Closed Bingo Sites

Bingo sites come and go, and plenty have gone. The brands below are UK bingo sites that have closed. A few folded outright; most were switched off quietly when the network running them changed hands or trimmed its line-up.

We keep them here so our old reviews stay reachable and you can see whether a name you remember is still taking players. If a site’s on this list, it isn’t. Use the A to Z to jump to a brand.

Why Do so Many Bingo Sites Close?

Most UK bingo “sites” were never standalone businesses. The large majority are white-label brands, a name and a front end sitting on top of a shared platform. Only a handful of platforms sit underneath the whole market, chiefly Playtech’s Virtue Fusion, 888’s Dragonfish, Jumpman Gaming and Broadway Gaming. The pull for a would-be operator is that the platform does the hard part, so you can launch a site under your own brand without building anything or putting much money down.

That low bar set off a rush. Between roughly 2015 and 2019, new brands launched in a flood, most through Cozy Games and a fair few through Jumpman, as small businesses lined up to put their name on a ready-made site. A lot of people gave it a go. Most of those sites eventually folded.

They tend to close in two ways. Sometimes a whole network shuts down and takes its sites with it in one go, which is what happened when Cozy Games closed its doors and its rooms disappeared for good. More often, an active network culls the brands that aren’t earning their keep. Dragonfish and Jumpman have both quietly retired sites that never found an audience, shifting whatever players were left onto stronger names.

So the brand you remember didn’t necessarily do anything wrong. Its platform simply stopped carrying it.

The Squeeze on Smaller Brands

Running a licensed gambling brand in the UK has grown steadily more expensive and more demanding. Since 2019, operators have had to verify customers before they play, check the source of large deposits, watch accounts for signs of harm, and clear their marketing against tight advertising rules. Every one of those is a cost, and it weighs heaviest on small sites with modest player numbers. For a network carrying dozens of low-traffic brands, the sums often stop adding up, so it folds those players into fewer, bigger names.

Tax has pushed the same way. Remote gaming duty, which online bingo falls under, rose from 15% to 21% back in 2019, and from April 2026 it jumps again to 40% under the November 2025 Budget. The separate 10% bingo duty, which only ever applied to bricks-and-mortar clubs, was scrapped at the same time. The relief went to the high street. Online bingo took the heavier bill, which gives networks one more reason to consolidate.

What the Squeeze Means for Players

We’ve tested hundreds of these sites over the years, and from the player’s side the direction of travel is easy to see. As tax and running costs have climbed, the money that used to go into promotions has thinned out. Ongoing offers feel it first, because they hit a site’s margin week in and week out, so operators quietly run fewer of them.

Welcome bonuses have drifted down in value as well, and the bigger loss is for regulars. Reload offers and reward promotions for existing players, once the thing that kept you loyal to a room, have grown scarcer across the board. It isn’t every site and it isn’t overnight, but stacked up over a few years the pattern is clear. You get less back now than you would have for the same play not long ago.

What Happens to Your Account When a Site Closes?

When a bingo site shuts down it normally gives notice first and points players toward a sister brand on the same network. Any real-money balance should still be withdrawable, and bonus funds usually expire with the site. If you had money on a brand that’s now on this list and never took it out, contact the operator’s support, or the network it ran on. The licence holder is responsible for returning player balances, so it’s worth chasing.

Is UK Bingo Actually in Decline?

Not significantly, but It’s consolidating. A shorter list of brands doesn’t mean fewer players; it means the same players gathered onto larger, better-funded rooms. Land-based bingo even won tax relief in the 2026 changes. The long tail of small white-label sites is thinning out, but the established operators are still trading. This page is a record of the brands that didn’t make it, not a notice for the game itself.