Fish Eye: Slot Overview

In online slots, fishing and Ancient Egypt are two perennially popular themes, so it was only a matter of time before someone fused them. If you’ve ever been curious how that combo might play out, Pragmatic Play and partners Reel Kingdom provide the answer with Fish Eye, a title that merges two long-running iGaming staples. It’s a pairing that asks for a bit of imagination, though it helps to remember places like the Ancient Egyptian cities of Canopus or Thonis-Heracleion—once bustling hubs that later sank beneath the waves due to disasters such as tsunamis, floods, and earthquakes. Today they sit on the seabed, where the mystique of Ancient Egyptian culture feels even more uncanny under dim underwater light.

That drowned setting is exactly where players dive in Fish Eye. One of the first things that stands out is the row of fish along the top, hovering above a 5-reel, 3-row grid. On both sides of the screen, bubbles rise through watery scenery, with statues half-buried in sand or drifting near the surface. At first glance, the fishing element isn’t especially prominent, so Fish Eye can seem like a fairly standard Ancient Egyptian slot—just one that’s noticeably more aquatic than usual.

Crack open Fish Eye like a long-sealed sarcophagus and you’ll find a highly volatile math model delivering a maximum return to player of 96.07%. This figure applies when staking 10 p/c to $/€250 on regular spins, when purchasing free spins, or when using the Ante Bet. Activating the Ante Bet increases the stake by 50% and adds extra scatter symbols to the reels. The 5×3 layout is covered by 10 paylines, which are used to form winning combinations of up to five matching symbols.

A complete five-symbol line of the 10, J, Q, K, or A low pays returns 5-10x the bet, while a 5OAK hit with premium icons—the eye, cat, bird, or scarab gold items—pays 50 to 200 times the bet. There’s no help from wild symbols because Fish Eye doesn’t include any, but it does feature Fish Money symbols, scatters, Collectors, and Removers, which are explained below.

Fish Eye: Slot Features

Fish Money symbols come first, and each one lands with a random monetary value. In the base game, possible values are 0.1x-0.5x, 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 50x or 100x the bet. During the base game, landing 4 or more Fish Money symbols awards their values. In addition, Fish Money payouts are multiplied by x1, x2, x5, x10, x20, x30, x50, x100, x500, x1,000, x1,500, or x2,000 when 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15 Fish Money symbols appear. The meter at the top of the screen shows which multiplier is currently active.

Free Spins

Trigger the bonus by landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols, which awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins. In free spins, the collection mechanic is adjusted and the multipliers are taken out. Instead, Fish Symbols can appear with values of 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 500x, or 1,000x the bet. When Fish Money symbols land at the same time as a Collector symbol, the fish values are awarded. Collector symbols are also tracked on a meter, and every 4th Collector grants +10 additional free spins.

Alongside the Collector, the other free spins-exclusive symbol is the Remover. When a Remover lands, the lowest possible Fish Symbol value is removed. Landing 1 Remover gives +1 extra free spin, while seeing 2 Removers at the same time awards +3 free additional free spins. Also, at random, when Collector symbols are present but no fish remain at the end of a spin, Fish Symbols may randomly appear on the reels.

To finish, where available, players can use the Buy Free Spins option to enter the feature directly. The price is 100x the bet, with 3, 4, or 5 scatters landing at random.

Fish Eye: Slot Verdict

Fishing and Ancient Egypt rank among the most frequently used slot themes, so a crossover was probably unavoidable. Even so, seeing them combined in one game is still a bit unexpected—though it’s far less surprising that Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom are the ones doing it. Between them, they’ve produced one of the strongest fishing slot line-ups around, led by Big Bass Bonanza and its many related entries, which puts the pair in a good position to take a more adventurous swing.

That experiment is Fish Eye, and it comes packed with familiar elements. At its core, the gameplay loop is easy to grasp: land enough Fish Money symbols to collect them in the base game, or in free spins, hit Collectors and Fish Money symbols together. Notably, Fish Eye’s structure makes the base game and the free spins feature feel comparably rewarding in different ways. The main game leans on multipliers that can reach huge levels at the top end, while free spins replaces that with a cleaner Collector-driven payout method—plus the removal of the lowest money value, which feels like a slightly fish-scented take on Eye of Horus. Fish Eye should appeal to players who enjoy fishing-style slots with a mix of mechanics, with the final course being a win cap of 10,000x the bet. That ceiling is higher than anything in the Big Bass series so far, except for Big Bass Bonanza Keeping it Reel.

Reel Kingdom has a track record of pushing into quirky territory with unusual concepts—Cash Elevator, Star Pirates Code, and Snakes and Ladders Snake Eyes are three standout examples. Fish Eyes is arguably a strange-but-logical fit despite its bold mash-up, and much like an odd food pairing, in the right circumstances it can end up working surprisingly well.