PG Soft Slots on Our Logs: Sockets, Sums and Tiles, With the Return Left Blank

PG Soft builds portrait-first slots with one family habit: the info screens explain everything about the machine and nothing about its return. Three of its games have been logged on this portal, Forge of Wealth, Speed Winner and Fortune Rabbit, across nine sessions and 17,449 paid demo spins. Each runs a different engine, a socket that doubles, a sum that multiplies and a count that pays. This page reads the three logs side by side, engine by engine, and it grows with every PG Soft review published here.

Three engines, one studio

Forge of Wealth: four sockets

Wins need eight matching symbols or more, placed anywhere on the six-by-five grid, and every win cascades into the next. Four fixed cells on the grid light up when a winner explodes on them, and they collect x2 when a winner explodes on them again. The collected total multiplies the whole spin, and in free spins it carries over between winning spins.

Speed Winner: added multipliers

Six reels of shifting ways with cascades, and multiplier tiles marked x2 to x10 on any of them. The tiles are added into one figure when the cascades stop, and that single figure multiplies the spin. The rule is the same in the base game and in free spins, which arrive on four scatters.

Fortune Rabbit: five to pay

A ten-position grid on ten fixed lines, with prize tiles printing 0.5x to 500x that can land on any spin. Five or more tiles on the grid pay their sum, and four pay nothing. A random feature gives eight spins on which only the tiles appear, with nothing to buy and no retrigger.

The sheet

GameReleasedListed RTPReturn on our logsSpins loggedFeature roundsBest full roundRating
Forge of Wealth November 24, 2023 96.74% 102.62% pooled 6,473 18 · one per 360 142.5x 7.5/10
Speed Winner June 1, 2022 96.72% 149.43% portal session 5,862 27 · 12 natural here, one per 230 841.15x 7.2/10
Fortune Rabbit January 11, 2023 96.75% 129.02% pooled 5,114 29 · one per 176 127x here; 152x single outcome in a sister log 6.8/10

Forge of Wealth and Fortune Rabbit pool three logged sessions each by money, the portal's run plus the two logs from the network's dedicated sites for each game, every round arriving naturally. Fortune Rabbit's pool counts paid spins, the way its sister logs do, with the portal ledger's 105 stake-neutral fortune-spin entries set aside. Speed Winner's two sister logs bought some of their rounds with the Feature Buy and publish approximate wagers. Its row therefore carries the portal session alone, 2,757 paid spins with twelve natural rounds, while the spins column counts all 5,862 logged. Listed RTP is the figure from the studio's own Game Information sheet in each case, because none of the builds prints one.

Ratings grade the machine rather than the run, by the rubric every review on this portal uses, and a session's profit never enters it. The three returns above all sit above the listed figures, and all three say the same thing: nine sessions is a short book.

What the screens print, and what they leave out

The three builds run 49, 52 and 27 info screens between them, and they are thorough about everything except one line. Every symbol is priced and every feature is described in full. The maximum win is stated as a working rule that ends the spin, and the stake is shown as a formula rather than a number: a bet size times a bet level times a fixed base. The base is 20 units on two of the games and ten lines on the third. The loading screens carry the Malta licence and the GA and BMM certification marks. The RTP isn't in any of the three builds, and it is on the studio's site instead, on each game's card and in a downloadable Game Information sheet. The sheets print 96.74% for Forge of Wealth, 96.72% for Speed Winner and 96.75% for Fortune Rabbit. Two of the three sell feature entry, Forge of Wealth at 75x the stake and Speed Winner at 50x, both only at stakes up to 50.00. Fortune Rabbit doesn't sell anything, because its feature fires at random on any spin. All three carry the same small print: an idle game resets after 90 days, a malfunction voids every pay and play, and the history page settles any dispute.

I would expect a studio this careful about its rulebooks to print the one number a player most needs where the player is. The omission from the builds is the same mark against all three reviews. The sheet figures, 96.74%, 96.72% and 96.75%, sit within three hundredths of a point of one another, and none of them can be checked against the builds, because there's nothing in the builds to check them against. Whatever a casino licensed is what runs, and the info screen at the venue is the only place it could be read, if that copy prints it.

Clocks and caps

The three feature clocks span a factor of two between the fastest and the slowest. Fortune Rabbit's random trigger arrived once per 175 paid spins on this portal and once per 176 across its pool. Speed Winner's four scatters came once per 230 paid spins in the only unbought log we hold. Forge of Wealth's three scatters came once per 360 across its pool, with single gaps that ran from ten spins to 906. Rounds bunch on every one of them: four Forge of Wealth rounds inside 125 spins, five Speed Winner rounds inside 167, two Fortune Rabbit pairs within twenty. Whereas the clocks differ by a factor of two, the caps differ by a factor of twenty. Forge of Wealth and Fortune Rabbit stop the spin at 5,000x, and the rule says so in plain words. Speed Winner advertises 100,000x, a figure that a published simulation puts near a tenth of that in a billion spins. The best complete rounds on this portal's logs paid 142.5x, 841.15x and 127x, and the largest of those is the hottest single event this portal has recorded; a sister log of Fortune Rabbit holds a 152x single outcome. Consistent with three games built on very different maths, the distance from best round to cap runs from 35 times on Forge of Wealth to 119 times on Speed Winner.

Nine sessions, eight of them ahead

The Forge of Wealth pool closed at 98.01% on this portal and 106.63% and 106.50% on the sister sites, 102.62% by money. The Fortune Rabbit pool closed at 127.65% here on paid stakes and 138.6% and 122.36% there, 129.02% by money. Speed Winner returned 149.43% on this portal, the hottest session we have published. One sister log printed about 111% with bought rounds inside it, and the other publishes a net of 8,509.80 credits up without a percentage. Eight of the nine sessions finished ahead of their stakes, and the ninth, our own Forge of Wealth run, finished 712.80 credits behind. A shelf that warm proves nothing about the studio's maths, because nine sessions of one to three thousand spins can lean one way for a summer. What the nine do show is the same lesson three times over. The largest event of each session arrived on nobody's schedule, and on Speed Winner a single round carried most of the result.

Try the three in the page

The public PG Soft build of each game plays in the page on demo credits, and each has a demo page of its own: Forge of Wealth, Speed Winner and Fortune Rabbit, the builds our sessions were logged on. Every rule and every coefficient, converted to stake multiples, waits on the Forge of Wealth rules page, the Speed Winner rules page and the Fortune Rabbit rules page. The two cascade engines are set beside their peers on our cascade slots page. Fortune Rabbit and Speed Winner, the studio's two clocks on this portal, are compared figure by figure in Fortune Rabbit vs Speed Winner. Every demo build we have reviewed sits on one page, the Demo Shelf: pick a game, launch it, then read the numbers behind it. Age limits hold in demo mode, so 18+ applies here as it does at any cash table.

Quick answers

What RTP do PG Soft slots run at?

Not one of the three builds we logged carries an RTP line, and the studio's site does it instead. Each game's card and its downloadable Game Information sheet put the three at 96.74%, 96.72% and 96.75%, and casinos license their own configurations. Our logs came back at 102.62%, 149.43% and 129.02% on 2,757 to 6,473 spins per game. What binds is the line in the info screen of the copy you're playing, if that copy prints one.

Which PG Soft game triggers its feature most often?

Fortune Rabbit, whose random feature arrived once every 176 spins over its 5,114-spin pool. The three sessions inside that pool ran anywhere between one round per 113 spins and one per 417. Speed Winner's natural trigger came once per 230 paid spins in the one log without a buy, and Forge of Wealth's once per 360 across its pool, with gaps from ten spins to 906. All three clocks bunch their rounds, so budget for the gaps rather than the averages.

Do PG Soft slots let you buy the bonus?

Two of the three do, and the third has no button to press. Forge of Wealth prices its free spins at 75x the stake and Speed Winner at 50x, and both buttons work only at stakes up to 50.00. Fortune Rabbit has no buy at all, since its feature fires at random. No round in our own logs was bought, and the two Speed Winner sister sessions that used the buy are shown beside our run but not pooled with it.

Why did nearly every logged PG Soft session finish ahead?

Because nine sessions of one to three thousand spins are a short sample, and short samples lean. Eight of the nine finished above their stakes and one finished 712.80 credits behind. On Speed Winner a single round carried most of the portal session's result; on Fortune Rabbit the portal's best round was worth about a sixth of the net, and the money arrived in tiles across the base game. Nothing in that pattern describes the long-run return of any of the three games, which is set by a configuration none of the builds prints.

Can I try these PG Soft slots for free before staking anything?

Yes. The public PG Soft build of each game runs in the page on our Demo Shelf, on demo credits, in the copy our sessions were logged on. Every info screen sits a tap away from the reels. A few hundred spins will show you the sockets, the added multipliers and the five-tile count. Age limits hold in demo mode, so 18+ applies to free play as it does to money.

Erik Lindholm
Written by Erik Lindholm

Former studio-side game mathematician: paytables and RTP models, now checked from the player's side. Full profile and method →