Bass Boss Megaways

Bass Boss Megaways: Slot Overview

Arm yourself with reel and rod, folks; we're hitting the water for a spot of angling with Evolution-owned Red Tiger chartering the boat. It's not their first charter either, as the game in hand, Bass Boss Megaways, is a follow-on from its 2022 fishing slot Bass Boss. The original slot wasn't without its charms, cheerfully possessing one or two links to the Bigg Bass Bonanzas of the online slot world. Bass Boss Megaways does that too, but this time, it's got a bigger play area, more features, and more ways for armchair anglers to potentially collect sweet, sweet fish symbols.

Red Tiger hasn't done a lot with the optics, though, so again, a see-through set of reels floats in a screen predominantly taken up by water, with hints of land up top. The fisherman dude is back in his boat atop the reel area, casting his line from time to time during the base game (or permanently during free spins) in order to reel in fish symbols and award their monetary prizes. It made for a pleasant view before and makes for a pleasant view this time around, too.

Naturally, the game board is bigger, which means 6 Megaways reels and a horizontal tracker reel below them, producing up to 117,649 ways to win. Red Tiger has kept ante bets and features buys out of this game, so the only choice players have to make is how much to stake, and their options are a high of $/€20 down to a low of 20 c per spin. The default RTP has gone up a notch, now at 96% (with lower versions available), while volatility is at the higher end of the scale.

Bass Boss Megaways' list of regular paying symbols includes 10 through A card royals, a reel, a hat, a box, and a boat. Landing 6 OAK winning ways pays 0.2x to 0.25x when created by royals or 0.4x to 2.5x when created by the premium symbols. There is no wild, but there are chain reactions that remove winning symbols from the screen before dropping new symbols in to provide another chance of winning. Chain reactions repeat till no win appears.

Bass Boss Megaways: Slot Features

A fisherman sits above the grid, randomly tossing his fishing line into the water during or after a spin to try and catch fish symbols. When his float lands above a reel, all fish symbols on that reel are caught. At random, at the end of a spin or reaction when no win occurred, the fisherman may cast his fishing line over a reel with fish symbols or special symbols to catch them.

Fish Symbols, Groundbait & Improved Float

Regular fish symbols can land anywhere except the horizontal reel. They do not create winning ways, but they each hold an instant prize, the value of which depends on the type of fish. Grey fish are worth 0.5x to 3x the bet, blue fish are worth 5x to 10x the bet. At random, before the fisherman casts his line, he may throw groundbait into the water, causing many fish to land on the reels, and at least one fish per reel. Moreover, a random multiplier of x2, x3, x5, or x10 may be applied to the fisherman's float in the main game. Any fish caught when this happens have their prize increased by the multiplier.

Horizontal Reel

The horizontal reel below the regular reels lands paying symbols. But also exclusively on that reel, it may land 1x2 green fish with 15x to 30x prizes, 1x3 orange fish holding 50x to 200x prizes, 1x4 golden catfish holding 500x to 2,000x prizes, Fish School scatters, Underwater Mine scatters, or instant Contest Spins scatters.

Fish School

When the fisherman catches the Fish School scatter, all symbols on the reel above it, as well as itself, are transformed into grey or blue fish. These are then caught by the fisherman.

Underwater Mine

When caught by the fisherman, the Underwater Mine scatter explodes, and all fish symbol prizes on the reels are caught by the fisherman.

Instant Contest Spins

When caught by the fisherman, the instant Contest Spins scatter immediately triggers 10 free Contest Spins. Alternatively, landing 3, 4, 5, or 6 Contest Spins scatters awards 10, 15, 20, or 25 free Contest Spins, respectively. During Contest Spins, the fisherman casts his fishing line on every spin. In addition, a progress bar appears to track how many fish are caught. The progress bar has 4 milestones that require a certain number of caught fish to be reached.

Reaching a milestone awards +8 free spins and a float multiplier. Catching 12 fish achieves Level 1 and an x2 multiplier; catching 13 fish achieves Level 2 and an x3 multiplier; 14 fish achieves Level 3 and an x5 multiplier, while 15 caught fish achieves Level 4 and an x10 multiplier. The multiplier remains for the duration of the bonus round.

Bass Boss Megaways: Slot Verdict

Aside from an expanded gaming area, what do players get from Bass Boss Megaways? A few things, actually, keeping in mind a fisherman chap pulling fish prize symbols from the reels remains well and truly the central activity. Around this, Red Tiger has dropped, like a bloody bucket of chum, things like the Fish School scatter and the Underwater Mine. Both make for swell additions in a fish slot, and both complement the main catching mechanic. The Fish School floods an entire reel with prize symbols, and the Mine awards all fish symbols in view. Not bad if you can hook 'em. As for Bass Boss Megaways' catching mechanic, dropping a line above reels makes for a welcome change from the usual fisherman wild symbol collecting prizes, and it is active in the base game, too, as well as free spins.

Contest Spins haven't been dramatically overhauled, so they retain the Big Bass Bonanza, levelling up and getting a multiplier element that fishy-fingered gamblers have taken into their hearts - or got sick of by now. Bass Boss Megaways has a much bigger fish symbol than Bass Boss had, too, as its big golden catfish is capable of bestowing prizes 10 times what the previous game's orange fish could muster. As a result, the max multiplier comes in at a whopping 25,539 the bet. Bass Boss Megaways is a genial fishing slot that delivers an alternate way of collecting money symbols, augmented by some fairly unique special symbols and a less unique levelling-up multiplier feature.