PHMAPALAD PG Soft Games — Studio, Licences & Titles

PG Soft is one of the studios covered here whose corporate detail can be checked directly, so this page lays out what can be checked and flags what cannot be.

Who PG Soft is

A catalogue size is not published. How many titles exist is a number the studio leaves unstated.

Licences the studio holds

PG Soft is recorded as holding: Malta Gaming Authority, UK Gambling Commission and Gibraltar are the two named in PG Soft’s own list. The two licences are different things; a studio licence applies to the game maker rather than the casino offering the games, so a player who needs to complain goes to the operator’s regulator and not the studio’s.

• Malta Gaming Authority — Licence MGA/B2B/435/2017 is recorded against Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195) as holder. The record on the MGA’s verification portal: B2B Critical Supply Licence, casino vertical, status Licensed. Compliance was the issue: the MGA put the same licence into suspension, from 29 September 2020, before it came back into force. Omitting that history would flatter the current status by making it look quieter, which is why it is recorded here.
• UK Gambling Commission and Gibraltar are the two named in PG Soft’s own list — PG Soft’s licensing page, run by the studio itself, features a badge for each. These two are given the way PG Soft lists them, while the MGA licence above is the one that traces back to a public register.

Titles covered on this site

This site has its own page for 4 PG Soft titles: Wild Bounty Showdown, Fortune Tiger, Lucky Neko, Mahjong Ways 2.

On its own pages, PG Soft features Fortune Ox, Mahjong Ways 2, Wild Bandito, Fortune Tiger and Lucky Neko. It amounts to the studio advertising its own catalogue. Which of them any casino carries is left unsaid by it, along with which have pages on this site.

Whether PG Soft publishes RTP

Because PG Soft lists a return-to-player figure for each game on its own pages, an RTP for its titles can be followed straight to the studio instead of an aggregator.

The page a visitor sees from PG Soft shows a blank dash in the RTP field, although the figure itself is sitting in the data the server sends along with that page. Matching independent consensus for the same title, every value read that way holds up, so the numbers are real. Say ‘per PG Soft’s published game data’ instead of ‘as shown on PG Soft’s page’ — checking visually turns up a dash, so the second wording fails.

This matters more than it sounds. The quality of a return-to-player figure depends on where it comes from, so a number echoed by comparison sites with no primary source offers no evidence.

PG Soft in the Philippine market

Pocket Games Soft is on a PAGCOR EGLD approved-games list; that list approves content and does not license an operator. The claim that PG Soft ranks among the busiest slot providers on Philippine sites licensed by PAGCOR is widely repeated, but its source is affiliate sites and not PG Soft.

Playing PG Soft games at PHMAPALAD

1. Log in to PHMAPALAD, then go to the game lobby.
2. A title can be found by name search, and the lobby can be filtered by PG Soft.
3. The info screen of a game shows its stake range and paytable, and it is worth opening ahead of play.
4. Learning a new title goes better at a low stake, with a session budget settled beforehand.