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A Malta-based company, Relax Gaming has been founded in 2010, and since then they’ve worked on over three dozen high quality slots, all of them available and appreciated today. The founders of this company are Jani Tekoniemi and Patrik Osteraker. It’s a developer which is licensed in Malta, UK, Alderney and Romania, and as such it respects the rules of all those countries when it comes to player protection and gaming.
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Relax Gaming describe themselves as a B2B provider, which has multiple products to offer casinos. Besides their Casino games, they also have an offer in the Poker and Bingo niches, with proprietary products in each one.
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Among several offers that they make to their partners, there are options for those looking for Powered By solutions, a Silver Bullet program for smaller studios that are looking for someone to bring their content to market, but also their own games which are highly appreciated.
When it comes to their own content, Relax Gaming has popular slot games like Snake Arena, Money Train 2 or Temple Tumble. Plenty more are coming, especially since the Megaways franchise is now part of their offer, and they already released several slots that are based on this game engine.
History
Relax Gaming was founded in March 2010, by Patrik Osteraker and Jani Tekoniemi, their target at the time being to make this new company one of the top providers of gaming solutions.
In December 2011, the company opened up their operations in Finland. Just one month later, in January 2012, they open another office, this time in Tallinn, Estonia.
It took them a couple of years after that, to release their main Poker product to the market, which they did in March 2014.
2015 started with a major new product release for them, as they launched their own game server, along with a Powered By opportunity for their partners. In July that same year, they launched a Bingo product.
In 2016 opened their Swedish office, in Malmo. 2018 is the year when they expanded their presence to Malta, and it is also when they hired Simon Hammon, to give their Casino operations a boost. They also released their Plat to Plat casino vertical in 2018. In April that year, they reached 100 employees. They then opened offices in Belgrade, released a program called Silver Bullet for finding studio partners, and then they launched their first network game, with Erik The Red.
In 2019, Relax Gaming released their first branded game, revolving around two personalities, Bruce and Michael Buffer.
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I found a very good mix of casino games in their portfolio, mainly online slots with modern graphics, both low and high volatility, and payouts at most levels. RTP always seems to be fairly high, they have slots where wins of up to 20,000x the stake are possible, and the game mechanics are more interesting than ever, now that they acquired the Megaways license from Big Time Gaming. All in all, the relatively small game collection offered by Relax Gaming is one of the main things it has going for it.
Fantasy and history will often be a source of inspiration for the slots that they release, and you can see it in a game like Napoleon & Josephine, or in titles like Attila The Hun or Wildchemy.
As of right now, they have 39 games available, 33 of which are video slots, while the others are various other casino games.
Graphics
I’m a big fan of new slot machines where graphics get lots of attention from talented designers, and Relax Gaming certainly seems to be that type of company. Most of the slots I’ve seen from them have been great. The attention to detail is high, and the designers know what they’re doing. They will still have filler symbols on the reels, with card suits and Royals part of their offer, but there will also be highly relevant and beautiful symbols in more important positions.
Some of my favorite designs can be found in slots like Wild Chapo, Emeralds Infinity Reels or Kluster Krystals Megaclusters, but those are only a couple of examples. Many more great designs are to be found in their collection.
Features
The slots available from Relax Gaming are about more than just pretty graphics. I’ve often found interesting features, and plenty of them, as they don’t skimp on bonuses or types of free spins, to mention just two examples. You will often encounter several types of wilds in a single game (expanding, stacked, spreading, random), re-spins, free spins, bonus games and symbol transformations.
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While some games from their collection will reach dizzying heights, with 20,000x rewards mentioned in a slot like Money Train, up to 29,794x in Heroes Gathering, and 7,767x for Temple Tumble Megaways, there are plenty of others which reach only 500x. What this means is that you will get both slots with Low and High volatility, and even some options in the middle.
RTP wise I’ve always found their slots to be fair, with an RTP above 96% being standard for them.
Overall, I haven’t found anything to complain here.
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Patrik Österåker co-founded Relax Gaming in 2010 and was instrumental to the start of its success story. Together with his business partner Jani Tekoniemi, Patrik formed the foundations of the company, initiating a legacy of technical excellence. Prior to this, Patrik’s extensive experience spans a background in software development in telecoms and a highly successful industry position at iGame Malta as Chief Technology Officer.
Content creators must be equally focused on both differentiation and quality if they are to succeed and survive in this most cut-throat of times, according to Patrik Österåker, chairman and co-founder of Relax Gaming.
Österåker’s company is among the leading content and aggregation suppliers in the European online gaming sector and this year celebrates 10 years since its foundation. Over the course of the last decade it has established itself as an important partner for major operators such as Leo Vegas, Kindred and Playfortuna, as well as pioneering game studios like Fantasma Games and Big Time Gaming.
Relax offers its own content and games from around 35 content partners – with the capacity to absorb many more – and Österåker is adamant that in a more mature market it takes even more for a game to impress decision-makers at aggregation services or B2C operators. The increasingly discerning player also has greater demands of game designers.
“We have a market flooded with games,” said Österåker, who launched the company with Jani Tekoniemi in March 2010. “For a studio to make a breakthrough they need to establish quality, but also differentiation.
“However, it’s a mistake to focus on one but not the other. You have to take in both. Is the differentiation because the game’s too off-beat or no good? Is the quality of the game high but exactly the same as hundreds of others?
“I have seen lots of games over the years, but I am still occasionally wowed. The nature of the business is that there are quite a few misses before you have a hit. When we start working with a partner, we realise that it can take some time before they get the big hits.”
Complexity of compliance
Much has changed in the 10 years since Relax Gaming was founded with an initial goal of becoming a leading technical provider of high-quality gaming solutions. Originally envisaged as a technology partner within a sector considered lagging behind many others in terms of innovation, Relax moved towards content creation and aggregation as it became more obvious that this was a growing area of potential which suited its capabilities.
“Aggregation is essentially enabling access to games,” said Österåker, whose company has offices in Estonia, Malta, Sweden, Finland and Serbia.
“There has been a huge influx of suppliers in the last five years, and even more so in the last two years.
“Many of these newcomers hope for direct reach to operators and many now try that with their own platform. However, operators wish to limit the number of partners they have due to the headache of matters such as compliance and invoicing. That drives them towards the aggregator model, with larger companies such as ours being able to offer not only a large number of games but also a comprehensive compliance service across many markets.
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“Underestimating the challenge of compliance is a clear mistake that can bite operators and studios. Regulation in Europe is becoming more complex, which favours established content providers with the resources to ensure compliance, such as ourselves.”
Relax has accomplished much in the years since 2010, but one of its greatest milestones came in 2015 when it built a new poker product from scratch for global gaming giant Kindred. With the stakes so high, it was the kind of project that can make or break a company.
“That changed everything for us,” Österåker said. “For eight months it was pretty much the only thing our entire business was working on. We knew that it would be such an important deal for us, that it would completely change how we were viewed by the rest of the industry.
“There were times when it was hard. Looking back, you think about the achievement, but for a long time there was so much pressure to succeed and satisfy the client.
This built upon what Relax now identifies as one of its core promises – delivering on its promises through technical prowess: “When you complete a high-profile project like that you show that you are able to play with the big boys as a trusted supplier. That achievement made us both more confident and more ambitious.”
Casino focus
Looking ahead, Österåker sees the continued development of Relax’s casino offering as the most important area of focus, with a view to continue delivering aggregation with scale and sustainability.
“We see ourselves as a multi-product house, but casino is where we are scaling up and ramping up game production,” he said. “Operators maybe just have a single supplier for poker and bingo, but there are many more opportunities in casino.
“Five years ago, poker was our No.1 focus because that was where our expertise lay. You have to move with the market and make the right decisions.”
Speaking of “the right decisions” Österåker is relieved that Relax’s choices over the last 10 years seem to have led it away from those verticals most impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. “We are so far untouched,” he said, although cautioning that no-one yet knows the wider, long-term impact on Relax, its partners and its competitors.
He added: “We have an open mind to the future. It might be that we are interested in an IPO or some of the M&A developments that have been so prevalent in the industry in the last decade. However, it’s not something we are actively pursuing, and this is not a time for risk. This is a time to be grateful for the solid base we have established.”