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Party Casino Download
Party Casino is, on the surface, not a terrible product. Nevertheless, Party and its parent company Entain has one of the worst reputations in the online gambling industry. There are far 'nicer' online casinos with a comprehensive betting service to boot, including online poker and sports betting. Everygame Casino provides all of this and does so with an excellent reputation with players and within the gambling world. Worth a look.
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 From an online casino review site's point of view, Party Casino make it difficult to recommend them by being awkward people to deal with. As a player, you will probably be okay although there are some historic issues regarding non-payouts that still linger today. There are better alternative casinos.
What is particularly concerning is Party's efforts to shut down any negative opinions (fact-based, doesn't matter), reviews or links to its dodgy casino websites. We ourselves received a laughable 'cease & desist' e-mail from these clowns, instructing us to remove this honest review of Party Casino and all its negative aspects. Um... nope. Not scared, Party. Check with your legal team about the term 'fair use' and then come back to us.
Downloading Party's casino software
Party Casino is available as a download casino or in your browser on the casino's website. The 'Quick Play' browser version is Mac-friendly but doesn't match Party's download casino in terms of glitz and atmosphere, in our opinion. Unfortunately, Party Casino has chosen to make it difficult for players wanting to download their software to locate the downloading location on their website (see 'Download instructions' further down this page).
 If you insist on playing via a mobile device then you can access a much smaller, but gradually growing, number of Party's mobile-ported casino games. Naturally, the power and screensize of your mobile device is going to determine how good/crap or easy/annoying it plays. Stick with the Party download casino if you have this option and you'll be getting the best product.
Casino games at Party
Party Casino's games are by IGT, Inspired Entertainment, Microgaming, NetEnt, Playtech and other casino software providers, with some proprietary games you won't find at other online casinos. Party's live games are provided courtesy of Evolution and include the expected 'big four' live dealer games - baccarat, blackjack, poker and roulette.
New member sign-up bonuses
IMPORTANT As we no longer promote Party (we don't follow the bonus progress of blacklisted casinos), the following information will be based on our most recent update at the point we blacklisted Party Casino. There is a high chance the bonus(es) information will be out-of-date.
You'll get a 100% first deposit welcome bonus up to $/€/£200 plus guaranteed daily cashback and regular promo offers. You'll also get 20 bonus slot spins on the Melon Madness Deluxe game after making your first deposit.
Your second and third deposits are both eligible for a 100% bonus up to $/€/£150, bringing the total maximum welcome bonus to $/€/£500 spread over your first three deposits.
Unfortunately, if you make your first deposit by Entropay, Neteller or Skrill/Moneybookers then you won't be able to claim the welcome bonus. Although once you've seen the welcome bonuses' wagering requirements, you probably won't feel like you've missed out!
I have to wager HOW MUCH?
 Party's welcome bonuses are subject to a greedy-ass wagering requirement of (deposit + bonus) x35. So as this is basically a series of 100% deposit bonuses, Party has decided to stick a x70 wagering requirement on the bonus before allowing players to cashout any winnings. x70 is VERY high and enormously greedy. We recommend you decline this bonus and any others with similarly awful terms. There is also a maximum slot games bet size of $/€/£5 to be aware of if you do decide to face the challenge of this unattractive bonus.
An example: deposit $/€/£60, receive a $/€/£60 welcome bonus. Add those together to get $/€/£120 and multiply that by 35 to get a wagering target of $/€/£4200 - in exchange for a $/€/£60 bonus. Oh, and only slots and 'games' contribute 100%. No other game can be played, realistically, with the next highest contributing games being video poker, roulette, table and live games at just 20%. **** that.
The nicest bonus stat we can provide you with is that the first-deposit 20 bonus spins on Melon Madness Deluxe are subject to a non-heart attack inducing x10 of the winnings.
Behind the scenes... let's talk integrity
 Party provided a good enough online casino. The games collection was huge and the company behind the casino is enormous so you're not likely to have problems being paid. That said, Party's ownership has changed hands via mergers and it hasn't always resulted in a better product - for players/members or advertisers. We've had our own share of annoying e-mails with pedantic requests after recommending Party for something or another, asking us to move something or change a word. Our response has usually been to remove their coverage entirely.
However, this developed with a darker side during 2022 with Party attempting to remove negative feedback and reviews from the internet with toothless, attempting-to-be-scary e-mails. Yes, we've received them - no, we're not taking anything down. As you appear to be reading this, Party - here's our honest, genuine advice: instead of attempting to delete real, negative feedback from the internet, try instead to address the causes of the issues that led to the negative feedback in the first place. Going on the attack when you should be cleaning up your act is only going to make you look worse. Because it is worse. Shape up, Party - our industry deserves much better.
Are Party Casino's players aware of the reputation issues?
Most players won't have noticed but Party Casino has a particularly bad reputation with online marketers, affiliates and advertisers. This is usually as a result of non-paid deals, breach of contract, retroactive application of terms or closing due accounts entirely and keeping the advertiser's funds. For a small-size advertiser committed to what they thought was an honest long-term business relationship, that damage could seriously jeopardise people's jobs. Dishonesty is absolutely NOT an attitude you or we want behind the scenes, running any online casino. You've been warned.
Having just mentioned that players won't be noticing negative changes, it's perhaps no longer the case we can be sure about that. At the time of writing, in the second half of 2022... Party are still blaming 'Covid' (what else?) for only being able to provide FOUR HOURS a day telephone support for their customers. That's reassuring to know they've got resources in place, right?
 Recommended?
We have to say 'no'. But it's a shame we can't recommend Party Casino. Their casino is reasonably good and players are entertained but their pedantic attitudes (you should see some of the e-mails we've received from their newbie trainee affiliate 'managers') and extremely poor reputation earned by online marketers are difficult to ignore.
We'd genuinely like to see Party become a fairer casino to work with but we really don't see that being the forward direction. If anything, the continued crushing of online casinos' profit margins by the UK and other governments is going to lead Party down even darker paths, we fear. It's probably best to save your time and sanity by choosing an alternative online casino to spend your money with.
Uh..oh... heading further into decline
We did make it clear that we were being optimistic in hoping that Party's parent company Entain would just maybe change its ways in the near future. Alas, if you placed a safe bet on Party and friends continuing their dodgy way around the online casino world then you can go collect your winnings. Entain have been hit with another hard fine.
The UK's Gambling Commission regulator has now reportedly ordered Entain to pay a penalty of £17 million (roughly $20.4 million at time of writing) after "An official investigation uncovered a series of social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures." Good work, Entain...
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