Temple Nile is a White Hat Gaming site with an Egyptian theme, offering around 2,400 games including slots, jackpot slots, live casino and table games.
Temple Nile is part of the high-profile White Hat Gaming stable of casino sets, which offers games to the UK market through a UKGC licence and to the rest of Europe thanks to regulatory approval from the Malta Gaming Authority and Sweden’s Spelinspektionen.
There are around 30 casino sites in the White Hat portfolio, including Miami Dice, Casimba and Fruity Casa, and since 2018, White Hat has also expanded into providing gaming services in the United States and into sports betting, thanks to a deal with the Kambi Group.
Temple Nile doesn’t offer sports betting markets, however, and you won’t find any bingo rooms here, either. This is firmly a casino games-only site, with many of the features that are typical of White Hat sites, including a big live casino section and a large welcome bonus package.
This is a fully licensed site, and displays the UKGC and MGA logos at the foot of the home page, along with links to multiple problem gambling support organizations, including the National Gambling Helpline and BeGambleAware. On that subject, the responsible gambling section is comprehensive and useful, including lots of good advice, but the ‘wall-of-text’ presentation leaves a lot to be desired, and it would benefit from being broken up into shorter sections.
Some casino sites don’t really follow through with their theme, but the creators of Temple Nile can’t be accused of timidity. When you first open the site, you’re greeted by a video clip of a modern-day Cleopatra standing in front of pyramids, and there’s gold everywhere throughout the site, including in the 13 navigation tabs across the top of the home page.
There’s even an Egyptian-themed store called the Temple Bazaar, which features a gorgeous graphic combining Ancient Egypt with casino icons. The overall effect is powerful, and there’s no doubt this is one of the more attractive casino sites we’ve come across.
The potential downside of the extensive use of video and the graceful scrolling mechanic is that older devices and slower computers might struggle to do it justice, leading to glitching and slowdown. That’s clearly a risk the site designers are prepared to take, however, as they aim squarely at a modern audience that expects a certain level of graphical sophistication.
We were impressed with the streamlined sign-up process, which is quick and easy, and it is possible to sign up without making a deposit. One minor criticism – common to a number of White Hat sites – is the lack of clarity about verification processes. In fact, to find out how the KYC process works, you have to dig down to section five of the website terms and conditions.
The game lobby layout at Temple Nile is well thought out and intuitive. There is the usual central area featuring an array of game thumbanails, but you will rarely need to scroll aimlessly downwards in search of your preferred game, thanks to the array of navigation tabs. There are 13 options here, depicted with attractive gold icons, including Providers, Roulette and Blackjack. There’s even a dedicated tab for the site’s 13 Big Bass variants.
All of the game panels display the game developer details, which is a nice touch, although we’d also like to see other information such as RTP, volatility and minimum stake displayed. The thumbnails for jackpot games display details of their top prizes, but this is slightly undercut by the fact that there is no dedicated jackpot slots tab, so you have to search for them.
On the plus side, the Providers section is well-organized in order of the number of games that company provides, along with links to some of their most popular titles.
In total there are 2,400 games on the site, from 55 game developers. Pragmatic Play and Play’nGo are the biggest contributors, although Blueprint Gaming and Red Tiger also supply over 100 titles. The latter of those developers was one of a string of game creators that White Hat struck deals with between 2018 and 2020, along with the likes of Green Tube and Push Gaming.
Although there is no dedicated jackpot slots section, we did find multiple Mega Moolah variants, along with Divine Fortune, Rhino Rampage, Gold Blitz King Millions and a few others, and with slots making up around 90% of the game library, slots fans have plenty of choice.
Table game fans have far fewer options. There are around 50 games here, which is about standard for White Hat Gaming sites, and mostly variants of blackjack and roulette, although there is a touch of diversity thanks to unusual titles like Microgaming’s Gridiron Roulette.
The live casino area of the site is more impressive. You’ll find 94 games here, provided mainly by Evolution and Pragmatic Play and while there’s a core of traditional blackjack, baccarat and roulette variants, there are multiple other options including Marble Races, Dream Catcher, Balloon Race and Vegas Ball Bonanza. Players looking for alternative gaming experiences might also enjoy the Scratch And Stuff section with around 80 slingo and scratchcard games.
The quality of promotions varies quite widely at White Hat sites, but Temple Nile is one of the better platforms for bonuses. The promotions page focuses on the welcome bonus, but scroll down and there are regularly updated offers, and unlike the typical range of cash backs, reloads and free spins you find at most sites, the Temple Nile bonuses tend to involve tickets to prize draws with big cash prizes of up to £30,000.
The Temple Bazaar is also worth a mention. Accumulate enough Temple Points through playing games and making deposits and you can exchange these for real prizes, including phones, holidays, computers and other rewards.
Temple Nile is also relatively unusual in providing downloadable apps, for both Android and iOS devices, although the site is also customized for play through a mobile browser, though as mentioned above, some older devices may not cope with all aspects of the site.
The other aspect of the site worth noting is the customer support service. While some sites appear to be trying to dissuade you from getting in touch, Temple Nile actually offers an accessible service. Click on the turquoise Live Chat option, press Start Chat and you are immediately either connected with a customer support agent or placed in a numbered queue.
If you are looking for a casino site that does a bit of everything, you will be disappointed with Temple Nile. There’s no sports betting, no bingo, and the table game selection is poor. You may also struggle if you’re trying to play on an older mobile device.
For everyone else, however, this site has a lot to offer. The slot game selection is big enough to be comprehensive without being overwhelming, the customer support, banking, mobile and registration services are excellent, and the site itself is a pleasure to use, thanks to its graphical sophistication, smooth scrolling, elegant design and user-friendly features.
Daily free Bonus Wheel game for all depositing players
40x (deposit + bonus) on slots only, excluding progressive jackpots and a long list of other games (which you can find on the Temple Nile website)
The Responsible Gambling Policy at Temple Nile is easy to find (it’s linked from right next to the login button) and also easy to understand.
As well as the deposit limits, reality check, time-out and self-exclusion options they are required by the UK Gambling Commission to offer, there’s some extra safer gambling tools at Temple Nile.
The policy also has advice presented in the form of bullet points, a self assessment checklist and links to helpful organisations.