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Reel Kingdom has spent five years perfecting its fishing slot games, and Big Bass Blast is the result of what happens when you plug the whole lake into the mains.
Same bearded fisherman, same money symbols, but this time the boat comes wired for a jolt. Scatters spark, wilds crackle, and the reels sit inside what looks like a live current running through the boat deck.
If you have played any Big Bass title before, the core of this game will feel familiar. What is new here is how the wild collection and retrigger system have been rebuilt around that electric theme, with a few twists that reward sticking around for the free spins rather than just hoping for a big single hit.
5×3 reel layout with TEN fixed paylines, low volatility, and an RTP of 96.50%.
Fisherman Wild symbols appear only on reels 1 and 5, substitute for everything except the scatter, and can land with a random base game multiplier of up to 10x.
Three, four or five scatters trigger Free Spins, awarding five, seven or nine spins. Landing two scatters can still pull in a third through a hook animation.
Every 7th wild collected in the feature adds five extra spins and steps the money multiplier up, first to 2x, then 3x, then 10x, before the retriggers cap out.
Buy Free Spins costs 100x total bet (not available in the UK), and an optional Ante Bet raises scatter density for better odds, though it switches the buy option off while active.
Graphics – the Look
The theme swaps Big Bass Bonanza’s sunny dock for a boat wired up with neon tubing and crackling bolts of current, which is a fun way to signal that this is the higher-voltage cousin in the family. The fisherman still turns up in his aviators, because even a jolt of electricity can’t shake this man’s sense of style.
Symbols are chunky and easy to read, from the tackle box and dragonfly low-value icons up to the float and fishing rod. The bass itself gets a proper close-up on the scatter symbol, mouth open mid-catch, and the money symbol has that familiar design that Big Bass fans will recognise instantly. Animations are snappy rather than showy, which suits a low volatility game built for a steady rhythm.
Gameplay
Big Bass Blast runs on five reels, three rows and ten fixed paylines, with wins paying left to right on adjacent reels starting from the left. Bets run from $0.10 to $375.00, so it scales from casual lake browsing to serious wonga.
Two symbols carry the game’s mechanics.
Fisherman Wild: lands only on reels 1 and 5. It substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, and during base game spins it can hit with a random multiplier of 2x, 3x or 10x.
Money symbol: takes a random cash value on every spin from a set of 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 100x, 250x or 500x total bet. These values only get collected and paid out once a Fisherman Wild rounds them up, in both the base game and the free spins bonus.
Base game spins can set off the same random events as the feature, so money symbols, wilds and the odd bazooka surprise are not locked away behind the bonus round. Full mechanical detail on how those trigger are in the Bonus Features section below.
Bonus Features
Land three, four or five scatters and the Free Spins round kicks off with 5, 7 or 9 spins respectively. If only two scatters land on the initial spin, there is a chance a hook animation reels a third one in before the round is decided, so a near miss is not always the end of the story.
Inside the feature, every Fisherman Wild that appears stays collected on screen until the round comes to a stop. Every 7th wild collected triggers a retrigger, adding five more spins and nudging up the multiplier applied to money symbol collection: 2x on the first retrigger, 3x on the second, and 10x on the third. After that third retrigger, the feature locks and cannot be inflated further.
Three extra random events keep things moving when the reels are missing one half of the wild-and-money combo.
Wilds on screen with no money symbols: money symbols can appear randomly at the end of the spin.
Money symbols on screen with no wilds: a hook pulls a random reel up to bring a Fisherman Wild onto the screen.
Wilds on screen with no money symbols, alternative outcome: a bazooka animation can convert every symbol except the wilds into something new.
All three of these can also fire off during base game spins, not just inside the feature, and special reels are used during the Free Spins play.
Full Paytable ($1 Total Bet)
Symbol
5 of a kind
4 of a kind
3 of a kind
2 of a kind
Bobber (float)
$200.00
$20.00
$5.00
$0.50
Dragonfly
$100.00
$15.00
$3.00
–
Fishing rod
$50.00
$10.00
$2.00
–
Tackle box
$50.00
$10.00
$2.00
–
A
$10.00
$2.50
$0.20
–
K
$10.00
$2.50
$0.20
–
Q
$5.00
$1.00
$0.20
–
J
$5.00
$1.00
$0.20
–
10
$5.00
$1.00
$0.20
–
Values shown are for a $1.00 base bet and scale with the stake selected. All symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel.
Ante Bet and Buy Free Spins Explained
Ante Bet: turning this on increases the total bet from the standard 10x multiplier to 15x. In exchange, more scatter symbols appear on the reels and the chance of triggering Free Spins goes up. “Buy Free Spins” is disabled while Ante Bet is active. In any case, you can’t buy spins in all countries such as the UK.
Buy Free Spins: pay 100x the current total bet to trigger the Free Spins feature directly. The triggering spin is guaranteed to land 3, 4 or 5 scatters, chosen at random.
Max win cap: total win is capped at 5,000x bet. If a Free Spins round reaches that cap, the round ends immediately, the win is paid out to the limit, and any remaining spins or features are wound down.
RTP and Volatility
The Big Bass Blast slot is a low volatility game, which means smaller wins land more often while the potential for a big multiplier sits inside the free spins retrigger chain.
Base RTP: 96.50 percent RTP with Ante Bet active: 96.51 percent RTP with Buy Free Spins: 96.50 percent
All wins across multiple paylines are added to the total win, though only the highest win per individual line is paid. Free Spins wins are added to the payline win and multiplied by the bet per line. The SPACE and ENTER keys can be used to start and stop a spin on desktop.
Autoplay and Settings Menu
Autoplay opens by clicking one of the preset auto-spin buttons. A Skip Screens option auto-skips the feature intro and end screens after a short pause, useful for players who have seen the bazooka animation a hundred times already.
The Settings menu covers intro screen (toggles the game’s introductory screen on and off), ambient (toggles ambient sound and music on and off), sound FX (toggles sound effects on and off), and game history (opens a record of previous spins).
The bet menu lets players adjust bet multiplier and coin value with the plus and minus buttons, and the Credit and Bet labels can be switched between coin view and cash view by clicking on them.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Cons
Low volatility keeps the reels moving with regular smaller wins
5,000x cap is modest next to some high volatility Big Bass entries
Wild multipliers can hit during base game spins, not just the feature
Wilds are restricted to reels 1 and 5 only
Retrigger system rewards longer free spins sessions with rising multipliers
Ante Bet locks out the Buy Free Spins option while active
Familiar Big Bass mechanics with a fresh electric coat of paint
Theme changes are cosmetic rather than structural for series veterans
What is the RTP of Big Bass Blast? The base RTP is 96.50 percent. It rises slightly to 96.51 percent with Ante Bet active, and stays at 96.50 percent when using Buy Free Spins.
How many free spins does Big Bass Blast award? Landing 3, 4 or 5 scatters awards 5, 7 or 9 free spins respectively. Every 7th Fisherman Wild collected during the round adds 5 more spins, up to a maximum of three retriggers.
What is the maximum win on Big Bass Blast? Total wins are capped at 5,000x the bet. If a Free Spins round reaches this figure, the round ends immediately and any remaining spins are forfeited.
Can I buy the Free Spins feature? Yes. Buy Free Spins costs 100x the current total bet and guarantees 3, 4 or 5 scatters on the triggering spin. This option is unavailable while Ante Bet is switched on.
What do the wild symbols do? Fisherman Wild symbols appear only on reels 1 and 5. They substitute for all symbols except the scatter, and during base game spins they can land with a random multiplier of x2, x3 or x10.
Is Big Bass Blast high or low volatility? It is a low volatility slot, built to pay more often in smaller amounts while keeping a route to bigger wins through the free spins retrigger chain.
Some Background to Reel Kingdom
Reel Kingdom is the Cardiff-based studio behind the entire Big Bass franchise, working as Pragmatic Play’s dedicated partner brand rather than an in-house Pragmatic team. The studio launched in 2020 with its debut title Hot to Burn, before Big Bass Bonanza arrived later that year and turned Reel Kingdom into one of the fastest-rising names in slot design.
The split of labour is as follows: Reel Kingdom designs and builds the games, while Pragmatic Play distributes them through its existing network of licensed operators and casinos. That arrangement gives a comparatively small studio, one that still releases only around 10 titles a year, the reach of a major supplier without needing to build that infrastructure from scratch.
The Big Bass series has since expanded into Bigger Bass Bonanza, Big Bass Splash, Big Bass Amazon Xtreme and now Big Bass Blast, among many others, with the fishing theme and money symbol collection mechanic carried through every release. Reel Kingdom picked up SlotCatalog’s Game Studio of the Year award at the 2024 CasinoBeats Game Developer Awards, recognition for a franchise that reportedly accounts for the large majority of the studio’s output and revenue.
Summary
Big Bass Blast takes a proven formula and runs 240 volts through it. The retrigger system gives the free spins round a real sense of build, the wild multipliers add some spark to ordinary base game spins, and the low volatility setting keeps the reels ticking over at a comfortable pace.
It will not replace the higher volatility entries in the series for players chasing a single huge hit, but for anyone who wants steady action with the occasional “kerching” moment, this one reels in the goods.
