Where Relax Gaming Actually Stands in Australia in 2026

Online casino play is prohibited in Australia under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. No site carrying Relax Gaming’s slots or live tables holds an Australian licence, because none can. What an Australian player meets on a search for “Relax Gaming casino” is a marketing list of offshore brands the ACMA has already warned or, in some cases, blocked — and the regulator has been working through them, month by month, since 2017. This page is a clear-eyed walk through that landscape: what Relax Gaming is, who really licenses it, why Australian-facing offshore sites keep advertising it, and where a player with an Australian bank account can play under local rules instead.

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The ACMA issued further formal warnings to Dama N.V. over Woo Casino (March 2025) and Spirit Casino (May 2025).

Data current as of 9 November 2026, verified against the ACMA register of formal warnings and blocking actions.

Table of Contents
  1. How the ACMA’s Crackdown Stacks Up
  2. Why an Offshore “Relax Gaming Casino” Cannot Be Legal in Australia
  3. What Relax Gaming Actually Is
  4. Where the Equivalent Machines Actually Live in Australia
  5. The Suppliers the ACMA-Named Operators Carry
  6. How a Reader Should Read an Offshore Brand List
  7. What an Australian Player Is Actually Choosing
  8. What the Bonus Numbers on These Sites Actually Cost
  9. What the Mobile Picture Looks Like
  10. How to Read a “Best” List From a Player’s Side
  11. What a Player With a Concern Should Do
  12. What This Page Is Not
  13. Frequently Asked Questions

How the ACMA’s Crackdown Stacks Up

The Australian Communications and Media Authority can ask internet service providers to block an unlicensed gambling site at the network level, and it can issue a formal warning to an operator before doing so. By June 2026, the ACMA had asked ISPs to block 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate-marketing sites since the first such request in November 2019, and more than 230 unlicensed operators had left the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017. The most recent round, logged on 26 June 2026, took twelve more domains offline in one pass: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz.com, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino.

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In February 2025 the ACMA issued a formal warning to EOD Code SRL over Instant Casino.

A blocking rate is what that record actually measures. Run the figures from research as written: 1,751 blocked sites from the first request in November 2019 through the June 2026 report. That works out to a band of roughly 250 to 285 sites per year, and the rate has held — not climbed, not collapsed — as the ACMA works through a list that keeps refilling.

A formal warning is what gets the operator’s name on the record before a block is ordered. The 2025 and 2026 register of warnings is dense: Woo Casino (Dama N.V., March 2025), Spirit Casino (Dama N.V., May 2025), Casino Intense (Sterplay Holding Ltd, April 2025), Ignition Casino (Bamboo Media, July 2025), National Casino and Bizzo Casino (Consolutetish S.R.L., July 2025), Instant Casino (EOD Code SRL, February 2025), Rocketplay.com.au (Pulsup Ltd, March 2026) and Jackbit with CasinOK (Ryker B.V., April 2026). Several names appear twice, in different guises: Bizzo Casino drew a warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. in 2022 before Consolutetish S.R.L. inherited the warning in 2025. Dama N.V. took a 2022 warning across six brands, then two more in 2025.

A blocking rate under three hundred per year is steady work, not a sweep. It means the regulator is not catching up; the offshore list is being kept roughly flat. Each brand a player meets on an “Relax Gaming casino” page has, in most cases, already been named by the ACMA.

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, tightened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, makes it an offence to provide online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to a person physically in Australia. State and territory authorities do not license online casinos; what is licensed is wagering on races and sport placed before the event, lotteries, and keno. The Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission, which regulates 52 of Australia’s online bookmakers — Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes among them — has no full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin. The NTRWC exists because the operators want a Territory licence for tax purposes; the Australian online casino floor is empty.

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In April 2026 the ACMA issued a formal warning to Ryker B.V. over Jackbit and CasinOK.

The ACMA investigates, issues formal warnings and orders ISPs to block. The individual player is not prosecuted — the Act targets the provider — but the player is exposed. An offshore site offers no Australian consumer protection, no complaints body, and no recourse if a withdrawal is refused or a balance is held. The site can be blocked at the network level on a regulator’s instruction with the player’s money still on it.

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026; its advertising and inducement measures commence on 1 January 2027. It is law with a start date, not yet in force on this page. What it does, once operative, is sharpen the regulator’s hand on inducements — bonus offers, free-spin packages, “no deposit” credits — that pull Australians onto prohibited services. On a 2026 page, it is the next thing to read when the inducement section below reads thin.

What Relax Gaming Actually Is

Relax Gaming was founded in 2010 by Patrik Österåker and Jani Tekoniemi, with a commercial and product hub in Malta. On 2 July 2021, Kindred Group agreed to buy the remaining 66.6% of shares it did not already own, valuing the company at an enterprise value of up to EUR 320 million. The supplier is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the UK Gambling Commission (account number 37462), holds a Malta Gaming Authority licence, and is also licensed by Gibraltar’s Gambling Division, Romania’s ONJN and Canada’s AGCO. The “About” page on the supplier’s own site marks a 15th-anniversary headcount of 300+ employees based in Mallorca, up from an earlier milestone of 100.

This is a content supplier, not a casino. A “Relax Gaming casino” in marketing copy means a casino that has integrated Relax Gaming’s catalogue into its lobby. The catalogue is slots and live tables. The supplier itself is properly licensed in several major European and Canadian jurisdictions. None of those licences cover an Australian customer, because the question is not the supplier’s licence but whether the operator is permitted to take an Australian deposit. None of the operators the ACMA has named over the last two years were.

Where the Equivalent Machines Actually Live in Australia

Australian players who want the Aristocrat and Relax-style experience on a regulated machine play it on electronic gaming machines in licensed clubs and hotels, in state and territory casinos, or on lottery products from licensed providers. Aristocrat Leisure Limited, the largest gambling-machine manufacturer in Australia and the second-largest slot-machine manufacturer worldwide behind International Game Technology, has its administrative and research headquarters in North Ryde in Sydney and offices in South Africa, Russia and the United States. The company was founded by Leonard Ainsworth in 1953, listed on the ASX in 1996 under the ticker ALL, and reported 2025 revenue of A$6.30 billion, normalised net profit after tax and amortisation of A$1.55 billion and 7,400 employees. Aristocrat’s regulated online real-money business, Aristocrat Interactive, was formed in April 2024 by combining the Anaxi unit with the newly acquired NeoGames group, including Aspire Global, BtoBet and Pariplay. Aristocrat Interactive is a B2B platform, not an Australian consumer-facing casino.

For an Australian consumer, the practical answer is the land-based and lottery channels the IGA leaves alone: poker machines in clubs and hotels in New South Wales and Queensland, the casino floors in each state capital, the Tatts and Tabcorp networks for lotteries and keno, and the licensed online wagering providers regulated by the NTRWC for sports and race betting before the event.

The Suppliers the ACMA-Named Operators Carry

A few offshore brand pages name the providers whose slots they list. The point is not to recommend any of these sites — none of them is licensed for Australia — but to give a reader a sense of what is actually being advertised under the “Relax Gaming casino” banner and which other studios travel with the same catalogue.

Provider Year founded Notable facts Licensing and footprint
Relax Gaming 2010 Founded by Patrik Österåker and Jani Tekoniemi; acquired by Kindred Group in July 2021 for up to EUR 320m UK Gambling Commission (37462), Malta Gaming Authority, Gibraltar Gambling Division, Romanian ONJN, AGCO Canada
1spin4win 2021 More than 190 online slots, all HTML5-built for low-bandwidth connections; reports over 1,000 partnerships and 46% bet-sum growth in H1 2025 versus H1 2024 Curaçao gaming licence; headquarters at Scharlooweg 39, Willemstad
Aristocrat Leisure 1953 Largest gambling-machine manufacturer in Australia and second-largest worldwide behind IGT; A$6.30bn 2025 revenue ASX-listed under ALL; B2B Aristocrat Interactive formed April 2024 from Anaxi plus NeoGames (Aspire Global, BtoBet, Pariplay)
Betsoft 2006 More than 200 RNG games across slots, table games, video poker and specialty; The Slotfather (since 13 December 2012) at 95.69% RTP, Good Girl Bad Girl 2 at 96.22% RTP ADM Italy, Quinel and GLI RNG certification; partners with more than 500 operators across Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa
BGaming 2018 (team active in iGaming since 2012) 250+ certified games across video slots, video poker, lottery, card, scratch, crash and casual Listed by several ACMA-named brands in their game lobbies

What this table is showing is what is actually on offer in those lobbies. A site licensed under a single Curaçao or Anjouan master licence, holding out a catalogue that includes Relax Gaming, Betsoft, BGaming and 1spin4win, is not licensed to take an Australian deposit. The licensing footprint is the licensed regulator’s stamp on the supplier; the gap between that stamp and an Australian player is what the IGA closes.

How a Reader Should Read an Offshore Brand List

The brands reviewed below are not recommendations. Each has been named by the ACMA in a formal warning for offering prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians, and that is the only editorial reason the brand is on this page: a reader searching for a “Relax Gaming casino” in Australia needs to know which names are already on the regulator’s record and why that matters before they part with a deposit. The marketing page for these brands presents a different picture — a Curaçao number, a sign-up bonus, a long list of slots. The picture changes when the ACMA’s name is on the same line.

Brand ACMA action and date Operator named by the ACMA Subject support
RocketPlay Formal warning, March 2026 (also 2022) Pulsup Ltd (also Dama N.V. in 2022) —
Level Up Casino Formal warning, May 2022 Dama N.V. listings-only (Wazdan)
Woo Casino Formal warning, March 2025 Dama N.V. —
Spirit Casino Formal warning, May 2025 Dama N.V. —
National Casino Formal warning, July 2025 Consolutetish S.R.L. listings-only (Betsoft, Pragmatic Play)
Bizzo Casino Formal warning, July 2025 (also 2022) Consolutetish S.R.L. (also TechSolutions in 2022) —
Ignition Casino Formal warning, July 2025 Bamboo Media —
Instant Casino Formal warning, February 2025 EOD Code SRL —
Jackbit Formal warning, April 2026 Ryker B.V. —
Casino Intense Formal warning, April 2025 Sterplay Holding Ltd listings-only (1spin4win)
Sky Crown Formal warning, September 2022 Hollycorn N.V. —

The Subject support column is short on purpose. It tells a reader which of the ACMA-named brands are listed on which supplier or affiliate pages as carrying Relax Gaming content; it does not confirm that the brand runs the supplier’s games today. The brands where no supplier listing was found at all sit as a plain dash — the ACMA warning stands, the supplier angle does not.

RocketPlay

The ACMA’s most recent formal warning over Rocketplay.com.au, dated March 2026, named Pulsup Ltd as the operator. Dama N.V. took an earlier one in May 2022 alongside five other Dama brands. The site, like all the others in this table, displays an offshore licence. Whatever that licence is, it does not extend to taking an Australian deposit on online casino games, because no licence can. A reader who has seen Rocketplay.com.au on a comparison page should treat it as a brand that the regulator has already named twice.

Level Up Casino

Dama N.V. took a May 2022 formal warning over Level Up Casino alongside Bambet, Dazard, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos. The brand is listed on supplier pages as a Wazdan integration; it does not confirm a live Relax Gaming lobby. The verdict sits on the regulator’s record: this is a brand the ACMA has acted against, and marketing claims do not change the fact that this service is prohibited.

Woo Casino

Dama N.V. took a March 2025 formal warning over Woo Casino. A 2025 action is recent enough that any player who started the deposit last year is dealing with a brand the regulator has already named. The supplier line is blank — no listing was found that ties the brand to a specific Relax Gaming integration.

Spirit Casino

Dama N.V. took a May 2025 formal warning over Spirit Casino. The 2025 action is two months on from the Woo Casino warning, which suggests Dama N.V. was named by the ACMA across multiple brands over a short window. A reader weighing the brand’s welcome package should weigh the regulator’s record against the offer. One is durable; the other can be blocked at the network level.

National Casino

Consolutetish S.R.L. took a July 2025 formal warning over National Casino. The brand is listed on Betsoft and Pragmatic Play pages as carrying content from those suppliers, which is the kind of catalogue position a “Relax Gaming casino” search tends to surface. The reading is the same as every other brand in this table: the regulator’s record settles the question: the service is blocked for Australian residents.

Bizzo Casino

Consolutetish S.R.L. took a July 2025 formal warning over Bizzo Casino; TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. took an earlier one in 2022. Two warnings across two operators in three years, on the same brand, is the kind of pattern that tells a reader the brand keeps being relisted by new operators. The shell changes; the regulator’s attention does not.

Ignition Casino

Bamboo Media took a July 2025 formal warning over Ignition Casino. The brand sits in a long line of casino brands the ACMA has moved against, and the warning is the most recent piece of paper in the file. No supplier listing was found that ties the brand to a current Relax Gaming integration.

Instant Casino

EOD Code SRL took a February 2025 formal warning over Instant Casino. The brand’s name — “Instant” — is the kind of marketing word that should land in a reader’s head exactly long enough to notice it is one. The regulator has named the operator; the rest of the marketing is the rest of the marketing.

Jackbit

Ryker B.V. took an April 2026 formal warning over Jackbit and CasinOK. This is the most recent action in the table alongside RocketPlay. Jackbit is the crypto-facing end of the same offshore market: a deposit in Bitcoin or Ethereum, a Curaçao or Anjouan licence displayed at the footer, and a regulator in Australia that has already named the operator. The credit-card and crypto ban for licensed Australian wagering is the frame that makes this shape unusual: the licensed side cannot take a crypto deposit, the offshore side will, and the offshore side is the one the ACMA acts against.

Casino Intense

Sterplay Holding Ltd took an April 2025 formal warning over Casino Intense. The brand is listed on supplier pages as a 1spin4win integration; again, that is the kind of catalogue position that surfaces on a “Relax Gaming” search. The verdict is the same: a regulator’s name on the operator’s record is what decides whether the site can be played from Australia.

Sky Crown

Hollycorn N.V. took a formal warning over its Sky Crown and Blue Leo casino services, with the ACMA’s “Formal Warning – Hollycorn N.V. (Sky Crown and Blue Leo)” published in September 2022. This is the oldest warning in the current table, and the brand is the kind of long-running offshore operation that has cycled through several marketing pushes since the warning was issued. A four-year-old regulator record is a regulator record.

What an Australian Player Is Actually Choosing

A “Relax Gaming casino” comparison in Australia is not really a comparison of brands. It is a comparison of one legal option — land-based EGMs, the casino floor, the licensed wagering channels — and the offshore market, where every brand carries the same regulator’s warning. The legal channels give an Australian consumer the protections the IGA was drafted to provide: BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, live since August 2023, binding Australian-licensed online and phone wagering services; the National Gambling Helpline at 1800 858 858, free, 24/7, with chat at Gambling Help Online; and recourse through the ACMA and the courts if something goes wrong. The offshore channels give a deposit bonus, no protection, and the chance that the next ACMA blocking round ends the site before the balance is withdrawn.

The payment side is the easiest tell. Since 11 June 2024, credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency are banned as payment for licensed online wagering, with penalties up to A$247,500 for operators. Legal deposit routes for licensed wagering are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. An offshore site asking an Australian for a credit card or a crypto deposit is operating outside the Australian rules, and the IGA treats the supplier, not the player, as the responsible party.

What the Bonus Numbers on These Sites Actually Cost

A “deposit bonus” or a “free spins” package on an ACMA-named offshore site is an inducement to play a prohibited service. The arithmetic is the same on every brand in the table: a stated bonus amount, a wagering multiple in the small print, a cap on the maximum cashout, and a clock. The point of the offer is to keep the player spinning; the point of the cap is to keep the winnings on the site.

A typical deposit-gated package on a Curaçao-licensed slot site runs something like a 100% match on the first deposit up to a stated maximum, with a wagering multiple around 35× to 45× the bonus amount, and a maximum cashout that often sits at five to ten times the bonus. On a A$200 deposit matched at 100%, the player carries A$400 in bonus-eligible funds. A 40× wagering multiple means A$16,000 of qualifying turnover before any of it can be withdrawn; a 5× maximum cashout means the player walks with at most A$1,000 even if the bonus clears. The remaining A$15,000 of play happens at the slot’s house edge, which is the operator’s margin and the player’s cost.

The free-spin side is the same shape with smaller numbers. A 50-free-spin package on a popular slot, valued at A$0.20 per spin, is A$10 of nominal bonus. The winnings are usually subject to a 40× wagering requirement before withdrawal, and a maximum cashout cap applies. The package reads as A$10 of value, the actual expected value runs well below that once the house edge and the cap are accounted for, and the time to clear it runs into days.

The cost is not hidden in the small print; it is the small print. The marketing word on the page is “bonus”; the regulator’s view is that the offer is an inducement to a prohibited service. The two views do not have to agree. The reader decides which one to act on.

What the Mobile Picture Looks Like

HTML5-built slots run on a modern mobile browser without a separate download. Relax Gaming’s catalogue, like 1spin4win’s, was built for low-bandwidth connections, which on mobile means a phone on a 4G or 5G signal can run the lobby without an installation. A dedicated mobile casino app, where one is offered, is usually an HTML5 wrapper plus a notification and a loyalty front-end; the games themselves run in the browser engine.

The relevant point for an Australian reader is not whether the games load on the phone — they do — but whether the site offering them is one the ACMA has named. The 12-domain blocking round reported on 26 June 2026 included names a player is likely to meet on a mobile comparison page: Freshbet, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino, Wildsino. A mobile browser does not protect an Australian player from a regulator’s instruction to an ISP.

How to Read a “Best” List From a Player’s Side

Comparison pages that rank offshore “Relax Gaming casinos” usually rank on the same handful of variables: bonus size, slot catalogue breadth, withdrawal time, mobile polish. None of those variables change whether the site is licensed for Australia. None of them is what decides the player’s risk.

The variables that do decide it are:

A reader who works through those four questions will arrive at the same conclusion the regulator already has: offshore is offshore, the licence displayed at the footer does not extend to Australia, and the protection the IGA provides for Australian consumers is not on the offshore side of the wire.

What a Player With a Concern Should Do

A player who is worried about their own play, or someone else’s, can call the National Gambling Helpline at 1800 858 858 — free, 24/7 — or reach Gambling Help Online for live chat. BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, has been live since August 2023 and binds Australian-licensed online and phone wagering services; registration is online and excludes the player from every participating licensed service for the period chosen. An offshore casino is not a participating service, which is one of the reasons BetStop is not the whole answer for a player who also plays offshore.

The IGA does not prosecute individual players; it goes after the provider. A player who has money on an offshore site when the next blocking round lands has limited recourse — the operator is overseas, the regulator’s instruction is to the ISP, and the player’s bank may or may not reverse the charge depending on the issuing bank’s policies on gambling transactions.

What This Page Is Not

This page is not a recommendation. Every brand reviewed is on the ACMA’s register of formal warnings for offering prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians. The bonuses and slot catalogues described exist for context — to show what an Australian reader actually meets when they search for the same list — not as a route to it. The Australian consumer’s regulated options are the land-based and licensed wagering channels described above, and a comparison that pretends otherwise is selling an inducement to a prohibited service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Relax Gaming legally available to players in Australia?

No. Relax Gaming is a licensed supplier in Great Britain, Malta, Gibraltar, Romania and Canada, but the question is whether the operator hosting its games is licensed to take an Australian deposit on an online casino product. None is. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 makes that offering an offence; the ACMA has named multiple brands for doing it.

What kinds of games does Relax Gaming make?

Relax Gaming supplies online slots and live casino tables to operators that integrate its catalogue. Its content sits in the lobby alongside other slot studios; on an Australian-facing offshore brand, the catalogue typically also includes 1spin4win, Betsoft, BGaming and Wazdan content.

Are Relax Gaming games offered at land-based venues in Australia?

Not under the Relax Gaming brand. Australian venues carry electronic gaming machines from manufacturers such as Aristocrat Leisure, the largest gambling-machine manufacturer in Australia, on the casino floor and in licensed clubs and hotels. Those machines are regulated by state and territory authorities.

How can Australians check whether a Relax Gaming title is fair before ever considering play?

A licensed supplier’s RTP and volatility figures are published on the supplier’s own catalogue pages and replicated on licensed-operator lobbies. The fairness audit is done by the regulator that licensed the supplier — UK Gambling Commission, Malta Gaming Authority, AGCO Canada. None of those licences cover an Australian player on an offshore site.

Why do offshore sites keep advertising Relax Gaming games to Australian visitors?

Because the marketing still works. The brands are aimed at the audience the IGA was drafted to keep out of reach; the ACMA’s blocking rate of around 250 to 285 sites per year has held steady since 2019. The inducement provisions of the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 commence on 1 January 2027.

What should an Australian do if they see a Relax Gaming game promoted by an unlicensed site?

Treat the promotion as the inducement it is, and check the ACMA register of formal warnings and the latest blocking round to see whether the brand is already on it. For concerns about one’s own play, contact the National Gambling Helpline at 1800 858 858 or Gambling Help Online; for self-exclusion from licensed services, BetStop has been live since August 2023.