Simba Games Review

There are two lion-branded casinos in the UK, and no company links them. This one, Simba Games, runs on the same Skill on Net software as Mega Casino and Ice36, and it hides a very large slots library behind a homepage that still talks about pokies and Vegas. We went through the site, its terms and its app listings to see whether the roar matches the pitch.

Simba Games Key Facts

Simba Games or Simba Slots?

Search the name, and Google mixes the two up. simbaslots.com turns up on the first page for “simba games”, and our own Simba Slots review covers that one, a Jumpman Gaming site on licence 39175 with a Safari Chest welcome. Simba Games is the SkillOnNet brand on licence 39326. Different owner, different software, different bonuses, and joining one doesn’t open an account at the other.

There’s a second thing to watch for. Simba Games also runs .com, .de and .dk versions for other countries. From a UK connection, simbagames.com now forwards you to the .co.uk site, but from outside Britain, the .com loads a Malta-licensed casino priced in euros, where the welcome spins go on Thor at 60x wagering. So if you’ve read a review quoting 60x, it’s describing a site you can’t join from here. The customer-review page Google puts second for the brand name is for the Danish site too.

First Impressions

The homepage calls slot machines “the undisputed lion king of casino games” and signs off with “May the Simba be with you!”, which tells you the tone. The lion is just a mascot, and there’s no Disney connection. Anyone searching for a Lion King game is in the wrong place. This is an 18+ gambling site.

Underneath the puns, it’s a plain, dark lobby with a menu that covers slots, card and table games, live dealer, roulette, video poker, a full game list and a VIP Lounge. There’s no sportsbook anywhere on the site, so people searching for “simba games betting” won’t find football odds here.

Look past the lobby and some of the wording is showing its age. The About Us page still says you can “download for free” the software, a leftover from the days when casino clients were installed on your PC, and it promises “24/7 Customer Support” three paragraphs before the Contact page lists chat hours that end at midnight.

The No Deposit Spins

Join Simba Games via the link on this page, and you’ll get 10 free spins on Big Bass Bonanza without making a deposit. They run at 10p apiece, so the bundle comes to £1 of play, and the most you can win or withdraw from them is £100.

Before you can withdraw anything the spins win, Simba’s Bonus Policy asks you to make a deposit and play with your own money. The upside is that a first deposit of £10 or more brings the 50 Book of Dead spins below.

The First Deposit Spins

New players get 50 free spins on Book of Dead once their first deposit of £10 or more clears. The spins run at 10p apiece, so the whole bundle comes to £5 of play.

Even with the no deposit spins added, that’s a small welcome by the standards of SkillOnNet, the group behind Simba Games. Sister site Prime Slots hands out 123 Thor spins for a tenner (£12.30 of play), and most of the stable pairs its spins with a 100% match. Simba Games offers no match at all.

One thing that might confuse you. The site tells you to enter the bonus code “Start” when you deposit, but the offer terms say the spins are added automatically. Entering the code costs nothing, so we’d pop it in anyway. If the spins don’t appear, contact support before you place a bet, as Simba’s Bonus Policy advises.

Wagering and the Small Print

Anything either set of spins produces is held as bonus cash under a 10x wagering requirement, and only slots count towards it. Win £4 and you’d need to play through £40 before it becomes cash. The no deposit spins give you 30 days to finish that, and cap what they can pay out at £100.

The maximum bet while you’re clearing it is 10% of the spin winnings (never below 10p) or £5, whichever is lower. On that £4 example, your ceiling is 40p a spin. The Bonus Policy also gives free spins a 24-hour life once they’re credited.

Two rules catch people out. You can withdraw with a bonus running, but doing so cancels the whole bonus balance and anything you’ve won with it. And if you lose the bonus money before finishing the wagering, the next deposit you make marks that bonus as consumed, so you aren’t left chasing points on an empty balance.

For any other deposit offer, the default qualifying deposit in the policy is £20, not £10, unless the offer says otherwise.

Daily Picks, Tournaments and the VIP Lounge

Beyond the welcome, the promotions page has one other tile, Daily Picks and Tournaments. Daily Picks are offers chosen for your account, and the policy warns they can disappear before their timer runs out if your balance changes. Tournaments are slot leaderboards that run inside the lobby.

The VIP Lounge advertises cashback on every bet, a personal account manager and bonus funds for trying new releases, written in the shouty capitals of an older era of casino marketing. The small print is more sober. VIP status is by invitation only, depends on an assessment of your financial circumstances, and any VIP points you earn vanish if you don’t convert them within 180 days.

Slots, Live Tables and a Shelf of Lions

We counted the full game list page title by title and it runs to about 6,100 games, a touch more than the 5,932 we counted at sister site LuckyMe Slots the same way. Roughly 5,500 of them are slots, including 253 Megaways titles, 147 with “jackpot” in the name and 64 Slingo games.

Slingo gets top billing, oddly. Open the Online Slots page and the first 40 tiles are all Slingo titles (Tetris Slingo and Slingo Rainbow Riches among them) before a single ordinary reel slot appears.

Fans of the theme are well served. We found 24 slots with a lion in the title, among them 5 Lions Megaways, The Nemean Lion, Lion Gems: Hold and Win, Serengeti Lions Stellar Jackpots and Silver Lion, plus a pride of safari games like Savannah King and Diamond Safari. None of them are exclusive to Simba, but they suit a brand with a lion on the logo.

The card and table side holds around 450 games, and the live dealer page is mostly Playtech and Authentic Gaming blackjack and roulette tables, with Lightning Roulette, Immersive Roulette and Mega Fire Blaze Blackjack among them.

Why the Terms Have Bingo Rules

Here’s the odd bit for a bingo site to report. Simba Games’ terms and conditions carry a full bingo rulebook, sections 37 to 44, covering tickets, packs, progressive jackpots and interrupted games. The first line of it explains why. Those sections apply “only if a bingo product is offered”, because the same terms serve every brand on the platform.

At Simba Games, bingo isn’t offered. There are no bingo rooms and no scheduled games. What you’ll find is video bingo, six games in all, including My Bingo Hall, Thunderstruck II Video Bingo and Break da Bank Again Video Bingo. They’re instant-win games played against the software, with no caller and no other players.

For proper bingo with a caller and a chat room, Zingo Bingo is the brand in this family that runs real rooms.

Game Preview

The Simba Games App and Login

There’s a Simba Games app on both stores, published by Skill On Net Ltd. On Google Play it has been listed since April 2021, shows 1,000+ downloads and a 4.5 rating from just 22 reviews. The App Store version rates 4.8 from 17 ratings, needs iOS 15 or later and weighs in at 17MB. Those are tiny samples, so treat the stars as a first impression rather than a verdict.

The Simba Games login is the LOGIN button at the top of every page, and you’ll need to be logged in to reach live chat at all. The terms ask you to leave “remember password” unticked on any shared computer, which is sensible advice for a site that holds your card details.

Signing up triggers an automatic identity check. If that fails, you’ll be asked to upload a copy of your ID and a utility bill through the Upload Docs page in your account, and you can’t deposit or play until they’re approved. Documents sent any other way aren’t accepted.

Simba Games Deposits and Withdrawals

The site footer lists five ways to pay in at Simba Games:

• Apple Pay
• Paysafecard
• Trustly
• PayPal
• Visa or Mastercard

The minimum deposit for the welcome spins is £10. Per-method minimums and maximums aren’t published on the site. The terms say they’re listed next to each method in the cashier, and your withdrawal limit per transaction sits under “more info” on the withdrawal page.

On Simba Games withdrawal times, the stated aim is to process requests “within a few hours”. Wins of £5,000 or more, as well as jackpots, can take longer to be checked. Cards and e-wallets carry no withdrawal fee. Wire transfers cost £10 under £500 and have a £50 minimum.

Payouts run on a closed loop, so if your deposit method can’t receive money back, you’ll need to verify another one in your name first. A payout that can’t be delivered and has nowhere else to go is returned to your balance after 7 days.

Is Simba Games Safe? The Scam Claims, Checked

Nothing we found suggests Simba Games is a scam. The UK Gambling Commission’s register lists Skill On Net Limited under account 39326 with casino licensing active since 1 November 2014, simbagames.co.uk active on its domain list, and no regulatory actions against the business. That doesn’t guarantee a smooth ride, but it does mean there’s a regulator to answer to.

So where do the “scam” searches come from? Some stem from confusion with the international sites, while others relate to terms that can catch players out. Three are worth knowing before you deposit. Repeated deposits and withdrawals with little play may result in a 15% bank charge being passed on to you. Winnings may be voided if the name on your payment method does not match your account name. If you do not log in for 12 months, you may also be charged £5 a month until you return or your balance runs out.

For help, Simba Games live chat opens at 06:00 and closes at midnight GMT, and only once you’ve logged in, and email goes to support@simbagames.com. There’s no phone line. If the first answer doesn’t settle a complaint, you can ask for a manager or supervisor, and the terms promise a decision within 96 hours.

Simba Games Sister Sites

Simba Games’ own About Us page names its sister sites as Mega Casino, Ice36 and Slingo Casino. The register’s domain list for account 39326 runs to around 40 active addresses, so the family is far bigger than that. These are the relatives we’ve reviewed:

• Mega Casino
• Ice36
• Slingo
• Spin Genie
• Prime Slots
• Lord Ping
• PlayOJO

They share the lobby software and much of the rulebook, but the welcome deals differ a lot from brand to brand, and Simba’s is one of the plainer ones.

Review Verdict