Big Bass Bonanza

Big Bass Bonanza is a video slot from Pragmatic Play that’s built around a 5-reel, 3-row format. The game can be played from between 0.10 and 250 credits per spin, and there are 10 fixed paylines. The game has just one bonus round, which is a collection-based bonus, although you can also unlock multipliers by landing enough of the wild symbols in view during the bonus round.

Format and Betting Options

Big Bass Bonanza is built around a 5-reel, 3-row format. Big Bass Bonanza can be played from as little as 0.10 credits per spin, and the maximum bet is a whopping 250 credits – so there’s betting opportunities for players on all kinds of budget here! There are also 10 fixed paylines – fixed, meaning you’re unable to adjust the number of paylines in play.

Game Controls

All of the controls for Big Bass Bonanza are laid out in a very straightforward fashion:

• Clicking on the i button will bring up the paytable. The payouts in the list will adjust as you change your wager.
• The three horizontal lines symbol will allow you to adjust the system settings. You can turn on battery saving mode, toggle the sound settings or view your game history.
• The – and + buttons on either side of the spin button will let you change your bet. You can adjust your coins per line and coin value, or you can just change the total bet.
• The autoplay button is located below the spin button. Here, you can set loss and win limits.

Big Bass Bonanza RTP and Volatility

Big Bass Bonanza has an above-average RTP of 96.71% – and this is also better than the vast majority of video slots we see from Pragmatic Play. However, we warned that the software provider does offer its games in different RTP settings, so you may find Big Bass Bonanza offered at certain online casinos at a lower RTP than the one advertised here.

Medium Volatility Gameplay

As far as to the volatility of the game, we’d say that Big Bass Bonanza is medium variance. Of course, in the short term, you may find that the slot plays more like a high variance slot – and, on the other end of the scale, it may play like a low variance machine!

Big Bass Bonanza Bonus Features

In line with keeping things simple, Reel Kingdom has opted to include just one bonus round in Big Bass Bonanza – and those of you familiar with Fishin’ Frenzy and other collection-based slot bonuses may well recognise many of the bonus round’s pillars! Let’s take a look at how the bonus round works, below:

Free Spins

In order to trigger the Free Spins bonus round in Big Bass Bonanza you’ll need to land 3, 4, or 5 of the scatter symbols anywhere in view. Doing so will award the Free Spins feature, and you will then be awarded the following number of spins:

• 3 Scatter Symbols: 10 Free Spins
• 4 Scatter Symbols: 15 Free Spins
• 5 Scatter Symbols: 20 Free Spins

Now, remember those fish symbols that have cash values attached to them? Well, they come into play during the bonus round – and if, on any spin, the Fisherman symbol lands, he’ll cast out his reel and collect any of the cash values that appear on your screen.

This means, the more fish symbols that land – when he does – the better. He also acts as a wild symbol, and will substitute for all other symbols, helping you to form wins.

Now, things get even more interesting when you manage to land two or more of the Fisherman symbols on a single spin. When this happens, each Fisherman collects all of the fish independently – so, if, for example, you landed two Fisherman, and there was one £25 fish on the screen, you’d win £50 for that spin!

Every time the wild symbol lands in view, the wild is collected on a metre above the reels. Every four wilds you collect awards a re-trigger – award 10 additional free spins – and a multiplier is also applied, which is then multiplied against any of the fish symbols that land in view!

The Big Bass Bonanza Family

Big Bass Bonanza was released in 2020, and seeing what a huge hit it became so quickly, Pragmatic Play decided to launch sequels very shortly after the launch of the original. These are some of the other games in the Big Bass Bonanza series that you can try:

Bigger Bass Bonanza

Everything about this slot definitely is bigger than the original, with a top prize of 4000x, a higher RTP and a few more paylines. Aside from that, Bigger Bass Bonanza is really not all that different from the first game in the series. While all of this sounds great, the trade-off is that it is a highly volatile game. So, if you’re a budget-concious player, then you may want to sticky with the original Big Bass Bonanza.

Big Bass Bonanza Megaways

Big Bass Bonanza Megaways brings players an enhanced gaming experience with a variable number of ways to win that goes all the way up to 46,696. Like Bigger Bass Bonanza, it also has a top prize of 4000x and is highly volatile.

The bonus round in Big Bass Bonanza Megaways is just like the feature that you’ll encounter in its two predecessors. It’s a free spins bonus where the fisherman can reel in fish for instant wins, with multipliers that can be earned by collecting wilds.

Which Game is Best?

If we had to pick a favourite from the Big Bass Bonanza series, we’d have to go with the original. There really isn’t that much differentiating the sequels from the original, as the top prizes aren’t much higher and there aren’t any extra features.

We think the medium variance is a good trade-off for the smaller top prize. 2000x is a bit on the low end, even for a slot with this volatility level, but it’s a decent compromise for being able to land wins more frequently than in the more highly volatile games.