Big Trophy Fishing Megaways

Big Trophy Fishing Megaways: Slot Overview

What is there to say about fishing slots that hasn't been said before on numerous occasions? It's a popular choice amongst gamblers and casino game makers, with a wide, wide, and ever-growing selection of fish slots to choose from. If there is one thing a lot of them have in common, it's the ability of a certain symbol, say a fisherman, to collect the monetary values from fish symbols on the reels. So it has been for a while now and so it will likely continue for the foreseeable future. Developer Blueprint Gaming has released its fair share of these slots in the past, and it has released another by the name of Big Trophy Fishing Megaways.

Blueprint Gaming hasn't exactly gone crazy with the game's sights. The base game presents a stock view of a gaming grid lurking beneath the water before some aquatic plant life and a white sand beach. The music is pretty neat, though, and sounds like a cover band trying to do a Red Hot Chilli Peppers meets Ben Harper mash-up. It's pretty funky, but that's about it. There are fish, boats, the sea; this is a fishing slot, no doubt.

Big Trophy Fishing Megaways doesn't push BTG's Megaways engine to full capacity, where its 6 reels land up to 5 symbols each, maxing the ways to win counter out at 15,625. Players are able to choose a base bet of 10 c to $/€50 per spin and have the opportunity to buy the free spins feature, as well. Either pick has a default RTP of 96%, while volatility is high.

The pay symbols are 10-A card ranks, fish symbols (which also have cash tags), bait, hats, reels, and tackle boxes. A line of 5 identical royals pays 2 to 5 times the bet, while a line of 6 identical picture symbols awards 10 to 200 times the bet. The wild boat symbol is only present in the free spins feature, where it substitutes for all regular paying symbols.

Big Trophy Fishing Megaways: Slot Features

Hitting 3, 4, 5, or 6 trophy scatter symbols awards 10, 15, 20, or 50 free games, respectively. At the start of the feature, players pick yachts for a chance to activate up to 5 upgrades. Players pick till 'Start Free Games' is revealed. Upgrades include:

• Giving the tackle box, fishing reel, fishing hat, or the fishing bait symbol a cash tag.
• A respin upgrade that respins positions except those holding wild boats or cash symbols until the win is not improved when a boat symbol lands.
• +Collect - unlocks the golden wild boat that collects cash 2 to 5 times.
• Bonus Boost - being able to get another yacht pick when 2, 6, or 10 wild boat symbols are collected is added to the progress trail.
• Level Boost - when revealed at the start of the bonus, the round begins with the multiplier already upgraded to x2, but no extra free spins. If revealed in the middle of free spins, the trail is upgraded to the next level.
• +Games - awards 2, 3, 4, or 5 extra free spins.
• Minimum Megaways - guarantees a minimum number of Megaways of 5,000, 10,000, or 15,625.

Wild boat symbols appear in free spins, collecting the values of all cash tags in view. Wild symbols are collected as well. When 4, 8, or 12 wild boats have been collected, players win +10 extra free spins each time and an x2, x3, or x10 multiplier, respectively, that is applied to collected cash tags.

Bonus Buy

To guarantee at least 3 scatters land to trigger free spins, players can buy the bonus round for 100 times their bet.

Big Trophy Fishing Megaways: Slot Verdict

Call us ever optimistic, but there were hopes for more surprises from Big Trophy Fishing Megaways when going in. Blueprint Gaming has about as much experience making these sorts of games as anyone if not more, but in this instance, the studio has held back from squeezing its creative juices to design a brand new fish meets the reels experience. Instead, the studio has gone back over its extensive back catalogue and basically re-released Big Catch Bass Fishing Megaways, which spiralled off Big Catch Bass Fishing, which spiralled off Fishin' Frenzy The Big Splash. And 'the circle is now complete' as Darth Vadar once said.

It does mean there isn't much to report on. Big Trophy Fishing Megaways' base game doesn't do much, though the symbol values are large for a Megaways slot, despite limiting ways to win at 15,625. The RTP is a decent number, as is winning potential. Put another way, players who like gambling fish slots should be satisfied to an extent with Big Trophy Fishing Megaways. It ticks the usual boxes but disappointingly leaves things there, with no attempt made at being new, original, or even particularly exciting. To end on a positive note, sort of, Big Trophy Fishing Megaways does what it says on the label, but nothing more.