Fantasma Games AB

Fantasma Games is a Swedish gaming company with their main offices in Stockholm. The company was registered in 2016. Fantasma Games is led by a team of iGaming veterans who have held senior positions in companies like ComeOn, Grin, LeoVegas, and Starbreeze.

Sweden has long been a hotbed of gaming innovation. Many current industry leaders started from humble beginnings in Sweden. When taking in the numbers from entertainment-only games, the growth rate is over 39% annually with 236 active companies in the 2016 index and revenues of EUR1,3 billion in 2015.

Fantasma Games is small and new, but the quality of the inaugural offerings has propelled them to the Microgaming Quickfire platform with potential for deployment on up to 400 casinos in regulated jurisdictions worldwide as they continue to release innovative games. Industry giants from Sweden like NetEnt and Play'n Go also had such humble beginnings.

As the Quickfire platform is a Microgaming product, players can rest assured that any games carried on it meet the same testing standards as a Microgaming direct offering with the stamps of eCOGRA (e-Commerce and Online Game Regulation and Assurance), the Gambling Commission of Great Britain, the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) and the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) implied.

Software and Games

Fantasma Games is currently focused on creating "next generation" video slots and are striving to be the biggest innovators in mobile platform casino gaming. Projects under development include testing VR and combining 3D virtual worlds with traditional casino games.

Their portfolio contained two games in mid-2017 with the first being deployed on June 7 with Guts Casino one of the first well-known casinos to add the game to their portfolio. Super Sumo video slot is designed to immerse players in gratifying gameplay and take them on a roller coaster ride of emotions inspired by fresh and entertaining innovations.

The 25 pay line game is set on a 5x3 grid with five Sumo wrestlers and standard 10-A lower paying characters, wild symbols, and scatters. Each of the featured characters is named after an emotion such as Anger, Fear, Sadness, and Disgust. There is also a Wild symbol Sumo icon. When two or more Wild characters appear, re-spins will occur until no new Wild symbols are landed.

Ten free spins can also be triggered by landing Super Sumo scatters on reels 1, 3, and 5. During free spins, a full-reel Wild will randomly appear on every spin (usually reel #2) increasing the odds of a winning spin. The game is medium variance and has a theoretical RTP of 95.18%.

As of the time of this review, the second Fantasma Games offering has not been deployed; Samurai Ken. No further information is currently available about this offering.

Conclusion

With a solid leadership team who were able to ink a deal with Microgaming, the quality of their initial offering, and an eye toward, "Testing new grounds with VR and combining three-dimensional virtual worlds with traditional casino games," Fantasma Games could well be on their way to becoming either a provider of cult classics or a common name in the industry and a company to watch grow.