Phone-first slots, read from India

More than 200 titles carry the PG SOFT name, and forty of them are documented here in detail. The house style is easy to recognise. Mahjong Ways and Mahjong Ways 2 build wins out of tile clusters that vanish and refill. Treasures of Aztec and Wild Bandito run multipliers that keep climbing through a round rather than resetting at every spin. Fortune Tiger, Fortune Ox and Fortune Mouse are small three-reel machines with a deliberately old-fashioned face. Dragon Hatch, Caishen Wins, Lucky Neko and Ganesha Fortune each work a different grid shape.

All of them were designed for a vertical screen: HTML5 in a phone browser, portrait, one thumb, no download and no app store. That format is why these games travel so easily across very different hardware.

India has no single interface language, and that is where most regional write-ups go wrong. Hindi is the most widely spoken, but a reader in Chennai, Kolkata or Kochi may not use it at all, and English stays the practical fallback for software across the country, which is why this edition is in English. No Hindi or other Indian-language build of the forty titles has been verified here, so none is claimed. Indian-language words typed in Latin letters are normal too, and the English title is usually the one that finds a game.

Money needs care. Large figures are read in lakh and crore here, and a maximum-win entry in the table is a multiplier of the stake, not an amount in rupees. A 5,000x ceiling is not 5,000 rupees. RTP is a percentage describing long-run theoretical behaviour across an enormous number of rounds, not money that reaches any individual player. Whether the balance shows a rupee symbol at all is decided by whichever site is displaying it.

Then the hardware, which is where phone-first design earns its keep. India runs overwhelmingly on Android, often on entry-level handsets where storage runs out long before patience does, and an HTML5 game in a browser has nothing to install. Data is cheap here by world standards, but prepaid packs are metered, and coverage that holds in a metro thins out in a district town. Portrait, one hand, an ordinary connection: that is the realistic setting, not a desktop.

The slot list is the centre of it: forty titles with published RTP, volatility band, reel-and-row layout, maximum win and release year, every maximum-win figure labelled by how firm it is. Each figure has a source behind it, and the ones nobody could verify are marked unverified rather than quietly rounded up. Nothing here is playable, and no game is ranked by what it pays.