The pokie catalogue runs to several hundred titles. Eighty of them are set out here, grouped by the studio that built them rather than by the category the lobby files them under. Sorting by release date or by theme is the right way to browse when you do not yet know what you want; this page is for after that, because once a game has suited you, the studio that made it is the best guess at what will suit you next.

A studio is not a marketing label. It is a maths team with habits, and two games off the same shelf will usually agree about how often a feature arrives, how far a balance drops between one feature and the next, and how much of a session is spent waiting.

Where the weight sits

Three studios supply more than half of the eighty. Pragmatic Play has twenty-one titles, Play’n GO and Quickspin eleven each: forty-three between them, and all three build broad, mainstream catalogues. Below that the numbers fall away quickly. Seven studios have five titles or fewer and three have exactly one, which is too few to judge anybody by.

That shape is worth knowing before you scroll. The middle of this page is familiar and safe. What is unusual sits at the thin end of it, in ones and twos.

Pragmatic Play

21 titles

The largest shelf here by a distance, and the most conventional. Pragmatic Play builds at volume for operators worldwide, which means recognisable mechanics executed cleanly rather than anything experimental. The range on this page runs from classic fruit machines - Joker’s Jewels, Fruit Rainbow, Aztec Gems Deluxe - through the studio’s familiar money-collect respin in Mustang Gold to a licensed Megaways layout in Curse of the Werewolf. If you have played pokies anywhere before, you have played something from here.

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Play'n GO

11 titles

A Swedish studio with a house style audible on the first spin: heavy art, one strong feature, maths that rarely surprises. Rise of Merlin is the book format the studio is known for, with a symbol that expands across the reels in free spins. Honey Rush drops reels altogether for a hexagonal cluster grid. Street Magic, Hotel Yeti-Way and Wildhound Derby are the busier newer end, and Star Joker is the plainest thing on the shelf.

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Quickspin

11 titles

Quickspin spends its budget on production, and these are among the most finished games in the lobby. They also tend to carry a feature that needs a paragraph to explain: Sticky Bandits and its sequel Wild Return build wilds across the reels, Hall of the Mountain King raises a multiplier as a round runs. Sakura Fortune and Mayana are the calmer end of the same house style.

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Habanero

7 titles

Every one of these is readable at a glance. Habanero builds fixed paylines, a free spins round and no meters to learn, which makes these the easiest games here to pick up and the least likely to do something you have not seen before. Panda Panda, Fire Rooster and Fortune Dogs are the studio’s Asian-themed core; Knockout Football is the outlier.

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Relax Gaming

7 titles

Relax is better known in the industry for carrying other studios’ games than for building its own, but these seven are in-house work. They favour one clear idea per game over stacked features: Snake Arena is built round a grid that grows, The Great Pigsby round a single set-piece. Worth a look when the mainstream shelves start to feel interchangeable.

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Nolimit City

6 titles

Read this shelf carefully, because it is not what the studio is known for. Nolimit City made its name on punishing volatility, dark themes and mechanics that take a page to explain. What stands here is the earlier, plainer catalogue: Fruits and Immortal Fruits are classic fruit machines, Casino Win Spin and Hot 4 Cash are respin games. If you came for the studio’s harder work, we do not carry it.

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Belatra

5 titles

An older supplier, and the shelf shows it. 20 Super Stars and Super Sevens are three-reel machines in the arcade tradition with little beyond a gamble round; Beauty and the Beast, Halloween and 7 Days The Spanish Armada add free spins to the same idea. None of them will carry a long session on its own, but they load quickly and there is nothing to learn.

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Thunderkick

5 titles

A small Swedish studio that has never built to a formula. Barbershop: Uncut, Carnival Queen and Flame Busters look nothing like each other, and the reel layouts are usually irregular. Riders of the Storm and Beat the Beast: Quetzalcoatl’s Trial are the two that pay rarely and heavily. Five titles is a thin sample of a studio worth more room than it gets here.

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GameArt

2 titles

Both are mythology and both are heavy on visual detail: Dawn of Olympus is the Greek one, Lady Luck the outlier. Two games is not enough to judge a studio by.

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Hacksaw Gaming

2 titles

Both sit at the far end of the range this page carries. Hacksaw builds short games with cartoon art and long dry spells: Death Becomes You and SixSixSix will either do nothing for two hundred spins or finish a session in one. Stake accordingly.

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Epic Media

1 title

Dragons Treasure is a conventional five-reel slot and the only thing from this studio in the lobby, so there is nothing here to compare it against.

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Rollbit

1 title

Rollbot Bonanza is the only game from Rollbit here, a name better known for running a crypto casino than for building slots.

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Shady Lady

1 title

Trap Tower stands alone here, which makes it the hardest game on the page to place: there is no second title from the studio to say whether it is typical.

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