Bigger Bass Blizzard - Christmas Catch Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Bigger Bass Blizzard - Christmas Catch Review

There are plenty of fish in the sea, as they say, and there are certainly plenty of fishing slots swimming around out there as well. Reel Kingdom adds another one to the pile, and Bigger Bass Blizzard - Christmas Catch is, not surprisingly, their Holidays contribution this year. It’s close to being a reskin of their popular Bigger Bass Bonanza, but with a lower RTP range.

The screen has frozen over in comparison to the original, and Christmas trees are swaying in the breeze (or is it the underwater current. We’re not entirely sure). You can win 5-oak cash fish prizes in the base game as before, and random hooks help you out in all stages. The multiplier trial bonus round is the same as always, and you can win up to 4,000x your stake.

Bigger Bass Blizzard - Christmas Catch Slot - Reels Screen

Bigger Bass Blizzard - Christmas Catch Slot Features

The Ante Bet costs 50 % more per spin, and this improves your bonus round chances (no specific number is provided, unfortunately). The premium symbols pay between 20 and 50 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and all the royal symbols pay 10x for the same.

The Fish symbols come with prizes between 2x and 4,000x your stake, and a win line of 5 pays the total cash prize value.

You need 3, 4 or 5 scatters in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and this awards 10, 15 or 20 free spins, respectively. A hook feature can trigger at random times when 2 scatters are in view, and it nudges a reel to bring up the all-important 3rd scatter. The Fisherman Wild serves double duty as the Collector symbol during the bonus round, and as a wild he steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins.

As a Collector, the fisherman wild collects all present cash fish prizes, and the wild symbol is then itself collected onto the Multiplier Trail above the grid. Every 4 wilds collected upgrades the multiplier and awards +10 extra spins. The multiplier trail goes to x2, x3, and finally x10, and no more extra spins can be won after that.

The multiplier will only boost collected cash fish wins, and not line wins.

If you have 1 or 2 collector wild symbols in view during a bonus round spin, fish cash symbols may be added to the grid at random times if there is nothing from before. You can also get 1 or 2 hooks that pull up collector wilds and/or cash fish at random times. Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, may purchase the bonus round for 100x the stake. This gives you 3 to 5 scatters on the spin that follows.

The 200 Spins Bigger Bass Blizzard - Christmas Catch Slot Experience

Nothing too exciting happened for us in the base game, so you can safely skip to the 0:50-mark if you just want to see the bonus round. We purchase the feature around that timestamp, and it plays out for the remainder of the 2:34-minute highlights video. You can see for yourself what kind of catch we got away with by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

It seems Reel Kingdom first planned to release this as a regular installment in their ongoing range, but then decided to make it their Christmas contribution instead. A wise choice in our opinion, as Bigger Bass Blizzard - Christmas Catch is pretty similar to the original Bigger Bass Bonanza. The top-tier RTP, as well as the rest of the RTP settings, are lower though, so unless you love ice fishing the more tropical original is a better choice.

The Xmas theme was more elaborate in last year’s Christmas Big Bass Bonanza, but you get a higher 4,000x potential in this game.

We like how you can collect all the cash prizes by landing 5-oak in the base game, but it doesn’t happen very often. The multiplier trail bonus round is the main attraction, as usual, but the big bass series is starting to saturate the whole genre to the point where we’ve gotten a little bit fed up.

Pros

• Win cash fish prizes summed up from 5-oak
• FS w/ cash fish collector multiplier upgrade trail
• Max win of 4,000x (hit rate of 1 in 978,569)

Cons

• Beware of customizable RTP ranges
• Reskin of Bigger Bass w/ lower RTPs

If you enjoy Bigger Bass Blizzard - Christmas Catch Slot you should also try:

Bigger Bass Bonanza - is visually the opposite, at least in terms of climate, as the fisherman is sporting an Acapulco shirt in this original version. You still get a 5x4 grid, and cash fish prizes up to 4,000x your stake can be collected in all stages. The bonus round is all about leveling up the multiplier, which also prolongs the feature.

Christmas Big Bass Bonanza - is last year’s Xmas installment from Reel Kingdom, and even the trouts at the top of the screen are sporting Santa hats. As usual, the main attraction is the cash fish bonus round, and you can get up to 50 free spins in total via the upgrade trail. The max win is 2,100x your stake.

Big Bass Splash - is another installment in the fishing slot range from Reel Kingdom, and you’ll reel in cash fish in the bonus round as usual.

The fisherman is then collected to upgrade the multiplier and give you extra spins. However, you get up to 5 extras to bring with you as well, and you can win up to 5,000x your stake.

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