Website UX & Registration 9/10

Bacana Play is certainly eye-catching. Like its sister site, Play OJO, it puts fun at the heart of everything it offers. This is a modern casino with a bright colorful site. The home page – screenshot below – is absolutely stacked with information including the sign-up offer, the most popular games, a news wall with latest events and a scrolling list of game providers. I found it a little overwhelming and unnecessarily busy in places, but it serves its purpose. Unusually, the burger menu is situated top right rather than top left which made it a little hard to find when you first arrive. And to confuse things further it switches to the left once you area logged in, so watch out for that.

Unusually for a gambling site there is a big picture showing the Bacana Play team and a profile of key members on the About Us page. I’ve not seen this approach before but it does add to the sense that this is a friendly, trustworthy site.

Sign up is a 3-step process. The form is nice and easy to read and takes about 90 seconds to complete. You will be required to enter your mobile number and use an SMS code sent to your phone to verify it. This is unusual but a feature of Skill on Net sites. It adds another step to the registration process but takes just seconds and as long as you have your mobile to hand it’s no bother.

Once registered you can deposit, withdraw, upload verification documents and set limits all through your account pages. It’s easy to use, though the bonus information was a little confusing. My £10 match bonus was displayed under ‘ACTIVE BONUSES’ but I could not find my free spins. Eventually I found them displayed as a ‘Reward’ in the main drop-down menu. I needed to click there to activate them and start playing.

I also found the display of wagering requirements in my account to be confusing too. Instead of simply displaying them as a cash amount, BacanaPlay display wagering requirements as ‘Redeem Points Required’.

In this case, my £10 welcome bonus is subject to a 30x wagering requirement of bonus plus deposit, or £600 in total (30x £20). To redeem 0.5 points I must wager £1. Therefore, my wagering requirements are displayed in my account as 300 points (0.5 x £600).

Over time I may get used to this but initially I found this configuration to be confusing particularly as I needed to search through the terms and conditions to find the ratio of wagers to points redeemed.

Online Slots 10/10

BacanaPlay customers benefits from the huge range of online slots that are available through the Skill on Net casino platform. The list includes titles from 64 different providers including NetEnt, Microgaming, Big Time Gaming, WMS, Blueprint Gaming, Quickspin, Nolimit City and Red Tiger as well as smaller studios like Merkur, Peter and Sons and Gameburger.

New Slots

Elsewhere the ’new’ slots tab is stacked with over 100 games some of which had only been launched in the last seven days. Recent releases when we checked the site included Katmandu by ELK Studios and The Red Queen by Pragmatic Play.

Jackpot Slots

Curiously there is no progressive jackpot link in the main menu. However, if you open-up the game menu you can filter by jackpots. There are 362 to choose from including the full Dream Drop Jackpot range, Mega Fortune by NetEnt and the Jackpot King series from Blueprint Gaming.

Megaways Slots

BacanaPlay has a selection of 155 Megaways slots. You can find them by hitting the filter icon next to the search bar. Then hit ‘Megaways’ under the Game Tag option. This will refresh the list of games in the main window with the full Megaways selection. There are some awesome titles here including Gonzo’s Quest Megaways, Raging Rhino Megaways and Rick and Morty Megaways.

If you like Megaways games then you could also try Casumo which has more than 170 to try.

Slingo Games

BacanaPlay offer more than 50 games from the Slingo Originals label including lots of versions of the slots-bingo hybrid. This is a really good selection including Sweet Bonanza Slingo, Slingo Lobstermania and Deal or No Deal Slingo.

For more Slingo options try our Slingo Sites page.

Game Menu, Search Functions and Game Window

Skill on Net ranks as one of the best platforms for slots players in the UK. There is such a huge choice here. And what really makes it is the menu filter system that allows you to search through the catalogue by game types, providers and other categories.

I clicked the search button then the filter icon next to the search box to bring up the filter options shown below. Useful game tags include things like ‘Drop and Wins’, ‘Jackpots’ and ‘Megaways’. I could also search by games with a ‘Star Rating’ of 4 or more, or a minimum bet of just 10p. It’s a great system and useful if you are looking for new games to try and don’t know where to start.

Online Slots RTP at BacanaPlay

Some slots have more than one RTP setting. It is at the discretion of the casino operator to choose which setting to run these games at. As part of our review we verified the RTP of 10 games at BacanaPlay that we know to have more than one available setting. This is what we found:

NOTE: These settings were verified on 22nd May 2023.

The figures in this table show that BacanaPlay are running slots at the mid to low range. This is not that uncommon at UK slot sites now, but you can find better RTP settings elsewhere. For example Dream Vegas runs Book of Dead at the optimum 96.21% setting.

If RTP is a big deal for you then we recommend that you play at Mr Q where every game we verified was set to the maximum RTP.

Live Dealer 9/10

The live dealer selection at BacanaPlay comes from five different suppliers: Evolution Gaming, Authentic Gaming, Playtech, Pragmatic Play and Stake Logic.

Evolution Gaming makes up the largest selection of games with access to their full lobby which is regularly filled with upwards of 50,000 players from online casinos worldwide. There are 150+ Blackjack tables, 30+ roulettes, and a selection of Sicbo, Baccarat, Poker and Gameshow formats to choose from as well.

If Live Dealer is what you are here for then you won’t be disappointed. Most casinos limit the live selection to just Evolution, so having the option to play the Playtech, Pragmatic Play and other provider tables is a real bonus.

Loyalty Promotions 9/10

Just like PlayOJO, BacanaPlay has a lot of promotional activity for regular players. Here are some of the regular offers and events you can enjoy.

Daily Picks – daily and seasonal promotions including free spins offers, trivia games, free spins giveaways and bonuses.

Tournaments – free to enter or £1 entry tournaments where you are given 20 spins on a game to win as much cash as you can. The cash is not paid out but your total winnings decide your place on the leaderboard with top 5 positions rewarded with prizes. You can buy in as many times as you like to the £1 tournaments.

Loyalty Plan – a six level loyalty program with increasing rewards at each level. You can see your current level and required points to reach the next in the progress bar at the top of the screen at all times when you are logged in. Top VIP levels earn you bigger bet limits, faster withdrawals and personalised account managers.

BacanaPlay go further than most online slot sites in delivering a selection of offers to customers on a daily basis.  Your available offers and any live ones that you have claimed are all easily accessible via your account page. This is a nice feature of the BacanaPlay site that you can see in the screen shot below.

We tested our luck on a buy-in tournament with 20 spins on Spinning Wilds slot by Green Valley Games. £1 bought us 20 spins with the option to rebuy unlimited times. The execution was a bit confusing. To claim your spins you must go back into your account and look under ‘Rewards’ where they will be listed after you have bought in. If you click on the link there you will be taken directly to the game where the spins play out automatically.

The leaderboard updates in real time which is a nice feature and top 5 positions each win a prizes of £5 up to £50.

Cashier Options 6/10

BacanaPlay has very few payment options. It just restricted to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal. There is no Skrill, Neteller or Paysafecard. This is a £10 minimum deposit casino and there are no fees, but withdrawals start at £20.

Here is the list of deposit and withdrawals services available via the cashier with minimum and maximum transaction thresholds.

Payout Speed 7/10

I tested the withdrawal to Mastercard. A withdrawal of £20 was requested at 11.05am. I received an email confirming that the transaction had been processed by BacanaPlay at 6.30am the following day. This is under 24 hours but not as quick as some other slot sites in the UK.

Customer Support 6/10

You can contact the support team at BacanaPlay by email, live chat or phone:

• Live Chat – only when logged-in
• Email: support@bacanaplay.com
• Phone: +1 647 724 4691

Strangely, once you are logged in the Help link is no longer available and you can only contact the support team on live chat.

This is an area of their service that needs improving. Once you load up the live chat app you will be greeted by a bot that will try to respond to your queries by providing pre-set answers. If you request to speak to a support agent you are told it can take up to 6 hours. This is very poor and it means any questions specifically relating to your account, your KYC checks or a withdrawal will take some time to resolve.

KYC Process 8/10

Account Verification was NOT required for my first deposit. However, in anticipation of requests for documents to verify my ID later, I did upload document scans via my account. You can see in the screenshot below that this can be done quickly via a link once you are logged in.

I submitted scans of my passport and a utility bill at around midday and 8am the following morning they had been checked and verified by the BacanaPlay team and I had an email to confirm that.