Dragon Gaming
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Dragon Gaming was founded in 2018 and runs its head office from Nicosia, Cyprus. That makes it a younger studio than most of the names on this site, and the catalogue reflects that: it has been built inside the last several years rather than carried over from a land-based back catalogue.

On our data source the studio has 129 games, which puts it 37th of the 80 studios we track for catalogue size. Of those 129, 48 carry a dated release on the feed, so the release-pace figures below describe that dated subset rather than the whole catalogue.

The oldest dated title on file lands on 4 September 2024 and the newest on 13 August 2026. Across those years the dated count runs 7 in 2024, 28 in 2025 and 13 so far in 2026, so 2025 is the busiest full year we have on record.

A pace in that region means a new Dragon Gaming title appears every few weeks rather than every few months. For a player, that is the difference between a studio you can follow for fresh releases and one you dip into occasionally, though the 2026 figure is a part-year count and should not be read as a slowdown on its own.

The themes across the catalogue cluster fairly tightly. The most-used ones on our data source are:

• Asian: 11 titles
• Animal: 8 titles
• Halloween: 5 titles
• Horror: 5 titles
• Sports: 4 titles
• Egyptian: 4 titles

Asian themes lead the list, and the Halloween and Horror counts sit next to each other at five apiece, which points to a seasonal streak in the release plan. If you dislike a studio that keeps returning to the same visual well, that is worth knowing before you go looking: the theme spread here is narrow rather than scattergun.

Sixteen Dragon Gaming titles publish an RTP figure on our data source. Across those 16 the median is 95.06% and the average is 95.33%. The studios we track average about 95.7%, so Dragon Gaming sits below the field on both measures.

The gap is small in percentage terms but it is a gap that only shows up over volume. At 95.33% the theoretical return on £1,000 of total stakes turned over is £953.30, against £957 at the field average of 95.7%, a difference of about £3.70. Use the median of 95.06% instead and the theoretical return drops to £950.60, roughly £6.40 below the field figure for the same £1,000 staked.

Those are long-run theoretical numbers, not a forecast for one session, and short sessions swing well outside them in both directions. The honest reading is that Dragon Gaming's published RTPs are slightly under the field norm rather than dramatically off it.

The range is wider than the averages suggest: 93.72% to 99.54%, a spread of about 5.8 percentage points. The top of that range belongs to Jacks or Better at 99.54%, a poker-style title rather than a reel slot, and it lifts the ceiling well clear of the rest. Take it out and the highest figure on file is 97.45%, so the slots themselves span roughly 93.72% to 97.45%.

That is still close to four percentage points between the best and worst RTP on record here, which is the practical point: the title you pick matters more than the studio average. Checking the number on the individual game beats assuming the catalogue behaves as one block.

On volatility, 10 titles carry a rating on the 1 to 5 ladder. Eight of those are rated medium and two are rated very high, with nothing at the low or high steps in between. Medium is the most common rating by a clear margin.

In practice a medium lean means wins arrive at a reasonably regular clip and the swings, while real, tend not to run as brutal as a top-step game. The two very-high titles behave differently: expect longer dry spells between anything meaningful, with the return concentrated in fewer, larger hits, which needs a session bankroll that can absorb the flat stretches.

Ten rated titles out of 129 is a small sample, so treat the medium lean as an indication rather than a promise about the whole catalogue. One more thing worth knowing generally: the same slot is often shipped in more than one RTP configuration and the casino chooses which one it runs, so check the figure on the game's own info screen rather than assuming the number we hold is the one you are playing.

The highest published RTP on our data source is Jacks or Better at 99.54%, and it is worth flagging straight away that this is a card title rather than a reel slot. Games of that type routinely publish higher return figures than slots do, so its presence at the top of the list skews the picture if you read the table as a slot ranking.

Among the reel games, Diamond Reels - Hold and Win leads at 97.45%, followed by Dragon Fortune Frenzy Christmas Edition at 97.08% and Red vs Blue Spin to Win at 96%. Those three sit clearly above the studio's own 95.33% average, so they are the ones to look at first if published RTP is your deciding factor.

Below that the list bunches close to the median: Piggy Bank Bonanza - Hold and Win at 95.53%, Dragon Eggs at 95.36%, Golden Tiger Fortunes at 95.22% and Fortunes of Pharaohs at 95.11%. The tight grouping there tells you the catalogue has a house number it keeps returning to, with a handful of outliers above it. The phrase Hold and Win also recurs across several of these titles, so the naming suggests a format the studio comes back to.

The newest Dragon Gaming release we track and can link is Soaring Eagle - Hold and Win, dated 30 July 2026. Be clear about the scope: that is one title out of 129, and the RTP figures above cover 16 of them. We are describing the slice of the catalogue that publishes data and that the desk has actually reviewed, not the whole studio.

Set against the 80 studios we track, Dragon Gaming lands as follows:

• Catalogue size: 129 games, ranking 37 of 80, so mid-table rather than a small or a heavyweight library.
• RTP: an average of 95.33% against a field average of about 95.7%, putting it below the norm on the titles that publish a figure.
• Volatility: medium is the most common rating here, while 21 of the 53 studios with volatility data lean very high, so Dragon Gaming sits calmer than a sizeable chunk of the field.

The character that comes out of those three lines is a mid-sized studio playing it fairly steady. Its published returns are a little under the field, but the volatility lean is the more distinctive part: a mostly medium catalogue in a field where roughly two in five studios with data lean to the top of the variance ladder.

If you want big-swing maths, most of Dragon Gaming's rated titles are not built for it, and only two of the 10 sit at very high. If you want sessions that pay more regularly and cost less in dead spins between wins, the medium lean here is the part of this studio worth your attention, with the RTP shortfall as the trade-off to weigh against it.

A free demo is the sensible first meeting with any Dragon Gaming title. It is the real game with the real maths and the real features, running on play money, so you can see how often the game pays something, how the bonus rounds trigger and whether the pace suits you before a penny of your own is involved.

That matters more than usual here because of the split in the ratings. A medium title and one of the two rated very high will feel like different games over a hundred spins, and a demo is the cheapest way to work out which experience you have in front of you rather than trusting the studio name.

What a demo cannot show you is how the game behaves with your own money over a session. Play money removes the part that actually shapes decisions: the pull to raise your stake after a flat run, or to chase a bonus that has not landed. Judge the game in demo, then set your budget and stake before you switch across, not after.

Free play is for over-18s only in Great Britain, and the age gate applies to demos exactly as it does to real-money play.

Modern slots are built mobile-first and scaled up to the desktop, rather than the other way round. In practice that means portrait layouts, controls sized for a thumb and reels that stay readable on a phone screen. The demos run straight in your mobile browser, so there is no app to install.

The UK rules travel with you. The 2.5-second minimum spin speed, the ban on autoplay and the stake caps are tied to the UK build of the game, not to the device you open it on, so a slot behaves the same on your phone as it does on a laptop.

The catalogue statistics on this page come from the Dragon Gaming games listed on our data source, and each figure is computed only from the titles that actually publish it. That is 129 games in total, 48 with a dated release behind the year-by-year pace, 16 behind the RTP median, average and range, and 10 behind the volatility split. Maximum win is not covered here because the source for it is not reliable enough to quote.

The reviews are separate from the statistics: they come from the individual releases the desk plays, which is currently a small slice of the catalogue rather than the whole thing. We do not claim to have played all 129 games, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. When the underlying data changes, the numbers on this page change with it.