What is RTP?

RTP stands for Return To Player, it is an estimation of how much a game would return to a player over a long period of time.

It is not guaranteed that each player will get the same RTP from the same game, as achieving the games RTP will depend on many factors, such as:

Those are some examples and we will explain why each of them make a difference, in the end the players intention is to WIN money and not reach RTP, because reaching RTP is simply losing the minimum possible for the amount gameplay you had.

At Chips.gg we are very transparent with our players. RTP is shown directly on the game thumbnail in the lobby, no need to hover or click into anything. For slots, you'll see the RTP percentage displayed in the top-left corner of the thumbnail itself.

If you want more detail, open the game and check the description tab at the bottom for full Game Statistics, including RTP, Max Payout, and Max Win.

RTP is a long-run average, built from millions of spins across thousands of players; not a promise about your next ten minutes. A few things decide how close (or far) your own results land from it:

How much you bet. Bigger bets burn through your bankroll faster and give you fewer total spins to hit a big round. Say Jason and Adam both start with $1,000. Jason bets $100 a spin and might only get 10–20 spins before he's out. Adam bets $0.20 a spin and gets 5,000–10,000 spins which has a way more chances to land something big.

Whether you stick to one bet size. Jumping from small bets to a big one right as a huge win lands (or the reverse) skews your personal results away from the game's real average, for better or worse.

Sample size. Getting anywhere close to a game's advertised RTP takes millions of bets, not a session. A 96% RTP slot has zero obligation to hand you back $96 for every $100 tonight.

Time. Even long, continuous play doesn't smooth things out the way people expect; every spin is independent of the last, so a bad streak today has nothing to do with yesterday's, and stringing sessions together doesn't "even out" your luck.

Bottom line: run 10,000 spins at $1 a spin on a 96% RTP slot, and there's no guarantee you land anywhere near $9,600 back. You could land at $1,000. You could land at $100,000. RTP describes the game and not your night.

RTP tells you how much comes back over time.

Volatility tells you how that money arrives.

Deadwood by Nolimit City actually lets you pick your volatility mid-round: Guaranteed Wild (more frequent wins) or Sticky Multiplier ("high risk, high reward"). Same idea, dialed to whichever mood you're in.

Volatility doesn't cancel out luck, either; a high-volatility slot can pay big on your very first spin, and a low-volatility one can leave you dry all session. Independence is independence.

Remember that while the chances are lower, each spin is independent of the previous spin, so even on a high volatility slot you might hit a huge win at the beginning of your gameplay, while at a low volatility slot you may not receive not even a decent payout if you weren't lucky.

Deadwood from Nolimit City is a great example, where it's bonus round offer you the option to choose between 2 modes for the game:

The explanation provided from the game tell it all, where in the mode with lower volatility they guarantee you wilds, which means your chances to win are bigger, but on the higher volatility mode they give you sticky multipliers and they described it as "High risk, high reward".

A straight answer is NO.

Casinos do not have the ability to change the RTP of a game, these settings can only be adjusted by the owners of the slot, which we call "Providers".

It is known that casinos do not make their own slots, and this is why you would find the same games on different casinos. Casinos such as Chips.gg obtain these games from the providers of the games that created them, in order to ensure that there are no cheating, for example when you want to play on a casino you would search for a famous, reputable, licensed, regulated casino, this way you can be assured that this casino does not have any dark secrets since the license issuers and the regulators keep an eye on the casino.

The same thing Chips.gg does when contracting providers to have their games on the site, we use games from providers that are licensed, reputable, and regulated to be certain that these providers can never trick us or our players.

But, casinos can ask from the providers to lower their RTP if they do offer such services, some providers may have different versions of the games where RTP can be lower giving the casino a higher house edge over the player. Not all providers have that, and very few casinos would request it from the providers that do.

Chips.gg uses the default RTP offered by the provider for the games, And there is no need for the casino to make such requests, as we explained above that RTP does not actually have a lot of effect on a player's singular session, of Corse a game with higher RTP should play better then a game with lower RTP.

At Chips.gg we are very transparent with our players, under each game name we show the game's provider, and if you hover your mouse arrow over the "i" information icon, you will see the game's RTP and the volatility level, these information aren't added manually but they are provided to us from the provider.

Game name: Cubes

Provider: Hacksaw Gaming

RPT: 96.35%

Volatility: Low

We are always on the top of the news regarding games and providers, if we ever suspect for any reason that a game or a provider is causing risk to our players we act immediately and remove the game, or at some cases remove the entire provider to protect our players.

Our goal is to deliver to our players the best online gambling experience with the newest games and providers available with the highest fair levels for our players.