Hawkplay PG Soft: Licences, RTP Policy & Catalogue

The studio PG Soft is what this page covers, rather than any operator that carries it. Material produced by the company, together with public regulator records, is what this section is built on.

Who PG Soft is

A catalogue size is not published. A count of titles is something the studio does not state.

Titles covered on this site

This site has its own page for 4 PG Soft titles: Lucky Neko, Wild Bounty Showdown, Treasures of Aztec, Mahjong Ways.

Lucky Neko, Wild Bandito, Mahjong Ways 2, Fortune Ox and Fortune Tiger are the titles PG Soft highlights itself on its pages. In effect, the studio is showcasing its own catalogue. Neither a casino’s selection among them nor the list of those with pages here is addressed.

PG Soft in the Philippine market

A list of games approved by PAGCOR EGLD exists for Pocket Games Soft, and it is an approval of content and no operator licence. Affiliate sources, not PG Soft, are behind the widespread reporting that it sits among the busiest slot providers for Philippine sites with a PAGCOR licence.

Whether PG Soft publishes RTP

PG Soft states its return-to-player figure on the game pages it runs, which puts the source of any RTP for its titles at the studio rather than an aggregator.

RTP exists in PG Soft’s game data but is not rendered for visitors: the on-screen field is a blank dash, and the number is carried in the server’s page data. Because independent consensus for the same title agreed with every value read this way, the numbers are real. A reader who looks for the figure by eye finds a dash, so the accurate phrasing is still ‘per PG Soft’s published game data’ and never ‘as shown on PG Soft’s page’.

This matters more than it sounds. Without a primary source, a return-to-player figure copied from one comparison site to another is no evidence at all, since the figure is only as good as its source.

Licences the studio holds

PG Soft is recorded as holding: Malta Gaming Authority, UK Gambling Commission plus Gibraltar, per what PG Soft lists. Studio licence and operator licence are not interchangeable, since the former covers whoever makes the games and the latter whoever offers them, and complaints from players are routed to the operator’s regulator, never the studio’s.

• Malta Gaming Authority — Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195) is the name on licence MGA/B2B/435/2017. Licensed is the status shown on the MGA’s verification portal against a casino-vertical B2B Critical Supply Licence. Effective 29 September 2020 the MGA suspended the licence over a compliance breach, after which it was reinstated. It is recorded here because a status page without that history would suggest less had happened than actually did.
• UK Gambling Commission plus Gibraltar, per what PG Soft lists — You can see badges for both on PG Soft’s own licensing page. A public register backs the MGA licence above; the other two are reported as PG Soft states them.

Playing PG Soft games at Hawkplay

1. Once you have signed in at Hawkplay, the game lobby is the page to open.
2. Search the lobby for a title by name, or filter it to PG Soft only.
3. Stake range and paytable are on the info screen of each game; look there before you play.
4. Fix your session budget before anything else; a low stake is the way to start on a new title.