RTP, the percentage return to player, is defined in Queensland's Gaming Machine Act 1991, section 11: take W, the amount that can be won if every winning result in the game comes up, multiply it by 100 and divide by B, the amount bet if a bet is placed on every result. A game listed at 96% returns 96 for every 100 bet across all of its results taken together - a property of the whole game, not of one session. Victoria sets a floor of 85% for what a venue's machines return over a calendar year. An online casino prints its own figure on the game page, and those figures are counted below.
What the Act says
Queensland: the formula the Act uses
the percentage return to player, for a game, is the percentage calculated using the formula - where - B is the amount that will be bet if bets are made on every result in the game. W is the amount that can be won, other than promotions, if all winning results in the game are obtained.
The Act prints the formula as an image, which the text above leaves out; it reads (W x 100) / B, with B and W as defined in the quote.
Section 11 of the Gaming Machine Act 1991 (Qld), in-force text on legislation.qld.gov.au, pulled 12 September 2026.
Victoria: the floor a venue machine must be set to
(1) An entitlement holder must ensure that the pay- out table on gaming machines at each venue is set so as to return to players the players' proportion of the total amounts wagered each calendar year at that venue, after deduction of the sum of jackpot special prizes determined as prescribed and payable during that year.
Section 3.6.1 of the Gambling Regulation Act 2003 (Vic), in-force text on content.legislation.vic.gov.au, pulled 12 September 2026.
Victoria: the proportion itself, the next subsection
(2) The players' proportion is - (a) not less than 85%; or (b) if the Commission determines in accordance with subsection (3), a fixed percentage greater than 85%.
Section 3.6.1 of the Gambling Regulation Act 2003 (Vic), in-force text on content.legislation.vic.gov.au, pulled 12 September 2026.
The same figures, grouped by the studio slug in the path
1295 game pages read on 13 September 2026 print a figure. Grouped by the studio slug the operator files them under, 15 slugs carry four or more figures each:
| Studio slug | Titles with a figure | Middle figure | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1spin4win | 82 | 97.10% | 96.0% | 97.6% |
smartsoft gaming | 17 | 97.00% | 95.77% | 98.8% |
popiplay | 47 | 96.77% | 95.42% | 98.21% |
pg soft | 6 | 96.75% | 95.54% | 97.35% |
habanero | 5 | 96.74% | 94.04% | 96.91% |
inout games | 4 | 96.50% | 96.0% | 98.0% |
push gaming | 5 | 96.40% | 95.05% | 96.55% |
kitsune studios | 4 | 96.31% | 96.27% | 96.33% |
nownow gaming | 5 | 96.26% | 96.19% | 96.35% |
quickspin | 60 | 96.22% | 94.0% | 97.84% |
relax gaming | 4 | 96.21% | 96.09% | 99.0% |
nucleus gaming | 9 | 96.21% | 95.37% | 96.41% |
hacksaw gaming | 8 | 96.20% | 94.12% | 96.42% |
gameart | 82 | 96.19% | 94.0% | 97.18% |
gamebeat | 27 | 96.19% | 96.0% | 96.5% |
What this does not settle
A percentage is a long-run property of a game, not a rate of return on a session, and nothing here was measured by us. The Act's floor applies to machines in venues; an online figure is what an operator prints for one title on one day.
Licence status in Australia
None of the sites on this page about published return figures names an Australian licence; each is an offshore operator as far as Australian law is concerned. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 and the ACMA's powers under it are quoted on our law page. Amounts are quoted as each operator prints them; nothing is converted to A$.
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