Our Rating System

Written by: Filip Gromovic Reviewed by: Nashon Khamala

Here at FreeSlots99, you’ll not only be able to find more than 28,000 free slots to try but also useful reviews on the latest releases and operators in the industry. We pride in our review system being unbiased, fair and foremost player-oriented to give you firsthand experience and pieces of advice. 

In this guide, we’ll lead you through our main criteria and review metrics to show you how we do it.

Our Rating System

FreeSlots99 aims to be your one-stop-shop for anything slot and casino-related, and our recommendations come from real playing experiences impressions. Sure, you might not like a certain game or two that we’ve described as great but it’s not about personal preferences here.

We’re trying to protect our readers and fellow players from accessing shady casinos or spending their money playing games that are simply not worth your attention. How can we achieve that, you may wonder? Well, our rating system is completely based on detailed reviews, using our platform to play free games, as well as testing online casino operators ourselves to give you firsthand takes.

Got a new game you’d like to play? We’ll do at least 1,000 spins to see how it works and whether the RTP and features align with what is stated by the provider. If you want to see the value of a certain casino operator, then we’ll join ourselves and create real accounts to see how things will unfold. 

Our review process has distinctive steps that we take to evaluate games and casinos, focusing on safety, transparency and reliability for players. We’ve heard too many horror stories over long years in the industry. So we’re trying to do better for our readers by recommending the good sites and games and blacklisting the shady ones.

How We Rate Casinos and Slots

If you’re not sure about trusting everything you read online about new casinos and games, we applaud you. Our team is made of players just like yourself, and we’ve had lots of negative experiences with online reviews. That’s why we’ve come up with a unique system of making a final verdict on operators and their products that is factual-based and easy to verify. Here’s how we do it:


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We check the licenses and permits

From our experience, as long as a site or a provider has a proper license, you’ll have a 50% less chance of getting scammed. We say 50% since you can never be too sure but licenses are a good place to start. Of course, it goes the same for gaming software where we look for fairness test results conducted by eCOGRA.

We judge from our experience

As we mentioned, we can’t guarantee that your experience playing on the site will match ours. But at least we have a much better perspective on the site or a game if we play for ourselves and test the quirks and features.

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We explore T&Cs and rules of play

Besides the licenses, we can only ensure maximum player safety by going over the T&Cs of online casinos and their offers, as well as reading the rules of casino games. This way, we can warn you about any fine print that you might not notice yourself, so you can come at it prepared.

We review betting options

Based on our real gaming experiences, we can evaluate the betting options and features of both casinos and their releases to see if they align with what you were promised off the bat.


Our Expert Review Team

We know that it’s easier to trust someone when you know them, so we invite you to meet our expert team! It consists of online casino review experts with more than a decade of experience in the niche, having tested thousands of online casinos and slots.

Of course, we are always looking to further improve. So you can benefit from our knowledge and expertise. We have separate reviewers for casino website reviews and online games, and they all specialize in their particular niche to bring you the most exceptional experience by reading our findings.

Open and Honest

If you’re wondering about the legitimacy of our information, we can only say that we always double-check everything and base our reviews on our personal experiences. From what we’ve learned over the years, it helped us to get the player’s perspective in your shoes, as we were all (and still are) online casino enthusiasts. 

That makes us qualified enough to bring you unbiased reviews and firsthand gaming takes, and we aren’t bound by any partnership agreements that would blur our views of the sites and releases. We’re always trying to give you our honest takes from your perspective as a player, and hopefully that results in a better gaming experience on your end.

Keeping Players Safe from Bad Casinos

Last but not least, we’re constantly trying to warn our readers about shady casinos that are not worth your time and money. Sadly, the industry is currently filled with these, as regulatory bodies can’t keep up with a massive output of titles and operators.

So, we’ll do our best to create blacklists where we’ll place sites that endanger your security or fairness in any way. We’ll also keep these important lists updated at all times to ensure that you’re having the best possible experience without having to worry about your safety while playing.

FAQ

How do FreeSlots99 Experts Rate Online Casinos?
We rate online casinos by using our firsthand experience and knowledge as our experts have decades of experience reviewing different casinos and games under their belt. We have experts for online slots, operator sites and everything in between, each specializing within their own branches of the team and contributing to transparent and unbiased reviews.
Why should I trust casino reviews on this platform?
You can trust our reviews since we’ve based all of them on our real gaming experiences and encounters with gambling sites and their releases. We spend hours testing new platforms and titles every day. So you can rest assured that we’ll give you an unbiased take.
Where can I read trustworthy slot reviews?
You can read honest casino and game reviews at FreeSlots99. If you don’t want to take our word for it, it’s not a problem – you can always get your firsthand impressions by visiting our platform and trying out new slots for free!
How to properly rate online casinos and games?
To properly evaluate online casinos and releases, it’s vital to stick to some review metrics that our team is doing. For instance, you need to check the licenses and software fairness tests, as well as registration details and transparency. You can also see what other players have to say by visiting our community and joining us on Twitter or YouTube.
Filip Gromovic Writer at FreeSlots99
Filip Gromovic

Filip Gromovic is a senior slots reviewer here at FreeSlots99 with over five years of experience evaluating the latest drops in the world of iGaming.
Being a slot fan himself, Filip approaches slot ratings just the way we like it – professionally, but also from a player’s standpoint.
That enables him to give his unbiased take on the slot’s features, gameplay and design, while only recommending top-tier releases to our readers.
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Nashon Khamala Reviewer at FreeSlots99
Nashon Khamala

Having served FreeSlots99 for more than 5 years as a senior content editor and reviewer, Nashon Khamala has extensive knowledge in game slots and iGaming.
His membership in the Editorial Freelancers Association helps him deliver content that reaches both editorial excellence standards and an engaging information level.
By using his expertise in slots games combined with player-focused analysis, Nashon delivers a professional evaluation of slot features and player experiences in his reviews.
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