach either.

Online slots are for adults only, 18+ or older where local law sets a higher age. If play has stopped being fun, our responsible gambling resources list free, confidential help in each market we cover, including self-exclusion tools and helplines.