PHTAYA PG Slot: Portrait Grids, Ways & Cascades

Picking a PG Slot on PHTAYA means reading something that behaves differently from most of what sits beside it on the Slots tab: no fixed paylines, cascading reels instead of spinning ones, and an RTP figure PG Soft never prints on the page you’d actually load. This site covers two PG Soft titles in full — Treasures of Aztec and Wild Bandito, both seen on the Hot shelf, tagged PG — and this page compares them directly.

Every pg soft slots title covered on this PHTAYA page

Title	Grid	Ways to win	Volatility	RTP (PG Soft’s data)	Max win
Treasures of Aztec	6x5	Up to 32,400	Medium	96.71%	Not quoted — see below
Wild Bandito	5x4	1,024	High	96.73%	25,000x

Where a pg soft demo fits before you stake anything

1. Confirmed on PHTAYA: JILI and FA CHAI tiles carry a LIBRENG SUBOK free-trial button alongside MAGLARO NGAYON.
2. Outside that confirmed list: whether a PG Soft tile shows a matching demo button of its own.
3. What to do instead: open Treasures of Aztec or Wild Bandito from the Slots tab and read what buttons that specific tile shows before you stake anything real.

Portrait grids, ways to win and cascades — what to expect

1. Treasures of Aztec’s progressive multiplier resets each round; it climbs by 1 per cascade in the base game and by 2 per cascade once free spins start.
2. Wild Bandito’s free-spins multiplier never resets once the round begins, accumulating through every spin instead — the reason it carries a high volatility rating against Treasures of Aztec’s medium.
3. Both titles score by matching symbols across the whole grid rather than along fixed lines, which is what “ways to win” and cascading reels actually mean in practice.

PG Soft’s own licence record, separate from PHTAYA’s

A game studio’s licence is not the operator’s licence — the two are different companies, checked against different registers. What’s on record for PG Soft itself:

Fact	Detail
MGA licence	MGA/B2B/435/2017, held by Pocket Games Software Limited (registered C 76195)
MGA suspension	Suspended 29 September 2020 over a compliance breach, later reinstated
Certifications	BMM Testlabs, Gaming Associates
PH status	PAGCOR’s Electronic Gaming Licensing Department lists PG Soft’s game content as approved — content approval for licensed operators to use, not an operator licence for PG Soft itself

Two further licences PG Soft lists on its own site, for the UK Gambling Commission and Gibraltar, rest only on that listing; unlike the MGA entry above, no public register was found backing them independently.

Release years and where these two sit in PG Soft’s catalogue

Treasures of Aztec released in 2020; Wild Bandito followed in 2022. PG Soft names Wild Bandito among its own notable titles, alongside Mahjong Ways 2, Fortune Tiger, Fortune Ox and Lucky Neko — none of which sit on PHTAYA’s Hot shelf or among the titles this site covers in full, so search the lobby by name if you’re looking for one of those instead.

PG Soft’s specialism, by its own account, is slots specifically — unlike JILI or Pragmatic Play, it doesn’t list fishing games, live tables or arcade titles in its own catalogue description.

What each title’s feature set actually does

Beyond grid size and ways to win, the two titles lean on different mechanics to build their pace:

1. Treasures of Aztec runs mystery symbols that upgrade to wild once a cascade resolves, which is what keeps its cascade chains long enough for the progressive multiplier to matter — without them, most chains would end before the doubled free-spins rate ever applied.
2. Wild Bandito’s wilds take a gold-framed shape and trigger respins rather than simple substitutions, adding extra chances at a winning line within the same spin rather than starting a fresh one.
3. Free spins on Treasures of Aztec need 4 or more landed scatters and award 10 or more spins; Wild Bandito’s persistent multiplier is what carries the round once free spins begin, not an escalating spin count.

Neither figure appears on PG Soft’s own game page by default. Both come from the same place this page’s RTP figures do — the data PG Soft’s server sends alongside the page rather than the paytable a visitor sees on screen — which is exactly why checking a title’s own info screen in the lobby still matters more than trusting either source blind.

Pragmatic Play’s slots, covered separately on this site, take the opposite approach: one RTP figure prints directly on the game page, and the operator-selectable settings behind it stay unlisted there instead. Two studios, two different ways of making the same information harder to find at a glance.

How to check a pg slot’s numbers before you stake

1. Open the tile from PHTAYA’s Slots tab, tagged PG, or from the Hot shelf where both titles have been seen.
2. Open the game’s own info screen inside the lobby.
3. Compare what loads there against the grid, ways and RTP figures on this page.
4. Read what volatility itself measures before treating two similarly-rated titles as equivalent.

The PHTAYA Slot tab in full covers how studio tags and buttons work across every tile, not just PG Soft’s, and PHTAYA’s game providers directory plus PG Soft’s own licence record cover the studio itself in more depth. JILI’s slots and Pragmatic Play’s slots, covered on their own pages, run different RTP policies entirely — JILI publishes none at all, and Pragmatic prints one figure where three configurations often exist.