Fintastic Fishing

Fintastic Fishing: Slot Overview

Ever had a hobby that you were super enthused about in the beginning; you bought all the stuff you needed, got out and did it as much as possible, but, as time went by, the fire cooled, and the hobby gear started accumulating dust and cobwebs in a storage room? If you're an online gambler/online fisherman, that need never occur. The virtual fishing rod has the chance to whirr out and attempt collecting virtual fish on a very, very regular basis. Games Global studio Foxium is another software provider giving enthusiasts another chance to do just that in the cash collection game Fintastic Fishing.

Foxium has chosen a lake to be the setting for Fintastic Fishing and not a bad wee spot it is, either. The water is relatively clean and clear-looking, though there aren't many fish swimming about the background, while on land, wooded mountains stretch off into the distance. A friendly fishing tune completes the picture on what is an upbeat, a little generic, but cheerful fish slot scene.

Bubbles are used as the frames for Fintastic Fishing's mostly see-through gaming grid, which holds 5 reels and 25 paylines. This is a medium volatile slot, with a range of RTP models, maxing out at 96.16%. Stakes go from 20c at the lowest to $/€25 at the other end of the scale, and two bonus buys are available, as well.

Regular lines occur when at least 3 matching pay symbols land along a payline, starting from the leftmost reel onwards. They include J-A card ranks as the low pays, then a trap, a reel, a float, boots, and a tackle box as the high pays. Hitting a line of 5 royals awards 1.6-2 times the bet, while a 5 OAK high pay win is worth 6-16 times the bet. Bubbly 'W' wilds appear on all reels. They have the same value as the tackle box when making wins of themselves, or wilds may be used to replace any regular pay symbols in a winning line.

Fintastic Fishing: Slot Features

Collecting money symbols in Fintastic Fishing is made possible by the Fintastic Cash Catch feature, available in the base game, plus it has a free spins round where a bunch of special symbols are added, as are Cash Creels above each reel.

Fintastic Cash Catch

Fintastic Fishing symbols appear on all reels in three types. The small ones have values of 1x the bet, the mediums are worth 2x-3x the bet, while the big fish have prizes of 4x-500x the bet. Now, angler symbols appear on the rightmost reel in the base game, and they award the sum of the Fintastic Fishing symbols in view at the same time when they land. Fintastic Fishing may contain a Jackpot value. These are the 10x Mini, 25x Minor, 100x Major, and the 500x Mega.

Bait Booster

The Multiplier Upgrade symbol appears on the rightmost reel in the base game. When it hits, it increases the Bait Booster by +1. The Bait Booster starts at 1 and goes up to 10 at the most. When an Angler symbol awards Fintastic Fishing symbols, the collected sum is multiplied by the Bait Booster value. The Bait Booster resets to 1 after each Fintastic Cash Catch event and is stored per bet.

Free Spins

Landing at least 1 Fintastic Fishing symbol on each reel in the base game triggers 5 free spins. During free spins, each of the 5 reels gets its own Fintastic Cash Creel above it. Landing a Fintastic Fishing or multiplier symbol in free spins increases the Fintastic Cash Creel values. The cash collected from the Fintastic Cash Creel does not reset. Special symbols may land in free spins, they are:

• Angler's Creel Collect – awards the value contained in the Fintastic Cash Creel above it.
• Angler's All Collect – awards all Fintastic Cash Creel values.
• Extra Spins – up to 5 additional free spins are awarded.
• Fintastic Fishing – increases the value of the Fintastic Cash Creel above them by 1x-500x.
• All Upgrade – increases all Fintastic Cash Creel values by 1x-500x the bet.
• Creel Multiplier – multiplies the value of the Fintastic Cash Creel above it by x2 to x5.
• All Multiplier – multiplies all Fintastic Cash Creels by x2 to x5.

Bonus Buy

From the bonus buy menu, players can get a regular round of free spins for the cost of 100 times the bet or super free spins for 300x the bet. Super free spins are where there are greater chances of multiplying values of all Fintastic Cash Creels and better chances of collecting awards from them.

Fintastic Fishing: Slot Verdict

Fish, check, fisherman, uh huh, cash collecting, yep, Fintastic Fishing has all that making it a fully formed slot for players who go in for this sort of thing. It's hard to find faults with it if you're looking for this style of gambling. The game looks cheerful, sounds cheerful, and gives gamblers a taste of fishing out on the water from the comfort of their own homes with no chance of ending up all wet or getting that hard-to-remove fish smell from their fingers. Job done, really. Having said that, this is a slot more likely to cater to recreational gamblers more so than the hardcore gambling community.

Some of the highlights are the Bait Booster multiplier accrual for use during Fintastic Cash Catches, which are available in the base game, so that's nice. No need to trigger or buy free spins to see fisherman symbols on the reels, thereby making cash collect awards possible at all times. However, Foxium has made activating the free spins round a desirable outcome by adding extra prize-winning possibilities in the form of the Fintastic Cash Creels above each reel and the addition of several interrelated special symbols. Not sure about buying the rounds, though; ending in the black was tricky, so being patient might be the way. You never know, though. A bought round might blow up, and anyway, fishing is all about being patient, isn't it?

By blowing up, Fintastic Fishing commands a respectable, for this sort of slot, winning potential of 10,000x the bet. When factoring in everything the game has to offer, Fintastic Fishing is no soulless Fishin' Frenzy or Big Bass Bonanza imitator, as it provides those that are into these type of slots with pretty much everything they could want, including a few things they might not have seen out on the water before. For what it is, Fintastic Fishing is a decent slot, but one that is unlikely to revolutionize the genre or draw in players not already captivated by this niche.