Our beat, in plain terms
This site covers one pokie and the places you can play it. That means the published return-to-player figure and the odds behind it, a demo version you can spin without staking anything, the strategy questions that come up around a fixed-payline Aristocrat-style game, and the Australian-facing casinos that actually carry 5 Dragons.
We are not a general casino portal and we do not pretend to be. If a page here drifts away from 5 Dragons, it does not belong on the site. The reviews desk would rather cover one game properly than fifty games thinly, and that is the whole editorial position. Nothing on these pages is written for anyone outside Australia.
Where our numbers come from
RTP and odds figures are taken from the game’s own published paytable and help screens, and from the operator’s own game information where it is shown. Where a casino lists a different figure for the same title, we say so rather than quietly picking the friendlier number.
Demo play is described from the demo itself, not from memory. Payout behaviour in a demo is driven by the same maths as the real game, but a demo session tells you nothing about what your next session will do, and we do not imply otherwise. Volatility descriptions are ours, based on the paytable structure, and we label them as such.
How a casino earns a place on this site
A casino is listed here only if it carries 5 Dragons and accepts Australian players. That is the floor, not the standard. Beyond it, we look at whether the cashier takes VISA, MasterCard and crypto — USDT, BTC, LTC, ETH, DOGE and TRX — and we note plainly that PayID, POLi, Neosurf and BPAY are not accepted. We look at withdrawal handling, the clarity of the terms attached to bonuses, and whether support answers a straight question.
A casino cannot pay for placement in these listings, and no commercial arrangement changes what a listing says. If a place stops carrying the game, or stops taking Australian players, it comes off the page.
How we make money
The site earns through affiliate arrangements. When a reader follows a link from here to a casino and signs up, the desk may receive a commission. That is the revenue model, stated without decoration.
It does not buy a listing, a ranking or a favourable sentence. Casinos we earn nothing from are listed when they meet the bar, and casinos we do earn from are left off when they do not. Commission never decides the order of a page, and it never softens a warning about terms, limits or slow withdrawals. If that ever stops being true, the page you are reading is the first thing that should be corrected.
Corrections and complaints
If a figure here is wrong, or a casino’s terms have changed since we last looked, tell the reviews desk. Corrections are made to the page itself, not buried in a note, and the page is dated when it changes. We would rather be corrected than be quietly wrong.
Complaints about a casino are read, but this site is not a dispute service and cannot act on your behalf. What we can do is check whether what you describe matches what the listing claims, and change the listing if it does not. Write to the desk with the game, the casino and what you saw.