ZEUS Play

About the Company

Zeus Play is a privately held company with headquarters in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Founded by CEO, Antonis Zlatanos in 2011 the company has amassed a game portfolio that exceeds 50 titles including video slots, lottery, jackpot, and bonus games. Due to extensive research and development, they can offer their real money games at online casinos, land-based venues, and even corner betting shops.

The company has developed its own software platform and has inked deals with aggregators and end providers such as BetConstruct, Slotegraor, and iSoftbet to name a few. These early and more recent developments, usually announced after attendance each year since 2014 at critical industry trade shows like ICE Totally Gaming, help make their game available at online sites such as Babe Casino, Campeonbet, and Sekabet along with about two dozen others so far.

Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) first certified their random number generator (RNG) in March 2014 and reissued the certificate 4 years later. The RNG is currently certified through March 2022. If you are reading this later than that, please click the external link below to see the current evaluation. The actual games submitted to date were certified fair by iTech Labs, to Isle of Man standards. The official website bears the seal of the IOM regulators as well as Malta Gaming Authority. However, the Maltese certification is presumably directly related to one or more of their aggregator platforms and based on GLI certification as we find no MGA license for the company.

Software and Games

Zeus currently operates five verticals; Online, Casino, Lottery, Retail, and Slots.

ONLINE is a white label solution and platform delivering game content. Advanced API integration makes it possible to seamlessly plug the module into almost any existing platform to integrate games, wallet, monitoring, and reporting tools. The omnichannel software allows connection to gaming terminals and cabinets as well as computers, tablets, and mobile devices.

CASINO is a land-based management solution for server-based floor gaming that includes TITO, back office management tools, and a variety of full-function, full-service physical cabinets, and kiosks.

LOTTERY comprises online open lottery games platform with games such as Balkan Keno, Star Bingo, and Texas Poker Lottery to name a few. All games offer multiple betting options, are multilingual and accept multiple currencies, have adjustable draw periods, agent management solutions and are secure and reliable.

RETAIL encompasses a variety of software and terminal solutions such as VLT - a client-server, internet-based slot system with any number of venues able to connect to a central site. The vertical also includes self-service keno terminals, POS solutions, shop management software and a Sweepstakes Café solution.

SLOTS is a suite that contains more than spinning games. Look for dice games like Mad Cubes 25, lottery games like Keno 8, and a 3D European Roulette with a decent physics engine, realistic lighting, and shadows, as well as racetrack and other special bets options. Unfortunately, this title is still deployed in Flash and load time is about a minute. User controls are mobile friendly.

Some of their more unique offerings include a 9-reel slot with 10 fixed paylines (bog standard for most of their games). The central reel is 'shared' so symbols on it can complete five-of-a-kind combinations from left to right and vice-versa which effectively makes The Explorer's Quest a 20 line game. Increasing payouts is the fact that combinations can start anywhere on the reel set and don't have to begin from the leftmost or rightmost reel. However, they do have to be contiguous/adjacent to each other on the payline.

Most of the games will remind players of Novomatic creations or Merkur games, but there are some innovations here and there, such as with the 9-reel games.

The Final Analysis

Players can currently find the games at mostly obscure online venues with mixed reputations. The games could become lost among the thousands available at venues such as Campeonbet.

While we didn't sample any games that truly caused excitement, The diversity in Zeus Play's offerings from the terrestrial to the ethers, with software solutions for every vertical, would seem to place them in a good starting position to expand their reach and global commercial footprint.

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