Jili99 PG Soft Slots — What PG Soft Publishes, Title by Title
This site's pg soft slots section covers 3 titles — Mahjong Ways, Lucky Neko and Treasures of Aztec — and unlike JILI, PG Soft publishes an RTP and a volatility label for every one of them, sourced from PG Soft's own published game data rather than its visible page.
- Jili99 Lucky Neko
- On a 6x5 grid, PG Soft's Lucky Neko relies on Gigablox oversized symbol blocks.
- Jili99 Mahjong Ways
- Mahjong Ways runs 1,024 ways to win on a 5x4 grid, made by PG Soft.
- Jili99 Treasures of Aztec
- PG Soft's Treasures of Aztec, built on a 6x5 grid, is evaluated as offering up to 32,400 ways to win.
Three pg soft slots make up this site’s coverage of PG Soft: Mahjong Ways, Lucky Neko and Treasures of Aztec. The distinction that matters most here is disclosure — where JILI publishes no RTP for any of its titles, PG Soft states one for every game it makes, this trio included.
That figure just doesn’t live where a player would expect to look for it.
Pg Soft Slots Covered On This Site
| Title | RTP | Volatility | Max Win |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahjong Ways | 96.92% | medium | 25000x |
| Lucky Neko | 96.73% | medium | 100000x |
| Treasures of Aztec | 96.71% | medium | not stated — see below |
All three run at medium volatility per PG Soft, and all three sit within a fifth of a percentage point of each other on RTP. The gap between them is in the feature engineering, not the return.
What pg soft actually publishes, and where
Problem: open any PG Soft game page looking for an RTP figure, and the field where it should sit shows only a dash. A visual check of the page turns up nothing.
Fix: PG Soft still publishes the figure — it ships inside the game data the server sends alongside that same page, a field separate from what renders on screen. Checking every title in this set against independent consensus confirmed the figures read this way line up, which is why this site calls it “PG Soft’s published game data” rather than “shown on PG Soft’s page.” The two phrases describe different things, and the distinction matters for anyone quoting a PG Soft RTP figure: a number that traces back to the game data is checkable against PG Soft’s own source, while a number lifted from a comparison site usually is not.
Pocket Games Soft: the name behind the initials
PG Soft is a short form; Pocket Games Soft is closer to the studio’s registered identity. Malta’s Gaming Authority carries the licence as follows:
- Licensee: Pocket Games Software Limited, company number C 76195
- Licence: MGA/B2B/435/2017, B2B Critical Supply Licence, casino vertical
- Status: Licensed, per the MGA’s own verification portal
- History: suspended over a compliance breach effective 29 September 2020, later reinstated
PG Soft also lists UK Gambling Commission and Gibraltar badges on its own licensing page; the MGA record above is the one independently confirmed through a public register.
Why Treasures of Aztec’s maximum win isn’t quoted here
Treasures of Aztec is the one title in this set where a single maximum win figure can’t be stated honestly. PG Soft’s own data field gives 100,000x as the maximum exposure. Independent simulation of the same game’s mathematics, separately, puts the practical maximum closer to 9,071x — an order-of-magnitude gap between a certified ceiling and a modelled outcome.
Choosing either number to print here would misrepresent the other, so this page names both instead of picking a side. Mahjong Ways and Lucky Neko carry no such conflict — their published maximums of 25,000x and 100,000x are not disputed anywhere this page checked, which is exactly why only Treasures of Aztec gets this treatment.
Ways to win versus fixed paylines across this set
- Mahjong Ways evaluates 1,024 ways to win on a 5x4 grid, with a free-spins multiplier that climbs cascade by cascade and never resets mid-round.
- Lucky Neko runs as many as 32,400 ways on a 6x5 grid, built around Gigablox symbol blocks sized from 2x2 up to a full 6x6; its 40 base paylines expand to 85 once free spins begin.
- Treasures of Aztec also reaches up to 32,400 ways on a 6x5 grid, with a progressive multiplier that adds 1 per cascade in the base game and 2 per cascade during free spins.
None of the three uses a fixed-payline structure — every one counts ways instead, which is the shape PG Soft favours across its wider catalogue too. A ways-to-win count changes what a symbol landing on an extra reel position is worth: on a fixed-payline game that symbol either sits on a line or it doesn’t, while on a ways game every adjacent-reel combination it completes counts on its own. See rtp explained in the glossary for what an RTP percentage is actually measuring, and how it differs from a maximum win.
Why PG Soft’s volatility labels read differently from JILI’s
JILI’s volatility labels across this site’s 12 titles run from low to medium up to medium to high, described in JILI’s own wording. PG Soft’s three titles here all carry the same single word: medium. That is not PG Soft understating risk — it is a difference in how each studio chooses to describe the same kind of figure.
A medium label on Lucky Neko, whose published maximum reaches 100,000x, and a medium to high label on JILI’s Fortune Gems 3, whose maximum sits at 10,125x, are not measuring risk on the same scale, because neither studio publishes the underlying distribution behind the word. Reading the maximum win alongside the volatility label, rather than either alone, is what keeps a player from assuming “medium” means the same thing twice.
Three titles against the twelve JILI ones, on published figures
Putting the two studios’ disclosure side by side is the fastest way to see why this site treats them differently.
| PG Soft titles here | JILI titles here | |
|---|---|---|
| Titles covered | 3 | 12 |
| Published RTP | 3 of 3 | 0 of 12 |
| Published maximum win | 2 of 3 | 12 of 12 |
| Published volatility label | 3 of 3 | 11 of 12 |
PG Soft publishes the number that describes long-run return and is missing one maximum. JILI publishes every maximum and no returns at all. Neither studio is hiding anything; they have simply made opposite choices about which figure to put in print.
For a reader that means the two sets of pages answer different questions. A PG Soft page can tell you roughly what the game returns over time. A jili games page here can tell you exactly how large a single result can get, and says plainly that the return figure does not exist.
Playing a PG Soft slot at Jili99
- Sign in at Jili99 and open the game lobby.
- Filter by PG Soft, or search for a title from this page by name.
- Open the game’s own info screen to check its published RTP and stake range before playing.
- Set a session budget first, then start with a lower stake on any title new to you.
This site’s jili games coverage publishes no equivalent RTP table, for the honest reason that JILI states none across any of its 12 titles here. Pragmatic Play slots is the third studio this site tracks a title for, and it publishes RTP the same way PG Soft does — a figure straight from the studio, never from a comparison site. Full studio background for PG Soft, including certifications and every source checked, sits on the PG Soft provider page; every studio this site tracks is indexed on the game providers hub.
FAQ
Do PG Soft slots pay better than JILI slots?
That question can't be settled on RTP alone, because JILI publishes none for comparison. What can be compared: PG Soft states an RTP for all 3 titles here, between 96.71% and 96.92%, figures JILI simply does not release for any of its own games.
Where does PG Soft actually publish its RTP figures?
Not on the visible game page — that field shows a dash. PG Soft publishes RTP within the game data sent alongside the page, which is a different location from the page's display, and every figure on this site's PG Soft pages is read from that data rather than from the dash.
What is Pocket Games Soft, and is it the same company as PG Soft?
Pocket Games Soft is the studio's full registered name, and PG Soft is the short form used on branding. Malta's MGA lists the licence holder as Pocket Games Software Limited, company number C 76195, under licence MGA/B2B/435/2017.
Why doesn't this site quote a maximum win for Treasures of Aztec?
PG Soft's own data field states 100,000x, and an independent simulation of the same title's mathematics puts the practical maximum closer to 9,071x — an order of magnitude apart. Rather than pick one figure to state as fact, this page names both and leaves the disagreement visible.
What does 'ways to win' mean on a PG Soft slot?
It's a count of the combinations a matching run of symbols can form across adjacent reels, evaluated instead of counting fixed paylines. Lucky Neko's ways figure expands from 40 to 85 once free spins begin, which is why its published maximum sits well above its base-game ceiling.
Has PG Soft's Malta licence ever been suspended?
Yes. The MGA suspended Pocket Games Software Limited's licence over a compliance breach, effective 29 September 2020, before reinstating it. That licence, MGA/B2B/435/2017, is currently marked Licensed on the MGA's own verification portal.