Pragmatic Play: the crash game for regulated markets
The slot giant made one crash game, and it is the one you get at licensed Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Brazilian casinos. Spaceman has the best feature in the genre and a slightly worse RTP.
Updated 20 October 2026
Pragmatic Play is a slot and live casino supplier headquartered in Gibraltar, owned by a private investor group led by Veridian (Gibraltar) Limited and run by CEO Julian Jarvis. It has more than 500 in-house slots, a live casino studio and a reputation for being in every regulated lobby on earth. In March 2022 it released Spaceman, its first and so far only crash game that matters, and in doing so gave regulated operators a crash title from a supplier they already trusted.
Licences
Pragmatic Play is certified or licensed in more than thirty jurisdictions. The UK Gambling Commission and the Gibraltar Gambling Division are the two it leads with; the list also covers Malta, Italy (ADM), Spain (DGOJ), Portugal, the Netherlands, Romania, Greece, Ontario, Colombia, Brazil and others. For crash games this is the whole point. A Dutch or Italian operator that is wary of a Georgian studio's licence stack will take Spaceman from a supplier whose certification team they already deal with.
The games
Spaceman is a classic multiplier crash game with an astronaut instead of a plane. One bet per round, auto cash-out, and the feature that makes it worth a page: a 50% partial cash-out. Press it and half your position is banked at the current multiplier while the other half keeps flying. We think it is the single best idea anyone has added to the format and we wish Spribe would copy it.
RTP is 96.5%, half a point below Aviator. Round pacing is slower than JetX or Aviator, which suits a bad connection and frustrates anyone who wants volume. Max win is 5,000x. The game has no live chat and no rain promos; Pragmatic built it for regulated lobbies, and regulated lobbies do not want chat.
Pragmatic also lists a Crash Games vertical with a couple of slot-adjacent multiplier titles, including Big Bass Crash. Their distribution is thin and we do not cover them.
What sets Pragmatic apart
Trust at the regulated tier. If you play in Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands or Brazil, Spaceman is very often the only crash game your licensed casino has, and it arrived through the same contract as the operator's slots. The partial cash-out is the second thing. It lets you do in one bet what Aviator players simulate with two panels, and it is cleaner.
Against that: the RTP is the lowest of the big three classic titles, the single-bet limit annoys people who like a safe-plus-ride pattern, and the lack of a social layer makes the game feel quieter than it should.
Where you find Pragmatic Play crash games
Licensed European and Latin American casinos first: Snai, Sisal and Lottomatica in Italy, Codere and Sportium in Spain, Betano and Superbet in Romania and Brazil. Internationally, Betway carries Spaceman in Kenya and South Africa, and 1xBet and Parimatch have it alongside Aviator. The Spaceman page lists the brands by country.
Frequently asked questions
Is Pragmatic Play licensed?
Yes, in more than thirty jurisdictions. The company is headquartered in Gibraltar and holds a UK Gambling Commission licence and Gibraltar licence among many others, including Malta, Italy, Spain, Romania, Ontario and Brazil. That breadth is why Spaceman appears at licensed casinos that carry no other crash game.
What is Spaceman's RTP?
96.5%, published by Pragmatic Play and fixed across operators. That is half a point below Aviator and JetX, and you notice it over a long session. The partial cash-out does not change the return; it changes how you can split a position.
Does Pragmatic Play make other crash games?
Spaceman is the only pure crash title we cover. Pragmatic has a Crash Games category in its product list and has released a few slot-adjacent multiplier games, but Spaceman is the one with real distribution. Big Bass Crash exists but is rarely offered.
Daniel Reyes
Daniel has written about online casino games since 2016 and has been playing crash games since the first Bustabit era. He owns the editorial standards on this site and signs off every global page.