Big Bass Halloween
Big Bass Halloween
To get into the Halloween spirit, Pragmatic Play and their frequent collaborators, Reel Kingdom, have given their blockbuster fishing slot Big Bass Bonanza a spooky makeover, and the result is Big Bass Halloween. It’s like Victor Frankenstein himself took a scalpel to the original game, surgically attaching an eerie, but not-too-terrifying, outer layer. The transformation is equal parts quirky and spooky, which perfectly aligns with Reel Kingdom’s often lighthearted and playful style.
The fun starts right at the home screen, where the usually jolly fisherman looks a little more menacing, holding a sharp hook with a wicked grin.
Visually, Big Bass Halloween swaps out the bright, sunny waters of the original Big Bass Bonanza for a much darker and moodier scene. The once-clear waters are now a murky grey, and the sky above matches with an ominous overcast, creating a gloomier vibe that fits the spooky season. It’s still very much Big Bass Bonanza at its core, but with a fun, spooky twist to set the mood for Halloween.
In Big Bass Halloween, the default RTP has taken a slight dip compared to the original Big Bass Bonanza, but it still offers a solid 96.06%, making it a respectable choice. This RTP holds steady whether you’re betting between 10 p/c and $/€240 per spin or opting to buy the free spins feature at 100x your stake. For players looking to increase their chances of landing those all-important scatters, there’s also the option to activate the Ante Bet, which increases your stake by 50% in exchange for a higher likelihood of triggering the bonus round. With a 4 out of 5 volatility rating, Big Bass Halloween falls into the medium-high volatility category, played on a classic 5-reel, 3-row grid with 10 fixed paylines.
The Halloween theme is expressed through the game’s symbols, which are given a spooky seasonal twist. For the lower-paying symbols, the stitched-up 10 to A card royals fit the eerie vibe perfectly. The higher-paying symbols include a spooky fish, a tackle box, a crow, a hook, and a life ring—all essentials for a fisherman braving haunted waters. A line of 5 matching card symbols pays up to 10x your stake, while the premium symbols boost payouts to between 20x and 200x for five-of-a-kind wins.
In Big Bass Halloween, the fish symbols bring more than just a spooky twist—they land with random money values that can be collected during the Free Spins feature. The fish can display values ranging from 2x to a massive 2,000x your bet, adding a ton of excitement to each spin. In the base game, landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols will trigger 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively.
Once you’re in the free spins round, the Fisherman wild symbol becomes crucial. When it lands alongside fish symbols, the fisherman collects all the money values shown on the fish. This can lead to some hefty wins, especially when you manage to line up multiple high-value fish on the same spin.
But the feature doesn’t stop there—the fisherman symbols are also collected throughout the free spins. For every fourth fisherman symbol you collect, you’re rewarded with +10 additional free spins. Even better, the fish money symbol multipliers increase with each retrigger:
Each retriggered batch of spins begins after the current set of spins ends, and the enhanced multipliers only apply to the retriggered spins. After the third retrigger, no more free spins can be retriggered.
Finally, there’s an extra feature that comes into play when there’s only one wild symbol on the screen at the end of a free spin. In this case, fish money symbols can randomly appear in vacant positions, giving the fisherman another chance to collect those juicy values.
This blend of retriggers, multipliers, and fish money symbols keeps the free spins feature engaging and full of potential for big wins, especially with the possibility of those multipliers reaching up to x10!
You know what? Big Bass Halloween turned out to be a pleasant surprise! At first, the thought of yet another fishing slot, and a reskin at that—and a Halloween one—was enough to make you sigh and roll your eyes. Cue the spiral of negativity: “Great, another fish slot… how original…” But as it turns out, those initial low expectations weren’t quite warranted, and Big Bass Halloween delivered a lighthearted, surprisingly fun twist on the classic fishing formula.
When it comes to gameplay, it’s familiar territory. Sure, the base game can drag a little without any extra features to spice things up, but the free spins round is as solid as ever—assuming you’re not completely over this style of play by now.
Collecting fish money symbols never seems to lose its charm, and in Big Bass Halloween, there’s plenty of that action to go around. Things really pick up once the fisherman symbols start piling up, especially when those juicy multipliers come into play, reaching up to x10. However, just like the original, Big Bass Halloween isn’t setting any new records in the max win department, capped at a fairly modest 2,100x the bet.