Blask Awards 2025: “Gates of Olympus 1000” and Pragmatic Play dominate global iGaming rankings

Blask has released the 2025 results of its games-focused awards, ranking the world’s top-performing iGaming titles and providers based purely on market data.

The headline winner of the awards is “Gates of Olympus 1000” by Pragmatic Play, which dominated multiple global categories designed to measure how widely games are distributed and surfaced across licensed operator platforms.

Global winners

  • Operator Footprint Champion: Gates of Olympus 1000, Pragmatic Play – Awarded to the game present with the highest number of operators.
  • Lobby Legend: Gates of Olympus 1000, Pragmatic Play – Recognises the game featured on the greatest number of operators’ main lobby pages, indicating top-level visibility.
  • Full-Shelf Takeover: Pragmatic Play – Awarded to the provider whose games appear most frequently across internal catalog pages, categories, promotions and bonus sections.
  • Largest Catalog Provider: Pragmatic Play – Recognises the provider with the highest number of unique games listed in licensed operator catalogs globally.
  • Slot of the Year: Gates of Olympus 1000, Pragmatic Play – Given to the slot title carried by the largest number of licensed operators worldwide.
  • Crash Game of the Year: Aviator, Spribe – Awarded to the most widely distributed crash game across regulated markets.

Demand and growth leaders

Not all award categories focus purely on distribution; some measure how strongly players engage with games over time.

  • Game Demand Leader: Chicken Road, InOut – Based on the highest aggregated Blask Index across all covered markets during 2025, reflecting sustained player demand.
  • Breakout Game of the Year: Roulette European, 7777 gaming – Awarded to the game that recorded the largest increase in operator coverage during 2025.

Local Game of the Year awards

Blask also named Game of the Year winners in selected countries, based on which title appeared across the largest number of licensed operators in each market.

Highlights include:

  • United Kingdom: Big Bass Bonanza, Pragmatic Play
  • Brazil, Italy, Germany, Argentina: Gates of Olympus 1000, Pragmatic Play
  • Spain, Mexico: Gates of Olympus Super Scatter, Pragmatic Play
  • Netherlands: Book of Dead, Play’n GO
  • South Africa, Ghana: Aviator, Spribe
  • Belgium: First Person Lightning Roulette, Evolution

A data-driven awards model

Unlike traditional industry awards, the Blask Awards are determined without submissions, fees or jury voting. All results are calculated algorithmically using Blask’s proprietary metrics and crawler data, and consider only regulated markets and locally licensed operators.

The complete results of Blask Awards 2025 are available here.

Blask is an AI-powered platform for iGaming and gambling market analytics. The company turns fragmented open-source signals into real-time insight on brand visibility, player demand, and baseline revenue metrics, helping teams move first, spend smarter, and reduce risk across global markets.