Mega Casino

Mega Casino Review

Mega Casino UK are quite well established now, having been founded in 2012. They’ve got all the licensing you might want to see and come from a very well-known and big European casino company.

They also have a great bit of marketing because they’ve made a millionaire. It’s going back a bit now, but in August 2018 a player won over £1.5 million on the Major Millions progressive jackpot game at the casino. That they did it on the second day of their membership only makes for a better story for the Mega Casino marketing people, and that, no doubt is why the tale is still told on their front page.

If that player is still playing at the site – we do wonder about big prize winners who continue to play slots, like lotto millionaires who still buy a change-your-life dream after they’ve won a change-your-life dream – they would see a site that still focuses on the same things.

That’s fairly simple, functional, and bright and colourful design, with the main focus being on absolutely huge numbers of games!

You may recognise the style. Skill On Net are the company who run Mega Casino, and they’re behind a huge number of European casino sites. They offer white label and turnkey services. What this means is that Skill on Net produce unbranded casino sites and have the facilities to run them, and they sell these services to clients who brand the sites and they run them in a sort of partnership – it’s a bit like a restaurant franchise, though in this case the big brand (the McDonald’s) is missing from the front door.

The industry audit site that we trust tells us that Mega Casino has over 1,500 games. That means you’re not going to struggle to find your favourites here, or to discover new games that you might learn to love.

The site makes cashing up your account pretty easy too, taking most of the payment methods that are popular in today’s UK online casino market. And we’re happy to see a load of security, safety, and customer support infrastructure in place and looking good.

So Mega is big, actually living up to its name, but is it a big spin you should try?

Let’s have a look in this Mega Casino review!

Mega Casino Pros and Cons

My mother tells me I’m perfect. But I know she’s lying – not much though! – nobody’s perfect, and no site is perfect.

Let’s take a look at the shiny and new at Mega Casino and also the hidden rusty bits!

Pros

1 – It’s Legal, Legitimate, and Safe!

This is always the first thing we check at a casino site. Licensing is the main tool to keep players safe in a load of ways. That includes fair games that have been audited and tested, as well as the supply of at least some safe gambling advice, and the provision of tools to help you if you get in trouble with your gambling.

Never ever play at a site that is not licensed by the UK Gambling Commission. That licence should be shown on the site’s front page, and there should be a link on it for you to check. We’ve done that and can tell you that Skill On Net has a licence for remote gambling and there are no sanctions on the licence – always a good sign. The licence also confirms that Skill on Net runs dozens of its own sites and licenses out dozens of white label sites.

We can also see the safe-gambling advice required on the front page, and an address for the business. All are safe and legitimate!

2 – All those games!

The number of games at Mega Casino is well worth reporting. Hundreds of games is par for the course these days, but going over 1,000 games is a landmark. And 1,500 is another landmark!

The mainstay of the industry remains slots, and at this Skill on Net site you’ll find page after page of them, coming from some great providers: nearly 100 of them, including NetEnt, Play n GO, and more, and all the top titles like Wolf Gold, Rich Wilde and the Book of Dead, Gonzo’s Quest, and Starburst.

3 – A great live casino

Slots are the mainstay, but live casino is the cutting edge. Every site must have a live casino operation in 2020.

This new way of playing is, in fact, the oldest way of playing because it is a live game with a croupier or dealer – the only difference being the internet connection that connects the player to the gaming room.

Mega Casino has a live casino, and the games come from the best providers, notably Evolution and NetEnt. We’re a UK site, but if you want to play in a variety of European languages, Mega Casino is licensed in a number of European jurisdictions and has live games in a number of languages.

4 – 24/7 Support

Casino support is like a belt. Most of the time you don’t want to know that it’s there, but you would know if it wasn’t there when you needed it.

There’s no reason to suspect that Mega Casino customers will need help more than any other casino players – though their massive jackpot winner contacted support multiple times to confirm his prize – if they do they have a good range of options and they’re available (in English) on a 24/7 basis.

Cons

Let’s go over to the dark side.

1 – White label vision

Sites like Mega Casino UK are issued out of the box to the people who run them. They run really well and are functional, but the fact is that you’re likely to see through the branding to the site underneath and if you do you will find you’re getting a very similar experience to a number of other sites. Nothing wrong with that in a way, but if novelty is your thing then you’re not going to find it at Mega Casino

2 – Heavy Marketing

Most sites simply operate when you turn up to take a look, but Mega Casino shows you a load of marketing information. It’s all useful stuff in its way, but these days it’s enough to just show us the site and let that do the talking.

Mega Casino Games and Software

The massive 1,500+ collection of games would take you a lifetime to get through. Getting to what you want is dependent on the site doing a good job of classifying and arranging their titles so you know where to look for the titles you like, and how to discover the games that interest you.

This is a big job for Mega Casino, so let’s see how they do:

Mega Casino Slots

Slots are everywhere in Mega Casino. Normally here we would go through a number of categories of listing slots, but that’s not so easy at Mega Casino, where slots are really listed in quite a haphazard way.

That’s not to say that there aren’t a lot of them, however, and that you won’t get offered games that you want to play based on your history and so on.

Among the Mega Casino slots the site shows off are:

Fishin’ Frenzy, Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home, Rainbow Riches Leprechaun’s Gold, Slingo Rainbow Riches, Rich Wilde and the Book of Dead, Deco Diamonds, 8th Wonder, and Wild Toro.

And that’s just for starters. You’re getting the full range here: new release Mega Casino slots, classic slots, character slots, and retro slot games.

The company does list its favourite providers, and they are:

NetEnt, Microgaming, Williams Interactive, Play’n GO, Yggdrasil, The Stars Group, and Aristocrat.

Progressive Jackpot Slots at Mega Casino

With a big progressive win on their front page, from Major Millions, one of the legends of the progressive slots scene, Mega Casino has to have a good collection of these.

You just need to select the “jackpots” tab from a drop-down menu to check them out and the nearly £30 million-worth of prizes up for grabs.

At the top of the sites, progressive slots charts are: Tiki Fruits, Piggy Pirates, Masquerade, Wild Circus, Fortune Charm, Totem Lightning Power Reels, Gemtastic, and Genie Jackpots.

You’ll also find the big favourites of the progressive jackpots world like Mega Moolah, and of course Major Millions here.

Roulette

As well as slots, Mega Casino also hosts more than 100 casino table games. We’ll cover the live games later in our review and here we’re looking at the most popular table games.

Roulette remains the game that most players want to play in the casino, and there’s a good selection from great providers at Mega Casino.

The top titles are:

American Roulette Pro, French Roulette Pro Special, Roulette Machine, European Roulette, and American Roulette Machine.

Again, you’re seeing all the popular variants on the game, and as you dig deeper in to the games list you’ll find a lot more variety in style of play and a betting range to suit your pocket (and please remember to always play safely with money you can afford to lose).

Blackjack

Blackjack has a winning mix of simplicity and sophistication that makes it the most popular casino card game of all. It’s also good value and offers a chance to use a certain amount of strategy and skill. Some of the world’s most famous casino wins have come at the blackjack table.

The simulators are fired up and ready to take your chips at Mega Casino, where you can play the likes of:

Blackjack, Blackjack Perfect Pairs/21 + 3, Hi-Lo Blackjack, Blackjack Turbo, and many more.

Video Poker

Video poker is underrated and underreported in the online casino world. All slot games have their roots in this game, which was automated and stuck on reels to offer a poker game you could play on your own.

And we think one of the reasons it is underreported is because it is the best value in the casino! Check out the RTP figures on video poker games and you’ll almost always find a better return than on any slot!

At Mega Casino UK, there’s a good selection, covering all the popular variations on video poker. This is not a poker room, and you’ll need to look elsewhere for live player-on-player games, but you can play:

Joker Poker, Jacks or Better, Deuces Wild, Aces and Faces, and 2 Ways Royal. There are a load more titles too.

Mega Casino Bonuses

Bonuses are a standard issue these days. They’re so common – and under such scrutiny – that some sites even try to stand out by advertising the fact that they don’t have bonuses.

That’s because bonuses are double-edged swords. Casinos want to succeed – they are businesses – and businesses don’t give stuff away unless it benefits them.

You need to understand that and weight that up as you consider bonuses, and you need to consider whether you should accept them or not – a way of thinking that is antithetical to most casino marketing.

Mega Casino Welcome Bonus

The welcome bonus is the biggest panel on the front page of most casinos.

At Mega Casino the offer is (this is correct as we write, please remember that these offers change and may not be available at all times, in all territories, and to all customers): “100% up to £50 and 25 free spins.”

That’s a not untypical offer, though the figures are a little lower than at some sites. Let’s have a look at what it actually means for the player.

First of all it’s a deposit bonus, you need to use a code to activate it, and your free spins come on the game Ninja Master.

Now the small print.

This is the general bonus policy for the casino:

  • There is a wagering requirement (sometimes called playthrough) of 60-times bonus amount and free spins winnings on your bonus. You must complete this requirement within 60 days.
  • The maximum bet that can be made to pay off this wagering requirement is either 10% of the amount of the bonus or £5. The limit is £1 if you made your deposit with Neteller or Skrill.
  • The maximum you can withdraw from any bonus or bonus related winnings is £100 or double the bonus, whichever is larger.
  • Only bets made on slots or scratch games count towards a wagering requirement. Some games only contribute 10% of the value of the money bet on them towards the wagering requirement. Some games only contribute 50% of wagers.

Already you can see that a welcome bonus is a pretty good deal for a casino.

Let’s say you deposit £10 and you get a £10 bonus. Before you can touch any money you win with that bonus you have to wager £600 within 30 days. And because games might be contributing only 10% of their value to this figure that could be as high as £6,000.

All of this is fine, it is fully explained on the site and it is standard across the industry, but it is important that players understand how it works.

VIP Schemes and Loyalty Bonuses at Mega Casino

Pretty much every casino has a loyalty scheme of some sort or rewards VIP players. Recent research has shown that VIP players contribute disproportionately to casino profits, so be aware that becoming one comes with costs, whatever a casino site might tell you.

The schemes are both branded together as the VIP Lounge at Mega Casino.

You’re offered: cashback on all bets; bonuses as you move up the levels of the scheme, personal account management in the VIP level, invitations to special events and exclusive promotions, more bonus offers.

The company’s bonus policy also gives some special status to VIP or very loyal players.

VIP Schemes typically operate by invitation.

Mega Live Casino

Get your tuxedo or gown on and head to the green baize! Or stay in your pyjamas – that’s the attraction of live casino games via video link!

Mega Casino has a big selection of live casino games, and they come from the two top operators in the business, Evolution Gaming and NetEnt.

There are some things you need to keep in mind when playing live casino games: minimum bet levels are usually higher to meet the costs of employing staff; you should always treat staff with the utmost respect; there is no demo or free mode, so get to know a game before you start, and you should not make gambling decisions based on a perceived relationship with a member of casino staff.

It’s also the case that not all live casino games are available at all times, that many are limited to VIP players or players at certain levels of a loyalty scheme, and most have limited seating at tables.

Mega Casino offers the full range of games from Evolution Gaming and NetEnt in:

  • Live Roulette,
  • Live Blackjack,
  • Baccarat Live, and
  • Live Poker.

You should expect more games to be added to this list in time.

Mega Casino App & Mobile Casino

The majority of web traffic now comes on mobile devices. So every casino site worth its salt needs to have a good mobile offering. The vast majority of games are now available in responsive mobile versions that pick up what your device is and deliver the best version to you.

Mega Casino has a responsive mobile website that works on all mobile devices. We cannot find a Mega Casino app for this site.

Banking

There is a good variety of payment options at Mega Casino.

This is a list that you should expect to expand, but at the moment the website includes these options:

Visa, MasterCard, paysafecard, PayPal, Trustly, Skrill, Payz, Sofort, Neteller, and bank transfer.

Customer Support

UK customers can enjoy 24/7, English-language customer support from Mega Casino. Your first port of call will be the company’s FAQ, which is a decent document, with a lot of information. It’s also worth exploring a site’s terms and conditions (and the instructions on every game you play), but we realise we’re singing a song that no-one wants to hear with this!

Customer support can be found by:

Emailing: [email protected].

This is OK, but most sites now offer a live chat option and a phone number.

There is some good advice on safe gambling and responsible gaming at the site and that is also worthy of your time and attention.

The Final Verdict

We had a good time checking out Mega Casino UK for you. It’s a site that definitely lives up to its simple name and delivers what you would expect from taking a quick look at it: it is very big and it has a huge selection of games!

There are a couple of things we would like to change at Mega Casino. We’d add more help options. We’d reduce the amount of written content that feels like spam when you’re touring the site (though we understand the marketing rationale behind all this – it’s what we do, after all!); and we’d offer a finer, more granular way of listing games to make finding titles easier for tourists.

But beyond that everything is great. There are over 1,500 slots from nearly 100 providers here. That’s one of the biggest selections on the market and it’s bound to keep even a hard-core reel-head happy and busy for a long time.

The live casino is also mega, with a huge selection of tables playing your favourite games and delivered by the best developers in the business, NetEnt and Evolution Gaming.

It doesn’t stop there either, and the video poker selection is also good, plus there are casino simulators of pretty much every popular table game too.

The bonuses come with a hefty wagering requirement, so remember to factor that into your thinking – basically, you should never really consider a bonus as a financial thing, but as a way to check out a site – as you sign up. The loyalty scheme promises good things, but more information would be nice.

As a huge collection of games, Mega UK Casino can’t be beaten and is one of the best sites of its kind in the UK casino market.

Joslyn Ferguson

Casino Reviewer and Chief Editor

Joslyn Ferguson is our casino reviewer and chief editor. She has 8 years of writing experience in the online gambling industry and makes sure all of our reviews are accurate and unbiased.