About Ikibu Casino
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When you’re searching for an online casino to start playing on, one important component is user experience. What becomes important, then, is what makes any given casino stand out from the competition. While a few years ago, this could have been something as simple as a generous casino bonus offer, today’s internet casinos need something a bit more edgy to define themselves from the competition. Ikibu Casino has been designed with exactly this in mind, and presents itself as an adventure casino – like a themed adventure park, only in online casino form. In this case, the theme is of a tropical volcanic island inhabited by monkey-like creatures known as Ikkis.
Founded in 2016, Ikibu Casino is registered with both the Malta Gaming Authority and the UK Gaming Commission. It’s popular with players for the unique theme and the friendliness of the customer service team, and there aren’t a lot of complaints about this casino not paying out when it should. Generally, Ikibu has received positive reviews but does have a pretty long list of restricted countries of residence for players.
When You Visit
The most obvious thing about Ikibu Casino is its theme, which is an ancient lost island located in the tropics with a large monkey population and plenty of surprises in store. The monkeys, known as Ikkis, make themselves useful by being helpful to players on the site as well as furthering the implementation of the theme throughout the site. You’ll notice a lot of cartoon characters on the site, which helps keep the feel less formal and ultimately makes the site a bit more accessible to novice gamblers who might be intimidated by some of the more traditional online casinos. What you’ll also notice when you first encounter this site is the fact that it comes in several versions: International, British, Swedish, Finnish, Norse, German, and Canadian. This way, a lot of players from around the world (well, parts of it where players are allowed to join from) will feel much more at home than in many other casinos.
The aesthetics of online casinos are much different from what they used to be, with grids and boxes becoming a rather tired theme that feels overused and frankly ugly, unimaginative, and boring. Ikibu Casino eschews now-antiquated layouts for a floating foreground with pop-out boxes. Rather than having one side of the page overloaded with lists, there’s just a floating menu at the top for navigation. The team behind Ikibu has done a stellar job at sort of deconstructing online casinos and throwing away some of the ugly and confusing bits in favour of a better experience.
Bonus and Promotions
Pretty much every online casino relies at least a bit on bonus offers to draw in gamblers and keep them playing, and of course Ikibu is no exception to this either. Even a year or two ago, most online casinos more or less all had the same arrays of bonus offers, but the newer trend is for casinos to change things up a bit to make themselves stand out from what is admittedly a very overcrowded market space with a lot of lacklustre casinos. Ikibu Casino offers a $200 welcome bonus which includes 100 free spins for new players, which is split up between your first two deposits. The signup bonus also includes 5000 “seeds”, which are basically loyalty points that you keep earning as you play and can exchange for free slot spins that vary in cost and value. Seeds on Ikibu don’t expire, and the more that you play with real money, the more seeds you’ll end up earning. While it’s kind of a headache for players, the general rule is that you’ll have to play through your bonuses quite a few times before they actually pay out. This is just a fact of life in the online casino industry (though there are a few exceptions now that give you a real cash bonus), and the fact that Ikibu does this too isn’t such a big deal.
Mobile
It’s 2023 and most people own a smartphone. Since a lot of people like to play on the go and since casinos do love to make more opportunities for themselves to make more money, any competent online casino nowadays pretty much has to have its site optimised for mobile users. Fortunately, if you’re the sort who likes to spend your morning commute playing slots, Ikibu’s site works perfectly fine across devices and platforms. They don’t have a dedicated app, but then apps often take up space on your phone without offering any additional functionality over using the website.
Games
Anyone looking for an online casino might be attracted by the aesthetics and the user experience, but the most important thing for most users is usually the games. Ikibu Casino features games from Microgaming, NetEnt, NextGen, Play’n’Go, and Thunderkick among others. This results in a pretty good selection of all of the popular games in most online casinos, though of course great selection of popular games can easily be interpreted as an outstanding collection of popular slots. Since the slots from these developers are regularly tested for fairness, players can rest assured that the games on Ikibu are fair and unbiased. There’s a great selection of slots on here that offer free play options as well as the usual real money ones, which of course opens the site up to a wider selection of gamers and not just those who feel confident throwing real money around.
As popular as slots are, some folks prefer to stick to more traditional table games. Ikibu offers a great selection of these, including plenty of variations of roulette, poker, and blackjack. You can also find games like Pai Gow and Red Dog, but do note that there’s no video poker here. The live games are pretty average, but then it’s more about having the flexibility to play them and of course online casinos are all about slots. Fortunately, other games are becoming less and less of an afterthought and we would expect that if trends change then Ikibu should be able to keep up.
Deposits and Withdrawals
It’s great to win money, but really annoying to wait on your chosen online casino to transfer your winnings or even to keep making excuses to keep your winnings from you. Happily, Ikibu Casino seems to pay out within 24 hours of the initial request. Withdrawals are limited to $4000 per week, but assuming that you don’t try and go over the limit there aren’t a lot of complaints aside from the typical bonus play-through caveats.
Do note that Ikibu charges up to 1% in withdrawal fees on most of the popular payment methods. To fund your account, Ikibu Casino accepts Visa, MasterCard, EcoPayz, Euteller, Trustly, Skrill, Zimpler, and SofortĂĽberweisung. You can use many of these to withdraw your funds, and Ikibu Casino also does wire transfers to your bank account if you so require.
Getting Help
There’s one area where Ikibu is kind of lacking, and that’s in terms of customer service. It’s not that their staff aren’t friendly and helpful, but rather that they’re only available to contact between 9 in the morning and midnight. This won’t make a huge difference for a lot of people, but most gambling sites offer 24/7 live chat now so it’s still a notable limitation. You can contact the customer service team via email or live chat, and assuming that it’s normal operating hours you can expect instantaneous responses over live chat. For less urgent issues, emails will be replied to within an hour on average. Overall, the support team tries to make up for being unavailable for 9 hours a day by simply offering better service.
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