Gamegram Review: Scam or safe?

Gamegram is a newly-launched casino with a huge focus on crypto. This is far from unique to it, and there are many online gambling houses out there nowadays which operate under the same premise. However, the one we are covering in this review does stand out in a couple of ways. Unfortunately, it does not stand out with anything positive!

For one, it has no deposit bonuses to offer. Crypto casinos actually tend to provide higher amounts of money with their promotions than conventional casinos, but this one does not. Secondly, the only means of payment is crypto, and there are no FIAT alternatives, which is quite inconvenient. Thirdly, there are just not enough games you can play.

There is a couple of places in which the house shines, too, though. For example, its minimum deposit requirement is quite small. Its little library of games is genuinely pretty well-organized and pleasant to browse. There are fun achievements players can try and win, and there's a couple of unique PVP-experiences you can play.

So, should you check this casino out? Well, let's examine it in more detail, in order to be able to answer just this question! Here is everything you need to know about Gamegram:

Bonuses

As we previously mentioned, this house does not feature any kind of bonus you can earn directly by depositing. There are no Welcome promotions, no Recurring bonuses, no Free Spins, you can get. This lack of promotions is certainly going to be off-putting to a large section of our readers, and we can definitely agree with them. Such deposit incentives are one of the best ways for casinos to stand out from the rest of their peers, and distinguish themselves. Not offering them is a huge missed opportunity.

However, there is one promotion available with Gamegram, that we should mention. This is the casino's Loyalty Program. Here is an outline of that bonus:

The table above is mostly blank and that is because there is barely any information about what the rewards from the bonus are! Supposedly, players can earn experience points as they wager more and more with the house. The rate at which those are awarded is 1 point per every 1 USDT wagered, with different percentages contributing towards that for some of the games the casino offers access to. For instance, you get 0,05 points for every 1 USDT wagered on table games, which is significantly lower than the general ratio. Keep these disparities in mind as you explore the bonus!

The experience points are used to level up your account, and there are twenty account levels to progress across. Each of them requires more points to be reached than the last, and the higher your level, the better perks you will be getting. Said perks include the following:

• There is supposedly a Cashback Bonus. However, we really don't know much about it. A cashback bonus allows you to recover a certain amount of losses from your betting activity over a certain amount of times. With Gamegram, you can get between 7% and 15% of said losses back, though the casino does not mention whether the cashback can be received on a daily, monthly or another basis. Another lacking detail of the policy is how much you can get from the promotion, whether the money you win with it needs to be wagered a specific amount of times before you can cash out, as well as whether there is any cash out limit for it. Overall, we are quite displeased with this lackluster description of the main perk of the casino's Loyalty Program!
• Secondly, the house claims that you can win certain Cash prizes and Free Spin bundles. However, these are described incredibly vaguely. There's just no mention of how you can win them, the size of these promotions, much less their conditions. Supposedly, these are awarded for socializing with other players – whatever that means to the casino, taking up places in the weekly leaderboards and completing achievements. These achievements are account milestones, like winning a certain amount of rounds in the different player vs player games Gamegram hosts. However, on the Achievements page, there was no mention of rewards for earning them.

Overall, we consider the lack of any reliable bonuses to be the biggest downside to this casino. Other houses are miles ahead of it in the promotions department, and a lot of players are just not going to sign up for any house which does not offer them a good bonus or two.

License

The only aspect of the casino which we find to be uncontroversially good choice is the regulatory background it has chosen for itself. Here is what Gamegram has to say about its license:

The house claims that it is under the regulatory supervision of Gaming Curacao (GC). This regulatory body is one of the four master license holders of Curacao. The Caribbean nation has become  the most popular online gambling jurisdiction in the world, and that is because of its unique approach to regulation. All of the power to regulate the egaming sector has been delegated to these four master license holders, private companies who have managed to strike a unique balance between the interests of the casino operators and those of the player.

A license from Gaming Curacao, or the other three license issuers, is not only a guarantee that you benefit from certain exclusive protections. It also means that the casino is able to offer you better bonuses and exciting games which might be banned by stricter regulators like the MGA and the UKGC. And now, we'd like to show you the particular license of Gamegram:

The screenshot above is an excerpt from the register of the GC, which showcases the license of the casino's operator. According to it, the license issuer recognizes the casino as a license holder. We would like to go over the most significant regulatory protections you would have access to as a result:

• Perhaps the most important of these is the guarantees for the fairness of the games you can play. This guarantee is based on the auditing requirements for licensed houses, or, more specifically, for their games. Any license holder needs to submit the random number generators to independent auditors, who are able to certify whether there is any bias within them. These generators are just mathematical algorithms, used to determine the outcomes of every bet a player places with the casino. By reviewing them, the auditors are able to note if there is any bias in how much the games pay out. That is why you can be sure you would be playing actual games of chance with Gamegram, or any Curacao-licensed house.
• Secondly, there is a number of rules about how the data collected from the players of any casino needs to be stored. It is easy to overlook that as a regulatory measure, but we consider it to be quite crucial. Nowadays, casinos need to comply with an extensive list of AML policies. These dictate that they need to collect a lot of information from their players, about who they are, where they are betting from, and so on. It is very important to combat financial crime, but a potential data leak can be devastating for anyone who's sensitive info becomes publicly available. That is something regulators have realized as well, and it is also why licensed casinos need to use some of the strictest security protocols available in order to encrypt any data you share with them.
• Thirdly, rooting out problem gambling is also something regulatory bodies expect of casinos. Players need to be provided with sufficient information in order to know whether they have developed such problematic tendencies, as well as where to seek help. That is far from all, however, and you can also rely on a number of self-exclusion policies, which you will have access to by virtue of playing with a licensed house. These policies are custom limits you can set on your accounts – you can, for instance, limit how much you deposit, or enable time outs. Also, you always have the option of closing down your account unilaterally if you need to.

These important protections are why we always advocate for playing with licensed casinos instead of their unregulated counterparts. We hope that we have managed to convince you to seek out regulated gambling houses.

However, we should get back to the review of Gamegram. Here is the surprisingly long list of languages it can be viewed in:

Languages: English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Japanese, Korean

And here is a list of the countries form where the house does not accept players from:

Restricted countries: Afghanistan, American Samoa, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Korea, North, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S.

It is common for casinos to have some sort of regional restrictions, because of local regulations on online gambling, and the presence of such restrictions is not concerning in the slightest.

Deposit and Withdrawal

When it comes to cashing in or out of the casino, there is only one method available, and that is crypto. We cannot say we are happy about this. Even though the house has a certain amount of focus on these digital assets, it is far from the first casino with such an identity. And most of its crypto-focused peers also accept a number of FIAT payment methods, which makes it more convenient for people who might not want to cash out with the digital currencies to deposit.

Said people can find crypto to be off-putting because of its complexity, or they might not want to deal with miner fees. They might even simply find other payment methods more convenient. And yet, if they wish to deposit here, they will be forced to do so with a means of payment they don't necessarily like.

Still, the deposit conditions of Gamegram are not bad, if you find its payment methods acceptable. Here is a an outline of said conditions and the crypto tokens the casino accepts:

Currencies: Tether (USDT), Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), XRP, USD Coin (USDC)

You can cash in as little as 5 USDT, or its general equivalent in any of the other cryptocurrencies we have listed. This is quite the impressive requirement, and most casinos need you to deposit more to start playing.

However, there are miner fees applicable to every crypto transaction, and you will need to pay them. This is how such third party charges are handled nowadays, by other casinos as well.

Let's also take a look at the withdrawal conditions:

Once again, we find the minimum you can cash out to be quite competitive. It is set to 15 USDT, which is low compared to other casinos. And yet, it is a bit high when you take into account that the deposit requirement of the house is three times as low. We should also mention that the house expects you to turn over the funds you've deposited at least once before you withdraw anything. This is a common AML policy with casinos these days, and does not bother us.

Alternatively, you can cash out before you have cleared the requirement, if you pay a penalty fee of 10% of the withdrawal amount. Once again, this is a pretty clear and unproblematic deposit policy, which is not out of place for any modern online gambling house.

Gamegram does not charge you anything for withdrawals, but you need to cover the crypto miner fees for any transaction. The casino displays them for you on the withdrawals page, which we find to be quite convenient. The fee for cashing out the minimum withdrawal amount of 15 USDT is 5 USDT. The high charge is not by any fault of the casino, and crypto fees are generally quite fluctuant, so we would not be surprised to see it set to a lower amount in the future, but it does show why a plethora of withdrawal methods is important!

There is no fee for inactivity, but you may lose your remaining balance if you don't log in or interact with your account for at least 12 months, as per the following policy:

Usually, houses just charge you a small fee for not logging in, and restrain themselves from taking your money. This is another different approach by Gamegram which we are not sure we are fans of.

Games and Game Suppliers

Here is a list of the Game Suppliers we saw featured on the casino's website:

Game providers: 3 Oaks, Amatic, Belatra, Betsoft, BGaming, Booming Games, Caleta, Endorphina, Golden Hero, Hacksaw, OneTouch, Playson, PragmaticPlay, Spinomenal, Thunderkick, TrueLab, Wazdan, Yggdrasil, Spribe, Evolution

Now, the majority of casinos nowadays launch with a much bigger roster of Suppliers, around 50 at least. Why this one is an exception is a question we cannot answer, but we know that the low amount of game developers it has partnered with means a more shallow library of games than one might expect. Still, here's what you can play:

• Slots: There are a couple of recognizable slots to play in the roster of the casino, like Big Bass Bonanza, Book of Dead, Wolf's Gold and so on. However, there are just not as many as we would expect to see in general.
• Table Games: There are live dealer versions of the casino classics Baccarat, Poker, Blackjack and Roulettes. Each of them can be found within its own section of the website. At the same time, the casino does not feature many of the games, and even though they are pretty easy to browse, there's just not much to browse here.
• Game Shows: Unlike the previous casino classics, there is no separate section for Game Shows. You can find them in the Live casino tab, where every live dealer game is listed. This is a bit annoying, but we were able to nevertheless discover that the casino offers access to a pretty good variety of Shows, like Sweet Bonanza Candyland and Treasure Island.
• Player vs player (PVP) Games: There are a couple of slots in which you can compete with other players to see who can win the most, but, in our view, those aren't really PVP experiences. Rather, those are just a variation of Tournaments, which are already pretty common with casinos. Really, the only unique PVP game to speak of here is Rock-paper-scissors, where you can actually play against others. We should mention that, at the time of writing, there was no-one around to play with – there were zero open rooms to play the game in, which cannot bode well for its popularity among the players of the casino.

Conclusion

We simply cannot recommend this casino. That is because of its lack of deposit bonuses, and because you can only cash in via crypto. Even if you are a fan of digital currencies and want to use them exclusively to cash in, we think you'd have a better time in a number of other places.