How we review UK online casinos

By The Review Room editorial team · Published 14 November 2026 · Updated 14 November 2026 · 3 min read

Every review on this site is a public-record review. We read a brand's entry on the Gambling Commission public register, record what it shows, cite each fact to the page it came from with the date we read it, and say plainly what the record cannot tell you. We do not play, deposit, claim offers or rank.

What a review checks

1. The licence holder. We find the business that holds the licence, which is often not the brand name, and record its account number and licence number.
2. The activity and status. We record each remote activity on the licence, with its status (for example Active or Surrendered) and the start and end dates shown.
3. The link to the brand. We check the trading names and domain names tabs, and record exactly how the brand connects to the licence: as a trading name, as the company name, or as a listed domain.
4. Anything that complicates the picture. Older records under the brand name, surrendered licences and other businesses returned by a register search are reported, with what we did and did not assess.

Rules that apply to every licensed site, such as the stake limits and the bonus wagering cap, come from the Gambling Commission's own publications and are cited the same way.

What we do not do

• We do not open accounts, deposit, play or withdraw, so we make no claims about games, payment speed, offers or support.
• We do not give star ratings, scores or "best casino" rankings. A rating would imply testing we have not done.
• We do not take affiliate commission, sponsorship or payment from operators, and there are no sign-up links on the site.
• We do not fill gaps with guesses. Where the record is silent, the review says so.

Dates and freshness

Licence records change: licences are surrendered, brands move between companies and new domains are added. Every source on every page shows the date we read it, and each page shows when it was last updated. All register facts on the site were last read on 14 November 2026, apart from one search result dated 19 October 2026, which is marked as such. We re-read the records before any update, and a review whose record has changed is rewritten, not patched.

Corrections

If a record has changed since our last check, or we have misread one, we correct the page, update its date and keep the source list accurate. We do not quietly remove facts that turn out to be wrong: the corrected page says what the record shows now.

Why this approach

Most casino review sites earn money when readers sign up, which makes their rankings hard to trust. Ours earns nothing either way. It answers a narrower question, whether a site is licensed to serve you and who is responsible for it, and answers it with evidence you can check yourself. The reasons that question matters are set out in our guide to reading a UK casino licence, and the results so far are in our reviews of three UK casino brands.