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Pragmatic Play is a Malta-based studio founded in 2015 that builds video slots, live dealer tables and bingo. Learn what it makes and see which of its titles are live at Lunaris.
Pragmatic Play casino games at Lunaris are the slots, live dealer tables and other titles supplied by Pragmatic Play, a Malta-based studio founded in 2015. Its games sit alongside the rest of the Lunaris lobby and are playable in the browser on desktop and mobile. The grid on this page shows which Pragmatic Play titles are live right now.
Pragmatic Play is a content supplier for online casinos, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malta. Rather than operating a casino of its own, it builds games and licenses them to operators, which is why the same titles turn up across many different sites under the studio's own branding.
The studio grew quickly into a multi-product supplier. Where some developers stay in one lane, Pragmatic Play publishes across several verticals at once: video slots, live dealer casino, and bingo. It also runs its own live casino studio, which means the tables and game shows carrying its name are produced in-house rather than white-labelled from another provider.
A few things follow from that structure and are worth knowing as a player:
What Pragmatic Play is not is an operator, a payment processor or a regulator. It supplies the games. Your account, your balance, your bonuses and your withdrawals are all handled by Lunaris, and questions about any of those belong with support rather than with the studio.
Video slots. Slots are the bulk of the catalogue and the part of the portfolio most players recognise. Well-known titles include Sweet Bonanza, Gates of Olympus, The Dog House Megaways, Big Bass Bonanza and Wolf Gold. Several of these have grown into series, with sequels and variants that reuse a familiar mechanic in a new theme, which is why you will often see multiple entries sharing a name.
Mechanically, the range covers most of the modern slot vocabulary:
If any of those terms are unfamiliar, how online slots work walks through reels, paylines, scatters and bonus rounds from the beginning, and the casino glossary covers the vocabulary in short definitions.
Live casino. Pragmatic Play streams live dealer content from its own studios: roulette, blackjack, baccarat and a set of presenter-hosted game shows built around wheels, multipliers and bonus rounds. These are real tables with real dealers and real equipment, streamed in real time, rather than software simulations. The difference between the two formats is covered in live casino vs RNG games.
Bingo. The studio also supplies bingo products, a category that sits somewhere between a lottery draw and a social game, with rooms, tickets and shared prize pools.
Network promotions. Drops & Wins is Pragmatic Play's most widely recognised network promotion, a studio-run campaign that spans participating casinos on a schedule the studio sets. Because it is run at the network level, availability and terms are decided by the studio and the operator together. Anything currently running for Lunaris players appears on the promotions page with its own terms.
Pragmatic Play titles appear in more than one part of the Lunaris lobby, depending on what the game is:
| Where it appears | What you will find there |
|---|---|
| Slots | Video slots, including series entries and newer releases |
| Live casino | Dealer-hosted tables and studio game shows |
| Table games | Software table games where the studio supplies them |
The grid above on this page is the accurate, current list. Rather than publishing a fixed line-up in text that would drift out of date, Lunaris renders the live catalogue directly, so what you see is what is playable at the moment you load the page.
There are two other ways to reach the same selection:
Every game runs in the browser. Lunaris is optimised for mobile devices, so the same titles load on a phone or tablet without a separate app or download. Games open in demo or real-money mode depending on your account state and the title.
Bonus rules at Lunaris are set by game type, not by studio, so the same table applies to Pragmatic Play games as to any other supplier's.
Two points matter most. First, bonuses are not offered for live casino games — that includes live dealer tables and studio game shows. Second, wagering contribution varies by category:
| Game type | Contribution to wagering |
|---|---|
| Non-progressive slots | 100% |
| Video poker | 20% |
| RNG blackjack variants | 10% |
| Roulette | 10% |
| Live games | 1% |
Unless a promotion states otherwise, bonuses carry a 20x wagering requirement calculated on deposit plus bonus. On a $100 deposit with a $100 bonus, that is $4,000 in wagers before a withdrawal of bonus winnings can be approved. Bonuses are sticky unless stated otherwise, meaning the bonus amount itself is removed during withdrawal approval. The minimum qualifying deposit for a bonus is $100.
Because slots carry the highest contribution rate, Pragmatic Play's slot catalogue is the part of its portfolio that interacts most usefully with a bonus balance. Read the terms attached to any specific offer before opting in.
Lunaris accepts both card and crypto funding, and Pragmatic Play games play the same either way — the studio's titles have no separate crypto version.
To fund with crypto, open the Cashier from the wallet icon with the plus symbol at the top right of the screen, choose the Crypto option, and pick BTC, ETH or LTC. A few details are worth getting right:
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal deposits are also available in the Cashier, with a $50 minimum and profile-based maximums. Identity verification may be required on a first transaction. Full detail on funding sits on the payments page, cashing out on withdrawals, and the wider picture on the crypto casino page.
One practical note that overlaps with the availability section below: if you use a VPN, disable it before making a deposit or requesting a payout, to avoid problems with the transaction.
Pragmatic Play's slots and software table games use a random number generator. Each spin or round is resolved independently, and no previous result influences the next one — a run of losing spins does not make a win more likely, and the size of your bet does not change the odds, only the amount a winning combination pays.
Return to player is a long-run theoretical average across an enormous number of rounds, not a prediction of any session. Volatility describes the shape of the payouts rather than their total: lower-volatility games pay smaller amounts more often, higher-volatility games pay less often with larger potential prizes. Both figures are published by the studio in each game's information screen. If those concepts are new, start with what is RTP, what is slot volatility and what is RNG.
Live dealer games work differently. Outcomes come from physical equipment — a wheel, a shoe of cards — on camera in a studio, rather than from software. More on that in what is a live dealer casino and on the fair gaming page.
Access to Pragmatic Play games can vary by location. Pragmatic Play does not publish a universal policy that clearly permits or prohibits VPN use in every country, and availability depends on where you are, the location your VPN reports, the casino you are using, and applicable licensing and regulatory requirements. Some players can reach Pragmatic Play games while connected through a VPN; others find access restricted or unavailable.
Lunaris does not guarantee access to these or any other games through a VPN, and cannot provide guidance on bypassing geographic or regulatory restrictions. You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply where you live, along with the terms of both Lunaris and Pragmatic Play. For further detail, review Pragmatic Play's own terms and conditions. If you do use a VPN, disable it when depositing or requesting a payout.
Separately, the studio's line-up in any lobby changes as titles are added and rotated, so treat the grid above as the current list rather than a permanent one.
You must be 21 or over, or the legal gambling age in your jurisdiction if higher, to play at Lunaris.
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