WinOMania Casino Review:

Launched in 2018 by gaming solutions specialists Anakatech Limited, WinOmania is billed as a boutique online slot and scratchcard site. It has around 70 slots and 40 scratchcards, with nothing in between for fans of table and card games. On the plus side, many of those games are 100% exclusive to WinOmania, something that might feel refreshing to some players wanting to play something new. In addition, WinOmania has a tasty no deposit bonus offer, so it’s certainly worth a closer look.

WinOmania is the first online casino from Anakatech Limited, a gaming developer and casino solutions provider founded in Bulgaria a decade ago, but now headquartered in Malta. Anakatech enjoys a decent reputation in the casino industry, although it has made a relatively small impact so far in the UK.

WinOmania, registered under Anakatech Interactive Limited, has a license to operate from the UK Gambling Commission, under registration number C 61918. Games are monitored and tested for fairness by QUINEL, a Malta-based independent group with a growing presence in the testing industry. While it’s not perhaps as well known in the UK as eCOGRA, we’d be perfectly happy to attest to the fairness of any games tested by QUINEL.

Security of your details and any transactions is comprehensively covered at WinOmania. Transactions are PCI compliant and DSS compliant. In short, that means any payments through credit/debit cards are encrypted and secured. Other transactions are encrypted using the latest 128-bit SSL technology.

As for feedback from players and review sites, WinOmania isn’t widely covered elsewhere, perhaps a testament to its small presence in the UK. Regardless, reviews are mostly positive, although perhaps not universally excellent. More importantly, there are no major complaints against the casino recorded on sites like ThePogg or AskGamblers. But, as a “boutique slots and scratchcard site”, WinOmania has never claimed to be a standard online casino.

WinOmania has added more payment methods recently, including Skrill and Neteller. Paysafecard and Boku are handy options, as is a new pre-paid card available to UK players – CASHlib. A £10 minimum deposit and withdrawal is fine, but the £3000 limit on monthly withdrawals looks problematic if WinOmania wants to attract high rollers.

In a way, WinOmania’s game selection is both its strength and weakness. 113 games are available to play on the site, broken down to around 70 slots and 40 scratchcards. As you will know from reviews of many top casinos at PlayRight, other sites can have perhaps five to ten times that amount of games.

However, WinOmania doesn’t claim to be a full-fledged online casino, so let’s look at its offering as a boutique online slots and scratchcard site and not as a typical casino. In that respect, WinOmania gives you something completely different – games you will find nowhere else.

The games library is provided by Anakatech’s in-house developers as well as a handful provided by Leander and Netoplay. Thus, you won’t find the usual selection of Starburst, Mega Moolah, Rainbow Riches, Age of the Gods etc. here that are put front and centre of the majority of UK online casinos. So, highlighting the top games at WinOmania – Pyramid Spin, Beer Hall, Fruity Wins, Cleopatra (not the IGT version) – will not mean much to you if you haven’t played them before.

It’s also worth pointing out that many of the games have relatively high minimum bets set at 40p or 50p. Around a dozen new games from Anakatech are made available after you have made your first deposit at WinOmania.

While players may not be unhappy with the lack of table, card and live games if they weren’t expecting them, not having progressive slots seems both short-sighted and unfortunate. The option to play for huge pooled jackpots for relatively low stakes has had a huge impact on casino playing over the last few years, and we highly recommend that WinOmania begin offering them to keep players interested.

Overall, the games selection wears a bit thin after a while. After all, there are only so many variations you can come up with when offering 40 different scratchcards. The slots, while themed differently, also have a similar feel, so you could understand if players want to return to operators with a large selection of NetEnt, Playtech or Microgaming titles.

A quick note on the layout and style of WinOmania, which is completely stripped back to put the small selection of games at the forefront of the site. It’s basic and by no means ground-breaking in its design and theme, but it’s easy to navigate and locate and load the games. WinOmania is presented in an HTML5 format, which lends itself to simplicity and smooth navigation.

WinOmania does not offer a mobile casino app, but the site is 100% mobile responsive and will work well on any modern iOS or Android phones and tablets.  It’s effectively a direct replica of the desktop site, with all 113 games from the main WinOmania site also available on mobile. In that respect, navigation around the mobile site is just as easy as the desktop version, again something that is helped by the small number of games on offer. HTML5 also helps with the smooth and fast loading of mobile games. Unfortunately, like a growing number of casinos, WinOmania does not distinguish between those playing on desktop and their smartphones, so there are no exclusive mobile casino bonuses and promotions.

The main crux of bonus activity at WinOmania is centred around the welcome offer, but there are other promotions that should interest players. Most notably, WinOmania puts a lot of emphasis on slot races and leaderboard tournaments. Recently, there was a Royal Corgis tournament, where WinOmania paid out over £20K to 40 players who topped the leaderboard at the end of the promotion. Prizes ranged from £1.5K down to £10, but it looks like a fairly lucrative promotion, especially when you consider that WinOmania has a smaller pool of players than the major UK casinos.

WinOmania has a loyalty points scheme, which all falls under VIP Points, regardless of your wagering level. Essentially, you earn 1 VIP point for every £10 you wager, but the rate of exchange improves as you accrue more points. For example, at the bottom level, 100 VIP points can be exchanged for £1, but 400 points can be exchanged for £10 and so on until you reach the Platinum Package, where 20,000 points can be exchanged for £2.5K. A basic, no frills loyalty scheme, but definitely one with potential.