Looking back at 2018
Release year is recorded for about half of the games in the open data. It is useful for finding games from a particular era, but it is not a quality signal.
Compare the headline RTP with the lowest published version: studios releasing a game often publish a range, and operators choose from it.
RTP of released in 2018
The highest headline RTPs among released in 2018 are Jack in a Pot by Red Tiger (98.18%), Hotline by NetEnt (97.04%) and Coins of Egypt by NetEnt (96.97%). The average headline RTP across all 77 is 96.42%, and the lowest is 93.75% on Fire Lightning.
18 of them (23%) are published in more than one RTP version, so the return depends on the version an operator runs. The widest gap is on Star Joker: from 96.25% down to 84.14%.
Volatility and max win
Volatility is published for 51 of the 77 games: 4 low, 27 medium, 16 high and 4 very high.
The largest published max wins are 12,000× on Mustang Gold, 10,498× on Fruit blox and 10,366× on Dragon's Fire. The median max win of the 15 games that publish one is 1,700×. A max win is a rare ceiling, not a result to expect.
Studios, years and free demos
6 studios make the games in this list. The most represented are Pragmatic Play with 23 (average RTP 96.45%), Wazdan with 20 (average RTP 96.47%) and Play'n GO with 18 (average RTP 96.43%).
Release years run from 2018 to 2018; the newest are Jack in a Pot (2018), Hotline (2018) and Coins of Egypt (2018).
57 of the 77 (74%) have a free official demo that runs on their page with no sign-up.