Evolution: the live casino studio, explained

Evolution makes the live dealer tables and game shows you see at most large online casinos. Dealers and hosts work from real studios, and you bet through an online interface. The company also owns several slot studios, which makes it one of the biggest content suppliers in the industry.

Evolution at a glance

What Evolution makes

Evolution's core product is live casino: roulette, blackjack, baccarat and other tables streamed from studios. Its 2025 annual report puts the total at about 2,000 tables, with main production studios in Riga (Latvia), Tbilisi (Georgia) and Fort Mrieħel (Malta).

Evolution also says it invented the online live game show category with Dream Catcher, a money wheel game, in 2017. Game shows mix a live host with random multipliers and bonus rounds.

Its First Person range is made up of random number generator (RNG) recreations of its live and game show titles, played without a dealer. Through acquisitions, the group also supplies online slots from NetEnt, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming and Nolimit City.

How the group was built

• Ezugi, a live casino brand, bought in 2018.
• NetEnt, bought in 2020. NetEnt had itself bought Red Tiger in 2019, according to NetEnt's 2019 year-end report.
• Big Time Gaming, bought in 2021.
• Nolimit City, bought in 2022.

Dates are from Gambling Insider's acquisition timeline. The current brand list is from the annual report.

Notable games

• Lightning Roulette. Standard roulette, plus one to five randomly chosen "lucky numbers" each round, with lucky payouts of between 50x and 500x. It launched in 2018. (Gambling Insider)
• Crazy Time. A money wheel game show launched in 2020 and based on Evolution's Dream Catcher money wheel. The wheel has four bonus spots, Cash Hunt, Coin Flip, Pachinko and Crazy Time, and each one leads to its own bonus game. (Evolution press release)
• Dream Catcher. The original live money wheel from 2017. You bet on the number the wheel will land on.
• MONOPOLY Live and MONOPOLY Big Baller. Game shows based on the board game, made under a licence from Hasbro. The annual report says Evolution became Hasbro's exclusive partner for online live casino and slot games based on MONOPOLY.
• First Person games. RNG versions of live titles such as roulette and blackjack. You can play them alone at your own pace.

Multipliers make the rare big result possible, but they do not remove the house edge. Every game show and live table returns less than you stake, on average. Check the payout table and RTP in each game's help screen before you play.

RTP versions

Evolution's public pages and annual report do not say whether its live games come in several return-to-player (RTP) versions. Our RTP and volatility guide explains why it matters. Each game's help screen shows the RTP of the version at that casino, so check it there.

Where Evolution's games appear

Evolution lists supplier licences or registrations in each market below. In Ontario it went live on the first day of the regulated market, 4 April 2022, with the Evolution, NetEnt and Red Tiger brands (press release).

• Great Britain: UK casinos
• Ontario: Ontario casinos
• Alberta: Alberta casinos
• New Jersey: New Jersey casinos
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania casinos
• Michigan: Michigan casinos

For the studios Evolution owns, see NetEnt, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming and Nolimit City. For other live casino suppliers, see Pragmatic Play and Playtech. All studios are listed on our providers page. For how live tables work, read live dealer games.