PH22 PG Soft Games — Studio, Licences & Titles

Everything below is shaped by the fact that PG Soft supplies games to operators instead of running a casino itself.

Who PG Soft is

A catalogue size is not published. The studio puts out no title count.

Titles covered on this site

This site has its own page for 4 PG Soft titles: Mahjong Ways 2, Treasures of Aztec, Wild Bounty Showdown, Fortune Ox.

Among the titles PG Soft features on its own pages are Wild Bandito, Lucky Neko, Fortune Ox, Fortune Tiger and Mahjong Ways 2. What you are looking at is the studio’s own promotion of its catalogue. Whether a casino carries any of them is left open, as is which ones have pages on this site.

PG Soft in the Philippine market

Pocket Games Soft appears on a PAGCOR EGLD approved-games list, which approves content and is not an operator licence. Many reports call PG Soft one of the most-played slot suppliers on PAGCOR-licensed Philippine sites, yet the source of those reports is affiliates and not PG Soft.

Whether PG Soft publishes RTP

Quoting an RTP for a PG Soft title is traceable to the studio, not an aggregator, because PG Soft publishes a return-to-player figure on its own game pages.

PG Soft includes RTP in its game data but never shows it on the visitor-facing page, where the visible field is a blank dash while the figure sits in the data the server sends with the page. Each value read this way agreed with the consensus found elsewhere for the same title, so the numbers are real. Even so, the right wording is ‘per PG Soft’s published game data’ and not ‘as shown on PG Soft’s page’, because a reader who looks by eye will only see a dash.

This matters more than it sounds. A return-to-player figure is worth no more than its source, and a number that merely gets repeated across comparison sites, with no primary source, evidences nothing.

Licences the studio holds

PG Soft is recorded as holding: Malta Gaming Authority, The UK Gambling Commission plus Gibraltar, going by what PG Soft lists. Because a studio licence is not an operator licence — it belongs to the company making the games, not the casino offering them — a player’s recourse runs through the operator’s regulator rather than the studio’s.

• Malta Gaming Authority — Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195) holds the licence, numbered MGA/B2B/435/2017. The MGA’s verification portal shows Licensed as the status of a B2B Critical Supply Licence in the casino vertical. The MGA suspended that same licence from 29 September 2020 for a compliance breach, and it was later reinstated. The reason for noting that history is that a version without it would make the current status seem less eventful than it was.
• The UK Gambling Commission plus Gibraltar, going by what PG Soft lists — Both are represented by badges on PG Soft’s licensing page, which the studio maintains itself. Only the MGA licence above traces to a public register, whereas these two are set out as PG Soft lists them.

Playing PG Soft games at PH22

1. Open the game lobby after signing in at PH22.
2. Use the lobby’s filter to narrow to PG Soft, or search a title by its name.
3. The stake range and paytable are on a game’s info screen, so open it before playing.
4. Pick a session budget before anything else, then play a new title at a low stake until you know it.