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Microgaming

The studio that wrote the first rulebook

Microgaming is one of the longest-running names in online slot development, and its catalogue reads like a timeline of the format itself — from plain three-reel machines through ways-pay grids to today's cascading and Maxways boards. Because the same design language carries across decades of releases, it is an unusually good place to see what changed and what never did.

Cascading ways
Maxways
Link & Merge
Classic reels

204 guides

What this studio does well

An editorial read of the studio's design and information style.

Every format in one place

Classic reels, ways-pay grids, cascades and link-and-merge boards all sit in the same catalogue, which makes side-by-side comparison easy.

Conventional paytables

Rules and paytables are laid out in the industry-standard way, so the vocabulary you learn here transfers to almost any other studio.

A visible design lineage

Older and newer titles share recognisable structural DNA — useful for tracing how a mechanic evolved rather than memorising it.

What this studio publishes

How many of this studio's games come with each figure published by the studio itself. Where a studio publishes nothing, we leave the field empty rather than substituting a third-party or textbook number.

RTP

134 of 204

Volatility

146 of 204

Win cap

53 of 204

Bet range

81 of 204

Playable demo

117 of 204

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Reading the catalogue

The catalogue at a glance

Reelwise lists 203 Microgaming entries: 145 slots and 58 live dealer tables. By format, 71 slots are filed as fixed paylines, 44 as ways-to-win, 14 as cluster pays, 9 as standard video slots, 4 as Link & Merge, 2 as Maxways and 1 as cascading reels. The standard group is a data effect: those entries come with a format line too general to place in a narrower family, which says nothing about how plain the game itself is.

91 of the 145 slots carry a release date, running from 2004 to 2026. The spread is uneven. There are 7 dated slots from 2023, 30 from 2024 and 27 from 2025, with 9 more so far in 2026, against single figures for every year before 2023. The library is old at the root and weighted heavily toward recent releases.

RTP is published for 132 slots, with a middle value of 96.15% and a range from 91.89% to 97.49%. A volatility word is given for all 145 slots: High is the most common grade (57), followed by Very high (39), Medium (29), Low (9) and Medium-high (7), and two slots each are labelled High / Very High and Medium to High.

What Microgaming publishes, and what it leaves out

The Microgaming records on this site join two studio sources: an asset library that supplies artwork and titles, and a customer catalogue that supplies the figures, namely RTP, a volatility word, bet limits and a demo. A game that appears only in the first source arrives with its art and name but without numbers, and its page says so rather than filling the gap.

The thinnest field is the win cap. Only 52 of the 145 slots state a maximum win, which is why Microgaming pages lean on RTP and volatility instead of a headline multiplier. Where a cap is given it can be large, as with the 50,000x on K-POP Hunter Zeus, but its absence on the other 93 is a publishing gap, not a hint that those games cap low.

The volatility scale also has in-between steps that most studios here do not use. Medium-high, Medium to High and High / Very High appear on eleven slots between them. Read them as the studio's own finer grading rather than rounding them to the nearest whole word.

Format history in named titles

The Thunderstruck line is the cleanest way to watch ways-pay arrive. Thunderstruck, dated 2012 in this catalogue, pays on 9 fixed lines; Thunderstruck II (2013) moves to 243 ways; Thunderstruck Stormchaser (2022) widens that to 1024 ways. Same theme, same studio, three different answers to what counts as a winning line.

Maxways is the studio's own variable board. Merlin's Secret Maxways and Queen of Cairo: Royal Maxways are the two titles filed under that family, and Queen of Cairo also exists as a standard video slot, so that pair shows one theme before and after the board changes.

Link & Merge is the family to read last. Luna Princess Link&Merge, Almighty Zeus Wild Link & Merge, Break Away Candy Link & Merge and 123 Soccer carry it, and each rules screen explains the board feature in its own terms. The single cascading entry, K-POP Hunter Zeus on a 6 by 5 grid with cascading ways, is the newest structure in the set.

Series you can follow

Break Away is the longest Microgaming series here, with five entries. Break Away (2015) uses 243 ways; Break Away Deluxe offers 18, 38, 68 or 88 lines; Break Away Gold uses 20 lines; Break Away Max runs on 117,649 ways; Break Away Candy Link & Merge moves to a Link & Merge board. Reading them in order is a short course in how a studio re-engineers one theme.

Lucky Twins has four entries, and it is the better series for seeing one theme carried across different mechanics. The list includes Lucky Twins Wilds, Lucky Twins Wilds Jackpots, Lucky Twins PowerClusters and Lucky Twins 5X 4Tune Reels.

Smaller runs are worth a look too. Almighty Zeus has three titles, including a cluster-pays version and a Link & Merge version, and Queen of Cairo has the standard and Maxways versions mentioned above.

Live tables, and how to read the labels

Microgaming is the largest live dealer source on the site: 58 tables, against 27 from Pragmatic Play and 6 from Evolution. Baccarat accounts for 23 of them, blackjack 19 and roulette 12, and the remaining four are split between card tables, a game show and casino hold'em. Four are Korean All-In Baccarat tables.

Live tables show the label Table game where a slot would show volatility. A dealer-run table has no volatility grade in the same sense, so the site does not borrow one for it.

For slots, read the volatility word next to the RTP and the format family, not on its own. A High grade on a 9-line game and a High grade on a 117,649-ways board describe very different boards under the same word, and that is the main lesson this catalogue teaches.

Landmark titles

Reference games for understanding this studio.

Slot guide

5 Reel Drive

8/10

9 Lines · Low volatility

Microgaming

What this studio does well

Every format in one place

Conventional paytables

A visible design lineage

What this studio publishes

The catalogue at a glance

What Microgaming publishes, and what it leaves out

Format history in named titles

Series you can follow

Live tables, and how to read the labels

Landmark titles

5 Reel Drive

Thunderstruck

Thunderstruck II

Thunderstruck® Stormchaser

Break Away

Queen of Cairo: Royal Maxways

Merlin's Secret Maxways

Luna Princess Link&Merge

K-POP Hunter Zeus

Game guides

Kart Rush

Moonlight Romance – Twilight

Soju Power Maxways

Whale Rush

Sheeple

American Auto Roulette

American Roulette

Mortal Bromance

K-POP Hunter Zeus

Luna Princess Link&Merge

Korean All-In Speed Baccarat 2

Wrath of Seth - Split

Luck of the Devil: POWER COMBO

Playboy VIP Blackjack

Mahjong Reels

Ancient Treasure: Poseidon

Max Speed Baccarat

Blackjack Porto

12 Skulls of the Dead

Joker Loko's Multiplier Trail

Prosperity Blessing

African Wilds

Bears Make Bank! Power Combo

Andvari the Golden Fish

Korean All-In Baccarat 1

Korean All-In Baccarat 2

Korean All-In Speed Baccarat 1

Playboy Blackjack

Playboy Roulette

Money on Reels

Star Stash Wild 7's

Mummy Lock Riches

Bonny’s Treasures

Arctic Wolf Triple Riches

Go! Fishing: Reelin' Fortunes

Pizza Fiesta

Almighty Poseidon Empire

3 Blazing Volcanoes Power Combo

3rd Base

Genie's Magic Wishes

Heavenly Elephant Fortune

Splash of Riches

Baccarat After Dark

Blackjack Niagara Falls

Blackjack Ottawa

Kung Pao Panda

Baccarat 10

Baccarat 8

Baccarat 9

Reign of Fire

Hatching Gold! Rooster's Riches

Money Dragon

3 Angels Power Combo

Almighty Dionysus Empire

FashionTV BLACKJACK

FashionTV ROULETTE

Frankenstein

Carnaval Fiesta