Big Bass Bonanza slot

Big Bass Bonanza came out in December 2020 and has the highest standard RTP in this batch at 96.71%. The reel set is 5x3 with 10 fixed paylines paying left to right. The fishing rod, dragonfly and tackle box are the premiums and card royals fill the low end. The float scatter pays on its own, up to 200x the stake for five anywhere, and three or more of them start the free spins with 10, 15 or 20 spins for 3, 4 or 5 floats.

Nothing special happens in the base game beyond a wild substituting on a line. The free spins are a different game entirely. Fish symbols now carry cash values printed on them, starting at 2x the stake and climbing through 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x and higher. A fish on its own pays nothing. When a fisherman wild lands on the same spin it collects every fish value on screen and adds them to the win, so a fisherman with four fish showing is a real payout and a screen of fish with no fisherman is nothing.

Every fisherman collected is counted on a meter above the reels. Each time the meter reaches four, you get 10 more spins and the collection multiplier steps up: 2x after the first retrigger, 3x after the second and 10x after the third. From then on every fish collected is worth ten times its printed value, which is how a 200x fish becomes 2,000x and where the 2,100x max win comes from. The round can run to 50 spins in total.

Scorebet carries the Pragmatic Play catalogue, and Big Bass Bonanza runs there as a straightforward feature-trigger slot. There is no bonus buy and no ante bet on this original version, so the only way into the round is three floats on a paid spin. Reviews rate the volatility as medium to high: the cap is small next to Gates of Olympus, but the base game pays modestly and most rounds end before the 10x level is reached.