How we rate
There is no panel of experts here, and nobody is paid to have an opinion. So rather than ask you to trust a process you cannot see, here is the actual one, in enough detail that you can check whether we followed it.
Every number here comes out of the game itself
This is the part that takes the time, and it is the only part we would defend as genuinely different from what most sites in this niche do.
Almost every slot listing you will read online has copied its RTP from another listing, which copied it from another one. Nobody in that chain opened the game. You can tell, because when a studio quietly ships a different build the whole internet keeps repeating the old number for years.
What we do instead: load the studio’s own demo, open the information screen, and page through the rules until we find each figure. RTP, volatility, maximum win, minimum and maximum bet, how many free spins each scatter count awards, what a multiplier can reach, whether the cap ends the round. All of it gets read off the screen, and the date it was read goes on the page.
Where a review makes a claim that a reader might reasonably want to check, the screenshot goes next to it. Three or four per page, not twenty. Enough that you can see the game was actually opened.
It also means the gaps are visible. When a studio does not publish a figure, the page says so rather than borrowing one, and across the games covered so far that happens more often than you would expect.
| Game | RTP | Volatility | Max win |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20p Boost Roulette | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Aviator | Stated | Stated | Not stated |
| Big Bass Amazon Xtreme | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Big Bass Bonanza | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Big Bass Christmas Bash | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Big Bass Crash | Stated | Not stated | Stated |
| Big Bass Day at the Races | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Big Bass Halloween | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Big Bass Splash | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Buffalo King Megaways | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Chicken Road | Not stated | Not stated | Stated |
| Crazy Time | Stated | Not stated | Stated |
| Eye of Horus | Stated | Stated | Not stated |
| Eye of Horus The Golden Tablet Megaways | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Fishin' Frenzy | Stated | Stated | Not stated |
| Fishin' Frenzy Even Bigger Catch | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Fishin' Frenzy The Big Catch | Stated | Not stated | Stated |
| Fishin' Frenzy The Big Splash | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| JetX | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Le Pharaoh | Not stated | Stated | Stated |
| Mines | Stated | Not stated | Stated |
| Plinko | Stated | Not stated | Stated |
| Rocket Reels | Stated | Not stated | Stated |
| Spaceman | Stated | Not stated | Stated |
| Starlight Princess 1000 | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Sugar Rush 1000 | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Sweet Bonanza | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| Sweet Bonanza Super Scatter | Stated | Stated | Stated |
What we do not do
We do not play a game for hours and report what happened, and we would be sceptical of anyone who says they do.
A slot demo hands you a five figure play balance. A few hundred spins on a high volatility game tells you nothing that is true about the next few hundred, and reporting a session as though it were evidence is the most common dishonest move in this business. When you read “we spun this 500 times and the bonus hit twice”, you are reading noise being sold as insight.
So we do not claim to have tested a game’s payouts, because a demo cannot test them. What we can do is read what the game is designed to do, explain it accurately, and be clear about which parts are the studio’s claims rather than ours.
We also do not take money to change a score. There is nothing to take yet, since the site has no commercial partners at all, but the rule is written down in the advertising disclosure so that it is awkward to break later.
What the score out of ten actually measures
Every review carries one number. It is a judgement, it is not a measurement, and it deliberately has no decimal places beyond a half.
The RTP is not the score. The RTP is the studio’s figure and sits beside the score on every page precisely so the two do not get confused. A game with 96.7% is not automatically better than one with 96.5%, and we are not going to rank on three hundredths of a percentage point.
These are the five things that actually get weighed.
| What gets looked at | What moves the score |
|---|---|
| Honesty of the game’s own disclosure | Does the rules screen state the RTP, the cap and the feature rules plainly? Games that print two RTPs and say what an ante bet buys score better than games that print a vague range. |
| Whether the maths matches the marketing | A splash screen shouting 25,000x on a game where almost all of the return sits in ordinary spins is a mismatch, and the review says so. |
| Shape of the return | A high ceiling on the same RTP has to be paid for out of the middle. Neither is wrong. Pretending it is free is. |
| Whether the feature does something | Sticky multipliers that persist across a round are a real mechanic. A bonus that is the base game with a different background is not. |
| Cost of entry | A 10p minimum on a game with a proper feature round is worth more to most readers than a headline number they will never see. |
Roughly, an 8 means the game is well built and honest about itself. A 7 means it works and there is something about it worth knowing before you play. Below 6 means we would rather you played something else, and the review will say which.
Nothing here has been given a 9 or a 10, and we would like to keep it that way until something earns it.
Where we compare, we compare properly
The most useful reviews on this site are the ones where two versions of the same game exist, because that is the only situation where a fair comparison is possible at all.
Sugar Rush and Sugar Rush 1000 have the same grid, the same cluster rule, the same symbol paytable, the same bet range and the same free spin triggers. Three numbers differ. Both games’ rules screens were read on the same afternoon so that the comparison came from two sources of the same kind, and the write up is mostly about what those three numbers cost you elsewhere.
That is worth more than a hundred pages of adjectives, and it is the direction we want to take the site.
What goes wrong, and what we do about it
Two things will make pages here wrong over time, and both are worth admitting up front.
Studios update builds without announcing it. A figure that was right in August can be wrong by December, and we will not always notice.
And the same game is supplied to different operators in different RTP configurations. The number on the page is the number in the build that was loaded. It is not a promise about the build you will meet at a particular casino, which is exactly why every review tells you to open the rules screen yourself. It takes two taps. The whole business is explained in what a slot’s three numbers actually tell you.
When something here is wrong, we want to hear about it. Corrections go to the front of the queue at [email protected], and if you tell us what a game’s rules screen says we will check it and change the page. The date at the top of each review is the date the figures were last verified, so you can always see how stale a page is.
Why any of this matters
Slots are designed to return less than they take. Nothing on this site changes that, and no review, score or strategy ever will.
What a review can do is stop you being misled about which game you are choosing and why. That is a small thing, but it is a real one, and it is the only claim being made here. If a page ever reads like an advert, tell us and we will fix it.