Jilibay PG Soft Games: Mahjong Ways, Lucky Neko and More

PG Soft games publish a return-to-player figure for every title the studio makes, these five among them — Mahjong Ways, Mahjong Ways 2, Lucky Neko, Fortune Ox and Fortune Tiger. What the five actually share is narrower than that headline suggests: every one of them carries a medium volatility rating, even though their published maximum wins run from 2,000x up to 100,000x. The table below sets RTP, volatility and max win side by side, and the sections after it work through what that spread in numbers actually means for choosing between them.

PG Soft Games Compared: RTP, Volatility and Max Win

Title	RTP	Volatility	Max Win
Mahjong Ways	96.92%	Medium	25,000x
Mahjong Ways 2	96.95%	Medium	100,000x
Lucky Neko	96.73%	Medium	100,000x
Fortune Ox	96.75%	Medium	2,000x
Fortune Tiger	96.81%	Medium	2,500x

Every RTP in this table sits within a single percentage point of the others, which makes Max Win the column that actually spreads these five apart. PG Soft’s own licensing and RTP page has the fuller picture of how the RTP figure is sourced and where it does and doesn’t appear on the studio’s own site.

Where the RTP Figures in This Table Actually Come From

PG Soft’s own game page shows a blank dash where an RTP figure would normally sit — the number itself travels in the studio’s published game data rather than on the page a visitor scrolls through. That’s an unusual split for a studio that otherwise publishes freely, and it’s why a screenshot of any PG Soft game page won’t show the figures in the table above, even though every one of those figures is the studio’s own.

Wild Symbols and Special Mechanics

The five don’t share one wild mechanic either:

1. Mahjong Ways and Mahjong Ways 2 both convert golden tiles into wilds during cascades.
2. Lucky Neko layers wilds into its Gigablox drops alongside a separate cat multiplier.
3. Fortune Ox uses no conventional wild at all, settling instead on a respin-until-win condition.
4. Fortune Tiger’s payout depends on how much of the screen a single symbol or wild covers, rather than on a wild substituting into a fixed line.

Two Kinds of PG Slot: Ways-To-Win and Fixed Lines

A PG slot from this studio isn’t built to one template. Mahjong Ways, Mahjong Ways 2 and Lucky Neko all run as ways-to-win games, where a win depends on matching symbols on adjacent reels rather than on a fixed line — that’s how Lucky Neko reaches up to 32,400 ways on its 6x5 grid. Fortune Ox and Fortune Tiger sit at the other end entirely: a 3-4-3 grid with 10 fixed lines and a plain 3x3 grid with 5 fixed lines, both far smaller than the ways-to-win trio.

The two shapes carry different max wins for a reason — a ways-to-win grid with tens of thousands of evaluated combinations has more room to build a large ceiling than a five-line, nine-symbol grid does.

Mahjong Ways and Mahjong Ways 2: What Doubling the Ways Buys

Both titles run a 5x4 grid and share the same golden-tile-to-wild mechanic and non-resetting free-spins multiplier. What changes between them is the evaluated way-count: 1,024 on the original, roughly 2,000 on the sequel — not quite double, but the published max win jumps from 25,000x to 100,000x, a fourfold increase. That gap between the way-count and the max-win improvement usually signals the second title’s ceiling is a rarer, more distant target rather than a proportionally easier one.

Lucky Neko’s Gigablox: Fewer Ways, Bigger Symbols

Lucky Neko reaches its 100,000x ceiling through a different mechanic than the Mahjong Ways pair. Its Gigablox feature drops oversized symbol blocks, as large as 6x6, that occupy the grid as a single symbol rather than many small ones. A giant block filling most of the grid actually reduces the number of ways evaluated compared with a grid of individual symbols, which makes Lucky Neko’s route to a big number the opposite of simply adding more ways.

Fortune Tiger and Fortune Ox: The Small-Grid Pair

Fortune Tiger and Fortune Ox are the two smallest grids in this set, and their published max wins — 2,500x and 2,000x — are the lowest here by a wide margin. Fortune Tiger’s entire feature rests on a full-screen condition: a screen filled with wilds pays 500x, one filled with matching symbols pays 10x, and a 3x3 grid is small enough that those conditions are actually reachable. Fortune Ox runs a different route to a similarly modest ceiling, respinning its irregular 3-4-3 grid until a win lands, with a 10x bonus for filling an entire reel.

Which of These Five Actually Have a Free-Spins Round

Free spins aren’t universal across this set, and the split follows the ways-to-win-versus-fixed-line divide almost exactly:

1. Mahjong Ways awards 12 free spins on 3 scatters, adding 2 more per extra scatter, with a multiplier rising to 10x through the round.
2. Mahjong Ways 2 runs the same style of free-spins round, with its avalanche cascade carrying the multiplier up to 10x as well.
3. Lucky Neko’s 5+ scatters trigger 5 to 16 free spins at an expanded 85 paylines, with a 5x symbol multiplier added on top.
4. Fortune Ox and Fortune Tiger carry no scatter-triggered free-spins round at all — each runs a respin feature instead, with the win condition built into the base game rather than into a separate bonus round.

Release Years Across the Five

PG Soft didn’t build these five in one batch, and the spread runs from 2019 to 2022:

1. Mahjong Ways — 2019, the oldest of the five.
2. Mahjong Ways 2 — 2020.
3. Fortune Ox and Lucky Neko — both 2021.
4. Fortune Tiger — 2022, the newest of the set and also the smallest grid of the five.

Matching a PG Soft Title to Your Budget

All five games carry the same medium volatility label, so max win, not volatility, is the number worth weighing against a session budget:

1. Fortune Ox and Fortune Tiger suit a shorter, smaller-stake session, given their sub-3,000x ceilings.
2. Mahjong Ways sits in the middle at 25,000x, a step up without reaching either of the two largest figures.
3. Mahjong Ways 2 and Lucky Neko both chase a 100,000x ceiling, which is a longer-odds target regardless of the medium volatility label attached to both.

Finding PG Soft Titles in the Lobby

Jilibay’s lobby tags its tiles with a studio code across its game rows, and PG is the code used for this studio. That confirms PG Soft titles have a presence in the lobby without confirming which specific ones are showing today — open the Games tab and search by name to check.

Where a studio publishes no RTP at all, the jili casino games pillar covers that comparison on grid, volatility and max win instead, and the pragmatic play games pillar covers the third studio measured here. The jilibay slot rankings weigh titles from all three studios against measured search demand.