Razor Shark is the German market’s favorite slot, and the number printed beside it on almost every site is wrong. You will see a maximum win of 50,000 times your bet quoted as fact. Push Gaming never meant it that way, and a player has already beaten it.
That sentence is the reason this review exists. I opened the game in the demo on this site, read what Push Gaming tells a player in its own words, and then traced where the famous ceiling actually came from. One number is published. The rest is not.
| What it is | The figure |
|---|---|
| Return to player | 96.70%, read off the game’s own Know the Game page. Push Gaming lists a second build at 94.06% |
| Studio and date | Push Gaming, released August 2019 |
| Grid | Five reels, four rows, 20 paylines |
| Stake range | €0.01 to €5 |
| Maximum win | No cap published. The old 50,000x figure was a highest observed result, not a ceiling |
| Largest confirmed win | 85,475x, confirmed by Push Gaming’s marketing director |
| Bonus buy | None. There is no buy button in the game at all |
| Features | Nudging Mystery Symbols, the Razor Reveal, and Nudging Free Spins with an increasing multiplier |
| Volatility | High, on Push Gaming’s own game page. Nothing inside the game |
| Hit frequency | Not published |
| Free spins frequency | Not published |
| Demo blocked in | Great Britain, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, the United States and South Africa |
| My score | 7 / 10 |
The return, the features and the absence of a buy button I read inside the game itself. The stake range and the country blocks come from our own library record for this title.
Casinos on this site are scored on four published criteria and so are games. I score what the studio publishes, not how the game felt over twenty spins, and where nothing is published that a criterion can be built from I leave it unscored and say so.
| What I scored | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Return to player | 9 / 10 | 96.70 percent, which sits in the 96.50 to 96.99 band. Higher than every other slot I have reviewed, and stated by the game itself rather than by a database |
| Cost of reaching the feature | 10 / 10 | There is no bonus buy and no tiered feature. Every level of the bonus is open from the first trigger, which is the top band |
| Volatility honesty | 3 / 10 | Push Gaming publishes a volatility rating, High, on its own game page, but none of the three figures behind it. No hit frequency, no feature frequency, and the maximum win was withdrawn rather than explained in numbers |
| Session survivability | Unscored | This band is built from the number of spins between features. Push Gaming publishes no such figure, so I will not invent one |
| Overall | 7 / 10 | Average of the three that could be scored, rounded |
Nine plus ten plus three is twenty two, divided by three is 7.33. The bands behind each number are on my method page.
Seven out of ten puts this near the top of my list. It gets there by a route most games do not take. The headline return is one of the strongest I have scored, and the game never asks you to pay for the bonus round, because there is no buy feature to price your impatience.
Its disclosure score is three out of ten, which is a count rather than an insult. Push Gaming publishes a return figure, a second lower build at 94.06 percent, and one word, High. It publishes none of the three figures that would let you check what that word means. To be fair to them, when a player beat the old ceiling they explained publicly why the figure had never been a ceiling, which is more candor than most studios manage. I first published this review with a disclosure score of one and with no second build listed, because I had read only what the game itself prints. On 21 October 2026 I read Push Gaming’s own game page, found both, and corrected this page rather than leave it standing. You can read the full method on the page where I set the rules out.
Search this game and you will be told its maximum win is 50,000 times your stake. That figure appeared in the game information box for years and every affiliate site copied it. It was never a ceiling.
In January 2023, Clash of Slots reported that Push Gaming’s marketing director, Darren Stephenson, had explained where it came from. Many of the studio’s games have no maximum win at all. What the box showed was a highest observed figure, taken from the billions of simulated rounds run during testing and certification.
A highest observed result is the biggest win that turned up while the lab was watching. It is not the biggest win the math allows. The distinction sounds academic until a player collects more than the number, which is exactly what happened.
The same report puts the confirmed win at 85,475 times the stake, roughly 71 percent above the figure the game was advertising. Push Gaming then changed the listed maximum to infinite, which is the honest answer and also an admission that the first one meant less than people thought.
So when you read a Razor Shark review quoting 50,000x as a hard ceiling, you are reading a number the studio itself withdrew. That is the single most useful thing I can tell you about this game.
I went through the game’s own information screens page by page. The final one is titled Know the Game. In full, it says that malfunction voids all pays and plays, and that the theoretical average return to player is 96.70 percent. That is the entire disclosure.
| The figure | Published | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Return to player | Yes | The Know the Game screen inside the game, 96.70 percent |
| Paytable and feature rules | Yes | The paytable screens inside the game |
| Maximum win | No | Withdrawn. The studio now lists it as infinite |
| Volatility | As a word | High, on Push Gaming’s own game page. Nothing inside the game, not even on the intro screen |
| Hit frequency | No | Nowhere I could find |
| Free spins frequency | No | Nowhere I could find |
| Odds of a large win | No | Nowhere I could find |
| Returns for other builds | Yes | Push Gaming lists two, 96.70 percent and 94.06 percent, and warns that the return varies per casino |
Four of these eight are published, and two of those four are the paytable, which every licensed slot must show, and a volatility word with no figure behind it.
None of what is published sits inside the game. Gates of Olympus at least prints a volatility word and a maximum win on its own loading screen, even if the word is questionable. Razor Shark prints neither. Its intro screen shows you three features and the words click anywhere to continue, and you have to leave the game and open the studio website to learn that Push Gaming calls it high volatility.
Razor Shark has no buy button. I looked for one in the demo and there is nothing to press. The free spins arrive when the game decides they arrive, and no amount of money shortens the wait.
That sounds like a limitation and it scores as an advantage in my method. A buy feature prices your impatience, and the price climbs with every sequel the industry ships. Money Train 5 sells seven of them, the dearest at two thousand times your stake. Razor Shark sells none.
There is also no tiered feature. Some older slots hide their best bonus level behind a count of separate triggers, which is the same toll collected in a different currency. Here the first trigger gives you the full feature, with the multiplier that grows as the mystery stacks nudge.
So on the one criterion where most modern slots lose points, this one has nothing to lose. It cannot sell you a shortcut because it does not have a shortcut to sell.
The minimum stake is one cent, which is the lowest floor of any game I have reviewed here. Fifty euros is the deposit most welcome offers are built around, so that is where I start.
| How you play €50 | Spins it buys | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| At the €0.01 minimum | 5,000 spins | More base game than most people have patience for |
| At €0.10 | 500 spins | A long evening at a stake that still feels like playing |
| At €0.50, the demo default | 100 spins | One ordinary session |
| At the €5 maximum | 10 spins | Ten spins, and no buy button to rescue the session |
The one cent floor is the real argument for this game. Very few slots let a fifty euro balance last five thousand spins.
Here is what I cannot tell you. I do not know how many spins usually pass between free spins rounds, because Push Gaming does not publish it. Five thousand spins sounds like plenty, and without a published frequency that is a feeling rather than a fact.
Our library record for this title lists six territories where the game is not served: Great Britain, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, the United States and South Africa. If you are reading this from one of them, the demo button will not load the game.
Italy matters most for this site, because it is one of the markets I cover. An Italian reader can read every figure on this page and still not be able to open the game. That is a licensing decision made by the studio and its operators, not something a casino choice can work around.
The game is the same everywhere. The terms wrapped around it are not, and that is where a session quietly gets more expensive. Four things are worth thirty seconds each.
First, the return printed in the game information panel, every time you open the game at a casino you have not used before. Plenty of slots ship in more than one build, and that panel is the only place the figure you are actually playing is shown.
Second, how the game counts toward wagering, and whether buying a feature voids an active bonus. Slots usually count in full, but feature purchases are excluded under most terms and some casinos cancel the bonus outright for one. The wagering terms are where both of those live.
Third, the maximum stake allowed while a bonus is running. It is commonly five euros a spin, and going over it once is enough for a casino to void everything the bonus produced.
Fourth, the cap on what you may withdraw from bonus winnings. A large maximum win means nothing if the terms stop your payout well below it, and that ceiling is printed in the bonus terms rather than in the game.
The return figure on its own tells you nothing about what a session costs. What costs you money is the return multiplied by how much you push across the table, and a slot pushes a great deal. Six hundred spins in an hour is an ordinary pace once autoplay is running.
At 96.7 percent the house keeps 3.3 percent of everything staked. Here is what that is worth at three ordinary stakes, using the same model as my cost per hour table.
| Stake per spin | Wagered in an hour | House edge | Cost of the hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| €0.20 | €120 | 3.3% | €3.96 |
| €0.50 | €300 | 3.3% | €9.90 |
| €1.00 | €600 | 3.3% | €19.80 |
Six hundred spins an hour, the house edge applied to everything wagered in that hour. These are averages over a very long run, not a prediction for one session, and the swings in either direction are far larger than the edge.
The demo runs on a play money balance that resets when you reload it, with no account and no deposit. Open the menu once it loads and page through to the end. The last screen is where Push Gaming states its return figure, and it is worth seeing how short that screen is.
Fifteen of the 36 casinos I have reviewed list Push Gaming among their suppliers. That is fewer than half, and well short of the twenty seven that carry Pragmatic Play, so this game is harder to find than its popularity suggests.
| Casino | Score | Terms fairness | Full review |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Casino | 7 / 10 | 6 / 10 | Read the review |
| HellSpin Casino | 7 / 10 | 6 / 10 | Read the review |
| CasinoChan Casino | 7 / 10 | 5 / 10 | Read the review |
| Asino Casino | 7 / 10 | 4 / 10 | Read the review |
| Bizzo Casino | 6 / 10 | 4 / 10 | Read the review |
| Spinanga Casino | 6 / 10 | 4 / 10 | Read the review |
| BetiBet Casino | 6 / 10 | 3 / 10 | Read the review |
Seven of the fifteen are shown here. Each casino score is the average of four criteria, and the full working is inside every review.
When several casinos tie on the overall score I separate them the same way every time. First on terms fairness, because that clause set decides whether a win actually reaches you. Then on payouts and support, then on bonus value.
National Casino and HellSpin both reach seven out of ten with terms fairness of six and payouts of eight. Bonus value splits them, six against five, so National takes it. That is why the button below points there.
What is the RTP of Razor Shark?
96.70 percent, and the game states it itself on the Know the Game screen inside the paytable. Push Gaming’s own game page lists a second build at 94.06 percent and warns that the return varies from one casino to another, so read the figure inside the game you opened rather than trusting any listing, including this one.
What is the maximum win on Razor Shark?
There is no published cap. The 50,000x figure quoted everywhere was a highest observed result from certification testing, not a ceiling, and Push Gaming has since listed the theoretical maximum as infinite. The largest confirmed win on record is 85,475 times the stake.
Did somebody really win 85,475 times their stake?
Yes. Clash of Slots reported in January 2023 that Push Gaming’s marketing director Darren Stephenson confirmed the win and explained why it exceeded the advertised figure. The number in the game box had come from simulations, so beating it was unlikely rather than impossible.
Does Razor Shark have a bonus buy?
No, and that is deliberate. There is no buy button anywhere in the game. The free spins arrive on their own and no payment shortens the wait, which is the opposite of what a game like Money Train 5 offers with its seven priced entries.
How volatile is Razor Shark?
Push Gaming calls it high, on its own game page. Nothing inside the game says so: there is no volatility rating on the intro screen or in the paytable, and no hit frequency to check the word against. So you have a label with no figure behind it, which is why this game scores three out of ten for volatility honesty rather than higher.
What is the minimum bet on Razor Shark?
One cent, which is the lowest stake floor of any slot I have reviewed here. Fifty euros lasts five thousand spins at that level. The maximum is five euros, which is also unusually low, so this is not a game built for large stakes.
Why will the demo not load for me?
The game is not served in six territories: Great Britain, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, the United States and South Africa. If you are in one of them the demo button will not open the game, and no casino choice changes that because the block sits with the studio and its licensing.
How often do the free spins arrive?
Nobody outside Push Gaming knows. The studio publishes no feature frequency for this game, which is why one of my four scoring criteria is left unscored. If a site tells you the number confidently, ask where they got it.
Is Razor Shark better than Razor Returns?
They are different games with different numbers, and this review covers the original only. The one structural difference worth knowing before you choose is that the sequel sells a way into its bonus and the original does not, so your patience is priced in one and free in the other.
Why did you score it seven out of ten?
Because it earns nine for its return and ten for having no paid shortcut into the feature, then loses heavily on disclosure with one out of ten. The fourth criterion could not be scored at all. The full working is on my method page.

I came to this from finance, which is probably why I read a casino the way I read a contract. The marketing sits on the homepage, and the clause that decides whether you get paid sits twelve pages down.
I am responsible for everything published here. The return figure and the absence of a buy button I read inside the game myself, in the demo on this site, on 20 October 2026. The 85,475x win and the studio’s explanation of it are reported by Clash of Slots and attributed to Push Gaming’s marketing director, not published by the studio on its own pages. If you find a figure that no longer holds, write to me.
18+. Gambling can be addictive. A 96.70 percent return is a long run average across millions of spins and it describes no single session, including yours. One player winning 85,475 times their stake does not make that outcome likely, and a game with no published feature frequency cannot be planned around. If gambling has stopped being entertainment, free and confidential help is available in Slovenia through NIJZ.