Fintastic Fishing

Fintastic Fishing Slot Review

Most of what Fintastic Fishing pays out never touches a payline. The real money sits in the fish swimming through Foxium’s sunny lake, in the wooden ship’s wheel grinding away above the reels, and in a multiplier that only exists to be spent on a single collect. The 25 paylines are almost a courtesy.

Underneath the artwork sits a 5×4 grid with 25 fixed paylines, a 96.16% RTP and medium volatility, with wins up to 10,000x the bet. Foxium’s back catalogue runs from Foxpot to Oink Farm and The Great Albini 2, and this one sits towards the gentler end of that range. The interesting part happens below the buoys.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel across the 25 fixed paylines, and only the highest combination on a line counts. The total payout for a spin is the sum of all payline wins together. The wild stands in for every symbol except the Fintastic Fish, Multiplier Upgrade, Angler and Free Spins special symbols, so it’s purely a payline helper here.

The bet math has one wrinkle worth knowing. Payline wins are paid against the initial bet, which is the total bet divided by a payline cost of five, so the per-line payouts scale off a fifth of the stake you set. Fish values, jackpots and everything in the bonus round are quoted against the total bet. The advertised win cap is rounded down to the highest win achievable on a single spin.

The fish are where the money lives. Fintastic Fish symbols appear on all reels and carry their own prize values, in three sizes:

• Small Fish – 1x the bet
• Medium Fish – 2x to 3x the bet
• Big Fish – 4x to 500x the bet

Any fish can also carry a jackpot value from the ladder stacked beside the reels.

Fintastic Cash Catch

The Angler symbol appears on reel 5 in the base game. When fish symbols are on the reels at the same time as the Angler, the Fintastic Cash Catch pays out the sum of every visible fish value, and that award is then multiplied by whatever the Bait Booster has climbed to. It’s a simple collect, but the multiplier sitting on top of it is what the base game is quietly building towards.

Because a single fish can carry up to 500x on its own, and the booster can multiply that collect by as much as ten, the ceiling on one base game hit is far above what the paylines alone will ever produce. The Angler only lands on the final reel, so every collect has to wait for that one symbol to show up.

Bait Booster

The Bait Booster is the counter wrapped around that ship’s wheel above the grid. The Multiplier Upgrade symbol lands on reel 5 and pushes the booster up by one. It starts at 1 and caps at 10.

The booster resets to 1 every time a Cash Catch pays out, and it’s collected and stored per bet level, so changing stakes starts the climb again. Everything you’ve built goes into that one collect. Two upgrade symbols landing back to back are worth the same as two spread across a dozen spins; only the current bet level remembers.

Jackpot Ladder

The signpost ladder beside the reels marks four fixed multipliers, and any Fintastic Fish can arrive carrying one of them:

• MEGA – 500x the bet
• MAJOR – 100x the bet
• MINOR – 25x the bet
• MINI – 10x the bet

Fintastic Fishing Free Spins & Bonus Features

Land at least one Fintastic Fish symbol on every reel in the base game and the Free Spins round triggers, awarding five free spins played at the current bet. Five spins sounds thin, but the round works differently from the base game, and the difference is the whole point.

Each of the five reels gets its own Fintastic Cash Creel sitting above it. Fish and multiplier symbols that land during the round increase the creel values, and collecting money from a creel doesn’t reset it. The creels only grow, so a spin late in the round is worth more than a spin early in it.

A set of special symbols does the growing and the collecting:

• Fintastic Fish – increases the creel above it by 1x to 500x the total bet
• All Upgrade – increases every creel by 1x to 500x the total bet
• Creel Multiplier – multiplies the creel above it by 2x to 5x
• All Multiplier – multiplies every creel by 2x to 5x
• Angler’s Creel Collect – awards the value in the creel above it
• Angler’s All Collect – awards the value in every creel at once
• Extra Spins – awards up to five additional free spins

When several of these land together, the game resolves them in a fixed order: upgrades and fish first, then multipliers, then the collect symbols. That ordering matters. A fish that lands beside a collect still has time to fatten the creel before the Angler takes it, and a multiplier that arrives with an All Collect inflates the payout in the same breath.

The round can also extend itself. Extra Spins symbols award up to five more spins each time they land, and because the creels never drop in value, every added spin inherits the full stack that’s been built so far. That’s where the ceiling starts to look reachable.

Buy Feature & Super Free Spins

The base game has a Buy button that opens the Game Shop, where the Free Spins round can be purchased at the price displayed and played at the current bet. It’s available in the base game only, and it may not be offered above a certain bet threshold. Buying the standard round runs at 96.16% RTP, matching the regular game.

The shop also sells Super Free Spins, which run at 96.11% RTP. The super version gives all cash creels a better chance of increasing, a greater chance of having their values multiplied, and the best chance of collecting awards from every creel. The margin between the two buy options is small, but the super round is the one built to stack upgrades and collects into the same five spins.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.8/10

This is a game about waiting for one cast. Sessions settle into a rhythm of small line wins while the wheel above the grid ticks towards 10, and the payoff, when the Angler finally shows up, is one fat collect rather than a run of features. If that slow bait-and-catch loop sounds dull on paper, in practice it’s the reason to pick it: very few medium-volatility slots let a single base game hit carry a 500x fish multiplied ten times over.

The free spins round is the smarter half, because the creels keep their values after being collected and the round snowballs instead of resetting. The weakness is everything around that five-spin stay. Getting in needs a fish on all five reels, so the round you’re waiting for can arrive long after you stopped waiting, and five spins is barely a visit.

It’s built for patient players who like their wins accumulated rather than handed over, and for anyone who enjoys a lake they can settle into for an evening. Players chasing constant action will find the reel 5 dependency a nuisance. For the rest, the water’s fine and the fish are worth the wait.

Fintastic Fishing FAQs

• What is the RTP of Fintastic Fishing?

  The RTP is 96.16%. Buying the standard Free Spins round keeps the same 96.16% figure, while buying Super Free Spins runs at 96.11%.
• Is Fintastic Fishing high volatility?

  No. Fintastic Fishing is a medium volatility slot, which makes for a steadier balance between win frequency and win size than high volatility games.
• What is the hit frequency of Fintastic Fishing?

  The hit frequency is 24.41%, so roughly one spin in four produces a win of some kind.
• How do you trigger free spins in Fintastic Fishing?

  Land at least one Fintastic Fish symbol on each of the five reels in the base game. That awards five free spins, with each reel carrying its own Fintastic Cash Creel that grows throughout the round.
• Can you buy the bonus on Fintastic Fishing?

  Yes. Pressing Buy in the base game opens the Game Shop, where you can purchase Free Spins or Super Free Spins at the price displayed. The feature plays at your current bet and is available in the base game only.
• What is the maximum win on Fintastic Fishing?

  The maximum win is 10,000x your bet.
• When is Fintastic Fishing released?

  Fintastic Fishing’s release date is 13 May 2024.
• Who makes Fintastic Fishing?

  Fintastic Fishing is made by Foxium.