Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash: Slot Overview

Just as we’d finally washed away the fishy aftertaste from the previous fishing slot review, along comes Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash from Games Global partner Gold Coin Studios. Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash follows on from Fishing Floats of Cash (2022), which itself seems to have been a reskin of Fiona’s Fortune (2022). This one clearly leans heavily on reused ideas, assets, and mechanics. Still, it’s time to pick up a virtual rod and see what Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash has to offer.

At first glance, Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash feels bright and friendly, if not especially distinctive. Fishing slots are often light-hearted, and this one fits the bill—mainly thanks to its lively music. To repeat the point a little too soon: the visuals are basic, even dull, with a base-game backdrop that’s essentially water with a touch of clear sky. The spinning prize wheel provides some motivation, as do the three prize values shown across the top of the grid, but beyond the upbeat soundtrack, there isn’t much in Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash that really shouted, “play me, you wanna be fisherperson.”

Looking at how Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash runs under the hood, it uses a highly volatile math model and comes with four RTP settings, with 96.04% being the main one. On the highest RTP version, the theoretical hit rate is 30.05%, and the staking range sits at 20 p/c to $/€25 per spin. The action takes place on a 5-reel, 3-row layout featuring 25 paylines where standard line wins can drop.

Even though the bigger attention is on feature payouts, regular wins still work in the usual way: starting from the leftmost reel and paying left to right along a payline across adjacent reels. For lower-value symbols, the 10 to A card royals pay 2.4 to 3 times the bet for 5 OAK, while the anchor, seagull, and marlin make up the top tier, paying 6 to 8 times the bet for 5-of-a-kind. Helping to connect wins is the fisherman wild, which appears on reels 2 to 5 and can replace any pay symbol.

Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash: Slot Features

Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash Not compensates for its limited selection of pay symbols by packing in a decent set of features. These include Express Collect, a Bonus Wheel, a Link&Win Respins feature, and free spins.

Express Connect

Express Connect prize symbols can appear on reels 1 to 4, carrying values of 1 to 200 times the bet or showing the Mini 20x the bet or Major 600x the bet prizes. If a Trigger symbol lands on reel 5, any Express Connect prize symbols currently visible award their values.

Wheel Bonus

Hit a Trigger symbol on reel 5 together with a Wheel Bonus symbol on reel 1 to activate the Wheel Bonus. The Wheel spins and can award 2x, 5x, or 10x the bet, the Link&Win feature, or the Mini, Major, or Mega Prize worth 20x, 600x, or 7,500x the bet, respectively.

Link&Win

The Link&Win feature begins with 3 spins where only special symbols or empty spaces can land. Any new Link&Win symbols that appear reset the spin count. When it ends, the values of all collected prizes are paid out. If all 15 positions are filled, the Mega Prize 7,500x the bet is also awarded.

Free Spins

Land 3 scatter symbols on reels 2-4 to trigger 10 free spins. Each time a Trigger symbol lands on the fifth reel, the Feature Trail is progressed by +1 position. A maximum of 3 Trigger symbols can land in a single spin. Every time you reach each third position on the Trail, a multiplier is applied to any future Express Collect wins and +5 additional free spins are awarded. The multiplier advances as follows – x2, x3, x5, then x10. The Trail contains 12 positions in total.

Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash: Slot Verdict

It’s definitely a fishing slot, though it could just as easily have been almost anything else. Once we started looking into Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash’s background, it became obvious how much asset reuse and reskinning fed into the final product. Combine that with the no-frills presentation, and it was difficult not to feel a creeping sense of monotony while playing Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash.

To be fair, there are already loads of fishing slots out there, and that’s not automatically a problem. But if a studio is going to add yet another one to the pile, why not bring something fresh to the table? What’s the benefit of releasing another reskin, or a Fishin’ Frenzy/Big Bass Bonanza lookalike? It doesn’t need to reinvent the genre with dazzling originality—just offer something, anything, that gives it a bit of its own identity. This isn’t aimed at one particular studio, either; more of a general gripe. Fishing Floats of Cash may have managed to slide by since it kicked off the series, but Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash feels like a more volatile take with a higher max win. Maybe the earlier game performed well—credit to Gold Coin Studios if so. Still, for anyone not already invested, or for first-timers, Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash could easily come across as underwhelming, serving up a familiar, been-there-done-that experience that became tiring to push through.

Sorry for the negative tone, but Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash simply didn’t do enough to keep us hooked. It has the right ingredients to excite players who hit a lucky run, yet with more engaging fishing titles available – the Big Bass range, Golden Catch, 4 Fantastic Fish in Egypt, and even versions of Fishin’ Frenzy, for instance, Fishing Deeper Floats of Cash felt like choosing frozen fish at a restaurant instead of something freshly caught.