Same Games, Different Lobbies? We Compared the Providers at Five Social Casinos

How the Seven Social Casino Provider Libraries Compare

The Providers That Keep Turning Up

As our table above will show you, the biggest names in the iGaming industry are bound to overlap across social casinos, which isn’t particularly surprising. If a provider already has a catalogue players recognize, there is an obvious reason for several social casinos to want a piece of it.

Hacksaw Gaming is one of the best examples of that. The studio has grown into one of the most recognizable brands in the industry, and its character-first games tend to stand out even in a crowded lobby. Smokey the raccoon first arrived in Le Bandit as a French outlaw and has since collected an increasingly questionable CV through games such as Le Cowboy, Le Viking, Le Zeus and Le Santa. Stake.us has even had its own exclusive addition to the family with Le Rapper.

BGaming crops up repeatedly as well, although its catalogue is much harder to sum up with one mascot or series. Pulsz carries games such as Bonanza Trillion and Sweet Samurai, while McLuck’s BGaming collection wanders from Elvis Frog in Vegas to Gangsterz, where crime-loving dinosaurs take a shot at cracking a safe.

This should explain why jumping from one social casino to another can occasionally feel like a mild case of déjà vu — the same studios are competing for space in several lobbies but is then there any difference across social casinos?

So Why Don’t the Five Casinos Feel the Same?

Having overlapping same providers doesn’t automatically mean arranging the same library. Just take a look:

WOW Vegas

WOW Vegas has one of the more varied mixes in the group.

The familiar names are there — Hacksaw, BGaming and 3 Oaks among them — but Evolution brings live and dealer content into the picture, while releases such as Playson’s exclusive Clover Smash give the site games that aren’t simply mirrored everywhere else.

Smaller studios also get room alongside the headline providers, which breaks up the endless run of familiar logos.

CrownCoins

In comparsion, CrownCoins is more firmly built around modern third-party slots.

Hacksaw Gaming, Relax Gaming, Playson and Pragmatic Play give it plenty of household titles, but the catalogue keeps moving as new releases are added. Recent arrivals such as Hacksaw’s Le Vampire show how a casino can share a provider with several competitors while still carrying a different portion of that provider’s library.

Stake.us

Stake.us goes much wider.

Its provider count is on another scale , but the more important thing is all the providers sitting between the familiar names. Stake Originals brings games such as Plinko, Mines, Dice and Crash into the lobby, while smaller studios and exclusive suppliers push the catalogue well beyond the usual rotation of big slot developers.

A player can go from a Hacksaw slot to a very stripped-back original without ever really leaving.

McLuck

Then, there is McLuck, which occupies another completely different corner of the spectrum.

Its 55-provider directory includes the obvious recurring names, but studios such as Thunderkick, Peter & Sons, Print Studios and Yggdrasil are some of the less predictable choices around them.

McLuck Originals give the casino another small layer, so the casino isn’t relying entirely on the same third-party pool as its competitors.

Pulsz

Pulsz, meanwhile, has one of the more noticeable format differences thanks to Gaming Realms and its Slingo catalogue.

Slingo games mix slot mechanics with bingo, meaning titles such as Slingo Fire and Ice immediately look and play differently from another five-reel release. Pragmatic Play lends some of its more familiar names to this experiment, such as Big Bass Bonanza and Sweet Bonanza, but Slingo gives the library something that is much harder to confuse with the standard Hold and Win forma.

Does Having More Providers Automatically Mean Having a Better Library?

Not necessarily.

Stake.us can point to more than 500 provider entries. McLuck has 55 in its conventional directory. WOW Vegas and CrownCoins sit comfortably above 20 studios. Sure, those numbers tell us how broad a lobby might be, but not necessarily what it feels like once you start opening the games.

There is also plenty of overlap. BGaming, 3 Oaks Gaming, Playson, Hacksaw Gaming, Relax Gaming and Nolimit City — all these recur across much of the group.

What separates the five is the material around those recurring names: WOW Vegas’ exclusives, CrownCoins’ steady stream of new releases, Stake Originals, McLuck’s smaller studios and Pulsz’s Slingo catalogue.

Those nuances may be the more useful comparison for seasoned players who already know what they like. A social casino can have 500 games or 5,000; the more immediate question is whether the ones you actually recognize — or haven’t seen twenty times already — are among them.