Nine Games, One Volatility Rating
PG Soft rates Mahjong Ways, Mahjong Ways 2, Treasures of Aztec, Lucky Neko, Fortune Ox, Fortune Tiger, Fortune Rabbit, Fortune Horse and Wild Bandito exactly the same way. Medium volatility, all nine. Their maximum wins run from x2,000 to x100,000.
That gap is the whole review in one line. The label everyone reads first tells you nothing about which of these games you are about to open.
Quick specs:
- Studio: PG Soft, founded 2015, first game releases from Q4 2017
- Licence: Malta Gaming Authority
- Testing: BMM Testlabs and Gaming Associates
- Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and HTML5 in a browser
- Languages: over 40
- Volatility on the nine titles here: medium, every one
- RTP on those nine: 96.71% to 96.95%
- Max win on those nine: x2,000 to x100,000
- Download size: 9 MB to 19.6 MB
The studio showed its first games at the London ICE trade show in 2017 and now ships a new title roughly every fortnight. The catalogue is built for phones before anything else, and the layouts show it: 3x3 boards, 5x4 boards, and 6x5 boards that still fit a portrait screen. The PG Soft slots you are most likely to meet in an Asian casino lobby all come from that shortlist.
The RTP Band Is Too Narrow to Choose On
Across the nine, return to player runs from 96.71% on Treasures of Aztec to 96.95% on Mahjong Ways 2. The entire spread is 0.24 of a percentage point.
Put money against it. Stake 10,000 baht in total and 0.24 points is 24 baht of expected difference over the long run. Inside a single session it vanishes into normal swing.
Where each game sits:
- 96.95%: Mahjong Ways 2
- 96.92%: Mahjong Ways
- 96.81%: Fortune Tiger
- 96.76%: Fortune Horse
- 96.75%: Fortune Ox and Fortune Rabbit
- 96.73%: Lucky Neko and Wild Bandito
- 96.71%: Treasures of Aztec
Those figures describe the games as PG Soft certifies them, and they apply to these nine titles rather than to the catalogue as a whole. Picking between them on RTP means picking between numbers you will never feel.
Volatility is no more help, because every one of them carries the same rating. On a 5/5 volatility game like Gates of Olympus the rating earns its place: it tells you the base game will be quiet and the payoff sits at the end of a long wait. Inside the PG Soft shortlist the rating is a constant, and a constant cannot sort anything.
Max Win Is the Spec That Sorts Them
Group the same nine games by their published ceiling and the catalogue finally splits into something usable:
- x100,000: Mahjong Ways 2, Treasures of Aztec, Lucky Neko
- x25,000: Mahjong Ways, Wild Bandito
- x10,000: Fortune Horse
- x5,000: Fortune Rabbit
- x2,500: Fortune Tiger
- x2,000: Fortune Ox
Lucky Neko returns 96.73% and Fortune Ox returns 96.75%. Two hundredths of a point apart on return, fifty times apart on ceiling. Both hand back roughly the same share of everything staked, so they have to hand it back in different shapes. Fortune Ox can never pay more than 2,000 times a stake, which means more of its return arrives in ordinary wins. Lucky Neko keeps a large part of its return locked in outcomes almost nobody reaches.
That turns into a straightforward choice:
- If you want the balance to move slowly, take a game from the low-ceiling end. Fortune Ox and Fortune Tiger are the flattest of the nine.
- If you are playing for one big result, only the x100,000 group can produce it, and the trade is longer dry stretches on the way.
- The 5x4 middle group, Mahjong Ways and Wild Bandito, sits between the two and is the usual compromise.
The Fortune Series Runs on the Zodiac
PG Soft releases a Fortune title around Chinese New Year and works through the Chinese zodiac, roughly one a year: Mouse, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake and Horse. Fortune Horse is the current one, released on 4 February 2026.
They share a shape. Three reels and a feature that fires at random rather than from scatters. On Fortune Ox, Fortune Tiger and Fortune Horse that feature is a respin, with a x10 when the whole board takes part in the win, while Fortune Rabbit swaps the respin for a round of prize spins.
- Fortune Ox. 96.75%, x2,000. Three reels, three rows on the outside reels and four on the middle one. When reels 1 and 3 land the same symbol, everything respins until a win forms. A win that uses the full set of reels pays x10.
- Fortune Tiger. 96.81%, x2,500, on a 3x3 board. Same random trigger and respin, with x10 when every symbol on screen joins the win. Our Fortune Tiger review covers that feature spin by spin.
- Fortune Rabbit. 96.75%, x5,000. Three reels in a 3-4-3 layout. Its feature awards 8 fortune spins on which only Prize symbols land, worth up to 500x.
- Fortune Horse. 96.76%, x10,000. Three reels. Every reel takes the same symbol and respins once, and a fully visible Fortune Horse symbol awards 3 bonus spins.
The series is also where PG Soft spends its marketing budget. Chris Gayle signed as the studio's global brand ambassador in June 2026, and the August 2026 campaign built around him features Fortune Ox, which PG Soft calls one of its most popular titles. That is a reason the game is in front of you right now. It is not a reason to prefer a x2,000 ceiling.
Lucky Neko and Treasures of Aztec Play a Bigger Board
These two are the heavyweights of the shortlist. Both cap at x100,000, both build their return out of a multiplier that climbs while wins keep landing, and both use six reels and five rows.
Lucky Neko
96.73% RTP, x100,000 max win, 15.3 MB. Six reels and five rows, plus an extra reel sitting above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5, so the board is taller in the middle than at the edges. Wins pay on the ways, with wilds landing on the way. The multiplier rule is the part to read twice: it increases by 2 whenever one or more Cat symbols appear on the reels. Four scatters award 10 or more free spins.
The multiplier climbing in steps of 2 rather than doubling is why the game needs a long run of cat symbols to reach anything near its ceiling. Short bursts do not get there.
Treasures of Aztec
96.71% RTP, x100,000 max win, 9.9 MB. Six reels and five rows with wilds on the way, and a multiplier that increases in the base game as well as in free spins, which is not true of every game in the catalogue. Four scatters award 10 free spins.
Where a lobby offers a bonus buy on these titles, what it buys is the free spins round rather than the ceiling. The multiplier is the whole story in both, and the difference between a 20x round and a five-figure one is how long the chain of wins keeps the multiplier climbing.
What "Built for Mobile" Costs in Megabytes
PG Soft publishes a download size for every game it makes. Across the nine it runs from 9 MB to 19.6 MB.
- Lightest: Mahjong Ways at 9 MB, Treasures of Aztec at 9.9 MB, Fortune Horse at 12.1 MB
- Heaviest: Wild Bandito at 19.6 MB, Fortune Tiger at 18.5 MB, Fortune Rabbit at 17.5 MB
The board size does not predict the weight. Treasures of Aztec fits six reels and five rows into 9.9 MB while Fortune Tiger needs 18.5 MB for a 3x3 grid. Art and animation cost more than the layout does.
For all nine titles PG Soft lists the full size and the initial download as the same number. There is no partial first load and nothing streams in later. Whatever the game weighs arrives before the first spin.
Inside a casino lobby the game runs as HTML5 in the browser, so nothing installs on the phone. The file still has to come down the connection first. On a mid-range Android over mobile data, that is the number that decides whether a game opens in a few seconds or leaves you watching a loading bar, and it is the one spec on this page you can verify yourself in under a minute.
Five Asian Markets PG Soft Does Not Serve
Eleven regions sit on PG Soft's not-available list: the United States, Australia, Israel, Iran, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, the United Arab Emirates and North Korea.
Five of those sit in East and Southeast Asia. A player in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Hong Kong or Macau who opens a PG Soft tile is opening something the provider says it did not supply there. Operators draw the same line in their own terms, listing PG Soft as restricted in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.
This is not a promise that a tile will refuse to load, because plenty of lobbies list the games anyway. It is a reason to check what you are actually running before money goes into it, and it is why counterfeit copies are a sharper problem in those five markets than anywhere else.
Telling a Real PG Soft Game From a Copy
Every PG Soft game is tested and certified by BMM Testlabs and Gaming Associates. BMM is accredited to ISO 17025 and ISO 17020 and recognised in over 400 jurisdictions. Gaming Associates holds ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025 and PCI QSA certification. Certification of this kind covers the random number generator, the game mathematics and the rule set, which is to say the three things a copy has no reason to keep intact.
PG Soft has published its own warning about counterfeits. Fake games, in the studio's words:
“not only violate intellectual property rights but also put players at risk by introducing harmful software that can lead to identity theft or financial loss.”
The studio also runs an official game verification tool, reached from the casino lobby, and says players can identify official games using their transaction history. The tool is documented on pgsoft.com, and the wording there is what to follow, because casino lobbies present it differently.
Four checks that cost nothing:
- The provider name, printed on the lobby tile and again in the game's information panel.
- The casino's licence, which decides whether a win gets paid at all.
- How you arrived. A game reached through a download link, a messaging app or an unfamiliar lobby has not been verified by anyone.
- The layout and the ceiling. If the information panel shows a max win or a board that does not match PG Soft's page for that title, the game is not the one described here.
Pick One, Then Check It Before the First Spin
Test the choice in demo before it costs anything. PG Soft titles run in demo at most Asian-facing casinos with no deposit, though a few lobbies hide the button until you log in. Ten minutes of demo on Lucky Neko tells you more about how a multiplier that steps up by 2 behaves than any RTP figure will.
Specs quoted for these games vary from one site to the next. The only figure that governs your session is the one on the game's own information or Game Rules screen, next to the paytable, because the RTP served to your account is part of the operator's configuration rather than a fixed property of the game.
The catalogue is carried widely across Asia. FUN88 lists Mahjong Ways, Fortune Tiger and Lucky Neko in its slot lineup, and W88, Melbet, Nova88, Mansion88 and E2BET all run PG Soft libraries. In Thailand the catalogue turns up in nearly every lobby on our list of Thai online casinos, and our FUN88 review covers the rest of that site. If you have a promo code, apply it at the deposit step, and check the playthrough on any slot bonus first, because it is usually larger than one session's stake.
Before the first real spin, three things are worth a minute: read the RTP line in the information panel, check the max win there against PG Soft's page for the title, and set a deposit limit. Only one of those is about winning, and it is not the one most players do first.
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