Epic Fish Winter Catch

Epic Fish Winter Catch: Slot Overview

As well as a ton of fish slots flitting about the place, we also see a lot of fish slot reskins as software providers race to flood the market with their products and attempt to blot out their competitors. Exhibit A is Epic Fish Winter Catch, a reskin of Epic Fish Adventure designed by software provider Quickspin. The original was a decent fish slot that competently did what these sorts of games usually do - deploy a fisherman symbol to collect fish money symbols. What helped inject a dash of individuality was its Golden Fish symbol, which could only be caught during the highest tier bonus round and teased players with an individual value that could grow to 5,000x all on its own.

So the stats and gameplay haven't changed much, but the skin's been altered to reflect a different time of year and region of the planet. Unlike the original, Epic Fish Winter Catch is not the place where you lie on the sand in beach shorts and a tank top, tie a fishing line to your big toe and drift off to sleep in the sun, with a fish pulling on the line as your alarm clock. No, it's much colder now, more Christmassy. Drilling down even further, Epic Fish Winter Catch takes place in the legendary Norwegian village of Gullfjord, an icy place of myth, where the biggest treasure of them all is the slippery, elusive Golden Pollock fish.

A 5x3 grid is where the angling takes place, with 10 paylines in operation for landing winning combinations along. Joining the daring explorer Howard Spinsson, players may wager $/€0.10 to $/€100 per spin, and have the choice of using the extra bet, which doubles the stake in order to increase the chance of triggering free spins by 189%. Of the four RTP models, 96.07% is the preferred return, and the volatility is high.

On the paytable, the lows are 10-A royals worth 2x to 7.5x for 5 OAK, while the premiums are fish, hats, bottles, starfish, and shellfish, worth 10x to 75x for 5 OAK. Wilds land anywhere and substitute for all regular paying symbols. An all wild 5 OAK win pays 150x the bet.

Epic Fish Winter Catch: Slot Features

As well as a fish collection feature, Epic Fish Winter Catch has three bonus rounds and three bonus buys.

Fish Collection

On top of substituting regular symbols, wilds also act as a fisherman. Wilds collect fish symbols when they land together, adding their values to the total win. Fish symbols have a value on them of 1x to 25x.

Free Spins

Free spins are awarded when 3 or more bonus scatters land anywhere on the grid, and they only appear in the base game. Hitting 3 scatters takes players to Winter Spins, 4 scatters take them to Tight Lines, while 5 scatters trigger Golden Pollock. In all bonus rounds, 12 free spins are awarded, and the fish collection is present.

• Winter Spins - in this round, +1 spin is awarded for every 4 wilds collected.
• Tight Lines - wilds are sticky for 1 extra spin and count twice towards the Wild meter. +2 spins are awarded for every 4 wilds that land on the reels.
• Golden Pollock - wilds can collect the Golden Pollock fish, which only appears in this feature. What makes the Golden Fish special is that it increases in value every time it appears on the reels. Its starting value is 50x, but this figure can rise as high as 5,000x. Wilds are sticky for 1 extra spin and count twice towards the Wild meter. +3 free spins are granted for every 4 wilds that appear.

Feature Buy

Players can buy any of the three free spins features. Paying 40x lands 3+ scatters, 95x lands 4+ scatters, or 250x guarantees 5 scatters land.

Epic Fish Winter Catch: Slot Verdict

The first Epic Fish Adventure, you know, it was alright; bright, colourful, it gave fish-obsessed gamblers something that wasn't Big Bass or Fishin' Frenzy related to try out. Much of it was the usual catching fish symbols with a fisherman symbol action, but you could do so in the base game as well as the bonus rounds, and having three levels of bonus gave the game extra staying power. The reason for that was because while the two lower free spins features were more or less same-same, the third 5 scatter feature was head and shoulders above the others on account of that's where the Golden Fish, or in this case the Golden Pollack, could be caught. And since the Golden Pollack can swell its value to 5,000x, its golden goodness is the one you want.

Epic Fish Winter Catch keeps all that while trading its desert island swimsuit for a thick coat and a Santa hat. Quickspin has mostly left the original gaming alone, shovelled a bit of snow on top and patted it down smooth, so obviously, this is a slot that doesn't stray far from safe, familiar waters; actually, it doesn't stray from them at all, really. Quickspin has focused on producing a fishing slot which is suitable for some Christmas-time gaming, rather than cooking up anything new. And for a Christmas game, Epic Fish Winter Catch manages to be festive without being gaudy, which is a plus, if you consider understated to be a desirable quality, and unlike some fish slots, the base game has a decent amount of activity on offer rather than funnelling all the catching into the bonus round.

As a consequence, if unpredictability is your jam, you ain't going to find much of that in Epic Fish Winter Catch. Quickspin can check Christmas reskin off its list of things to do in 2025, even if the studio has done so in about the least demanding way possible. But still, Epic Fish Winter Catch is able to furnish angling fanatics with a playable, if low-effort, fish slot with 5,190x the bet winning potential for the holiday season.