Playson: Hold and Win slots and a network promo calendar
Playson is a Malta studio running 85+ omni-channel slots across 20+ regulated markets. Its real product is the promotional calendar that runs over them — CashDays, Friday Cash Flash, Cash Blast — which is what most operators buy it for.
The studio
Who Playson are
Playson was founded in 2012 and is based at 12 Tigne Place in Sliema, Malta. Its team is distributed across Malta, Ukraine, the UK and Greece. Directory profiles frequently give it a Ukrainian or Cypriot head office; the company itself publishes Malta, with Ukraine as one of four team locations.
Founders, ownership and headcount are not published. No parent company is disclosed.
The catalogue is over 85 omni-channel casino games — a company figure, and notably a modest one. Playson is not competing on volume. It also markets its own delivery and integration layer, xPlatform.
What it is actually known for is the promotional layer. Playson runs a standing calendar of network events across its titles, and for a lot of operators that calendar is the reason the studio is in the lobby at all.
- Founded: 2012 — Sliema, Malta
- Team: Malta, Ukraine, UK, Greece
- Produces: omni-channel video slots
- Catalogue: over 85 games (company figure)
- Markets: certified for 18+ jurisdictions; live in 20+ regulated markets
- Named partners: Gaming Innovation Group, PlatinCasino
- Licences: no numbers published
The games
Playson slots
Playson publishes no release years, so none are asserted. Notice how much of the catalogue carries the Hold and Win suffix — that is the studio’s house format.
| Title | Released | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Book del Sol: Multiplier | — | Book-style slot with an expanding-symbol bonus plus a multiplier layer |
| Legend of Cleopatra Megaways | — | Megaways variable-reel format, licensed from Big Time Gaming |
| Lion Gems: Hold and Win | — | Hold-and-Win respin slot: cash and bonus symbols lock and reset a respin counter |
| Joker’s Coins: Hold and Win | — | Hold-and-Win respin slot on a fruit and joker theme |
| Ruby Hit: Hold and Win | — | Hold-and-Win respin slot |
| Royal Coins: Hold and Win | — | Hold-and-Win respin slot |
| Wolf Power: Hold and Win | — | Hold-and-Win respin slot |
| Solar Queen | — | Egyptian-theme slot with an expanding-symbol free-spins round |
No RTP figures are quoted. Playson publishes no release years and its games index was not publicly reachable when we checked, so nothing here is filled in from a demo site.
What makes it different
The promo calendar is the product
Most studios sell games and leave promotion to the operator. Playson sells a schedule.
CashDays
A recurring monthly network promotion running over a set multi-day period with a published prize pool, awarded on a leaderboard basis across participating Playson titles. It is the anchor event in the calendar and the one operators plan around.
Friday Cash Flash
A network event structured in tournament phases on a fixed weekly slot, distributing prizes across qualifying rounds. The fixed weekly timing is the point — players learn when it happens.
Cash Blast
A random prize-drop product: prizes are awarded to qualifying spins at random rather than by leaderboard position. No wager ranking gates the award, which makes it feel different to a tournament even though it runs on the same games.
Short Races
A short-duration tournament format. The compressed race window is what distinguishes it from CashDays — it is designed for a session rather than a month.
Hold and Win
The house game format across a large part of the catalogue. Cash symbols lock in place and a respin counter resets each time a new one lands, with the round ending when respins expire or the grid fills.
xPlatform
Playson’s own platform and integration layer, marketed as a single point of integration for its content and its promotional tools together.
Where it runs
Where Playson games are available
Playson publishes two different figures: certified for 18+ regulated jurisdictions and content live in over 20 regulated markets. We are quoting both rather than merging them, because the company does not explain the difference.
Named markets: Malta, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the UK, Romania, Germany and Greece.
Named operator partners: Gaming Innovation Group and PlatinCasino in Germany.
- No licence numbers are published on Playson’s public pages
- The company states certification for 18+ regulated jurisdictions
- Named markets include Malta, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the UK, Romania, Germany and Greece
- Its licences page was not publicly reachable when we checked
- For a studio live in the UK and Germany, request the numbers directly — they are not on the site
FAQ
Playson — common questions
Sliema, Malta — 12 Tigne Place. Its team is spread across Malta, Ukraine, the UK and Greece. Directory sites frequently give a Ukrainian or Cypriot head office, but the company publishes Malta.
Playson’s anchor network promotion: a recurring monthly event running over a set multi-day period with a published prize pool, awarded on a leaderboard across participating Playson titles. It is the reason a lot of operators carry the studio.
Cash Blast awards prizes to qualifying spins at random rather than by leaderboard position, so no wager ranking gates the award. A tournament ranks players by result. They run on the same games but feel completely different to a player.
Over 85, by the company’s own figure. That is deliberately modest compared with studios shipping weekly — Playson is not competing on catalogue size.
Cash symbols lock in place and a respin counter resets each time a new one lands, with the round ending when respins run out or the grid fills. It is the house format across a large part of the catalogue, visible in the title names themselves.
The company states its games are certified for 18+ regulated jurisdictions and names Malta, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the UK, Romania, Germany and Greece. It publishes no licence numbers on its public site, and its licences page was not reachable when we checked, so request documentation directly.
The company says over 20 regulated markets, and separately that it is certified for 18+ jurisdictions. It does not explain the gap between the two figures, so treat both as approximate.
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