Elevation
Elevation is a small independent studio with five slots on Stake Engine, and Hellborn is the big one. Stake numbers from bonushunt.gg put it eighth among all slot providers there last month. Engine's own figures for the same games are far smaller, and the two don't add up.
- What it is
- Independent studio making original slots on Engine, maths and art built in-house (its Engine profile)
- Live games
- Jungle Kingdom, Ocean Surge, Cursed Mummy, Hellborn, Kingsguard; Hounds of Hades and Arcana listed as coming
- Where the games run
- Stake, and four of the five at one other crypto casino (elevationgaming.gg)
- RTP
- 96.7% on Ocean Surge, Cursed Mummy and Hellborn, per the studio; 96.7% for all five in the Stake data
- Engine, 30 days
- $12.7M turnover, 16.6k players, rank 24
- Stake, month (bonushunt.gg)
- $277.1M wagered, 2.34% of slot wagers, rank 8
- Owner, location
- Not stated on the studio site or Engine profile
- Website
- elevationgaming.gg
Five games, two sets of numbers
| Game | On Stake from | Stake wagered | Stake average bet | Stake paid back | Engine turnover | Engine average bet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hellborn | 23 Oct | $205.45M | $235 | 129.4% | $7.28M | $4.09 |
| Cursed Mummy | 7 Oct | $46.02M | $408 | 113.7% | $1.73M | $4.59 |
| Ocean Surge | 22 Sept | $13.80M | $216 | 157.3% | $1.55M | $7.04 |
| Kingsguard | 4 Nov | $11.69M | $92 | 122.4% | $1.95M | $5.83 |
| Jungle Kingdom | 13 Sept | $0.14M | $7 | 85.9% | $0.15M | $5.04 |
bonushunt.gg per-game data for Elevation, rolling month, fetched 12 Nov 2026; paid back = 1 − GGR ÷ wagered. Data: Engine Insights, 30 days, 13 Oct to 11 Nov 2026 (UTC). Fetched 12 Nov 2026. bonushunt.gg flags these games as non-Engine, while the studio's Engine profile lists all five. bonushunt.gg also shows no bonus buy for Cursed Mummy and Ocean Surge, where the studio says both have one.
On Engine's numbers, Hellborn is a normal mid-table release: a bit over $7M in a month, about $4 a bet. On bonushunt.gg's Stake numbers, the same game took $205M at an average of over $200 a bet and paid back 129% of it. Either a few people bet very big on Hellborn, or one of the two sources counts something the other doesn't. Neither one explains how it counts.
Four of Elevation's five games paid back more than went in on Stake over the month, Ocean Surge the most at 157%. That isn't a broken game. A slot with swings like these can run hot for weeks when a couple of high rollers hit big bonuses on large bets.
Week by week on Engine
| Week | Turnover | Bets | Average bet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct to 19 Oct | $1.06M | 221k | $4.79 |
| 20 Oct to 26 Oct | $1.49M | 468k | $3.19 |
| 27 Oct to 2 Nov | $0.99M | 360k | $2.74 |
| 3 Nov to 9 Nov | $6.58M | 1142k | $5.76 |
| 10 Nov to 11 Nov (2 days) | $2.55M | 550k | $4.63 |
Summed by us from the daily series of the Engine Insights publisher endpoint for Elevation, 13 Oct to 11 Nov 2026, fetched 12 Nov 2026.
Turnover on Engine sat around a million dollars a week through October, then went up more than six times in the week Kingsguard came out. Hellborn's bump came earlier and smaller, the week of 20 October. Over the full 30 days, Hellborn and Kingsguard take about three quarters of Elevation's Engine turnover.
Playing Hellborn
Engine lists Hellborn's standard deviation at 58.55. Black Coffee's Clash Of Freedom, a 50,000x game, is listed at about 30, so Hellborn swings roughly twice as hard. Bring enough for a few hundred spins at the bet you pick, or play something calmer. The buy price follows your bet size.
Ocean Surge has the highest average bet on Engine of the five, about $7. Jungle Kingdom, the first Elevation game, gets very little play now, a few hundred players a month. Hounds of Hades is listed as the next release on the studio's site, with no date yet.
- All Engine studios by turnover: Stake Engine studios
- What a standard deviation of 58 means in practice: volatility
- Another Engine studio profile: Black Coffee Studios
Not affiliated with Elevation. Game names belong to their owners.
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Questions
Who is Elevation?
An independent studio that builds original slots on Stake Engine, with maths and art made in-house. Neither its site nor its Engine profile names the owners.
What RTP do Elevation games have?
The studio publishes 96.7% for Ocean Surge, Cursed Mummy and Hellborn, and Stake runs all five games at 96.7%.
How big is Elevation on Stake?
bonushunt.gg counts $277.1M of Stake wagers on its games over the last month, 2.34% of all slot wagers. Engine Insights shows about $12.7M of turnover for the studio over 30 days, so the two sources differ a lot.
What is Hellborn's max win?
Engine lists 30,000x, at 96.7% RTP. It was released on 23 October 2026.
Sources
- Engine Insights (public API, snapshot). Elevation publisher and game data, 30 days, 13 Oct to 11 Nov 2026; Hellborn facts (released, RTP, max win, standard deviation) Checked 12 November 2026
- Engine Insights publisher endpoint: Elevation. profile text, daily series, five live games Checked 12 November 2026
- Elevation website. games, where they run, Hounds of Hades and Arcana coming Checked 12 November 2026
- bonushunt.gg provider analytics (Stake slot statistics). Elevation: per-game wagers, bets, GGR, configured RTP and first date on Stake, month and all-time, fetched 12 Nov 2026; provider rank and share from the totals Checked 12 November 2026
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