PH888 PG Soft Games — Studio, Licences & Titles

Everything below follows from one distinction: PG Soft supplies operators with games and does not run a casino of its own.

Who PG Soft is

A catalogue size is not published. On the number of titles, the studio is silent.

Titles covered on this site

This site has its own page for 6 PG Soft titles: Mahjong Ways 2, Treasures of Aztec, Mahjong Ways, Fortune Tiger, Wild Bounty Showdown, Fortune Ox.

The five PG Soft titles featured on the studio’s own pages are Fortune Ox, Wild Bandito, Mahjong Ways 2, Lucky Neko and Fortune Tiger. The studio is talking up its own range there. It stays quiet about which of them any casino carries and about which have pages here.

Whether PG Soft publishes RTP

For PG Soft titles, the return-to-player figure comes from the studio’s own game pages, so a quoted RTP can be traced there rather than to an aggregator.

Visitors see a dash where PG Soft’s RTP should be; the studio still publishes the figure, and it is included in the data the server returns with the page. These numbers are real: each value read that way coincided with independent consensus for its title. Nonetheless the proper phrase is ‘per PG Soft’s published game data’, since ‘as shown on PG Soft’s page’ sends readers to a spot where they find only a dash.

This matters more than it sounds. The quality of a return-to-player figure is the quality of its source, and a number handed from one comparison site to the next with nothing primary behind it tells you nothing.

Licences the studio holds

PG Soft is recorded as holding: Malta Gaming Authority, PG Soft discloses two authorities, namely the UK Gambling Commission and Gibraltar. Having a studio licence says something about the games developer, not about the casino; it is not an operator licence, and a player’s recourse points to the operator’s regulator instead of the studio’s.

• Malta Gaming Authority — Whoever wants to know who is licensed under MGA/B2B/435/2017 will find Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195). Casino vertical, B2B Critical Supply Licence: the MGA’s verification portal puts the status at Licensed. Suspended by the MGA from 29 September 2020 over a compliance breach, the same licence was subsequently put back in force. Cutting the backstory would leave a tidier status than the facts justify, so it remains here.
• PG Soft discloses two authorities, namely the UK Gambling Commission and Gibraltar — PG Soft’s licensing page lists both through badges. Tracing to a public register was possible for the MGA licence above; these two are given the way PG Soft presents them.

PG Soft in the Philippine market

Pocket Games Soft’s PAGCOR EGLD approved-games list is about games being approved; licensing the operator is a separate thing. Plenty of reports rank PG Soft as one of the most-played slot suppliers on PAGCOR-licensed Philippine sites, and all of them come from affiliate sources, not from PG Soft.

Playing PG Soft games at PH888

1. Sign in at PH888 and open the game lobby.
2. You can either filter the lobby for PG Soft or search by the title’s name.
3. Take a look at the stake range and paytable on a game’s info screen before you begin.
4. Limit yourself with a session budget and a low starting stake while a new title is unfamiliar.