United States · state by state
For readers in the United States
This page is written for anyone reading from the United States. It names no casino and carries no commercial link, because the law here is the law of the state and twelve of them have moved against the free-to-play model in two years.
Why this page exists, and why it is the hardest one on the site to write
The United States is the one market where "free play" is not a side door but a business model, and it is also the market that has spent two years closing that door state by state. Those two facts are the reason you are seeing this page instead of the international list, and they are also the reason that we have chosen to name no casino at all on it. The list you would otherwise have reached names brands licensed somewhere else, and an unlicensed brand is what the law in your state exists to keep away from you.
We count the licensed markets first: online casino is licensed in seven states and approved in an eighth that has not yet opened (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, West Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island, with Maine approved), which leaves the rest of the country as territory in which the operators on our international pages hold no authority to take an account at all.
Several states go further and reach the person who promotes rather than the person who offers: Louisiana, Oklahoma, Montana, Washington, Tennessee and New York each name "promotion", "support" or the transmission of gambling information as the conduct, and two of them name the "media affiliate" in terms.
Since 2025 twelve states have banned the dual-currency "sweepstakes" casino outright; seven of those statutes reach operators, technology suppliers, payment processors, geolocation providers and media affiliates in a single sweep. One of them takes effect on signature and carries a penalty of ten thousand to one hundred thousand dollars for each violation, which is a scale that makes a cautious page the only sensible page (the figures are the statute's, not an estimate of ours).
How a reader in the United States reaches this page, and what it means
Our redirection works in two layers (one in your browser, one on the server), and we would rather describe it than leave you to find out. The page you are reading is served by a geolocation service that recognises the state and lets a search engine's crawler through unchanged, while the affiliate links themselves are stopped on the server, where nothing gets around them. A reader with an advertisement blocker may therefore still see our international pages, and will find that the commercial links on them do not work for him at all. That combination is deliberate: the editorial content stays readable, and the click does not happen.
The part the law leaves alone, which is most of what this site is about
A game played with "credits" worth nothing is not a wager anywhere in the United States, and almost every page of this site is about exactly that (the demos, the studios, the behaviour of the lobbies that serve them). The studios that publish a playable "demo" publish it to the whole world, the platforms examined here behave the same way for a reader in Ohio as for a reader in Lisbon, and the rules read for other jurisdictions are readable from anywhere whether or not they apply.
What changes at the state line is not the demo but the account (the stake is what the statutes reach). An offshore casino that takes a deposit from a player in a state that has not licensed it is operating outside that state's law, and the player's recourse when something goes wrong is whatever the operator chooses to give him (no regulator, no complaints body, no court that will hear it), which is a short sentence with a long shadow.
The "sweepstakes" model sits awkwardly between the two, and we treat it as a subject of its own rather than folding it into either (it is neither a demo nor a casino, and calling it either would be wrong). It takes no money for a bet, it hands out two kinds of "coin", and a dozen states have banned it regardless. The page we wrote on that subject explains the mechanism and names the states, because a model that is lawful in one place and prohibited in the next is worth understanding before it is worth joining.
What a reader here can use this site for
Start from the studios, which is where the useful part begins. Around twenty of the game makers checked here publish a demo that opens on their own site without an account of any kind (the industry calls it "fun mode"), and nothing in American law touches a reader who opens one. The catalogue pages, the launchers and the parameters sit on our studio pages, with the addresses at which each was read.
Then the rules, which are a great deal more useful to you than the word "rules" makes them sound (they are, in practice, the only reliable answer to the question of whether a free game is available at all).
The jurisdictions examined here answer the same four questions in four different ways. A reader who has seen Germany require an account, Spain a registration, Sweden identical odds and Great Britain a verified age has learned more about this business than any list of casinos would teach him.
What this site will not do is publish a state-by-state table of where an offshore account is "safe", because no such table exists and anybody who prints one is selling something (usually an account with the brand sitting at the top of the table). The legal position is a matter of state statute, the federal provisions layer on top of it, and the only honest summary is the one set out above!
Help, and the number that changed
The National Problem Gambling Helpline is 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), and it takes calls, texts and chat alike; it replaced the older national number on 29 January 2026. The number many pages still print, 1-800-GAMBLER, is now the helpline of a single state rather than the national one, and a page that keeps printing it as the "national" line is sending a reader somewhere he did not mean to go.
Self-exclusion here is organised by state rather than nationally. The scheme that matters is the one run by the regulator of the state in which the player lives. Each of the seven states with licensed online casino operates its own register (and only its own), so the exclusion binds the operators licensed there and nobody else.
The minimum age is twenty-one in the states where online casino is licensed (eighteen for other products), and one sentence is worth closing on. A "demo" costs nothing and teaches a game; an unlicensed account costs whatever goes into it and leaves the player with nobody to complain to.