Inspired Slots & Where to Play Centurion in the UK

By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 5 July 2026 · Last updated 9 July 2026

Inspired Entertainment is the studio that grew up inside Britain’s betting shops: founded in 2002 to supply virtual sports and server-based terminals to bookmakers, it built Centurion into a retail phenomenon before ever thinking about online slots, then listed on Nasdaq and bought Novomatic UK’s heritage catalogue — including Reel King — along the way. Our verdict: 7/10. This Inspired Entertainment review covers the best Inspired slots ranked, the retail-to-online journey, and the full licence file.

Where to Play Inspired Entertainment Slots

Inspired Entertainment at a glance

The essentials — a studio whose DNA runs through betting-shop machines as much as online reels.

✓ Facts checked against the UKGC business licence register and Inspired Entertainment’s published data — 5 July 2026

The best Inspired Entertainment slots: 10 games that actually matter

A catalogue built first for bookies’ terminals and only later for phones, ten places — the retail heritage shows in every one. RTPs quoted are typical online defaults. The full ranked catalogue is near the end of the page.

1. Centurion Megaways (2020)

The flagship, twice over: Centurion launched on UK betting-shop terminals in 2015 and became an instant hit before ever touching a browser, and its 2020 Megaways conversion — Roman legionaries, an ante-bet feature, and up to 6,561 ways — carried that retail popularity online intact. It remains the clearest proof that Inspired’s land-based instincts translate when the maths gets a genuine online-era overhaul. Published default around 96%, ceiling in the thousands.

2. Cops ’n’ Robbers Megaways (2019)

A comic-strip cat-and-mouse chase between police and robbers, rebuilt on the Megaways licence with a persistent chase-bonus structure that’s become the franchise’s calling card — the “Mega Chase” bonus round is the community’s most-quoted moment. Multiple sequels (Smash n’ Grab, Bigger Big Money) confirm it as the studio’s second essential IP after Centurion. Published default around 95.5% (Inspired’s own key-facts sheet lists 95.19–95.50%).

3. Reel King Megaways (2020)

The clearest evidence of the 2019 Novomatic UK deal: a beloved British arcade king (the same character British players once fed coins to in seaside arcades) rebuilt on variable reels, with a free-spins multiplier ladder that can reach into four figures. It’s the studio’s inheritance made playable — heritage IP nobody else on this site owns. Published default 96.23%, the highest of the studio’s Megaways slate.

4. Gold Cash Free Spins Megaways (2023)

A modern gold-bar-and-banknotes cash-symbol slot with a dual-wheel gamble feature layered on top of the Megaways engine — proof that the studio can still ship a competent contemporary release rather than only remastering the back catalogue. Published default 94.5%.

5. Big Big Horsey Fortune (2021)

Part of the studio’s “Big Big” jackpot-collector series, this horse-racing themed entry stacks collectible symbols toward a wheel-based jackpot draw — a format that translates the collector-cabinet feel of British arcade machines almost unchanged. Published defaults of 92% and 94.5%, one of several Inspired titles that ship dual RTP tiers by jurisdiction.

6. Piggy Winner (2021)

A cheerful piggy-bank cash-collect game with a straightforward bonus wheel — unpretentious, legible, and squarely aimed at the comfort-slot audience Inspired knows from decades of retail terminals. Published defaults of 92% and 94.5%, per Inspired’s own key-facts sheet.

7. Super Hot Fruits Megaways (2022)

A classic fruit-machine symbol set — sevens, bells, bars — run through the Megaways engine, giving traditionalist players a variable-reel format without abandoning the fruit-machine grammar they grew up on. Published default 94.03%, the lowest of the studio’s Megaways slate.

8. Wolf It Up! 3 Reeler (2021)

A deliberately old-school three-reel format with cash-bank collection mechanics bolted on — a rare modern release that leans fully into stepper-era simplicity rather than chasing cascade or Megaways trends. Published defaults of 92% and 94.5%, jurisdiction-dependent like several of its stablemates.

9. Anubis Wild Megaways (2021)

The studio’s entry in slots’ most crowded genre: Egyptian iconography, expanding wilds and a Megaways licence applied to a theme every provider on this site has attempted at least once. Published default 95.9%.

10. Gimme Gold Megaways (2022)

A prospector-themed Megaways release with sticky wild respins and an honest, unshowy structure — rounding out the studio’s modern Megaways slate as a competent, if unremarkable, addition to a licence every studio on this site now uses. Published default 95.5%.

Inspired Entertainment vs the studios it competes with

Inspired’s real competition is the UK retail-to-online crossover space, where its rivals carry far deeper heritage. Against our previously reviewed studios:

The honest read: Inspired plays a specialist niche — UK virtual sports and retail terminals — that none of the larger studios on this site occupy in the same way, and its online slot catalogue reads as an extension of that expertise rather than a primary creative ambition. Against Blueprint’s deeper UK retail lineage or Light & Wonder’s and IGT’s century-scale land-based empires, Inspired is the smaller, more focused specialist — genuinely important to British betting shops, less essential to the online-slots mainstream. (Gaming Realms occupies a similarly distinct niche one door down, owning the bingo-hybrid Slingo genre outright rather than competing in conventional slots at all.)

The game families, in depth

Two franchises anchor most of the online catalogue’s recognisable identity. The full ranked list covers the rest.

The Centurion dynasty

Centurion (2015, retail terminals) → Centurion Megaways (2020) → Centurion Big Money and Demon’s Gold (2024) → Centurion Bigger Big Money (2025) — the studio’s one true crossover hit, born on betting-shop machines and successfully carried into the online-native era.

The Cops ’n’ Robbers franchise

Cops ’n’ Robbers Megaways (2019) → Smash n’ Grab → Bigger Big Money Soccer — a comic chase format that’s become the studio’s second-most recognisable IP, built around a persistent bonus-chase structure players return for specifically.

The Novomatic UK inheritance

Reel King Megaways and the wider Bell-Fruit-descended catalogue — heritage British arcade IP acquired in the 2019 GTG deal, giving Inspired custody of characters no rival studio on this site can claim.

The Megaways modernisation programme

Gold Cash Free Spins, Super Hot Fruits, Anubis Wild, Gimme Gold and others — the studio’s systematic application of the licensed Megaways mechanic across both original and heritage themes, its main modern release strategy since 2019.

Signature mechanics & technology

Inspired’s toolkit reflects its retail-terminal DNA more than any online-native design philosophy:

Terminal-faithful bonus structures

Wheel-based gambles, picking rounds and cash-collect features designed originally for server-based betting-shop terminals, ported online with minimal reinvention — legible, familiar mechanics for players who grew up on the physical machines.

Megaways under licence

Since 2019, Inspired has applied Big Time Gaming’s licensed variable-reel mechanic across both original IP (Centurion, Cops ’n’ Robbers) and inherited heritage themes (Reel King), following the same industry-wide rental model documented across this site.

Virtual sports crossover technology

The studio’s founding business — low-latency virtual racing and sports content for retail terminals — represents technology no other provider reviewed on this site builds, and remains a meaningful share of Inspired’s wider commercial business beyond slots.

Server-based terminal management

Inspired’s original product: centralised content management and remote updates for physical betting-shop machines, standardising an estate that once required manual cabinet visits — infrastructure work that predates and underlies its later online slot ambitions.

Inspired Entertainment slots RTP: the real numbers

The defaults: a wider spread than the studio’s own marketing suggests once you check the individual game sheets — from 92% up to Reel King Megaways’ 96.23%, with several titles (Big Big Horsey Fortune, Piggy Winner, Wolf It Up! 3 Reeler) shipping dual 92%/94.5% tiers by jurisdiction and Super Hot Fruits Megaways sitting lowest at 94.03%. That’s in line with UK retail-machine economics rather than the more generous online-native studios’ postures, and there’s little of the wide internal spread found at Games Global or Playtech — Inspired’s maths culture reads as steady rather than remarkable in either direction.

The builds: reduced configurations circulate as they do industry-wide, and Inspired’s retail heritage means some titles carry parallel land-based versions with their own separate certification — the in-game paytable states which build you’re actually on, as always.

Volatility and ceilings: mostly medium, tuned for the longer, lower-stake sessions typical of retail-adjacent play rather than the five-figure ceilings of the modern volatility studios. Our responsible gambling guide applies as always.

From betting-shop terminals to Nasdaq

The arc that matters: a company built to solve betting-shop infrastructure problems ended up owning genuine British arcade heritage almost by acquisition accident, and has spent the years since translating both into a modest but functional online slots catalogue. Slots are one line of business among several, not the whole company.

The people who built Inspired Entertainment

Luke Alvarez — the founder

Alvarez led the team that founded Inspired in 2002 around a specific, unglamorous problem — how to run virtual sports and server-based content reliably across thousands of UK betting-shop terminals — long before slots entered the conversation. That infrastructure-first instinct shaped the company’s later acquisitions strategy: buy proven heritage content (Novomatic UK’s GTG assets) rather than build a from-scratch creative studio.

The Nasdaq era

The 2016 SPAC listing gave Inspired the capital to pursue the 2019 Novomatic UK acquisition and expand its virtual sports business internationally, including into markets like Brazil that later proved regulatorily volatile. The company today operates as a genuinely diversified gaming-technology business, of which online slots are a meaningful but secondary part.

Is Inspired Entertainment fair? Licensing, regulation & the record

Checked against the Gambling Commission’s business licence register on 5 July 2026.

The licences. Inspired Gaming (UK) Limited holds UKGC account 1090 with an extensive active estate: remote and non-remote gambling software and gaming-machine technical licences dating to August 2007, remote casino since March 2015, remote general betting (virtual events) since May 2016, and non-remote gaming-machine licences for adult gaming and family entertainment centres since September 2021. Inspired Technology (Yorkshire) Limited holds account 39889 with active non-remote and ancillary-remote gaming-machine technical licences since November 2014. Verify both on the UKGC public register.

The record. Clean at the UK licensing level: no Commission enforcement action against either entity that we can find. Worth noting for full honesty: the group’s 2025 financial results disclosed a 19% full-year revenue decline in its virtual sports segment (a steeper 30% year-on-year drop in the opening quarter) tied to Brazilian regulatory and tax changes, plus a full-year net loss of $17.0 million against $64.8 million net income in 2024 — commercial headwinds, not regulatory sanctions, but part of the honest picture of a company whose slots business sits inside a wider, occasionally struggling group.

So is it fair? Yes on game integrity — certified RNG across the catalogue, a clean UK licensing file spanning nearly two decades, and consistent published RTPs. The caveat is more about scale and ambition than fairness: this is a smaller, more specialist operation than most studios on this site, with online slots as one part of a wider (and currently pressured) diversified business.

The biggest Inspired Entertainment wins

A retail-heritage studio without the jackpot networks or five-figure ceilings that define this site’s bigger records pages. Documented context only:

On tape: a Centurion Megaways feature guide, and Cops ’n’ Robbers Megaways’ celebrated Mega Chase bonus:

Videos embedded for illustration — results shown are the players’ own.

Beyond the reels

The corners of the story the ranking competitors never reach:

The slots business inside a bigger machine

Unlike almost every other studio on this site, Inspired’s online slots sit alongside virtual sports, retail terminal technology and server-based gaming systems as one part of a genuinely diversified Nasdaq-listed business — and the 2025 financial pressures in its virtual sports arm (Brazilian regulatory changes cutting full-year revenue 19%, and 30% in the opening quarter alone) are a reminder that this studio’s fortunes depend on more than slot RTPs.

Reel King’s quiet handover

The 2019 Novomatic UK acquisition means a beloved character from British arcade history — Reel King — now belongs to a virtual-sports-and-retail-terminals company rather than a traditional slot studio, a genuinely unusual custody arrangement in this industry.

An alumni network of its own

Inspired Gaming Group’s pre-2016 development teams have quietly seeded other studios in this site’s coverage — Bulletproof Games‘ founders Craig Ball and Michael Bullock both spent over a decade at Inspired before leaving in 2015 to start their own, much smaller Tamworth studio, a reminder of how concentrated the UK’s slots-development talent pool really is.

Betting shops as the real proving ground

Centurion and the wider franchise catalogue proved themselves on physical retail terminals years before any online release — the reverse of the usual online-first, retail-later pattern most studios on this site follow.

New Inspired Entertainment slots: what’s launched for 2025–26

The state of Inspired right now: continued Megaways output alongside a business managing real headwinds in its non-slots segments. This section refreshes with any significant confirmed launch.

All ship with published figures. Paytable first, always.

What players say about Inspired slots

From forums where Inspired is discussed mostly through its two headline franchises — our words, cons intact.

The love: Centurion and Cops ’n’ Robbers both earn genuine loyalty, with players specifically citing the retail-to-online carryover as a point of trust — these are games that proved themselves in bookies’ shops before they ever asked for an online bet. Reel King draws real nostalgia from players who remember the original arcade cabinets.

The gripes, plainly: the wider catalogue outside the two headline franchises is called forgettable, the RTPs are unremarkable against the more generous online-native studios, and Inspired’s overall online lobby presence is noticeably thinner than any of its rivals reviewed on this site — you have to specifically seek out its games rather than encounter them everywhere. The 2025 financial headwinds also draw comment from players who track the wider business. All fair, and the Centurion faithful remain unmoved.

Which Inspired Entertainment slot should you play?

The thirty-second version of everything above:

Our verdict on Inspired Entertainment slots

Slot Providers score: 7/10 — the retail specialist: Centurion and Cops ’n’ Robbers proved themselves on British betting-shop terminals before online slots existed for them, and the 2019 Novomatic UK deal handed the studio genuine arcade heritage in Reel King — but the wider catalogue and online presence remain modest against this site’s bigger names.

Inspired suits players who came to online slots via UK betting-shop terminals, Reel King nostalgics, and anyone curious about the retail-to-online crossover this studio uniquely occupies. Look elsewhere if you want the widest catalogue — Pragmatic and Light & Wonder both offer far more — or deeper British machine heritage, where Blueprint Gaming runs a longer and richer retail lineage. And wherever you play: the paytable states your build, as always.

Every Inspired Entertainment slot that matters, ranked

From a catalogue spanning retail terminals and online slots, the 20 entries that matter, ranked by all-time greatness — craft, influence, maths and staying power blended.

Ranked 5 July 2026 across Inspired’s retail and online slot catalogue. Availability and RTP build vary by casino and by retail/online channel.

Casinos with Inspired Entertainment Games

Inspired casinos form a smaller, more concentrated group than the volume giants attract — the studio’s online footprint is selective rather than everywhere. A cross-section of well-known UKGC-licensed operators carrying the catalogue (listed for information only — no commercial relationship, no endorsements; verify any operator on the Gambling Commission register before depositing):

Checked 5 July 2026. Game availability and RTP builds change — always confirm in the casino’s own lobby and the in-game paytable. 18+, please gamble responsibly.

Sources & Verification

Primary sources checked 5 July 2026, re-verified and expanded 9 July 2026: the Gambling Commission’s business licence register (accounts 1090 and 39889); Inspired Entertainment’s official site, including its About Us page and full interactive games catalogue, plus individual game information sheets for RTP and feature data on every top-10 title above; SEC filings (Form 10-K, Form 8-K) for corporate history, the 2016 SPAC merger and FY2025 financial results. Additional catalogue context and independent game reviews come from third-party slot-review coverage, treated as corroboration only, never as the primary source. Imagery from official promotional assets and documented gameplay. Spotted an error? Tell us — corrections are actioned as a priority.

✓ Updated 9 July 2026: moved the on-page navigation up under the ads module; added a pros/cons verdict block (with matching Review schema positiveNotes/negativeNotes) and a UK-availability FAQ; corrected a fabricated entry in the game lineage and full ranked list (“Centurion Jackpot King” was not a genuine Inspired release — “Jackpot King” is a rival studio’s trademarked jackpot network — replaced with the real Centurion Bigger Big Money); corrected “Desperado Wild” to its real name, Desperados Wild Megaways; re-checked all ten essential-slots RTPs against Inspired’s own game-info sheets and corrected eight that had drifted from the published figures (Cops ’n’ Robbers Megaways, Reel King Megaways, Gold Cash Free Spins Megaways, Big Big Horsey Fortune, Piggy Winner, Super Hot Fruits Megaways, Wolf It Up! 3 Reeler and Gimme Gold Megaways); corrected the 2025 virtual sports figures to the accurate full-year decline (19%, not the Q1-only 30% figure) and full-year net loss ($17.0 million).

Inspired Entertainment FAQs

Who owns Inspired Entertainment?

Inspired Entertainment, Inc. is a public company listed on Nasdaq (INSE) since a 2016 SPAC merger, founded in 2002 in the UK by a team led by Luke Alvarez.

Is Inspired Entertainment fair, or are its games rigged?

Inspired holds two active UKGC licences (accounts 1090 and 39889) with clean records spanning nearly two decades, certified RNG across the catalogue, and consistent published RTPs around 95.5–96%.

What is the best Inspired slot?

Centurion Megaways is the essential experience, Cops ’n’ Robbers Megaways the community favourite, and Reel King Megaways the heritage pick. Our full ranked ten, with reasoning, is above.

Does Inspired own Reel King?

Yes — via its 2019 acquisition of Novomatic UK’s GTG assets, which included the Reel King IP and wider Bell-Fruit heritage catalogue.

Where can I play Inspired Entertainment slots in the UK?

Yes — unlike some smaller studios on this site, Inspired’s online slots have confirmed UK carriers: LeoVegas, William Hill, Ladbrokes, Coral and Betfred all list Centurion, Cops ’n’ Robbers or the wider Megaways slate at the time of writing. See the UK casinos section above for the full breakdown, and always verify any operator on the Gambling Commission register before depositing.

What is Inspired’s core business besides slots?

Virtual sports and server-based gaming-machine technology for retail betting shops — the company’s original 2002 founding business, still a significant part of its wider operations.

Why did Centurion launch on betting-shop terminals before online?

Because Inspired’s roots are in UK retail gaming-machine technology; Centurion proved itself as a physical terminal hit in 2015, five years before its Megaways online conversion in 2020.

What are the newest Inspired Entertainment slots?

Centurion Big Money and Demon’s Gold, launched in 2024, represent the flagship franchise’s latest online-first generation. Full picture in our new releases section.