Hacksaw Gaming: studio profile for operators

Hacksaw Gaming is a good test of what your casino is for. If your players watch slot streams, chase big multipliers and do not mind long dry spells, Hacksaw belongs near the top of your lobby. If they want gentle sessions and frequent small wins, it belongs further down.

From scratchcards to stream favourite

Hacksaw was founded in Malta in 2018 by a group of industry veterans. Its first products were scratchcards and instant-win games, not slots. The move into video slots came a year later, and within a few years titles such as Wanted Dead or a Wild and Chaos Crew had made the studio a fixture on streaming channels.

The company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm on 25 June 2025 under the ticker HACK. Its homepage in October 2026 claimed more than 250 games and more than 3,000 operator brands.

What a Hacksaw game feels like

Three things show up again and again.

High volatility. Hacksaw builds games where the bonus can be huge and the base game can be quiet for a long time. That is exactly what makes a clip worth sharing, and exactly what puts off some casual players.

A recognisable art style. Bold, comic-book or street-art visuals, with characters that recur across sequels. Chaos Crew and Dork Unit look like nothing else in a lobby, which helps your first screen look less generic.

Bonus buys and feature tiers. Many titles let players buy different bonus levels. Know where your own policy stands on bonus buys and check that your aggregator lets you hide them per game or per market.

Le Bandit, a Hold & Win style game with a raccoon thief, showed that the studio could also do lighter, more accessible content. Moneyplane, which the studio describes as its first crash game, extends the catalogue in another direction.

OpenRGS: more than one studio in the feed

Hacksaw runs a programme called OpenRGS that lets outside studios distribute their games through Hacksaw’s game server and network. Hacksaw supplies infrastructure, certification help, translations and commercial support.

In practice this means that when you enable “Hacksaw” through an aggregator, you may also get games from smaller partner studios. That is useful for variety. It is also a reason to look at the actual game list before going live, so you know what you are putting in front of players.

Who should push Hacksaw, and who should not

Push it if your casino is crypto-first, if you work with streamers or affiliates who play live, or if your players skew young and like risk. Hacksaw tends to over-perform in those settings.

Be more careful if your audience is older, mostly mobile casual players, or if your retention team relies on frequent small wins to keep sessions going. In that case keep Hacksaw in a dedicated row rather than on the home screen.

Getting it through an aggregator