Top Trend Gaming

About the Company

Top Trend Gaming (TTG) is a Makati City (Metro Manila) Philippines-based online casino game developer. The company was founded in 2010 and focuses most of their development and marketing on the Asian markets. However, the themes and bonus mechanics cross all divides in cultures with wide appeal to players everywhere. Many of the online betting sites that carry their games such as 1xBet and HappyLuke offer a huge variety of games from multiple software providers. Sites offering the games are usually licensed in Cagayan Economic Zone and Free Port or in Curacao. Many venues offer Russian, Japanese, or Indonesian as their primary language so English speaking players may have to search a bit to find the games.

The company has been increasing its commercial footprint as well as visibility with stands at premier industry events and tradeshows. Look for them at G2E Asia in Macau and other important gatherings.

While the company is headquartered in the Philippines they seem to take advantage of the connected world with developers working from such various locations as Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Sweden, and throughout the company's home country. Top talent is recruited and coordinated to produce products in line with the TTG's core values which are decidedly Asian. They were one of the first companies supplying Asia-facing casinos with slots and have built an impressive portfolio of games from other developers with top performing HTML5 games for mobile and desktop, like Fortune 8 Cat, Frogs'n Flies, Dragon Palace, Mad Monkey, and over 100 others.

Software and Games

TTG was quick to notice the trend to mobile gaming and pioneered in the trend toward HTML5 game development. New games are developed and deployed for all devices now. The company has also converted all of their more seasoned top games from Flash to the future-proof markup language. The back office is said to be highly intuitive to master with robust data protection, multiple reporting formats, and support for several different currencies.

Operators will find TTG easy to work with in customizing games for their needs. Players will find everything from 1024 and 243 ways games to 40 and 100 line video bonus slots as well as single line games with traditional themes.

Many of the slots they list in their own portfolio (TTG HTML5) including Chilli Gold, Frogs'n Flies, More Monkeys, Dolphin Gold and many others appear to be Lightning Box Games creations with Asian lettering superimposed and different user controls. The paytables are displayed in an Asian language as well. An inquiry sent through the Lightning Box website contact form didn't receive a reply, so we can't offer details on a licensing agreement if any between the companies. We do note that TTG doesn't appear on the LB Partners page.

While the HTML5 game downloader doesn't give clues in the URL as to the provenance of any particular title, Legend of Link appears to be a unique TTG creation or a bespoke game not found anywhere else. Huluwa, Super Kids, Detective Black Cat, Dragon King, Eight Immortals, and Year of the Monkey are all very similar in several respects and along with a few others in the catalog represent a unique and classifiable offering. That is not to say, however, that they are not outsourced creations.

The games are well configured and fun to play. The artwork is really quite amazing on games such as Eight Immortals. While it is a fairly simple 25 payline game, it offers multipliers up to 32x for potentially mind-boggling wins.

Hot Volcano is a 25 line game with an Eruption Feature that is triggered whenever three wild symbols appear. Five free games are awarded with the middle reel completely wild. Additional random symbols can also appear on the reels during the bonus game.

The Final Analysis

The Asian market is wide and deep and growing quickly. Top Trend Gaming seems well positioned to serve a multitude of casinos and ultimately give players plenty of high-quality choices. We will update this review when we know more about the Lightning Box titles. It could simply be a matter of licensing or categorization on the TTG website.