Kendoo Brings Hold & Win Slots to Belgium’s Starcasino
Kendoo, a slot studio you may already recognise from the lobby of more than one UK-licensed site, has landed its first operator deal in Belgium. The Isle of Man-based developer’s Hold & Win-heavy catalogue has gone live on Starcasino.be, the country’s biggest online casino, in what’s being billed as another step in a fairly rapid international expansion for a studio that’s barely two years old.
What’s been released
Kendoo is strengthening its presence across regulated markets with the launch of its slot portfolio on Starcasino, the leading and largest online casino in Belgium, offering a broad selection of slots and live casino content.
The partnership marks another step in Kendoo’s international expansion, bringing its portfolio of feature-led slot games to players in Belgium for the first time, with Kendoo titles now available on Starcasino’s online casino platform.
Kendoo’s commercial director, Olga Mugliett, called the move an important milestone, saying
entering the regulated Belgian market through the partnership with Starcasino “is an important milestone for Kendoo,” adding that Belgium is a market where quality and reliability matter.
Starcasino’s director, S. Maene, framed it from the operator’s side:
Starcasino.be stays the leading online casino in Belgium by giving players the widest choice of quality games, and Kendoo “builds around mechanics Belgian players already know and like.”
How it plays
Kendoo’s output is deliberately narrow in focus.
The studio is a slots-focused provider built around Hold & Win mechanics, jackpot features and classic-style formats with progression systems, and operators typically add it to expand mid-tier slot coverage with monetisation-focused gameplay loops.
The Starcasino launch leans on exactly that playbook:
the portfolio includes titles built around Kendoo’s proven mechanics, including Hold and Win, Pots and jackpot-driven gameplay.
Under the hood, the wider catalogue spans a decent spread of styles.
Across roughly 30 slot titles, volatility ranges from low through to high, with recurring mechanics including Hold & Win, three- and four-pot jackpot systems, Hit the Bonus, row-unlock features, multipliers and bonus buy.
Every title is built the same way under the bonnet, too:
games are developed with HTML5 for smooth performance across desktop, Android and iOS, with no extra downloads required.
Where it fits
None of this is brand new territory for Kendoo. The studio
was established in 2024 as a slot-focused provider headquartered on the Isle of Man, positioning its products for casino operators and game aggregators.
That Isle of Man base, and the testing regime that comes with it, is the part UK players will find most familiar: Kendoo titles carry independent certification from a UKAS-accredited lab, the same standard UK-facing suppliers are expected to meet, and the studio’s games have already found their way onto a handful of UK-licensed sites as part of broader slot libraries.
What the Starcasino deal really signals is pace. Kendoo only split off as a standalone provider relatively recently, and its pitch has always centred on dependable, familiar mechanics rather than flashy experimentation, building, as the studio itself puts it, games designed around proven player behaviour and retention. Landing a first-mover slot on Belgium’s largest casino brand suggests that approach is finding traction with bigger operators, not just smaller or niche ones. For UK players, it’s less a story about a specific new game to chase and more a sign that a studio already quietly present in some lobbies here is scaling up its distribution network, which tends to mean more titles, more markets and, eventually, more visibility back home.
Sources
- iGaming Business – Kendoo enters Belgian regulated market with Starcasino partnership
- NEXT.io – Kendoo enters Belgian regulated market with Starcasino partnership
- G3 Newswire – Kendoo enters Belgian regulated market with Starcasino partnership
- European Gaming – Kendoo launches slot portfolio in Belgium via Starcasino
- GR8 Tech – Kendoo provider overview
- SiGMA World – Kendoo games and portfolio overview
