Fishing Club

Fishing Club Slot Review

A wooden dock juts into a turquoise lake, a rowboat sits on the sand, and a pair of blue-sleeved arms works a fishing rod in the lower centre of the screen. Most slots would hang a bonus round off a scene this pretty; this one has the nerve to make the fishing itself the entire game.

Fishing Club is a quiet game with a loud paytable: an RTP of 97.16%, mid to low volatility, and a catch-based system where every fish on the end of the line is worth a multiple of your total bet. The studio’s catalogue is a busy place, sitting alongside titles like Fruit Million, Wild Cash Gold and Snoop Dogg Dollars.

This one keeps its tackle box nearly empty. There’s no free spins round and no pick’em bonus. What you get instead is a short, steep paytable and a risk dial you turn yourself.

The Catch and What It Pays

The game plays out on that lakeside shore, with the rod cast and reeled as the round resolves. Every catch is a fish, and every fish carries a pay band as a multiple of the total bet. The bands overlap at the edges, so a lucky low fish can out-pay an unlucky high one.

Still, the ladder is steep. The red fish at the top is worth a hundred times what the pink fish at the bottom is, and the steps between them are mostly even. The paytable, top to bottom, as multiples of the total bet:

• Red fish: x50 – 100
• Yellow-tailed fish: x40 – 50
• Silver/grey fish: x30 – 40
• Yellow fish: x20 – 30
• Orange spiny fish: x15 – 20
• Purple fish: x10 – 15
• Red/green fish: x5 – 10
• Marlin: x100 or more
• Blue fish: x4 – 5
• Green fish: x3 – 4
• Grey fish: x2 – 3
• Yellow round fish: x1 – 2
• Pink fish: x0 – 1

The marlin breaks the pattern. It sits below the mid-tier fish in the list but pays x100 or better, which makes it the one catch worth holding your breath for. Every other fish in the top half pays a band at least ten wide; the marlin simply starts where they end.

The rest of the ladder steps down in tidy increments. From the purple fish at x10 – 15 to the green fish at x3 – 4, each band overlaps its neighbour. That keeps the mid-table interesting even when the catches are ordinary.

The bottom of the list is where the small fish live. The blue, green and grey fish pay between x2 and x5. The two smallest catch types, the yellow round fish and the pink fish, can land at x1 or below, and a pink fish at the bottom of its band pays nothing at all.

Payouts are calculated against the total bet on screen, not a line bet, so the multiplier you see is the multiplier you get. With mid to low volatility and that 97.16% RTP, the maths is set up for steadier sessions than the top of the paytable suggests.

The ceiling is where the excitement lives; the floor is where most of the fishing happens. That split is the game’s whole character, and the two trackers in the next section exist to keep both ends of it visible.

Best Catch and Best Win

The game keeps two running totals for the session. Best Catch records the biggest multiplier, and Best Win records the largest payout. They’re displayed on screen throughout, so the session’s high-water marks are always in view.

It’s a small thing, but it changes how a long session reads. A run of small fish stops being a flat stretch and becomes a hunt for one record-breaker, because the session only needs a single better catch for the Best Catch figure to move.

The best catch tracker celebrates up to x3000, which gives the game its most eye-catching number. Nothing else in the feature set reaches that high. The marlin’s x100 floor is the nearest rival, and even a perfect marlin sits thirty times below the celebration mark.

Five Risk Levels

The risk menu is a set of five selectable icons on the left side of the screen, and it’s the game’s one genuine decision point. It works like a stake-and-style dial: the higher the risk level, the better the chance of winning, and changing the level changes the minimum bet.

In practice that means the game has five difficulty settings rather than one. Level one is the cheap, cautious end, where the minimum bet is lowest and wins come smaller and steadier.

Level five is the expensive end, where the win chance climbs along with the cost of playing. Because the bet floor rises with the risk, the same paytable reads differently at each setting. A marlin at x100 or more is worth more at level five than the same catch is at level one, and so is the pink fish at the bottom.

It’s a simple system, and it puts a real choice in front of the player before the first cast. Every fish in the paytable above is available at every level; what changes is how often you win and what each spin costs to make.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Fishing Club is exactly what sitting on that dock would be: unhurried, repetitive in the way fishing is repetitive, and occasionally interrupted by something thrashing on the end of the line. It suits the maths and the calm, not anything that happens on a second screen, because there isn’t one.

The strength is that 97.16% RTP working with the risk dial. Most games with no bonus round make you pay for it somewhere; here the paytable, the bet settings and the return all pull in the same direction, and the marlin gives even a quiet session a fish worth remembering.

The weakness is that the lake runs out. Once the risk dial has been turned and the best catch tracker has climbed, there’s nothing further to find, and the x3000 celebration is a long way above anything realistically landed. It suits players who enjoy a steady, well-priced session and don’t need a bonus round to justify opening the game; anybody who wants free spins and pick’em games will find this water shallow.

Fishing Club FAQs

• What is the RTP of Fishing Club?

  Fishing Club runs at an RTP of 97.16%, which is a notably generous return figure. It pairs with mid to low volatility, so the maths is built for steady rather than spiky sessions.
• Is Fishing Club high volatility?

  No. Fishing Club is a mid to low volatility game, so wins tend to arrive more regularly but at smaller sizes. The top of the paytable still reaches x100 or more on a marlin catch, but the overall profile is steady rather than extreme.
• Who makes Fishing Club?

  Fishing Club is made by BGaming, the studio behind titles including Fruit Million, Wild Cash Gold and Snoop Dogg Dollars.
• When is Fishing Club released?

  Fishing Club’s release date is 11 June 2024.
• What is the Best Catch in Fishing Club?

  Best Catch is a session tracker that records the biggest multiplier win. It’s displayed on screen throughout, alongside the Best Win tracker for the largest payout, and celebrates catches of up to x3000. It gives a running session something to chase without changing the maths.
• What do the five risk levels do in Fishing Club?

  The risk level is selected from a menu of five icons on the left side of the screen. Higher risk levels increase the chance of winning, and changing the level also changes the minimum bet, so stepping up the risk steps up the cost of playing.
• Which fish pays the most in Fishing Club?

  The red fish tops the regular ladder at x50 to 100 times the total bet, but the marlin is the real prize, paying x100 or more. All values are multiples of the total bet rather than a line bet.
• Does Fishing Club have free spins or a bonus round?

  No. The feature set runs to the Best Catch and Best Win session trackers and the five risk levels. There’s no free spins round, no bonus game and no second screen, so the base fishing loop is the entire game.