Casino Reviews
In addition to providing players with it very own UKGC registered casino, Online Slots Lobby, Free Daily Spins realises that most players will visit and spend time in more than one casino.
We regularly review the UK online casino landscape, we aim to play and review all the casinos available, there are hundreds and new ones arrive frequently, it takes time. Once an online casino has been reviewed, in the first instance either approve them or we do not, all those that we approve are listed below, you can therefore feel assured that those casinos below are generally good and trustworthy.
Where we list a casino we provide a fuller review of the casino, including a score out of 10, you can read the fuller review of all the 94 approved casinos we list below by clicking to the review page. Below the reviews we explain more about how we go about reviewing casinos.
Author: Paul Lewis
The list of online casinos
We frequently look at the list of registered casinos that the UKGC provides and also search the internet using all the main search engines, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT in order to identify new online casinos. Once new casinos are identified we allocate the casino to be reviewed to one of our casino reviewers, we have over 10 people that will review the casino.
Casinos will also change and evolve over time, they will add or remove games, add or remove payment types and so on. When a casino gets on our list, either approved or not, it is in a constant review process. We cannot review all the casinos on that list every week, there are just too many on the list, but we aim to review a minimum of 10 casinos each week. Like most things, the initial review is the longest, thereafter the revisit is less time consuming.
The review process
We give each of our casino reviewers a process to follow, this means all our reviews are consistent, and all reviews are looking at the casino through the same lens. You can be sure that all our reviews are thorough and based on fact. The casino reviews are asked to look at the following.
- Free spins. We love free spins on a slot machine, who wouldn’t? Each of the casinos reviews will let you know what, if any, free spin bonuses the casino provides.
- Sign up bonus. All our views pay special attention to the sign up bonuses the casino has to offer, this is just as important as free spins. Whilst there is more to the casino than free spins and sign up bonuses, these two considerations are very important.
- Security. Everyone needs to be sure the data that the casino takes is secure, nobody wants their personal information, game play information, payment details, etc. being made available.
- Support. People need help and there is nothing worse than not being able to get it, we look at how quick, easy and available support is if the player gets confused or needs some assistance.
- Payment and withdrawal types. If you choose how to deposit and withdraw through a wide selection of payment and withdrawal methods then we like you, this will give the casino a bump up in its rankings.
- Game range. There are thousands, perhaps millions of games available to the online casino, the main providers being NetEnt AB (publ), Microgaming, Playtech, Evolution Gaming Group, Play’n Go and Pragmatic Play. It is simply impractical and perhaps impossible for an online casino to host every single game available, so we look to see what the game range is and we make sure it is suffice.
- Game types. Casinos can and will offer a vast array of game types, we put them into categories, these being Slots, Casino, Casual and Live, explained more below. We look to ensure that the casino offers a good selection of types of game.
- Slots. Perhaps the most popular of game in a casino, spin the wheels and if the result of the spin is equivalent to the predefined winning lines then, you win. It is all chance, winnings can be huge, especially if you hit jackpots. The UKGC have recently restricted how much can be wagered on each spin, the idea being it is safer to play, however it has also reduced what can be won. If you win on the spin your winnings are relative to what you wagered on the spin.
- Casino. Games such as Baccarat, Blackjack, Poker, Roulette and Video Poker are the types of games that we would categorise as a casino game. These are games that the casino was founded on. On the whole these games are more skill based than the slots, some more than others, for example, poker is a card game, you make decisions as you go, based on the cards you are dealt, you can therefore apply some thinking and strategy. Roulette is not as skill based, however, you have a wide selection of betting strategies, such as the martingale strategy you can implement, we feel your success can be more influenced by you, compared to a slot game.
- Casual. This is a new category for us, we have seen an increase in fun, quirky games, we call them casual. You might find virtual tennis, virtual football and so on in here.
- Live. A lot of the above games now offer a live element, take roulette for example, in its infancy, online roulette consisted of a digital wheel being spun and a digital ball being placed on that wheel. That is still going and still popular, but now, if you wish, you can play live, but remotely, a real croupier will spin a real wheel with a real ball and you can see this, it is live, you are essentially playing the live game from your computer or phone.
Our people
All our reviewers are trained, they all get the same education and follow the same process. We want to give you consistency and in practice we need more than one person, so we ask al the reviewers to follow the same process. We have over 10 reviewers at any one time. If you want to become a reviewer, then let us know, we will explain what is needed and what we look for and what the average day will include. Email us at [email protected] .
Scoring
Whilst we include a lot of detail in each and every review, and we encourage you to read it all, we do realise that you probably want to get a very high level view of our opinion. Each review is therefore scored, out of 10. We take all the detail of every review and score it. Look for our score if you do not have the time to get into the nitty gritty detail.