Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash

Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash: Slot Overview

Just when we'd got the smell of fish off our hands from the last fish slot review, we get Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash from Games Global partner Gold Coin Studios. Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash is a follow-up to Fishing Floats of Cash (2022), which in turn appears to have been a reskin of Fiona's Fortune (2022). The recycling of bits and bobs and ideas and gaming components is evidently strong with this one. Never mind, time to grab a virtual rod and see what we can dredge up with Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash.

To begin with, Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash is cheerful if plain looking. Fishing slots tend to be upbeat affairs, and Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash certainly is that - largely thanks to its bouncy music. Sorry to use the same word twice so close together, but the visuals are plain, boring even, the base game background depicting some water and a hint of a cloudless sky. The rotating prize wheel is one incentive, perhaps, as are the three prize values displayed along the top of the game grid, though apart from the cheerful tunes, there isn't much about Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash that screamed to us, 'play me, you wanna be fisherperson.'

Turning our attention to Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash's inner workings, we find a highly volatile math model and four RTP configurations, 96.04% being the preferred one. The higher RTP model comes with a theoretical hit rate of 30.05% and bet limits of 20 p/c to $/€25 per spin. Sitting centre stage is a 5-reel, 3-row gaming panel with 25 paylines where regular line wins may land.

While the main focus may be on winning elsewhere, regular wins begin from the leftmost side of the board, left to right across a payline on adjacent reels. For low pays, Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash has 10 to A card royals, paying 2.4 to 3 times the bet for 5 OAK, then an anchor, a seagull, and a marlin are the high pays worth 6 to 8 times the bet for 5-of-a-kind. Appearing on reels 2 to 5, helping link wins together is the fisherman wild, which can substitute for any pay symbol.

Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash: Slot Features

Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash Not makes up for not having a heck of a lot of pay symbols by possessing a fair few features. These are the Express Collect, a Bonus Wheel, a Link&Win Respins feature, and free spins.

Express Connect

Express Connect prize symbols may land on reels 1 to 4, with values of 1 to 200 times the bet or displaying the Mini 20x the bet or Major 600x the bet prizes. When a Trigger symbol lands on reel 5, any Express Connect prize symbols also in view award their values.

Wheel Bonus

Landing a Trigger symbol on reel 5 and a Wheel Bonus symbol on reel 1 triggers the Wheel Bonus. The Wheel spins to award 2x, 5x, or 10x the bet, the Link&Win feature, or the Mini, Major, or Mega Prize worth 20x, 600x, or 7,500x the bet, respectively.

Link&Win

The Link&Win feature starts with 3 spins where only special symbols or blank spaces may land. Any new Link&Win symbols that hit reset the spin count. At the end, the values of all prizes are awarded. If all 15 positions are filled, the Mega Prize 7,500x the bet is also awarded.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols on reels 2-4 triggers 10 free spins. Whenever a Trigger symbol lands on the fifth reel, the Feature Trail is progressed by +1 position. Up to 3 Trigger symbols can land on a spin. Upon reaching each third position on the Trail, a multiplier applies to any future Express Collect wins and +5 additional free spins are awarded. The multiplier progresses like so - x2, x3, x5, then x10. The Trail has 12 positions to progress along.

Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash: Slot Verdict

Well, it's a fishing game, alright, but it could be anything, really. When digging into Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash's past, it quickly became apparent how much recycling of gaming components and general reskinning went on to spawn the current game. Couple that with the plain visuals, and it was hard to fight off an overwhelming feeling of tedious boredom while playing Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash.

For starters, there is a significant number of fishing slots already on the market, which is no bad thing in and of itself. And yet, if someone is planning to make yet another one, why not do something interesting with it? What's the point of churning out another reskin, or a Fishin' Frenzy/Big Bass Bonanza wanna-be? It doesn't mean the game has to light up the sky with incandescent innovation. Just something, anything to give the game an original spark. Not singling any one studio out here, by the way; just ranting into the wind. Fishing Floats of Cash kinda got away with it, maybe, since it was the first in this series, yet Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash is just a more volatile version with a higher max win. Perhaps the previous game was a hit? Fair dues to Gold Coin Studios if it was. But for non-fans, or if coming in for the first time, Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash may well just fall flat, delivering a bunch of same old same old gaming, which was tiring to struggle though.

Apologies for the bad vibes, but Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash just didn't float the boat. It's technically got the required parts to thrill players who strike it lucky, though with other more exciting fishing games on the market – the Big Bass range, Golden Catch, 4 Fantastic Fish in Egypt, and even iterations of Fishin' Frenzy, for example, Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash was like ordering frozen fish from a restaurant rather than something freshly caught.