Review methodology
How We Review
ORC reviews are built from public evidence, repeatable checks, and clear editorial rules. Sponsored visibility, review judgment, and any future guarantee status are treated as separate things.
Core principles
What guides every ORC review
We want players to see what is publicly visible before they spend time or money. That means we focus on evidence, note uncertainty clearly, and avoid inventing trust signals.
What we check
The main review areas
Every review does not have the same amount of public evidence, but these are the main areas ORC tries to inspect before publishing a verdict.
We look for visible country selectors, language selectors, currency options, and public landing pages tied to specific markets.
We check which game types appear before login and which provider names are shown on public category pages.
We capture visible welcome offers, rebate language, deposit methods, crypto mentions, and other public payment claims.
We compare license language, support routes, responsible gambling messaging, and other site-level trust statements.
Public evidence
What counts as evidence
- Homepage sections, category pages, promotion pages, help pages, FAQ pages, and visible footer/legal pages.
- Country, language, currency, and provider selectors that can be opened without a funded account.
- Public screenshots captured during review research after closing removable popups where possible.
- Public URLs that can be revisited later as part of corrections or updates.
Limits
What a review may not confirm
- Actual payout speed, successful withdrawals, and account-level restrictions if those cannot be verified publicly.
- Behind-login game availability, tier eligibility, or bonus claim success unless ORC explicitly states that a deeper test occurred.
- The final legal enforceability of site claims in every market.
- Any guarantee or dispute status unless ORC has separate records for that program.
Process
How a review gets built
We follow the same broad flow whether the site is a customer casino or a large competitor brand.
Step 1
Survey the public site
We record the visible sections, navigation labels, market selectors, and trust or legal pages available without relying on hidden account content.
Step 2
Capture evidence
We take screenshots from clean public views, log source URLs, and keep notes about what was directly visible on the checked date.
Step 3
Normalize provider data
Raw labels like shortened provider names are mapped to ORC provider records so review pages, homepage provider groups, and provider routes stay aligned.
Step 4
Write the verdict
We summarize where the site looks strong, where players should be cautious, and which claims still need independent confirmation.
Promotions
How bonus pages are handled
- Promotion cards on ORC are based on public bonus pages or clearly visible public campaign banners.
- Tracked promotion routes may send users to the casino’s public promo landing page instead of an ORC-hosted detail page.
- When figures conflict across public pages, we mention the inconsistency instead of choosing the most attractive number.
- Players should always read the live bonus terms before claiming.
Provider pages
How game-provider pages are linked
- Provider routes show where a provider is visibly available across reviewed casino brands.
- Homepage provider tabs are fed from mapped provider-category availability, not from random hardcoded labels.
- When a review discovers a new visible provider or category, ORC updates the homepage provider inventory too.
- Provider click counts are tracked by category so the same provider can have separate popularity in slots, live casino, fishing, and other tabs.
Editorial separation
Review score, placement, and guarantee are not the same
ORC may feature customer casinos in commercial placements, but that does not automatically change the factual content of a review.
Editorial review
What the review says
The review reflects public evidence, visible strengths, open risks, and unresolved questions. It should stay readable even if a casino is not a commercial partner.
Commercial placement
What placements do
Promoted visibility can affect where a brand appears in conversion-oriented surfaces, but it should not create fake trust claims or invented public facts.
Future guarantee layer
What guarantee would mean
If ORC later operates a guarantee or dispute program, that status will be based on separate records, deposits, and case handling rather than normal review copy.
Updates
How reviews get refreshed
- We update reviews when public categories, providers, promotions, market selectors, or visible trust claims change.
- We also revise reviews when users point out missing or outdated public facts that can be checked.
- Old view counts do not change editorial facts; they only affect popularity surfaces on the site.
- New review routes should also be added to the SEO system so metadata and sitemap coverage stay complete.
Corrections
How to challenge a review
If a casino page changed, a provider list is incomplete, or a public term was misread, ORC can recheck the source URLs and update the page. The current public contact route is [email protected].
Quick summary
The short version
ORC reviews are public-evidence reviews. We check what the site visibly shows, map the findings into a consistent content model, highlight risks and unknowns, and keep guarantee or sponsored status separate from factual review writing.