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What actually separates one studio from another

Studios are not interchangeable, and the difference that matters most is the one least often printed on a tile: how much a game is built to pay back. We have written full reviews of 224 games across 16 studios, reading the published specification for each one. 209 of those reviews record a specific RTP figure, and the table below is built from them — the shortfall is mostly EGT Digital, which publishes no RTP for its games at all. It is a sample of our own coverage rather than any studio’s whole catalogue, so read it as a guide to a studio’s habits rather than a league table.

Across the 209 games with a recorded RTP the median is 96.27%, and 43 of them come in below the 96% figure the market treats as a reference. The spread between studios is real: Pragmatic Play has the highest median here at 96.50%, Blueprint Gaming the lowest at 95.05%. That gap matters more than it looks, because a point of RTP is not a point of cost — dropping from 96% to 95% raises the house edge by a quarter.

The same game is often certified at several different RTPs, and the casino picks which one it runs. We found this in 85 of the 224 games we have published. It is close to standard practice at some studios — Hacksaw Gaming on 11 of 11 games we reviewed and Nolimit City on 7 of 8 games we reviewed — while EGT Digital and Amusnet publish a single build on everything we have looked at. This is the most useful thing to know before playing a game you have read about: the figure in a review is the studio’s, and the figure at your casino may not be.

Figures are measured from the reviews published on this site and recalculated whenever this page is rebuilt. A studio’s game can be licensed to a casino at a lower RTP than the studio’s own headline figure, so the information screen inside any game is always the authority for the version you are playing.