I opened a WinOlympia account on a Tuesday evening and clicked through the lobby for two hours before placing a real bet. It holds over 3,000 titles across slots, live dealer tables, crash games and instant wins. Category tabs split the library into Megaways, Bonus Buy, Jackpots and Table Games, so you skip most of the scrolling.
You open WinOlympia games in your browser on desktop or mobile, with no app to install. A search bar at the top filters by title or provider. The lobby has no RTP filter, which annoyed me, so you check the return-to-player figure in each game's info panel.
WinOlympia casino games include over 2,500 slots, and each one runs in demo mode or for real money. Most titles accept stakes from £0.10 a spin, so a £20 deposit covers 200 spins at minimum bet.
Classic 3-reel machines suit you if you want simple play. They carry up to five paylines, drop the storyline, and fill the reels with fruit, bars, bells and sevens.
5-reel slots add rows, paylines, multipliers and free spins. Bonanza Megaways gives you up to 117,649 ways to win per spin, and its tumbling reels clear winning symbols so new ones drop in. I spent most of my first session on WinOlympia slots online with a Greek mythology theme, since the brand name points you there. Gates of Olympus from Pragmatic Play pays out up to 5,000x your stake on its scatter-pays grid, and it chewed through my £10 test balance in about 40 minutes.
Video slots carry the heaviest feature load: free spins, scatters, wilds and multipliers. Big Bass Splash puts you on a fishing trip, where wild fisherman symbols collect the cash values attached to fish. You find these themes in the lobby:
Progressive jackpots sit in their own tab. Mega Moolah pays through four tiers (Mini, Minor, Major and Mega), and Divine Fortune from NetEnt runs three. Mega Moolah starts at £0.25 a spin, so a small stake still buys you a shot at the top prize.
Dealers stream from studios in HD, and you place bets with on-screen buttons on any device. WinOlympia lists over 400 live tables covering blackjack, roulette, baccarat, poker and game shows. I tried Lightning Roulette first, where lightning strikes multiply up to five numbers by as much as 500x.
Limits run from £0.20 to £5,000 a round, and VIP tables go up to £10,000. Live tables have no demo mode, so you stake real money from the first hand.
Each classic comes in several versions. These are the live tables worth opening first:
Over 40 studios provide the library. Pragmatic Play, NetEnt, Evolution, Play'n GO and Blueprint Gaming made up most of what I played.
Demo mode works on every slot, table game and instant win except live dealer. Each demo hands you virtual credit, and the features match the real-money version, including Bonus Buy, Gamble and cascading reels. Ten minutes in demo shows you how often a slot triggers its bonus round and whether its volatility suits your budget.
Switch to real money with a deposit by Visa debit card or PayPal. The minimum is £10, and the funds appear in your balance before the next spin loads.