ExciteWin Casino doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination with its brand name. This is an online casino with a focus on the excitement of winning. Of course, the casino always wins in the end if you play too long, but there are moments of excitement in every journey, and that’s the focus here.

Look for a slot catalog with numbers approaching 5,000 titles - each and every one of them might hold the key to that moment.  More than 70 independent and affiliated studios and providers create the games with math labs producing magic for players who enjoy a leisurely stroll and those who prefer skydiving thrills.

Owned and operated by Rabidi N.V. of Curacao the site is licensed through Master license holder, Antillephone (No. 8048/JAZ) - authorized and regulated by the government of Curacao. Payments are managed by Tilaros Limited of Cyprus.

Rabidi runs a small handful of well-received sites with various themes. Lucky Elektra, Sportaza, 5 Gringos, and 7 Signs may be the most well-known operations. All of the sites we explored are doing well with players and arbiters with no valid outstanding complaints across the brands. 

Rabidi was established in 2019 so with more than half a dozen storefronts in operation for several years we should see problems emerge by now if the operators are underfunded or ethically challenged. The good news is - no news is good news. It’s mostly quiet on the Rabidi front! One Finnish player was spinning at Boomerang and their balance disappeared. The issue was brought to the public space, the operator contacted the provider, the issue was identified, and the player’s balance was restored. The game in play was Temple Tumble from Relax Gaming.

Some promoters associate the Gammix domains, BluVegas, and CrazePlay with the site but that could be down to crossover in marketing or another reason - it could be mistaken and subsequently copied information as well. Both sites enjoy good reputations in the player community and adhere to the rules of their respective regulators, so the associations would not be negative if true.

The only complaints we have been able to locate regarding ExciteWin are not relevant in terms of operator rules or behavior. In one case the player seemed to be experiencing impulse control issues and would reverse their withdrawals before the pending time expired. They subsequently played back all of their winnings and sought to blame the operator for slow withdrawal terms. In the other case, the player with multiple accounts manipulated a bonus offer by building value up in progressive bonus features only to return to the games and trigger the bonus after their bonus balance (and wagering requirements) were expended. 

What’s important in these cases is not so much that the player was at fault in both, but how the operator responded. In the first case, they were silent, perhaps so as not to embarrass the player and in the second they clearly stated that the player had cheated by breaking the rules and they pointed out exactly how the player had tried to exploit them. A third complaint was brief and alluded to live chat not being helpful in setting up an account. The representative manually activated the account, apologized profusely, and promised to get to the bottom of the complaint right away. That was in the summer of 2019 and we haven't seen any inquiries since that time.

Visitors will find not only a huge selection of casino games but also a sportsbook. The book offers some of the hottest odds and lines in the industry and with markets covering the entire planet, there is live betting 24/7. The odds are refreshed in real-time so you always know what your stake might command in a contest.

New players and bettors are welcomed to the ExciteWin family with bonus offers in the casino or the sportsbook. And while payment methods are prolific enough to cover players in every serviced region there are also country-specific methods for places like Canada that have their own unique challenges and solutions. Customers all over the world can use popular and easily accessible cryptocurrencies to deposit and withdraw which puts visitors everywhere on level footing with each other.

While not every single game will be available in every specific location, the vast gaming catalog will almost make you forget the monopolists and regulators who might want to funnel players to one or more brands to increase their own revenues. If you can’t play a certain game it probably won’t appear in your lobby, thanks to the geolocation feature in the HTML5 framework that communicates with your secure web browser to deliver the exact same game to a handheld device in Norway as the big screen player in Canada or Finland might see. 

Game experience optimization not only refines your slots or blackjack experience, but it also works with all of the live dealer games and those streams will display in the best way possible whether you like to hold your mobile up and down or side to side, portrait, or landscape mode.

Software and Games

Unlike most hybrid sites that offer both gambling games and sports betting, the home lobby here shows it all to you when you first visit. After landing, of course, you can choose one or the other and never the two shall meet again if you don’t want them to. When you visit the promotions page you will need to choose the vertical you want, with gambling games being the default. Simply select Sport from within the promotions area to find everything from a welcome offer, to cashback, reloads, free bets, props, and sports jackpots.

When you enter the casino lobby all of the choices are laid out like comestibles on a splendid table. You can filter the games on offer by the provider or search for a type, title, or provider name. They offer one more chance to hold your hand and guide you by funneling games into internet tubes that you can open to find what shoots through the ethers and lands before you. The categories are as follows:

• Top 
• New
• Popular
• Slots
• Live
• Table games
• Jackpots
• All games

The page opens with NEW as the default and all of the games at the top of the page were indeed new to me. If you only play once per week or so, it might be like opening a new casino every time you visit. 

Of course, not every new game will appear here. The content is well-curated and even though there are more than 70 providers feeding the library, not every new title will be picked up. As far as the internet slots universe in toto, some months we have counted about 200 new titles over the previous 30 days - not even the most prolific game curator will be plugging in 10 new games per day, 5 days per week indiscriminately.

As of the time of this review, we count 4,416 slot titles, in addition to live and random number generator-served games like 3D Baccarat, American Roulette, Classic Blackjack Multihand, Dragon Tiger, Jacks or Better, Sic Bo in the RNG suite, and Andar Bahar, Bet on Poker, Lightning Dice, Lottery, Lucky 6, and Wheel of Fortune, and so on in the live games suite.

Popular games at and near the top of the list here when we visited included Book of Gods III, Primal Hunt, DeadMan’s Trail, Book of Anunnaki Hyper-Jump (WOW Felix is simply killing it these days), Divine Fortune, and Sweet Bonanza with Drops & Wins.

This reviewer is a bit jaded and cynical especially when I don’t have data to quell my suspicions but I didn’t get that old familiar feeling that the operator was simply push-marketing their highest-grossing games and calling them “popular”. By all means - “feature” whichever games you want to push but please don’t try to trick the player! I’m glad to say these all looked legitimate and any that might eventually slip down the ladder of most-loved - like Black Wolf, Ghost of Dead, or Book of Fruits could be enjoying high traffic right now because they are currently new. 

Of course, I don’t assume that all or even most other players will like the same games I like, but I do read a lot and spend many hours every day immersed in the industry so I might have a better gut feel for some of these things than someone who simply dabbles a couple of times a week for profit or pleasure - but without hard data, I’ll always let you know if something is just a hunch.

These look like popular games.

Note: All games save live dealer streams and possibly some progressive titles are available for free play without the need to register an account. If you can access the site, you can play games in demo mode.

Slots 

We had kind of hoped that after opening such a broadly named category as ‘slots’ that we’d find some tools to refine a search. It’s okay that we can’t go granular and find the lowest volatility games with the highest theoretical return to player percentages (RTP) under a filter for ‘random jackpots. We get it, but there is simply no way to filter, winnow, refine, and sort once you enter this category. The player is at the mercy of the default display or personal impulse triggers to choose a game.

The good news in that respect is that this catalog is highly curated and well-sorted. Here, I don’t care much about how they have arrived at the placement on the page, I like what I see. There are 30 game icons/thumbnails on the page with my current screen size and resolution and I genuinely want to play 10 out of the first 12 shown before even scrolling further. 

In fact, I only see 4 games that I always pass on and one currently new title from Quickspin that didn’t particularly thrill me based on the mini splash screen icon - Reno 7’s. Not willing to judge a Quickspin game by its cover, I had to try it. Hey, I love a proper 3-reel slot and this one actually checks all the boxes for me. It has a wheel spin bonus triggered by only 2 icons and that turns into a wheel spin and 15 free games if you land all three. 

Jackpots

This section of the site is simply bursting with jackpot slots. Some that you see toward the top of the page are well-known titles like NetEnt's Divine Fortune and Age of the Gods titles from Playtech. But there’s a lot more here. It seems the vast majority of them are EGT progressives. EGT has the ability to simply plug their jackpot mechanic into any of their games, including floor games from eastern Europe converted for online play. That gives players a lot of choices. Those jackpots don’t grow extremely large but most if not all are pooled so they grow fast and fall often.

Table games

This section is a mixture of live titles and RNG digital animated games. The providers range from Betsoft to FELT and the game selection is far greater than you might expect from a modern operation. My guess is this would be due to traffic or the desire to appeal to players in certain countries. We don’t all go for the live games, especially some old-school players who bother to check the game rules against the house edge.

I really like the way some game makers have kept to the plot and continue to develop innovative games in this genre - and the fact that some operators have chosen to provide niche favorites even if they aren’t the most popular or in some cases, never really caught on. After all, how much does digital felt actually cost to maintain? How can it hurt to provide a good variety of games in this category?

1x2 Diamond Roulette deserves a place alongside Age of Gods and Quantum Roulette and so does Free Chip Blackjack. By all means, do check the paytables on the video poker and adjust your strategy for them, and if the hyper-glitzy First-Person RNG games from Evolution are your cup of tea, drink up! I like to find and play the oddballs sometimes, you never know where the exciting win might come from.

Live games

It’s not easy to count all of the tables here and the volume most likely changes with player location and possibly even visitor traffic. Some of the providers such as Ezugi have entire lobbies hidden behind a game icon.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to figure out a way to use the provider filter in conjunction with the text search, so it's not clear just how a novice player would find a certain game from a certain provider easily - especially if they weren’t aware of all of the provider names. 

The top of the crop here is mostly Evolution with one Pragmatic Play Live title elbowing into the top 12 games. By the time you see the third row (games 13-18), you’ll be into specialty games mostly provided for players in certain regions. Fan Tan, Andar Bahar, and Indian Roulette appear.

A little further into the mix, you’ll start to see more native-language tables. We visited from a desk in Finland and the very first choice was Suomalainen Ruletti - but that was probably a function of the geolocation software inherent in web browser-based online lobbies.

Not all of the games are named for the language, some will simply have a flag emblazoned on the icon, but most will refer to the country or language they are presented for. The best bet is probably to simply scroll and scan down the page as most of the native tongue tables are clustered together in the selection.

All games

If this were simply a compilation of every other section we wouldn’t bother to mention it, but it’s more than that. 

This is the place for Playtech’s Space Hunter: Shoot for Cash, Cube Mania from Wazdan, Spinomenal’s Pick a Match 3 game with stakes ranging from 0.01 to 10.00 per game, and a lot of other arcade-style, animated scratch, reactors, and oddball slots with plain old games mixed in.

Bonuses and Promotions

We found six unique propositions for gambling games on the promotions page. The welcome bonus comes with industry-standard terms that are not too generous nor too draconian and restrictive.

We found a match bonus with additional FS.

Spins are meted out over 10 days and are valid for 24 hours per batch. Wagering is 40x spin winnings.

Not mentioned in the ‘first click’ bonus terms is any max cash out for free spins. Separately, “no deposit bonuses and spins” have max cash out - you need to find this in the general T&C. We don’t find it to be clear or conclusive

Max bet on the match bonus is 5 EUR and wagering is 35x deposit plus bonus [35x(d+b)] and you’ll have 10 days to complete the offer.

Be sure to check for several hundred disallowed slots as well as “special games” (slots) that only count 20% and excluded games (about 10) that count 0% but can be played.

Baccarat and jackpot slots aren’t eligible for bonus play. Live games, table games, and video poker count 10% toward wagering.

Banking and Customer Service

The cashier will present options for players in your area. If by any chance the software gets it wrong, simply choose another country on the payments page. Depending on your location you may have more options than EUR but all deposits, bets, payouts, and withdrawals are factored in EUR. 

In general, convenient and familiar gateways like Visa, Mastercard, popular cryptocurrencies, eWallets, etc. are accepted payment methods.

The payment pages or cashier will list not only deposit options but also the ways you will be able to withdraw. 

You can visit the payments page without registering an account to see what is available in your country.

Withdrawal limits are determined by player loyalty tier and may not appeal to some players. Personally, I can’t imagine why I would be happy with €500 a day at the beginning level let alone €1500 per day at the highest level, but that’s just me.

Pending time is usually from zero hours to 3 days. Payouts come at the speed of the processing avenue with eWallets funded immediately, BTC payments within 30 minutes depending on Blockchain congestion, and cards/bank wires taking the standard 1-5 business days.

Customer care

Live chat and email augment a robust FAQ. Rated players may have phone access. 

Pitfalls

• Unclear max cash limits on FS that come with deposit bonus
• KYC and SoW may be more stringent than many Curacao operators
• Very low daily cashout limits (€500/€1500)
• Lack of advanced functionality in game sorting/filtering

The Final Word

There is a lot of good stuff going on at ExciteWin Casino. Scads, reams, tomes, and tons of games are just the tip of the iceberg. Some of the bonuses allow live dealer gameplay and none of the deposit bonuses seem to limit the maximum payout. 

One thing we aren’t wild about is the payout schedule. We saw a complaint earlier from a player's impulse control issues, and I think most of us if not all have been there. She won, what to her was a nice sum - but the three-day pending period and the max withdrawal of 500 EUR a day conspired with her lack of self-control to help her lose her nice win back to the casino.

If extracting 500-1500 a day might present issues for you, this may not be the best place to play. If you manage your gaming and bankrolls well, it might be a problem at all. The only thing we are concerned about is that you know the facts so you can make an informed decision based on your own particular situation.

We were not able to easily find out if there is a way for impulse-challenged players to use responsible gambling tools to manage withdrawals by creating a personal withdrawal lock.

That said, the bonus is generous on its face with no max cashout we could find. While most players will not complete wagering requirements to finish the offer at a profit, you could just as well be one who does. It’s not a slam-dunk by any means but the bonus is “beatable” with a little luck.

The site presents as a fun portal with nothing to fear for no players and plenty of ongoing promotions.