Main finding
No register we checked lists a current licence for Royal Reels, for the operator ACMA named, or for any of the company names third-party databases attach to the brand. Review databases disagree with each other about which licence, if any, the casino holds: one says none, one says PAGCOR, others say Curacao under two different numbers. Where a claim could be tested against an official register, the register did not confirm it.
ACMA found that Royal Reels breached the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 and asked Australian internet providers to block it in July 2023. It holds no Australian licence (Verified, as of July 2023, per ACMA, “ACMA blocks 5 more illegal offshore sites”).
Scope and dates
This investigation covers every licence claim we found attached to the Royal Reels brand, the register or regulator record we checked it against, and the result.
The site-wide last checked date is 6 October 2026 and the last material update was 6 October 2026. The licence and ownership topic is checked monthly; its current status is “Verified: no current licence found; operator named by ACMA”.
The company names we searched for in registers were Digibrite S.R.L. (named by ACMA in its formal warning dated 14 June 2023), Royal Reels LTD (the name used by Casino.guru) and Viral Market LTD (the name used by AskGamblers), plus the brand name itself.
One limitation sits over everything below. No register we checked lists an approved Royal Reels website, so the terms and licence details discussed here come from third-party databases rather than from a regulator-approved source (Under investigation, as of 6 October 2026). We do not open or use the casino’s own sites.
Evidence
What the databases claim
Review databases disagree on Royal Reels’ licence (Needs clarification, as of 2 October 2026).
Two databases list no licence at all, while the others list three different licensing arrangements. The claims cannot all be correct at once.
What the registers and regulators show
Which company is behind the brand
Sources name different companies behind Royal Reels (Needs clarification, as of 3 June 2026). ACMA investigated from 8 May 2023 and, on 14 June 2023, formally warned Digibrite S.R.L., of Avlonos 1, 1075 Nicosia, Cyprus, over Royal Reels and Reef Reels under section 15(2A) of the Interactive Gambling Act (Verified, per ACMA, “Formal warning to Digibrite S.R.L.”).
The registered address is also contested. Databases give Costa Rica and Trustpilot’s self-declared details give Australia, both of which conflict with the Cyprus address in ACMA’s warning (Resolved, as of 14 June 2023). We use the address in the official record.
Method
We started from the licence and company details published by the review databases listed above, then took each claim to the matching official source: ACMA for Australia, PAGCOR for the Philippines, the Curacao Gaming Authority licence and enforcement registers, the Kahnawake permit list and the Anjouan agent’s register.
We searched each register for the brand name and for all three company names used in the databases. The Curacao result was an automated read of the published PDF registers; a manual recheck is pending, which is why that line stays Under investigation rather than Verified.
We did not open an account, deposit or withdraw, and we do not visit or link to the casino’s own sites. Where a database is on our do-not-link list, we name the publisher in plain text instead of linking.
Status labels and dates here are copied from our findings. As of is the date of the information in the source; last checked is when our research desk last looked.
Response from the operator
No response from Royal Reels or its operator is on record in our knowledge base. We invite one and will publish it in full; the operator, or anyone with documents that correct this page, can reach us through our contact and evidence page.
What remains uncertain
The Curacao finding is an automated read of the September and October 2026 registers, and a manual recheck is pending. Until that is done, we say only that no matching entry was found, not that no entry could exist.
The Kahnawake permit list we checked was last updated in September 2023, and the Anjouan agent’s list may likewise be stale. Both lists could lag behind any change.
We also cannot see the casino’s own licence page, because no register we checked lists an approved Royal Reels website. That means we cannot say what licence the site itself currently displays, only what the databases report and what the registers show.
Finally, the company question is not settled. ACMA named Digibrite S.R.L. in June 2023, and warned Digibrite SRL again in July to September 2025 over its brand The Pokies (Verified), but two databases attach different company names to Royal Reels, and we have found no register entry that reconciles them. For who the records tie to the brand and its sister sites, see our licence and ownership page; for the wider pattern of missing and conflicting company details, see our transparency check.
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