How we test and rank gambling sites
Almost every “best sites” list in this industry is a commission table with adjectives on top. This page exists so you can check whether ours is. It sets out exactly what we do to a site before it gets a score, what the score is made of, how often we go back, and how we get paid.
The short version: we sign up as ordinary users, deposit our own money, play, withdraw, and time every step of it. A site that we have not put money through does not get a number next to its name.
The six criteria behind every score
Each site is scored out of 10 on six criteria. Those six are combined into one editor score using the fixed weights below, which are identical across every category — a Rust gambling site and a crypto casino are judged on the same scale. Trust and payout speed carry the most weight for a simple reason: a generous bonus on a site that will not pay you is worth nothing.
Trust
28%Operating history, ownership and company details where they are published, whether the provably fair system can be independently verified, how the site handles account security, and whether we or the wider community can find unresolved reports of non-payment.
Payout Speed
18%How long a withdrawal actually took from our own account — measured from request to funds arriving — across each supported payout method, plus any holds, minimums or fees applied on the way out.
Bonus / Value
16%The real value of the welcome offer and ongoing promotions after the terms are read: wagering requirements, maximum cashout, game weighting and expiry. An offer with a headline number and unclearable terms scores low.
Game Variety
14%The breadth and quality of what is on offer — case opening, battles, upgraders, originals like crash and dice, and any third-party casino content — weighted toward modes people actually play rather than a padded lobby count.
User Experience
12%Sign-up friction, how quickly the site loads, whether it works properly on a phone, how clearly odds and balances are presented, and how easy it is to find the terms, limits and self-exclusion tools.
Support
12%Response time and answer quality when we contact support as an ordinary user with a real question, across every channel the site offers.
What we do on every site
The same run, in the same order, on every platform we list:
- 1We create a normal user account — no press access, no reviewer account, nothing that would get us different treatment.
- 2We deposit using at least one of the site's advertised methods and record what the minimum actually is, what arrives, and what any fee takes off the top.
- 3We play across the site's main game modes, and where a provably fair system is offered we verify a result ourselves rather than take the claim at face value.
- 4We request a withdrawal and time it from request to funds arriving, noting any KYC step, hold or minimum triggered along the way.
- 5We contact customer support as an ordinary user and record how long a useful answer took.
- 6We read the bonus terms in full and record the wagering requirement, maximum cashout and anything that makes the headline number unreachable.
- 7We note the restricted countries, the licence or company details the site publishes, and the responsible-gambling tools it offers.
How often we go back
A review is only true on the day it was written. Bonus terms get rewritten, payout methods get pulled, and sites that were fast in January are not always fast in June. So every listing carries the date we last verified it, and you will find that date in the comparison table on each category page rather than buried in the review.
If a date looks old to you, treat the entry with the suspicion an old date deserves. We would rather show you a stale date honestly than refresh a timestamp we have not earned.
How we make money, and what it does not buy
CSGOCorn is funded by affiliate commission. When you follow an outbound link to a site and sign up, we may be paid for that referral. You pay nothing extra, and the offer you get is the same one you would get going direct.
That is a real conflict of interest, and the honest response to one is to fence it rather than deny it. So:
- We do not sell placement. No site can pay to move up the list, and no commission rate feeds into any score.
- We do not publish a score for a site nobody on the team has used.
- We do not invent user ratings. The star rating on a listing comes from approved reader reviews, and where there are none the page shows our editor score instead of a fabricated average.
- We do not quote a bonus we have not read the terms for.
Editorial policy and corrections
Reviews and rankings are written by the CSGOCorn editorial team. Sites do not get to see a review before it goes live, and they do not get approval over it afterwards. Commercial contacts have no input into scores.
When we get something wrong, we fix the page and say what changed rather than editing it away quietly. If you have spotted an error — a bonus term that has moved, a payout that did not arrive, a restriction we missed — tell us through the contact page and we will re-test.
Everything here is written for adults deciding where to spend money they can afford to lose. If that has stopped being true for you, our responsible gambling page lists the tools and services worth using.
Frequently asked questions
Do you get paid by the sites you review?
Yes, and we would rather say so plainly. Most outbound links on this site are affiliate links, and we earn a commission if you sign up through one. That commission is what pays for the testing. It does not buy position: the ranking order is produced from the weighted score, and the score is produced from the criteria described on this page.
What does the 'last tested' date on a listing mean?
It is the date a member of the team last went back through the site and confirmed the details shown — deposit and withdrawal methods, minimums, bonus terms and restrictions. If something had changed since the previous check, the entry was updated on that date.
How is the score out of 5 calculated?
Each site gets six sub-scores out of 10. Those are combined into a single editor score using fixed weights — Trust 28%, Payout Speed 18%, Bonus / Value 16%, Game Variety 14%, User Experience 12%, Support 12% — and the result is shown out of 5 on the listings. The weights are the same for every site in every category.
Can I trust the user reviews?
Reader reviews are moderated before they appear, and we limit submissions to one per site per 24 hours from the same address to make brigading harder. We remove reviews that are obviously fake in either direction — but moderation is not the same as verification, so treat them as opinion, and treat the tested facts in the comparison tables as the harder evidence.
What gets a site removed from the rankings?
Credible, repeated reports of unpaid withdrawals; a provably fair system that fails verification; bonus terms that make an advertised offer impossible to clear; or a support channel that has gone dark. We delist rather than quietly re-rank, because a low position still reads as a recommendation.
I run one of these sites and something here is wrong. What now?
Send us the correction through the contact page with evidence and we will re-test. If we got it wrong we will change it and note that we did. What we will not do is remove an accurate finding because it is unflattering.
See the methodology applied: Rust gambling sites, crypto gambling sites and CS2 gambling sites.