What Casino Room was
AskGamblers’ review of Casino Room, checked on 3 September 2026, still describes a working casino: operator Ellmount Gaming Ltd, licences from the Malta Gaming Authority and the Swedish Gambling Authority, and a player rating of 7 out of 10 from 123 reviews. That picture is out of date. Casino Room’s own current site tells a different, more recent story.
What the domain does now
Casinoroom.com’s about-us page states plainly: “In 2022, we made the strategic decision to shift our focus to affiliate marketing efforts within the gambling industry.” The same page describes a team with “over 13 years of combined experience working directly within the gambling industry” and discloses that the site “earn[s] commissions when readers sign up through our links.” The homepage functions as a review and comparison hub covering other casino operators, not a place where you can register or deposit as Casino Room itself. This is a case where the review platforms lag the operator’s own account of events by a meaningful margin — AskGamblers’ listing reads as though nothing changed, while the site’s own words describe a full pivot away from running a casino.
Why it likely closed
The operator’s own description, “a strategic decision,” is the only reasoning given, and it doesn’t specify what drove the change. No further detail, regulatory action, or public dispute explaining the 2022 pivot was found in any source this review could open. Moving from operating a licensed casino to publishing casino reviews and taking referral commissions is a genuinely different business, with a different regulatory burden and a different revenue model, and operators do sometimes make that switch deliberately rather than under duress. Nothing found here points to a forced closure, a regulator action or a dispute with players as the trigger — but nothing rules that out either, and the site’s own vague phrasing doesn’t help settle the question either way.
This is also the second brand in this review batch whose current site describes itself as having “pivoted” from a real casino into affiliate publishing — the same pattern, almost the same wording, turned up on Casino.com, reviewed separately here. Whether that reflects a wider trend of smaller or mid-sized casino brands finding it more profitable to recommend other operators than to run their own licensed product isn’t something this review can establish from two examples, but it is a pattern worth naming rather than treating each case in isolation.
What happened to player funds
Nothing was found. No closure notice with a withdrawal deadline, and no fund-return process, appears on the current site or in the sources checked for this review. Ellmount Gaming Ltd, the operator AskGamblers records for the brand while it ran, is not named anywhere on the current casinoroom.com, which makes it harder for a former player to know who to actually contact about an old balance — the affiliate site that has replaced the casino isn’t the same legal entity, at least by its own account of events, and has no obvious reason to hold records for accounts it never operated.
Lookalike domains
No separate impersonator domain was found. The risk here is different: casinoroom.com is still the genuine domain, just converted into an affiliate site rather than handed to an unrelated third party, which makes it easy to land there expecting a working casino and find review content and referral links instead.
Where to play instead
If Casino Room’s mix of MGA and Swedish licensing was the draw, look for a casino that is currently operating as an actual casino, states it accepts Irish players, and holds a current licence from a comparable regulator. The real-money casino list on this site is built around exactly that filter, and the licence checker links each entry to its actual register record — a more current check than relying on a review platform’s last recorded snapshot.