Amazing Catch

Amazing Catch: Slot Overview

After just putting the finishing touches on a prior fishing slot review, we find we've got… yet another fish slot on the queue next and a clone as well. Ugh, this could be tough. No matter, it's time to put on the professional hat, bust out the typewriter, well laptop, and cast off with Amazing Catch, an online slot from Games Global associates Just For The Win, to see what this one can pull in.

To clear the air, Amazing Catch is a reskin of Diamond Sands, though there might have been later copies or even an originator we are unaware of. Apart from a facelift, practically everything has remained the same. Fitting perhaps? The other slot was about chilling out, enjoying the finer things in life; this one is about chilling out while reeling in aquatic animals. Kind of a connection, however tenuous. As far as reskins go, Just For The Win has painted a very pretty skin for Amazing Catch. The game is located in a wonderfully majestic, almost sublime part of nature made up of mountains, a lake (or river) and plant life. The same dreamy quality to the artwork that was used in Western Gold 2 and Kodiak Kingdom Multiplier Mountain is back, transporting players about as far away from the rat race as an unsocial hermit could ever ask for.

Amazing Catch is played on a 5x3 gaming grid that uses a 243-ways-to-win pay system. Row position doesn't matter; as long as matching symbols land on at least 3 adjacent reels from the leftmost side, players have a win on their hands. Available in a trio of RTP models, Amazing Catch maxes out at 96.08% and comes with a hit rate of 24.34%. Playable from 20 p/c to $/€50 per spin, Amazing Catch does not feature any sort of additional gambling option.

Amazing Catch keeps things simple on the paytable, too, where there are 8 regular pay symbols. The lower value 4 are J-A card ranks, while the higher value 4 are various fish in various colours. Hitting a 5 OAK winning way awards players 4 to 5 times the bet for the card symbols or 12.5 to 30 times the bet for the fish lot. Wild symbols must have slipped the net since none have been caught and inserted into Amazing Catch at any time.

Amazing Catch: Slot Features

What Amazing Catch does have in its tackle box is money symbols, the Super Wheel, and free spins with a progressive multiplier.

Money Symbols

Money symbols land with values of 0.5 to 100 times the bet. When money symbols create winning ways, their values are awarded.

Super Wheel

Whenever a bonus token lands, there is a chance the Super Wheel triggers, though it cannot trigger on a spin that triggers free spins or during free spins. The Super Wheel rotates to award the Big, Major, Mega, or Super prizes worth 20x, 50x, 250x, or 5,000x the bet, respectively. The Super Wheel has a frequency of 1 in 375 spins.

Free Spins

Landing 3 free spins symbols on the reels awards 10 free spins. During free spins, if a Collect symbol lands on the rightmost reel, any money symbols present on the same spin award their values. Free spins also have a progression meter divided into 5 levels, and each level has its own multiplier. The multiplier starts at x1. When Golden Lure symbols land, they are collected, and 4 are needed to progress to the next level, which begins when the current level ends. Unlocking a level awards +5 free spins, while the multiplier levels are x1, x2, x3, x5, and x25. Free spins have a hit frequency of 1 in 238.

Amazing Catch: Slot Verdict

In this era, the era of abundant fish slots, the idea of getting yet another one, and a clone at that, wasn't the most exciting proposition. However, Just For The Win has played to its strength and done a good job of preventing Amazing Catch from coming across as irrelevant. Well, the game's success might likely hinge on your thoughts about fishing slots in general. If you're fed up to the gills with them, then meh, but if you just can't get enough, then Amazing Catch has a few positive things to offer.

One thing Just For The Win is good at is painting pretty pictures, and Amazing Catch certainly has one of those. Its background portrayal of the lone angler out on the water is almost meditative in its quality. Back in the distant past, either people caught food (or grew it), or they perished. It's funny, in this day and age, we can easily pop down to the market to buy whatever fish takes our fancy, one that's been gutted and chopped up into convenient cooking-sized chunks. Heck, you can even go to a restaurant where someone else will cook the fish for you - then wash the dishes. And yet, a lot of people flock to the waterways to catch fish the old-fashioned way, engaging in an activity which is almost primal, like gorging on grilled meat or veg for non-meat eaters. Just humans vs nature in the aeons-old struggle for survival.

Aside from the artwork, the rest of Amazing Catch wasn't as thought-provoking, especially since we'd been there, done that already in Diamond Sands. So while not fantastic, Amazing Catch isn't horrible either, and players on the hunt for yet another fishing slot might find this sort of thing alluring.