Mr Tain’s Fishing Adventures

Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures: Slot Overview

Anyone who's read Ayn Rand's book 'Atlas Shrugged' will probably be familiar with the question 'Who is John Galt?'. Now, after playing today's slot, you may be wondering, 'Who is Mr Tain?' Sorry to say that after an internet trawl a conclusive answer to this question was not readily apparent. Never mind, a bit of mystery keeps life interesting, and with that positive frame of mind, we step into Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures from developer Pragmatic Play and a clone of the mega-hit release Gates of Olympus.

For Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures, players are invited to kick off their shoes and socks to walk bare feet over the sand by the sea at a beach. Mr Tain (really, who is this guy?) stands next to the gaming grid, rod in one hand, a basket in the other, bobbing about as characters in slots often do. He seems a friendly enough chap, as are the friendly tunes, making for a pleasant if not overwhelmingly exciting first impression.

Beneath the skin, Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures is exactly the same as Gates of Olympus; for example, it generates an RTP of 96.5% whether betting 20 c to $/€100 per spin, buying free spins, or switching on the ante bet. When the ante bet is on, there is double the chance of winning the feature in return for increasing the stake by 50%. Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures is played on a 6-reel, 5-row gaming grid where wins are created by means of a scatter-paying mechanic. In a nutshell, when at least 8 matching pay symbols land on the reels in any position whatsoever, you have a win on your hands. After a scatter win is present on the reels, the tumble feature removes all of the applicable winning symbols. Then, symbols tumble down into the empty positions, creating another chance to win. If another win does appear after the drop, the tumble feature triggers again, ending when no new win forms.

Hitting the 'i' button opens up the paytable, displaying stripy 10 to A card ranks as the low pays, then a rod, a tackle box, a boat, and Mr Tain as the high pays. Upon landing an 8-9 OAK winning cluster, players receive 0.25 to 10 times their stake, increasing to a maximum of 2 to 100 times the bet for a 12+ scatter win. Like GOO, Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures prevents wilds from ever hitting on the reels.

Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures: Slot Features

When reeling in the features, Mr Tain's got multiplier symbols, free spins, and a bonus buy.

Multiplier Symbols

Multiplier symbols may randomly land in the base game or free spins with multiplier values of x2 to x500. At the end of a tumble sequence in the base game, any multiplier symbols in view have their values added together and applied to the total win before being awarded.

Free Spins

Golden fish scatters trigger 15 free spins plus a payout of 3x, 5x, or 100x the bet when 4, 5, or 6 of them, respectively, land. In free spins, when multiplier symbols hit and the spin produces a win, their multiplier values are added to the total multiplier. For the duration of the round, when a new multiplier symbol hits and the result is a win, the total multiplier is used to multiply the win - in other words, it does not reset. Hitting 3 or more scatters awards +5 free spins.

Buy Free Spins

The free spins round can be triggered from the base game by buying it for 100x the bet. You'll need to make the ante bet is switched off to do so.

Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures: Slot Verdict

Swap Mt Olympus for the seaside and an Ancient Greek deity for Mr Tain, whoever he may be, and you've got the gist of what Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures is all about. Outside of the skin shift, Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures offers the same scatter-paying, possible multiplier mayhem as Gates of Olympus. Maybe Pragmatic Play is on to something here, given the popularity of fishing slots, but if you've played Gates of Olympus or one of its many, many offshoots, then prepare for nothing new to erupt from Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures to provoke anything in the way of mechanically innovative shock.

Still, the gameplay is fine and dandy, after all. Gate of Olympus hit quite the right note with its combination of tumbles, multiplier symbols, and free spins, going on to garner a substantial number of users as well as inspire a lot of sequel/cloned/reskin/related slots. This is a trend that does not appear to be running out of steam any time soon. What else is there to say? Not a lot, really, other than Mr Tain's Fishing Adventures is in possession of the same successful feature formula as found in the original, climaxing in a 5,000x the bet win cap, all delivered in a salty, seaside, fishing manner.