Belatra Games

With headquarters in Minsk, Belarus, the land-based slot machines from Belatra Games are well known to many casino players in the CIS (former U.S.S.R.). Belatra Games has been providing slots and other games to casinos for well over 20 years. Players in Latin America may also be familiar with some of the Multi-Vision and other consoles, as well as electronic gaming stations featuring video poker, electronic roulette, and more.

Belatra Games currently has representative offices in Minsk, Moscow, Kiev, the Czech Republic, Latin America, and the U.S.

It's always nice to see an established land-based game and equipment provider venture into the online space and in May 2017, Belatra Games did just that. In a deal with SoftSwiss, a developer in their own right who are more recently becoming known as a content aggregator, SoftSwiss now has about 2,000 individual games on offer. Belatra's contribution of 100 titles is an important development, especially for CIS and LATAM regions.

The games first became available online at the German casino, Das Ist Casino in an exclusive deal with SoftSwiss.

Slots offered

Among the first Belatra Games to be released were Chukcha, Piggy Bank, Anotherland, The Ghost Walks, and An Escape from Alcatraz. Chukcha and Piggy Bank are five-reel, nine-line games that seem to be a faithful representation of their land-based counterparts right down to a virtual gaming console, reminiscent of the Realistic Games virtual slot machines rather than a flat screen representation of the games as is seen from most providers. Players can bet from one to twenty-five units per line with a max line win set at 10,000x on these games making them worth a spin even if they don't have all the bells and whistles of the newest slots available online.

The Ghost Walks and Anotherland are 20 line games set on 5x4 grids with max bets of 50 credits per line. The games feature scatter symbols, wild symbols, and up to 300 free games on The Ghost Walks and up to 100 free games on Anotherland. An Escape from Alcatraz is a 3x5, nine-line game with pays from left to right and right to left. The game features a two-stage bonus game along with wilds and scatter symbols. Players are allowed one mistake in the first stage of the bonus and still continue the game.

With their land-based offering, Belatra Games use the same theme over several kinds of games. For instance, in addition to three versions of Anotherland including Anotherland Luxe, gamblers can also play Anotherland Poker. Seadogs is another title with multiple deployments including Seadogs Story, Seadogs Story (Jūrų vilko istorija) Seadogs Story Luxe, and Seadogs Story Poker.

Conclusion

Belatra Games have been in the business since 1994, giving them plenty of experience to know what players want. The company now provides a welcome diversion for online players and some of the virtual machines have very high potential payouts. Although not what could be called state-of-the-art as far as new video slot releases go, these games seem to be true to the consoles and cabinets that made them so popular and encouraged Belatra Games to enter the online gaming space.

As SoftSwiss were pioneers in bitcoin casinos, players can likely expect more casinos who transact the currency to pick up Belatra games from the aggregator. It will be interesting to see if Belatra brings some of their cabinet and console game jackpot schemes to the online sphere, and if they will continue to release new games like their most recent land-based slot, RioGrande for touchscreen home computers.