Vikingspin Casino

Vikingspin Casino Review

Vikings have never been more popular – whether it’s TV shows like the appropriately named “Vikings” or blockbuster videogames like “Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla”, it seems like they’re all over pop culture! With that in mind, it’s really no surprise that Play and Fun World N.V. have decided to dedicate an entire online casino to our favorite conquerors/settlers!

But is that casino truly worthy of the Viking name? What’s what we at casinoaustraliaonline.net set out to find out by thoroughly reviewing every single aspect of the website. We started with, naturally, the games and bonuses, and then looked at less commonly examined areas like its payment methods and safety. Once we were done, we compiled all of our findings into the very review you’re reading right now!

So, is Vikingspin Casino worthy of drinking mead with Odin in Asgard, or does it deserve to burn in the deepest pit of Muspelheim?

Bonuses

Welcome Bonus – 250% Match up to AU$3,000

Right off the bat, we’re encountering a lot of really suspicious things at Vikingspin Casino. For instance: as far as we can tell, the site doesn’t have a promotions page of any sort. It has a page dedicated to the bonus terms of service, which we examined in order to outline its information here for you, but not a dedicated place where all of the bonuses are outlined.

Which brings us to our second point: it doesn’t seem like there are any other bonuses. There are two separate pages outlining bonus terms and conditions, and yet only one bonus you can actually claim – the welcome offer. And once you use it up, that’s it. No reload bonuses, no VIP program, not even a welcome package with multiple offers. One, singular bonus. Better savor it, right?

And savor it you will, because this bonus is BIG. Suspiciously big. Call it our third point, but you’ll get a 250% match here – which is absolutely gigantic compared to most other online casinos, which will only give you between 100% and 150% if they’re feeling particularly generous. The maximum total amount, AU$3,000, isn’t that big, but it’s definitely weird how that amount doesn’t change regardless of which currency you’re using.

After all, as of the time of writing 1 American dollar equals AU$1.50, which means that you’re technically getting half as much money when depositing with American dollars over Australian dollars. It’s pretty weird, most online casinos account for that discrepancy by giving you a bonus in AU$ that’s about 1.5 bigger than its American counterpart.

With all that said, what are the actual terms of service? Once you make a qualifying deposit, you’ll have 7 days to wager through your bonus cash x40 times. What’s interesting is that the Terms of Service for the bonus make mention of free spins, giving a list of qualifying games and wagering requirements for their winnings, and yet the actual bonus doesn’t seem include any amount of spins in it.

In all honesty, this entire bonus reeks of incompetence. While generous on the surface, we’d be shocked if you even receive it, let alone are able to withdraw it.

Games

Vikingspin Casino sure lives up to its name – not because it’s worthy of the Vikings or anything cool like that, but because “spinning” is all you can ever do here. That’s right: it exclusively offers slot games. No live casino, no table games, no bingo, no sports betting, nothing except rows upon rows of pokies.

Oh, we’re not kidding: just like it didn’t have a promotions page, Vikingspin also lacks a proper games page. Instead, all of its pokies have been spat out straight onto its home page, with no rhyme or reason. You can employ some basic filters (such as checking a particular provider’s games or sorting them in alphabetical order or by most recently added), but if you were hoping to check for jackpots or Megaways slots, you’re setting your expectations way too high.

Pokies

Now, in theory, there is nothing wrong with an online casino that focuses on just pokies – in fact, it’s better to be a master of one than a jack of all trades, right? Well, that would imply that Vikingspin Casino has actually mastered its pokies, and the truth is that it… hasn’t. Not by a long shot.

For starters, the casino advertises more than 5,000 games – and we are seriously doubting that claim, even if its atrocious design (where you can’t actually view all the games, just a portion of them and then click on “View More” to get the next portion) is preventing us from actually counting them. But even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and say that Vikinspin does, in fact, have 5,000 games somewhere, it sure as hell doesn’t in Australia. Not legally, at least.

You see, not all providers have made their games available globally. Some (most famously NetEnt, but also others like Nolimit City), have chosen not to participate in the Australian market. As such, many online casinos that offer those games in general will hide them from Aussie players, and the ones that don’t will display an error message if you try to play them. Pretty simple!

Vikingspin Casino offers plenty of games from these providers, and they’re all perfectly playable by Australians. But how could that be? Have these companies decided to just make an exception out of nowhere? The answer is likely much more simple: it’s very possible that these games are fake, and made to resemble the original ones as close as possible while being developed and maintained by entirely separate companies.

You might be thinking “that’s great, it means I can play games that aren’t usually available here”, but trust us, you don’t want to be wasting your money on pokies that are untrustworthy. The win rates of fake games are significantly smaller, and the house edge much higher. Casinos like Vikingspin wouldn’t be employing fake games as opposed to their real alternatives if they didn’t benefit, after all!

Live casino

As mentioned previously, Vikingspin Casino doesn’t have any live games – at least not as of the time of writing. While normally this wouldn’t be much of an issue, it also lacks any non-live tables, which is a problem for those of you who would much rather play cards than spin reels, or even would just prefer to play a few hands of blackjack in between hours spent with pokies. Unfortunately, if you’re the kind of player who wants to play anything at all except for slot games, then this isn’t the site for you.

Deposits & Withdrawals

It probably shouldn’t surprise you much by this point that we aren’t the biggest fans of Vikingspin Casino. And yet, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and in this case, we can’t pretend like it doesn’t offer a pretty impressive selection of payment methods. In fact, we can practically guarantee that you’ll be able to deposit using nearly any method you like.

Credit cards are present, obviously – and so is bank transfer, either via normal means (for example, through your bank’s app) or through PayID. In terms of e-wallets, you can get not only the ones that are pretty common at online casinos (like Neteller, Skrill, and eZeeWallet), but also Google Pay and Apple Pay, both of which are pretty great to see! In terms of pre-paid vouchers, sadly Neosurf isn’t available, but you can still use CashtoCode if you’re so inclined.

The options are a tiny bit more limited when it comes to crypto, but there’s no need to worry, there are still enough to satisfy your average crypto enthusiast! You can deposit using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Tether, and Litecoin, and even in the absence of cryptos like Dogecoin or Solara, we struggle to believe that most would be disappointed by the choices. You can even buy crypto with your credit card via Sofort if you want to deposit that way!

Withdrawal time

With so many different ways to deposit, it stands to reason that the withdrawal times will also vary quite a bit. Admittedly, withdrawing via bank transfer or credit card will likely be the most convenient method for most – but at the same time, it’ll also be the slowest, taking up to 10 days for your winnings to arrive in your account. Not great, doubly so when you consider the fact that if you withdraw via bank transfer your minimum withdrawal jumps all the way up to AU$100.

So, what are your alternatives? Well, crypto and e-wallets are both very good options that should, theoretically, lead to much faster withdrawals. We say “theoretically” because we can’t actually guarantee that the casino will dispatch any winnings whatsoever, but if it does, you’re bound to receive them within only a few days. If speed is something you’re concerned about, then it’s definitely worth considering a withdrawal via Neteller or Ethereum!

VIP Program

As we mentioned earlier, Vikingspin Casino doesn’t appear to have any promotions aside from its welcome bonus – which is deeply disappointing. Typically, a welcome bonus serves to get a player through the door, while a series of smaller offers – be that in the form of reload bonuses or a VIP program – is used to keep them there. But since neither of those is available at Vikingspin Casino, the big question of “what precisely prevents players from jumping ship to another casino that offers them a big bonus” will, sadly, remain unanswered.

Tournaments

In theory, there’s nothing wrong with an online casino dedicating itself fully to pokies – we’ve seen and reviewed plenty of sites that only offer pokies, but do so in a very engaging and creative way. Vikingspin Casino is not one of them, and you can see their lack of effort right away just from the fact that they don’t offer a single tournament. Considering the fact that tournaments are one of the most important things for any slot-based online casino to have, you can draw quite a few conclusions about how poorly Vikingspin Casino has been thought out. It’s like opening up a donut shop where none of the donuts have filling – sure, it’s perfectly valid to do that, just don’t be too surprised when most people stop dropping by!

Verification

For an online casino that doesn’t even have a license (we’ll get into that later, don’t worry), Vikingspin sure has a whole lot of verification procedures! For example, it’s one of the few casino sites that will verify your deposit once you make it, and will revoke your welcome bonus if you fail that verification. What exactly it entails, or what your role in it is, well… Those secrets were not shared with us by the Terms of Conditions. But surely Vikingspin wouldn’t just cancel your bonus if you start winning too much with it, right?

Moving on from that, there’s also the verification you need to complete when you attempt a withdrawal for the first time. This is pretty unavoidable no matter which casino you’re using, as it’s imposed by payment providers – and they’re not the type of companies you want to anger. To complete it, you’ll need to provide a few personal documents such as a proof of address and a form of ID, but overall, it shouldn’t be something particulalry complicated. Whether you actually want to provide sensitive information to a potentially unsafe site is a decision you’ll have to make on your own.

Is Vikingspin Casino Legit & safe?

The short answer is “no”. The long answer is that Vikingspin Casino may just be one of the most unsafe online casinos we’ve ever reviewed. It doesn’t do a single thing right! We’re starting off with the license, or lack thereof. Any experienced gambler should tell you to avoid unlicensed casinos like the plague, since they’re not only completely illegal, but also have absolutely no oversight whatsoever. And when there isn’t a parent to step in and sternly say “no”, what’s to stop the kid from stealing all your toys?

But hey, just because an online casino without a license is likely to scam you doesn’t mean it’s practically guaranteed to, right? We have to give it a benefit of the doubt! Well, we examined a lot of reviews from players who did precisely that, and not a single one of them was positive. This is extremely rare – most casinos have a decent mix between positive and negative reviews, sometimes one outweighs the other, often by a lot, but it’s rare to find one that is 100% negative. So, Vikingspin Casino has that dubious honor. You can look it up yourself if you don’t believe us, we somehow doubt it’ll have received a flood of praise in between us writing this review and you reading it!

Customer support

If you actually followed our advice and looked up the user reviews of Vikingspin Casino, you’d find one common denominator among them: “support was unresponsive”. But surely that can’t be right! Granted, Vikingspin doesn’t appear to have any live chat (which is the most common and convenient form of communication between players and casino staff members), but surely that doesn’t mean that all support is dead… Right?

Well, we decided to test that. With live chat down for the count, there are only two ways to contact support: via phone and via e-mail. The phone is a Curacao number, so calling that will incur quite the fee – thus making it a highly inconvenient way of getting support. As such, we decided to simply send Vikinigspin Casino an e-mail. It’s the most basic form of online communication, surely even in the absence of live chat they’d offer e-mail support, right? After all, their address is right there!

You can probably imagine how that went: we didn’t get any response. And keep in mind, we only wrote them with a few questions – and they still refused to answer us. Imagine if you wrote in with a far more pressing issue, like unpaid winnings!

Mobile casino

Looking at the Vikingspin Casino website through our desktop computers, we couldn’t help but feel like the interface just felt a little too… mobile. After all, a hamburger icon on the left opening up a sliding menu, big buttons in a locked bar near the top, large icons arranging all the games in a grid on the main page… All of those are things that one would expect to find in a mobile casino site.

Vikingspin Casino, however, doesn’t have a separate version for mobile. It has one version that it weirdly stretches out whenever you’re accessing it on desktop. It’s not a huge problem because most players would be accessing the site through their phones, and for that, it works okay. Nothing spectacular, okay. But just because it’s not a big problem doesn’t mean it isn’t extremely lazy and uninspired. We expect better.