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Red Rake Gaming is the studio that bent the slot reel into a circle, launching its Orbital Reels format in Wildcano back in 2017. Around those slots sits a rare spread of video bingo, video poker and classic tables, all carried under licences from Great Britain, Malta and Greece.
Red Rake Gaming learnt its craft by giving games away. For its first five years this Valencia studio made free social casino games, and only in 2016 did it bring what it had built to real money casinos.
What came out the other side is a supplier that treats a casino as more than a wall of slots, filling its shelf with bingo rooms, poker hands and table games too. This review covers the studio's road from free play to real money, the slots and everything beside them, what the games pay, and the licences standing behind it all.
Red Rake Gaming has been making online casino games since 2011, and for its first years none of them cost a penny to play. The team ran its titles in the social casino world, where games are played for fun rather than cash, and decided in 2015 that real money casinos might want them too.
The switch came in 2016, and it has defined the company since. Today the studio numbers more than 40 people, working from Valencia in Spain under the company Red Rake Tech SL.
Its games run at more than 200 casinos across more than 20 regulated markets, with Ontario, New Jersey and Pennsylvania the newest additions to that map. The social-play roots still show in how welcoming the games are.
Every title is translated into 24 languages and accepts over 100 currencies, so wherever you sign up, a Red Rake game will very likely greet you in your own tongue and let you stake in your own money.
Slots are still the biggest room in the house, and browsing them shows a studio with clear favourites. Gold is the current obsession, with a whole family of coin-fronted titles in Mega Coins 2, Sacred Coins, Roaring Coins, Wealthy Coins, Super Coins and Million 777 Coins, joined by Take the Cash! and Azteca Gold Collect.
Myth and history get their turn through Guardians of Luxor 4, Myth of Ra and Midas Wins, while Sherlock and the Stolen Gems and Beating Alcatraz put characters at the front. The calendar is covered from every angle by Halloween Wins 3, Christmas Wins 2, Triple Valentine and Irish Party, and Grand Bison, Lobster Splash and Big Size Fishin' 2 look after the animal kingdom.
Those numbered names are a habit here. The studio returns to its winners and builds them into series, from the sequels above to the long-running Super Stars line, represented here by Super 60 and Super 70.
Then there is the invention Red Rake is best known for. In 2017 it introduced Orbital Reels in the volcano slot Wildcano, swapping the usual vertical reels for discs that spin in a circle.
The shelf beyond the slots is what really sets this catalogue apart. Video bingo is a Red Rake speciality, and it is a corner of the casino very few studios ever touch.
World Football, Disco Nights, Muertitos, Mega Money, Planet 67 and The Gold of Poseidon each wrap the bingo card in a different theme, giving the format a colour it rarely gets. The video poker range is deeper still.
Around twenty variants run from the classics, Jacks or Better, Deuces Wild and Joker Poker, out to rarer tables like Five Aces, Sequential Royal, Royal Court and Triple Bonus Poker. If draw poker is your game, few studios hand you this much choice under one roof.
The table games finish the picture. Seven blackjack tables cover Vegas Strip, Atlantic City and European rules, along with Double Exposure, Switch, Fast and a VIP table, and roulette comes in European, French, American and VIP versions.
For something that fits no category at all, the Frenzy Discs games, 4 Colours, 16 Balls and Twin Numbers, spin a hybrid of wheel and ball draw that is entirely the studio's own.
Nothing in this catalogue pays spectacularly, but little of it pays badly either. The full spread runs from 92.0% at the bottom to 96.63% at the top, and the figure attached to a given slot depends on the settings its casino has taken.
That last part matters. Most Red Rake slots come configured in the mid-90s, typically between 95.3% and 95.9%, with premium versions climbing past 96%.
The best payers are led by Million Zeus 2 at 96.63%, with Million 777 Coins and Sherlock and the Stolen Gems close behind on 96.60%. At the other end, some titles reach certain casinos in reduced settings as low as 92%, and nothing on the screen advertises the difference.
Catching a weak one is easy, though. Open the paytable, find the return figure, and let it inform the choice before any money goes in.
Our RTP guide covers how to read that number and what counts as good. On temperament, the catalogue splits between high and medium volatility in roughly equal measure.
The modern releases, the Million series among them, mostly swing hard, the classic slots play calmer, and only a small handful of older fruit games run truly low. Our volatility guide explains what each level of swing asks of a bankroll.
The paperwork behind these games is hard to fault. Red Rake Tech SL has been licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission since early 2019, the strictest ticket in the business, and our UKGC licence review explains why that one matters so much.
A Malta Gaming Authority licence from the same year sits alongside it, covered in our MGA guide, together with a licence from Greece's Hellenic Gaming Commission. North America is on the map too, with the regulators of Pennsylvania and Ontario both displayed on the studio's site, matching its recent push into those markets.
The company also holds ISO 27001 certification for information security, a sign it takes the handling of data as seriously as the games. Strong regulation tells you the games are honest, not that they will pay on any given day.
Fix the sum you can afford before you sit down, and when it is spent, the session is over.
Demos have a bigger job here than usual, because half the shelf may be new to you. They do the usual job of checking whether a slot suits you, but they also let you learn whole formats without risk.
If you have never marked a video bingo card or played a hand of Sequential Royal, the free versions on our pages are the place to find out how they work, no account needed. A demo is the paid game with the stakes switched off, so what you watch is what you would get.
Red Rake adds one more layer of openness once real money is involved, a Total Replay tool that lets you rewatch any spin or hand from the bar of the game itself. When you are ready to stake, the casinos we trust with this catalogue are gathered on our Popular Casinos page.
Red Rake gets a lot right and a few things wrong, and after playing through the catalogue the split is easy to draw. Here is where it earns its marks, and where it loses them.
Red Rake Gaming is what a casino supplier looks like when it refuses to specialise. Since its free-play beginnings it has built slots, bingo rooms, poker tables and its own strange hybrids, and it has collected some of the most respected licences in the business along the way.
The breadth is the reason to come. Hardly anyone else pairs video bingo with twenty kinds of video poker, and the slots above them carry real ideas, Orbital Reels chief among them.
The weaknesses are the flip side of the same habits, a repeating coin formula, unremarkable tables and a returns floor that rewards a careful eye. Take it as a games room rather than a slots shelf.
The formats you have never tried are half the appeal, the demos cost nothing, and checking what a title pays takes seconds. Do that much and this Valencia studio is an easy one to recommend.
It is a Spanish studio known for covering the whole casino floor, with video bingo, video poker and table games alongside its slots. Its Orbital Reels format, which swapped vertical reels for spinning discs, is its most famous idea.
The studio dates back to 2011 and works from Valencia in Spain. It spent its early years in free social gaming and made the jump to real money play in 2016.
More than 140, spread across five categories. Slots make up the majority, with bingo, poker and table games filling out the rest.
It is Red Rake's own reel format, first used in the slot Wildcano, where symbols spin on circular discs instead of vertical reels. The idea debuted in 2017 and remains the studio's signature.
Most come configured in the mid-90s, with the full spread running from 92% up to 96.63% on Million Zeus 2. The figure varies with the settings a casino takes, so check it in the paytable before playing.
Yes, by Great Britain's Gambling Commission, the Malta Gaming Authority and Greece's Hellenic Gaming Commission. Pennsylvania and Ontario approvals appear on its site as well, and the company is ISO 27001 certified.
More than 140, spread across five categories. Slots make up the majority, with bingo, poker and table games filling out the rest.
Yes, every title on our pages has a free demo that needs no account. With so many unfamiliar formats on the shelf, those free rounds are the quickest way to learn them.