Sea Boat Adventure

Sea Boat Adventure: Slot Overview

Here's a life hack (that may or may not work) for you folks. After a day on the briny pulling fish from the water, then gutting and scaling them, some ways to help get the fishy smell off your hands include the use of toothpaste or a scrub with salt and vinegar. These tips came about from an internet search prompted by the endless showering of fishing-themed slots, bass slots in particular. Really, if there is one bandwagon slot designers are clinging onto for dear life, it's the angling one. Here's one more to add to the to-do list or avoid like the plague if you're over these sorts of slots by now. Titled Sea Boat Adventure, it comes from Red Tiger partner Max Win Gaming.

Deep breath as we attempt to clear the memory banks of the multitude of previous fishing slots and go into Sea Boat Adventure as unbiasedly as possible. On a positive note, Sea Boat Adventure looks rather appealing, vaguely Net Gains-ish, as Max Win Gaming has used an attractively distinctive graphical style. Arguably more so in free spins when the sun goes down, and the background imagery looks a little bit like Joseph Turner's 'Fishermen at Sea' painting. With its vaguely Peter & Sons appearance, Sea Boat Adventure starts the escapade off on a positive footing through its pleasing set of sights and sounds.

Covering part of the boat and part of the water is Sea Boat Adventure's gaming grid. It's made up of 5 reels, where 4 rows display regular symbols, and a fifth reel up top is where special Fisherman symbols may land. These are used to collect fish money prizes. Borrowing Red Tiger's user interface, players can select a bet on the menu from options ranging from 20 p/c to $/€20 per spin. Mathematically the game is medium to high volatile and comes in two RTP forms - 95.76%, or 96.36% when buying the free spins round.

Along Sea Boat Adventure's grid layout, 40 paylines have been added in for landing winning combinations across. The four playing card suits, clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades are the low pay symbols, worth 1x the bet for a 5 OAK win, while the high pays are 4 fish characters growing in size as their value increases. When landing 5 of the same premium symbol, the blue fish pays 6x the bet, the green fish pays 7.5x the bet, the red one 10x the bet, and the purple biggun is worth 15 times the stake. Sea Boat Adventure does not feature a wild symbol, either in the base game or in the bonus round.

Sea Boat Adventure: Slot Features

Since no fisherman wild symbol lands on the main reels as in several competitor slots, Max Win Gaming has come up with an alternative way to collect instant money prizes. This is done via the top Fisherman Row, available in all phases of play.

Fisherman Row

The Fisherman Row is active on every spin, and each position may land Fisherman symbols or a valueless triple hook symbol. When a Yellow Fisherman symbol hits, it collects all extra prizes from its reel. If a Purple Fisherman symbol lands, it collects all extra prizes from all reels. Extra prizes are cash values that randomly appear on any high-pay fish symbol. In the base game, cash values can be 2x to 100x the bet; in free spins, they go as high as 1,000x the bet.

Free Spins

When landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols, players are awarded 10, 12, or 15 free spins. During the round, landing 3 or more scatter symbols retriggers the bonus. While free spins are active, when a Yellow Fisherman or a Purple Fisherman land, they lock onto their position for the remainder of the feature. To buy free spins, players can do so for the cost of 100 times the stake.

Sea Boat Adventure: Slot Verdict

According to Wikipedia, there are 34,300 described fish species, not to mention more than 200,000 documented marine species, with maybe 2 million undocumented. With so many options swimming about our great waterways, it's a little strange that casino game makers return again and again to bass to headline their fishing slots. For sure, the roaring success of the Big Bass Bonanza family of slots has something to do with it, so from a business/gambler familiarity angle, it makes sense. But come on, it's like going to a fish restaurant and having just one option on the menu. How about Blobfish Bonanza, Goblin Shark Gold, or Sea Cucumber Cash? Just tossing ideas out there into the void.

To be fair on Max Win Gaming, even if the team has chosen one of the most cliched fish to star in a fishing slot, it's at least gone out of its way not to copy Fishin' Frenzy. Sea Boat Adventure is a game where the aim is for Fisherman symbols to collect instant cash prizes, but its method for hauling them in is relatively different. The Yellow Fisherman can be a little annoying because, unlike a regular collector symbol in other games, he only collects money values on his reel, if any. The good thing is the collection feature is available in the base game. Plus, when free spins are active, Fishermen become sticky on their reel till the round ends, and getting Purple Fishermen wasn't exactly easy yet not super hard, and having more than one of them on the Fisherman Reel reelin' in cash could be entertaining.

With its distinctive looks, 5,000x the bet top prize, and alternative way of collecting cash prizes, Sea Boat Adventure isn't a bad addition to an already crowded scene. If there weren't so many alternatives available, or Max Win Gaming picked something other than bass for a change, Sea Boat Adventure might have made a greater impression. Still, it should do enough to avoid being chucked straight back into the sea by fishing fans.