Is ELK Studios a casino?
No. ELK Studios is a game studio: it makes slots and supplies them to licensed online casinos, and you play its games at those casinos. Your account, deposits and withdrawals are handled by the casino, under the casino's own licence.
Who owns ELK Studios?
Light & Wonder, the American games company that was called Scientific Games when it bought ELK. It announced the completed purchase on 1 December 2021. ELK still trades under its own name from Stockholm and still holds its gambling licences in its own companies' names.
Where is ELK Studios based?
In Stockholm, Sweden, where it was founded in 2013. The UK Gambling Commission register gives its head office as Master Samuelsgatan 56, Stockholm. A separate company, ELK Studios Malta Ltd, based in Ta' Xbiex, holds its Malta licence.
Is ELK Studios licensed and safe?
Yes. Elkab Studios AB holds UK Gambling Commission licences for gambling software and game hosting (account 40844, the software licence in force since March 2015), and the register shows no regulatory action against it. ELK Studios Malta Ltd holds a Malta Gaming Authority B2B critical supply licence (MGA/B2B/605/2018). ELK also lists licences in Romania and Greece and supplies the regulated Ontario market. Your money is still only as safe as the casino you play at.
What are ELK Studios' best-known games?
Wild Toro, the 2016 slot about a bull and a matador that was named Game of the Year at the 2017 EGR Operator Awards, and the Pirots series, whose second game won Slot of the Year at the 2024 Game Developer Awards. Its other long-running series include Nitropolis, Cygnus and Tropicool.
What is X-iter?
X-iter is ELK's own feature menu: up to five game modes, each priced as a multiple of your bet, that take you straight to a feature or bonus instead of waiting for it to trigger. In Pirots 5, for example, the modes run from a 3x bet with more than four times the chance to trigger the bonus, up to a 250x bet super bonus. Every ELK slot released since Bompers in March 2021 has X-iter.
Can I play ELK Studios slots for free?
Yes. ELK offers free demo play of its games on its own website, and most of the games listed on this page can be tried in that official demo without opening a casino account.
What RTP do ELK Studios slots pay?
It varies by game and by casino. ELK's own game sheets give 96.0% to 96.4% for slots released up to 2020, mostly 95.0% for 2021 and 2022, and 94.0% for its 2023 to 2025 releases. Most 2026 releases list a range of 87.0% to 96.0% depending on the market and the operator, so the casino decides which version you get: check the game's rules screen before you play.
How volatile are ELK Studios slots?
ELK rates each game's volatility from 1 to 10, and most of its slots are rated 7 or 8. The lowest-rated games we list, such as Ho Ho Tower and Birthday!, sit at 4 or 5, and the highest, such as Route 777, Tahiti Gold and Katmandu X, at 9.
What is the biggest win on an ELK Studios slot?
50,000 times your bet. Several ELK slots, including Cygnus 6, Grizzly Stampede, Nitropolis 5 and Buffalo Toro, have a 50,000x maximum win in ELK's own game data, and most recent releases cap at 10,000x or 25,000x.
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