| Company Details | Information |
|---|---|
| Company Name: | ScatterKings (legal entity Scatterkings LTD) |
| Founded: | Technical build began in 2022, the company was formally established in 2023, and it went public with its first games on November 20, 2025 |
| Headquarters: | Ewropa Business Centre, Level 3-701, Birkirkara, BKR9034, Malta |
| Leadership: | Steven Batchelor-Manning (Co-founder and CTO), Boro Brumen (Co-founder and CPO), Steven Cross (Co-founder and CCO) |
| Employees: | Around 11, based on a third-party estimate, not confirmed by the company itself |
| Number of Games: | 33 titles total, 24 live and 9 upcoming, all slots |
| Licenses: | Malta Type 1 Gaming Services claimed, though the licence number and issue date fields on ScatterKings' own site still show placeholder text as of this check. A Denmark supplier licence is reported by trade press but not independently confirmed. In Austria, ScatterKings has no separate licence and distributes through win2day under Austrian Lotteries' state monopoly authorization |
| Certifications: | None found. No eCOGRA, iTech Labs, GLI, or BMM certification currently on record |
| Languages: | English only, no language switcher found on the live site |
| Website: | scatterkings.com |
| Social Media: | LinkedIn confirmed. No public Twitter/X or Instagram found |
All three founders came out of Greentube, NOVOMATIC's digital arm, and that background is independently confirmed. Batchelor-Manning spent eight-plus years there and became Director of Games Technology, Brumen was Head of Games Product, and Cross was Managing Director of Greentube Netherlands. What isn't confirmed is the more sweeping line, repeated by ScatterKings' own account managers, that the founders hold "credits on some of iGaming's most iconic titles." We couldn't trace a specific game credit back to any of the three, so treat that as unverified positioning rather than fact.
How Did ScatterKings Get Started?
Steven Batchelor-Manning started building the underlying technology in 2022, and the company was formally established in 2023. The studio then spent close to two years largely out of public view. That changed in September 2025, when it picked Internet Vikings for European hosting, followed by a public debut on November 20, 2025 with its first slot portfolio.
Growth since has been steady and entirely European. An exclusive content deal with win2day, Austrian Lotteries' regulated platform, landed in December 2025, including a custom title called Sweet win2day. A Denmark launch through RoyalCasino followed in February 2026. Aggregation integrations with Hub88, Silverspin, and St8 rolled out through April and May 2026.
Roughly ten months after launch, ScatterKings still reads like a studio building distribution rather than one with an established market footprint.
What Games Does ScatterKings Offer?
ScatterKings runs 33 titles in its catalog, 24 already live and 9 more coming, and every single one is a slot. There's no live dealer, bingo, crash, virtual sports, or sportsbook product here, which puts it in a narrower lane than diversified suppliers like Evolution Gaming or Pragmatic Play. The catalog splits into a 22-title story and character-led "Feature" line and an 11-title classic fruit-machine "Fruit" line. Two families carry official ScatterKings branding, Gold Lock and Gold Luck, while Book Bonanza and Coins Forged in Fire function as informal groupings built around shared math models rather than a named series.
No title in the lineup carries a progressive jackpot. Where jackpots show up, they're static, fixed-value in-game prizes rather than pooled ones that grow across operators.
What sets ScatterKings apart from most brand-new studios is a public catalog API that exposes real per-game mechanics, which let us verify hard numbers for its flagship titles below rather than relying on marketing copy.
Book Bonanza runs on a 5x3 grid with 10 paylines and a max win of 18,162x stake. RTP is 95.68%, corrected from an originally reported 95.84%, and we confirmed the current figure against both SlotCatalog and BitStarz's own game page. Volatility sits at 8 out of 10. It features a Book Special expanding symbol, scatter grouping, and free spins with a wild and collector mechanic across a 4-level multiplier retrigger trail. Released March 8, 2024.
Book Bonanza Gold shares the same 5x3 grid and 10 paylines, with a provider-stated 93.68% RTP and 8 out of 10 volatility, plus a max win of 11,000x stake. It adds Hold and Spin, several bonus-buy modes, and a static 2,000x Grand Jackpot. Released August 28, 2026, too recent for third-party trackers, so these figures are provider-stated only.
Big Bob is a fishing-themed title sharing Book Bonanza's math model, 5x3 grid, 10 paylines, 95.84% RTP, 8 out of 10 volatility, and an 18,162x max win. It runs Cash Collector, expanding symbols, free spins, multipliers, wilds, and buy-feature mechanics. Released July 30, 2025 and independently confirmed on SlotCatalog
Gold Lock, Great Catsby uses a 5x3 grid with 40 paylines, a 95.10% RTP, and 6 out of 10 volatility. Max win is 6,000x stake, corrected from an originally reported 2,500x. It runs a centre-reel wild and collector mechanic against 4 static in-game jackpots. Released August 27, 2025.
Gold Lock, Genie's Golden Lamps also runs a 5x3 grid with 40 paylines and a 95.10% RTP at medium volatility. Its listed max win of 2,500x stake is identical to Great Catsby's original, since-corrected number, which reads like a possible copy error in the provider's own listing rather than a verified figure in its own right. Released September 29, 2025.
Gold Luck, Coins of Cleo runs on 5 reels with 25 paylines, a 95.28% RTP, 5 out of 10 volatility, and a 6,000x max win. It uses Hold and Spin with a Coin Collector mechanic that charges on coin scatters and triggers a grid-expanding bonus with 2x, 3x, and 5x multiplier stages. This is the most reliably verified title in the catalog. Paylines, RTP, and max win all matched exactly against a third-party review. Released December 18, 2024. Not to be confused with unrelated same-name titles from other studios such as Yggdrasil.
Coins Forged in Fire runs a 3x3 grid with 5 paylines. RTP varies by version, 93.69% standard, 93.87% in Coins Hunt Mode, 93.96% base, at 8 out of 10 volatility, with a max win of 12,500x stake ($375,000 cap at max bet). It uses sticky collector symbols and Hold and Spin feeding 4 static jackpots (Mini 25x, Minor 50x, Major 150x, Grand 2,000x), with no free spins. Released February 27, 2026. It's also distributed under BitStarz's in-house branding through Softswiss, most likely the same game under a private-label skin rather than a separate title.
10 Locking Crowns uses a 5x3 grid with 10 paylines, a 93.09% RTP, and 10 out of 10 volatility, the highest tier in the catalog. Max win is 8,812x stake ($375,000 cap at max bet). It's built around Crown Wilds that land and lock in place as a free-spins-style feature builds reel coverage. Released April 3, 2026.
10 Shining 7s runs a 5x3 grid with 10 paylines and an RTP of roughly 93.04% to 93.07% depending on source, at 4 out of 10 volatility. Max win is 2,500x stake, corrected from an originally reported 2,084x. It's a classic fruit-machine paytable, cherries, lemons, oranges, plums, grapes, and watermelon, topped by a Red 7 worth 500x for five of a kind, with no wild symbol at all. An earlier report of an Expanding Crown wild on this title was a mix-up with 10 Locking Crowns. Released February 20, 2026.
| Game | Release | RTP | Volatility | Max Win | Grid / Paylines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Bonanza Gold | Aug 28, 2026 | 93.68%* | High (8/10) | 11,000x | 5x3, 10 paylines |
| 10 Locking Crowns | Apr 3, 2026 | 93.09% | High (10/10) | 8,812x | 5x3, 10 paylines |
| Coins Forged in Fire | Feb 27, 2026 | 93.69% / 93.87% / 93.96%** | High (8/10) | 12,500x | 3x3, 5 paylines |
| 10 Shining 7s | Feb 20, 2026 | ~93.04-93.07%*** | Low (4/10) | 2,500x | 5x3, 10 paylines |
| Gold Lock, Genie's Golden Lamps | Sep 29, 2025 | 95.10% | Medium | 2,500x**** | 5x3, 40 paylines |
| Gold Lock, Great Catsby | Aug 27, 2025 | 95.10% | Medium (6/10) | 6,000x | 5x3, 40 paylines |
| Big Bob | Jul 30, 2025 | 95.84% | High (8/10) | 18,162x | 5x3, 10 paylines |
| Gold Luck, Coins of Cleo | Dec 18, 2024 | 95.28% | Medium (5/10) | 6,000x | 5 reels, 25 paylines |
| Book Bonanza | Mar 8, 2024 | 95.68%***** | High (8/10) | 18,162x | 5x3, 10 paylines |
Despite the public API, free demo play isn't currently working anywhere we checked. Third-party aggregator SlotsLaunch lists ScatterKings as a provider but shows zero playable demos, and ScatterKings' own API has demo play switched off for every title in the catalog.
Where Can You Play ScatterKings?
There's no confirmed Canadian real-money operator carrying ScatterKings games today. We checked Jackpot City, Spin Casino, LeoVegas Canada, Bet99, and PlayNow/BCLC and found none of them running ScatterKings content. Confirmed operator partnerships remain entirely European, RoyalCasino in Denmark since February 2026 and win2day in Austria since December 2025, the latter operating under Austrian Lotteries' state monopoly licence rather than a separate ScatterKings authorization.
The Ontario picture has a nuance worth spelling out rather than flattening into a simple no. ScatterKings itself holds no AGCO or iGaming Ontario registration, and it has no BCLC/PlayNow presence in any other province. But one of its aggregation partners, St8, does hold Ontario/AGCO supplier registration as of a May 2026 registrants list, so a technical distribution pathway into the regulated Ontario market exists through that aggregator. No operator has actually activated ScatterKings content through it yet, so calling it available in Ontario would overstate the current reality just as much as a flat not available in Canada would understate it.
Is ScatterKings Worth Playing?
ScatterKings has real things going for it. The hand-drawn art direction and character-led design have drawn genuine trade-press attention as a point of difference from generic slot templates. The founding team's Greentube pedigree is independently confirmed rather than assumed, and the public catalog API exposing real RTP, paylines, and mechanics for its flagship titles is more transparent than most studios offer at any stage, let alone this early.
Set against that are gaps that matter for a Canadian player weighing where to spend time and money. The most pressing sits on ScatterKings' own site. The Malta Gaming Authority licence number and issue date are still showing literal unfilled placeholder text as of this check in September 2026, roughly ten months after the studio's public launch. That's a live, current problem, not an old snapshot, and it means the claimed MGA authorization can't be taken at face value right now.
There's also no confirmed Canadian operator carrying ScatterKings games, no independent player or operator reviews anywhere to draw on since the studio is simply too new, no third-party certifications from bodies like eCOGRA or iTech Labs, and no functional demo play despite the public data API. None of this reads like a scam. The corporate history, the founders, and the European rollout are all real and checkable. But it's a studio still finishing its paperwork and its market presence at the same time, and Canadian players should treat it as one to watch rather than one to seek out yet.
FAQs
What is ScatterKings?
ScatterKings is a Malta-headquartered slot studio, formally established in 2023 and publicly launched on November 20, 2025. It's known for hand-drawn 2D art and a catalog of 33 slot titles split across Feature and Fruit product lines
Who founded ScatterKings?
Three former Greentube and NOVOMATIC executives founded ScatterKings. Steven Batchelor-Manning is Co-founder and CTO, formerly Director of Games Technology at Greentube. Boro Brumen is Co-founder and CPO, formerly Head of Games Product at Greentube. Steven Cross is Co-founder and CCO, formerly Managing Director of Greentube Netherlands.
Is ScatterKings licensed?
ScatterKings claims a Malta Type 1 Gaming Services authorization, but as of September 2026 the licence number and date fields on its own site still display placeholder text rather than real values, so that authorization can't be independently confirmed. Trade press also reports a Denmark supplier licence tied to its RoyalCasino launch, which likewise couldn't be cross-checked against the regulator's public list. In Austria, ScatterKings holds no separate licence and operates under win2day's state monopoly authorization instead.
How many games does ScatterKings have?
ScatterKings has 33 titles total, 24 live and 9 upcoming, all slots, with no live dealer, bingo, crash, or sportsbook products. The catalog splits into a 22-title Feature line and an 11-title Fruit line, plus the Gold Lock and Gold Luck series and the informal Book Bonanza and Coins Forged families.
Is ScatterKings available in Canada?
Not through any confirmed real-money operator as of this check. No Canadian casino carries ScatterKings games, and the studio itself holds no Ontario or AGCO registration. One of its aggregation partners, St8, is AGCO-registered, which creates a technical pathway into Ontario, but no operator has activated ScatterKings content through it yet.
Playing Responsibly
You must be 18+ to gamble in Alberta, Manitoba, or Quebec, or 19+ everywhere else in Canada. A studio this new comes with real uncertainty, and that's worth keeping in mind before you chase down where to play its games. GameSense (gamesense.ca) has free tools for setting limits and understanding the odds. If gambling is affecting your life or someone else's, ConnexOntario runs a free, confidential line at 1-866-531-2600, available anytime.
