About the Editors, Their Sources and Their Funding

What These Pages Publish, and Why

Reviews, guides and reference explainers for one game fill these pages, and nothing else does. Every figure on them is quoted from a primary source: the maker's own page for the game, the Game Info screen inside the client read end to end, the paytable it prints, or a licence register a reader can open, and our own session figures are labelled as ours.

Some numbers stay out of reach. Figures that resist verification are printed as not confirmed instead of guessed at, because a reader deserves a visible gap in front of them. Start with the Fat Santa review, which is the clearest example of that rule working.

In Short, What a Reader Gets Here

Here's the short version: it's 9 pages about one game, and each figure is quoted from the screen, page or register that printed it. We've no casino accounts, no deposits and no rankings for sale.

If a figure isn't printed by the studio, the client or a regulator, it doesn't go on a page. That's the entire editorial rule, and the sections below show how it holds up.

Subject

One slot game, Fat Santa

Pages

9 across 2 sections and the front page

Publishing since

2 Nov 2026

Return quoted

96.45% in the client; the studio's page also lists 94.15%

Funding

Affiliate links, disclosed beside every sponsored button

Author

Rosalind Keefe, slot tester

What Should You Check Before You Start?

Three checks are worth making before you start reading anywhere on this site, and they take about a minute. The client and the studio share one return figure, so the figures worth your attention are the ones beside it: the second build, and the ceiling nobody prints.

1. Open the Game Info screen in the demo and note the return it prints, and the maximum-win line it does not.
2. Open the maker's own page for the game and compare its two returns with that screen.
3. Look up the supplier in the Gambling Commission register under account 54984, and note the date of its licence.

The first of those three changes rarely; the other two move whenever a page or a list is updated. Explore the reference section for the detail behind each one, and note that all 9 pages carry the date of their most recent check.

Who Writes and Signs These Pages

Every page on Fat Santa is written and signed by Rosalind Keefe, the slot tester. Rosalind tests one slot at a time and prints only what the game itself or a public register will back: opens the title from the maker's own page behind its 18+ gate, reads the Game Info screen and every paytable screen from the first line to the last, plays a logged session in the demo and keeps the server's answer for every spin, looks for the maximum win the game prints and says so when it prints none, and looks the supplier up in every register that publishes one instead of taking a footer at its word. The author profile sets out the method and lists all 9 published pages.

A byline and two dates on every page. Each content page carries them, published and updated. The author profile sets out what stands behind that byline: two recorded demo runs, the screens read and the register checks. The person who tested the game is the person who answers a correction.

Where the Facts on These Pages Begin

Facts on these pages begin in 3 places, in a fixed order of source. First the game itself, tested in its official free demo with a recorded session. Then the maker's documents, its public game page, its press release and the text inside the client. Last the regulator register, opened on the day a page is written to see what it carries for the supplier.

The order matters because sources disagree more often than you would expect. On this game the client prints 96.45% and the studio's page adds a 94.15% build, while the win side has no published figure at all: the studio prints a highest observed win of 3,844x, and catalogues reprint 6,400x or 10,233x.

When that happens the page prints each figure and names who said what. The studio's Fat Rabbit page carries the same two returns and the same 3,844x as this game's page, so the pages set the surfaces side by side instead of choosing one. A maker can redraw a page without saying so, which is why every figure carries the date it was checked.

What Is Checked Before a Page Goes Live?

Regulation is verified against a register instead of a logo. The Gambling Commission register lists Push Gaming Holding Plc under account 54984, Sweden lists three Push Gaming companies under Spelprogramvara until 30 June 2028, and the Maltese number MGA/B2B/779/2020 stands only on the studio's footer. That is a finding about the supplier, and it stays a finding about the supplier: no register names which casino runs which build.

Our testing method page describes each step in order. Third-party catalogues are read for context only, while competitor review sites stay out of the citation list entirely.

Which Sources Count, and Which Do Not?

The studio provides the demo client, and the screens inside it carry most of the figures these pages quote. Its Game Info screen is where the running build states its return and the Bonus Buy return, while the public game page lists two builds, so the two are cited separately.

Regulators supply the other half of the record here, and the useful question is which of them publish anything at all. A register that answers in minutes settles a licence claim; a register that cannot be read leaves a footer claim standing as a footer claim; a regulator that keeps no supplier list at all leaves nothing to quote.

The gaps belong to the record, not to the reporting. No maximum win is published, no hit frequency is published, and the line for a maximum win exists in the client's language file but never reaches the screen. You will find each of those problems printed wherever it matters to you.

3 Sources, Opened in Order

The complete list of steps is short. Our methodology lives on a page of its own: a game verdict rests on 5 criteria, and no casino is graded here at all, because no casino dossier was built; to verify a figure, our editors open the client, the game page the maker publishes and the regulator register, in that order.

Readers get the result with their own route back to it. Every figure names the document it came from, so they can repeat the check for themselves, and you can hold a page to the standard it sets.

That standard carries one limitation worth stating out loud. A screen read last week can be redrawn this week, so you should treat the date beside a figure as part of the fact.

How This Service Earns Its Money

Money reaches this service in one way only. Some outbound links are affiliate links: if a reader registers or deposits through one, the operator may pay this site a commission, at no cost to the reader.

Commissions leave a rating, a verdict or the running order untouched, since operators are ranked nowhere on Fat Santa at all. Compared to a paid placement, that is a dull business model, and no payment buys a line on this site. The terms of use repeat this disclosure, and it sits beside the sponsored button wherever one appears.

No operator or game studio pays for coverage, reads the text before publication or supplies their own screenshots. They see a finished page at the same moment you see it, and the published version is the only preview on offer. Frames come from the recorded demo session, and the studio has no say over a single caption.

Independence and Corrections on These Pages

Independence on these pages rests on 2 rules. Both are short enough to be held to, and both of them hold. A page is never edited at an operator request, and a correction is accepted only with a source a reader can open for themselves.

If you spot an error, write to the editors; your correction lands on the page and moves its update date, so the history of a fact stays visible for you and for everyone after you. Where sources disagree, the page prints both figures and says which one the studio stands behind, because an averaged number is a made-up number.

Terms Used Across These Pages

Return to player

The share of all stakes a game hands back across a modelled long run, printed for this title as 96.45% on the Game Info screen, with a 94.15% build also listed by the studio.

Affiliate link

An outbound link for which the operator may pay this site a commission when a reader registers through it, disclosed beside every sponsored button.

Licence register

The public list a regulator keeps, such as the British one that files Push Gaming Holding Plc under account 54984.

Not confirmed

The wording used whenever no provider page, client screen or regulator entry states the figure a reader asked about.

Player Safety on These Pages

Safety comes first. Player safety outranks every other rule on this site, and it binds everyone who writes here. Every page is written for adults aged 18 or over, and a slot returns less over time than it collects.

The responsible gambling page names two international help services in its own text, Gambling Therapy and Gamblers Anonymous, and sets out the warning signs worth acting on. It prints a service only where we have read it in an official source.

Predictor and hack pages stay off Fat Santa, because the outcome of each spin comes from the server and no sequence a prediction could latch onto is published. The privacy policy explains that this service keeps no reader accounts and sets 0 cookies of its own.

Does a Commission Ever Change a Verdict?

No commission has ever moved a verdict here, and the structure makes it awkward to try: operators are never ranked, so there is no running order for money to buy.

A reader who doubts that can test it cheaply. Read the disclosure beside the sponsored button, then compare its wording with the criticism printed in the same section.

Recap: How These Pages Stay Honest

To recap the promise: these pages publish one game, name their sources, check a supplier against a register where one exists, and earn money through disclosed affiliate links that move no score. If you want one sentence, the Game Info screen inside the running game is always the better source. That is the rule. Player safety and the age rule sit above all of it.

The weak spots in the record stay visible as well. The maker publishes no maximum win, its page lists two returns and names a loading screen and a panel for the running one that its own demo left blank, and the Maltese licence rests on its own footer, so each of those is printed where it belongs. Read how we test it next, then the author profile.