Our verdict
5.9/10Fine as a free, social slots app and poor value as a place to spend. Reviewers report 500,000 sign-up coins and several daily top-ups, so playing without paying is realistic. But the graphics are dated, the library is small and no coin has cash value, so every pack is money spent on spins that return nothing.
Best for: Casual players who want free social slots with friends
What we liked
- 500,000 free coins reported at sign-up
- Daily Wheel, bonus vaults and log-in rewards
- Clubs, leaderboards and friend features
- App Store rating of 4.5 from 236,000 ratings
What held it back
- Coins can never be redeemed for cash or prizes
- Dated graphics and a poorly optimised desktop site
- Small in-house library, about 90 games by one count
- Packs from $1.99 to $9.99 push repeat spending
Key facts
- Publisher
- Product Madness (Aristocrat)
- Launched
- 2009
- Price
- Free with in-app purchases
- Sign-up grant
- 500,000 coins (Casino.org)
- Cheapest pack
- $1.99 for 9,000,000 coins
- First-purchase deal
- $9.99 for 18,000,000 coins
- Library
- About 90 games (Casino.org); other counts higher
- VIP
- 15 tiers
- Age rating
- 18+ on the App Store
- Cash value
- None: coins cannot be redeemed
Big Fish Casino is a game, not a casino, and it is best judged as one. Coins have no cash value, nothing you win can be redeemed, and the only thing you can lose is the money you choose to spend. If you keep it at zero, it is a passable time-killer. If you start buying packs, you are paying for entertainment that gives nothing back.
What the official page tells you, and what it leaves out
Product Madness, part of Aristocrat, publishes the game. Its page for the title is mostly a video and a play button, with no prices, no odds and no terms.
The picture at the top of this review is that page: the heading, a video and nothing else. It says nothing about prices, odds or what happens to your balance if you stop playing.
For the facts you have to go to the store listing and to independent reviewers. We did that, and we cross-checked the two Casino.org pages for this game against each other, because they disagree on the size of the library. That disagreement tells you something too: the publisher gives you no number to hold it to.
The free route is easy to follow
Casino.org's reviewer lists a sign-up grant of 500,000 coins, then a daily log-in bonus, a Daily Wheel and bonus vaults that top the balance up through the day. Facebook posts offer more, and Instagram giveaways reach up to 1,000,000 coins on Fridays. Inviting a friend pays 1,000 coins a day each, capped at 25,000.
The reviewer says they kept playing for weeks without feeling pushed to buy. That fits how this genre works: the free drip is enough for low stakes and runs dry quickly if you raise your bet.
The social club is the best part
On the App Store the game is rated 4.5 from 236,000 ratings, with an 18+ age rating. The listing's own pitch is the club: join one or form your own, finish daily challenges, send gifts, chat and compete in club tournaments.
Casino.org adds friends, status posts and leaderboards. That social layer is what separates this from a plain slot app, and it is why people stay for years. It is also why the one-star reviews on that same page exist: a handful of long-time players describe being stuck at one level unless they pay.
The coin prices, in numbers
The numbers reported are these:
Cheapest pack: $1.99 for 9,000,000 coins.
First purchase deal: $9.99 for 18,000,000 coins.
A 15-tier VIP programme that raises purchase multipliers and daily prizes.
Per coin these look generous, and a low bet stretches them far. The trouble is what the coins buy. They cannot be redeemed for anything, unlike a sweepstakes site, so every dollar goes to more spins and nothing else. Casino.org's tester says the value is on par with the best of the genre; our objection is to the category, not the price list.
Dated, and clunky on a desktop
Casino.org's reviewer calls the graphics dated and the desktop site poorly optimised, though the iOS and Android apps run smoothly. The in-house library is also small: one Casino.org page counts about 90 games, another says more than 500 with additions weekly. Treat the lower number as the one that matters for variety.
Support is a plus. Casino.org lists 24/7 live chat, email and phone.
The older Casino.org page, which dates the game to 2009, says it is one of the largest social casinos in the world and runs on proprietary Big Fish Games software. Age matters here. A game this old carries the look of an earlier era of mobile design, and Casino.org's reviewer says as much about the visuals.
Decide your budget before you open the app, and treat it as the price of a night out. If a pack tempts you after a bad run of spins, that is the moment to close the app.
Who should install it
Install it if you want a free, social slot app and can treat the coins as play money. Skip it if you want any chance of a payout: sweepstakes sites like Pulsz at least offer prize redemptions. And if you notice you are buying packs to chase a bigger win, stop. Spending on this game is spending on entertainment, and the house edge never pays you back.