Hacksaw Gaming: The Studio Behind This Slot
In short: Hacksaw Gaming holds a British licence as HGMT Limited, account 54059, with two activities and no regulatory actions on record. Its public catalogue runs to 253 games, 153 of them with a page of their own. It publishes more about those games than most studios, and still prints a stale licence number on itself.
Five facts decide whether a studio is worth reading: the licence, its activities, the enforcement record, the catalogue size, and how much the maker publishes. All five are public for this one, and the record below adds the rest of the numbers.
- Game:
- Le Bandit (a Hacksaw Gaming video slot)
- Type:
- Slot game
- RTP as published:
- The maker publishes four return configurations for this game - 96.34%, 94.23%, 92.17% and 88.36% - and which one a player meets is the casino's choice, not the player's.
- Max win:
- 10,000 times the bet, and for once the maker says so itself: the figure is printed on Hacksaw Gaming's own game page, on the game's splash screen as "Win up to 10 000 times your bet!", inside the client's GAME INFO, and returned by the game server as maximumWinMultiplier.
We checked the register by account number rather than reading the footer, counted the catalogue from the studio's own games index, and compared what the game page claims against what the client prints.
What the Register Actually Says
The register says the studio is HGMT Limited rather than Hacksaw Gaming, which is only the trading face. One licence number covers two remote activities. Gambling Software is the right to make and supply the games; Game Host (Casino) is the right to host them. Both have been active since .
The register also counts things that are easy to overlook. Zero regulatory actions. Zero trading names registered. One domain name. Zero premises, which is expected for a remote supplier.
How Much Hacksaw Gaming Publishes
Hacksaw Gaming publishes more than the industry norm, and that is worth saying plainly. Every game page we opened carries four return builds rather than one. Each page also gives a volatility rating out of five rather than the word "high", a maximum win and the win type. The client repeats the figures and adds the simulation count behind them.
What it does not publish is hit rate. We asked the game server about this game and it returned zero for both hit frequency and the odds of the maximum win, and the figure is missing from the game pages we opened as well. Zero in that field means withheld rather than absent.
Where Le Bandit Sits in the Catalogue
The studio's index lists 253 games, of which 153 have a page of their own, and two carry this name: the cluster-pays original and Le Bandit Hold & Win, its payline sequel. Both are current, both are on the same licence, and a lobby that shows them side by side is showing two different machines.
Two Le Bandit Titles, from the Studio's Own Game Pages
| Title | Win type | Return builds published | Volatility | Ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Bandit | Cluster pays | 96.34%, 94.23%, 92.17%, 88.36% | 3 out of 5 | 10,000x |
| Le Bandit Hold & Win | Paylines | 96.27%, 94.29%, 92.23%, 86.28% | 3 out of 5 | 2,500x |
Figures current as of ; the operator's live terms prevail.
The One Thing Hacksaw Gets Wrong About Itself
Hacksaw gets one thing wrong about itself: its own licence number. Same company, same licence, five editions apart.
The Licence Number, from Two Sources
| Source | What it prints | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| The studio's own footer | 000-054059-R-331396-002 | 002 |
| The Commission's register, account 54059 | 054059-R-331396-007 | 007 |
It changes nothing about the game. It does tell you which of the two sources to quote when the numbers matter, and the answer is never the footer.
Where This Studio Falls Short
Four things, and none of them is about artwork. Hit rate and the odds of a maximum win are missing from every game page we opened, and for this game the maker's own server returns zero for both. The studio also contradicts its own client in writing: the game page says a retrigger of three scatters grants three more spins, while the rules screen inside the game says four. Hacksaw ships a build returning 88.36% alongside one returning 96.34% and leaves the disclosure to whichever casino bought it. The figure reaches a player only through the client's rules screen, never through the lobby. And the studio prints a stale edition of its own British licence number on every page of its own site.
We do not recommend quoting the studio's own footer for its licence number: it is five editions behind, and the Commission's register is the one source that matches. We would treat this studio as a good publisher rather than a guarantee of anything. It publishes more than most, which makes the gaps it leaves easier to see rather than less important.
Key Terms Used on This Page
- Gambling Software licence
- The British permission to make and supply gambling games to operators, held here under account 54059.
- Game Host (Casino)
- The second activity on the same licence, the right to host the games rather than only build them.
- Regulatory action
- A published enforcement outcome against a licensee; the count for this account is 0.
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