Fintastic Fishing: Slot Overview

Ever picked up a hobby with loads of excitement at first—buying all the kit, doing it whenever you could—only for the enthusiasm to fade until the equipment ends up forgotten in storage? If you’re an online gambler/online fisherman, that doesn’t have to happen. A virtual rod can be cast and reels can spin for virtual fish as often as you like. Games Global studio Foxium is another developer giving players the chance to do exactly that in the cash-collecting slot Fintastic Fishing.

For Fintastic Fishing, Foxium has gone with a lakeside backdrop, and it’s a pleasant little spot. The water looks fairly clean and clear, even if there aren’t many fish visible in the background, while forested mountains sit on the horizon. A light, friendly fishing melody rounds out an upbeat, slightly familiar, but undeniably cheerful fishing-slot atmosphere.

Bubble frames surround Fintastic Fishing’s largely transparent reel area, featuring 5 reels and 25 paylines. It’s classed as a medium volatile slot, with multiple RTP configurations, topping out at 96.16%. Bets run from 20c at the lowest to $/€25 at the top end, and there are two bonus buy options available too.

Standard wins land when 3 or more matching symbols connect on a payline, starting from the leftmost reel. The paytable begins with J-A card ranks as low-value symbols, followed by a trap, a reel, a float, boots, and a tackle box as the higher pays. A 5-of-a-kind line of royals returns 1.6-2 times the bet, while 5 OAK of a high-paying symbol pays 6-16 times the bet. Foamy ‘W’ wilds can appear on all reels. They pay the same as the tackle box when forming their own wins, and they can also substitute for any regular paying symbol to complete winning lines.

Fintastic Fishing: Slot Features

In Fintastic Fishing, landing money symbols can be turned into payouts via the Fintastic Cash Catch feature, which is active in the base game, and there’s also a free spins round where extra special symbols are introduced along with Cash Creels positioned above each reel.

Fintastic Cash Catch

Fintastic Fishing symbols can land on any reel and come in three types. Small fish carry values of 1x the bet, medium fish award 2x-3x the bet, and big fish can pay 4x-500x the bet. In the base game, angler symbols appear on the rightmost reel, and when they land they award the sum of all Fintastic Fishing symbols in view at that moment. A Fintastic Fishing symbol may also show a Jackpot value: 10x Mini, 25x Minor, 100x Major, and 500x Mega.

Bait Booster

The Multiplier Upgrade symbol can appear on the rightmost reel in the base game. When it lands, it increases the Bait Booster by +1. The Bait Booster begins at 1 and can rise to a maximum of 10. Whenever an Angler symbol collects Fintastic Fishing symbols, the collected sum is multiplied by the current Bait Booster value. After each Fintastic Cash Catch event, the Bait Booster returns to 1, and it is tracked per bet.

Free Spins

Hitting at least 1 Fintastic Fishing symbol on every reel in the base game awards 5 free spins. In the free spins round, each of the 5 reels has its own Fintastic Cash Creel displayed above it. Landing a Fintastic Fishing or multiplier symbol during free spins increases the Fintastic Cash Creel values. Any cash stored in the Fintastic Cash Creel does not reset. Free spins can also include special symbols, which are:

• Angler’s Creel Collect – awards the value contained in the Fintastic Cash Creel above it.
• Angler’s All Collect – awards all Fintastic Cash Creel values.
• Extra Spins – up to 5 additional free spins are awarded.
• Fintastic Fishing – increases the value of the Fintastic Cash Creel above them by 1x-500x.
• All Upgrade – increases all Fintastic Cash Creel values by 1x-500x the bet.
• Creel Multiplier – multiplies the value of the Fintastic Cash Creel above it by x2 to x5.
• All Multiplier – multiplies all Fintastic Cash Creels by x2 to x5.

Bonus Buy

Using the bonus buy menu, players can purchase standard free spins for 100 times the bet or super free spins for 300x the bet. Super free spins offer improved chances to multiply the values of all Fintastic Cash Creels, along with stronger chances of collecting prizes from them.

Fintastic Fishing: Slot Verdict

Fish—check. Fisherman—yep. Cash collecting—definitely. Fintastic Fishing includes all the essentials, making it a complete package for players who enjoy this kind of slot. If this is your preferred style of play, there’s not much to complain about. It’s bright and upbeat in both visuals and audio, and it delivers a “day on the lake” feel from home, without getting soaked or ending up with that lingering fishy smell on your hands. That said, it feels more geared toward casual players than the hardcore gambling crowd.

One standout is the Bait Booster multiplier building up for use during Fintastic Cash Catches, which can happen in the base game—so you don’t have to trigger or buy free spins just to see fisherman symbols and have cash collects available. Still, Foxium has made the free spins round an attractive target by adding extra ways to win through the Fintastic Cash Creels above each reel and a set of linked special symbols. As for buying the rounds, it didn’t feel easy to come out ahead, so waiting it out may be the smarter approach. Then again, a purchased round could always explode—and besides, fishing is all about patience, right?

When it does explode, Fintastic Fishing offers a solid top-end potential for this type of game of 10,000x the bet. Taking everything into account, Fintastic Fishing isn’t a hollow Fishin’ Frenzy or Big Bass Bonanza copy; it gives fans of the genre most of what they’re after, plus a few twists they may not have encountered on the water before. For what it’s aiming to be, Fintastic Fishing is a good slot, though it’s unlikely to redefine the genre or pull in players who aren’t already drawn to this niche.