Giga Bass GigaBlox Slot Review
The reels sit at the end of a weathered timber jetty, mooring posts lashed with rope, a red-and-white life ring hanging off the right-hand post. Pine hills and pale sky fill the world above the waterline; below it, turquoise water, swaying kelp and drifting bubbles. It’s a lush, glossy cartoon lake, and ReelPlay have filled it with fish worth more than they look.
Each bass on the reels carries a hidden prize, and a single fisherman wild can scoop the lot at once. Better still, oversized blocks multiply those prizes by their width, so the big catches compound. It’s a 6×4 grid with 40 paylines, medium-high volatility, a 10,245x maximum win and bets from 0.40 to 24 per spin. Sister titles include Hypernova Megaways, Atlantis 10K Ways and Hercules 10K Ways. Time to see what’s biting.
Base Game & Features
The grid is 6×4 with 40 fixed paylines. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, only the highest win counts on each line, and coinciding wins on different lines add together. Straightforward stuff. What makes each spin different is the Gigablox system.
Gigablox
Any symbol, wild, bass and scatter included, can land as a Gigablox: an oversized block in a 2×2 to 4×4 formation that functions as that many individual symbols. Every base game spin contains at least one Gigablox reel, so there’s no such thing as an all-standard spin here.
One edge case is handled neatly: bass and wild Gigablox always land wholly inside the reel display, never straddling the edge where part of the block would be wasted.
Bass Symbols and the Fisherman Wild
Each bass symbol carries a random prize or bonus prize. Whenever a wild lands, it collects the prizes from all bass symbols on the reels at once. That’s the heart of the base game: land a wild alongside a screen full of bass and the collection adds up quickly.
The sizes multiply. If a bass is a Gigablox, its prize is multiplied by the reel width of the bass block. If the wild itself is a Gigablox, everything it collects is multiplied by the wild’s reel width.
Stack the two together and a 4-wide wild collecting a 4-wide bass pays that prize sixteen times over. The block sizes don’t just look big, they compound the prizes.
The bonus prize ladder has four tiers, all fixed multiples of the total bet rather than progressive pots:
- Grand – 1,000x the total bet
- Major – 250x the total bet
- Minor – 50x the total bet
- Mini – 10x the total bet
The Mini and Minor can be awarded more than once in a game round; the Grand and Major only once each. Regular bass prizes are their own ladder, in twenty steps:
- 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x
- 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 12x, 15x
- 20x, 25x, 30x, 75x, 100x
Prizes displayed over bass symbols have already been multiplied by the total bet, so what you see on a symbol is what it pays. A wild sweep therefore shows its running total honestly: each bass contributes its printed value, and any reel-width multipliers apply on top of that.
Paying Symbols
The wild is the fisherman in the red cap, and he substitutes for everything except the scatter and the bass. His line pays are the best on the board, in multiples of the total bet. The remaining rows are quoted at the game’s 0.80 default bet:
- Wild: 6 – 10x, 5 – 2.5x, 4 – 1x, 3 – 0.5x
- Premium symbols: 6 – 3.75 / 3 / 2.5 / 2, 5 – 1.5 / 1.25 / 1 / 0.75, 4 – 0.75 / 0.625 / 0.5 / 0.375, 3 – 0.375 / 0.3 / 0.25 / 0.175
- Low symbols: 6 – 1.25 / 1 / 0.875 / 0.75 / 0.625, 5 – 0.5 / 0.375 / 0.375 / 0.25 / 0.25, 4 – 0.25 / 0.2 / 0.2 / 0.125 / 0.125, 3 – 0.125 / 0.1 / 0.1 / 0.075 / 0.05
Line pays are modest across the board, which is normal for a game carrying collection prizes and a four-tier ladder on top. The base bet is the total bet divided by 40, a detail that matters when the bonus buy comes into play later.
Giga Bass GigaBlox Free Spins & Bonus Buy
Free Spins
Five or more scatter symbols trigger the free spins. Each scatter awards one free spin, so six scatters means six spins and nine scatters means nine. The more you land, the longer the round runs.
The scatter only appears during the base game, so there’s no triggering the round from inside it. Free spins play at the same lines and bet as the triggering spin, and they cannot be retriggered.
What the round guarantees is wilds. Every free spin contains at least one wild symbol, which with the collection mechanic means every spin is a live chance at a sweep of the bass on the reels.
Bonus Buy
There’s a buy option for players who’d rather skip the wait. It costs the base bet multiplied by 2,400, and the feature plays at base bet times 40, which works out at the same total bet you were already staking.
The purchased spin always lands five or more scatters, so the buy is a guaranteed feature rather than a gamble on one. At the maximum 24 stake that’s a hefty outlay. You’re paying for the feature directly instead of waiting for the scatters to arrive.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
Most of a session on Giga Bass GigaBlox is spent waiting for the fisherman. He’s the whole game. The reels churn, bass stack up with their prizes on display, and nothing pays properly until a wild lands and empties the lake in one go. That wait, and the suddenness of the payoff, is the reason to choose this over calmer fishing slots – a game of holding your rod still and then hauling.
The reel-width multiplication is the best thing here. A wide wild collecting wide bass doesn’t just add prizes, it multiplies them into something the 1,000x Grand suddenly looks reachable from, and that maths is rare in a collection game. The weakness is the feature round’s hard stop: no retrigger, scatters gone once you’re in, so a good trigger is the whole story and a thin one is a thin one.
This is for players who like one big sweep over a drip of small wins, and not for anyone who wants a bonus round that can snowball. The patient angler gets the better day here.
Giga Bass GigaBlox FAQs
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Can free spins be retriggered in Giga Bass GigaBlox?
No. The scatter only appears in the base game, so the round can’t retrigger. You get one free spin per triggering scatter, played at the same lines and bet as the triggering spin. -
How volatile is Giga Bass GigaBlox?
It’s a medium-high volatility game with a hit frequency of 24.63%, so wins land regularly but the bigger collections take patience. -
How do you trigger free spins in Giga Bass GigaBlox?
Land five or more scatter symbols in the base game and the round begins. Each scatter awards one free spin, so six scatters gives six spins. Every free spin contains at least one wild symbol. -
What does the wild do in Giga Bass GigaBlox?
The fisherman wild substitutes for all symbols except the scatter and the bass. Whenever a wild lands, it collects the prizes from every bass symbol on the reels, and oversized versions multiply those prizes by their reel width. -
Can you buy the bonus on Giga Bass GigaBlox?
Yes. The purchase costs 2,400 times the base bet, and the round that follows always lands five or more scatters, so the feature is guaranteed rather than left to chance. -
What is the maximum win on Giga Bass GigaBlox?
The maximum win is 10,245x the bet. -
What are the bet limits on Giga Bass GigaBlox?
Bets run from 0.40 to 24 per spin across 40 fixed paylines on a 6×4 grid. -
What are the jackpot prizes in Giga Bass GigaBlox?
The bonus prize ladder pays 1,000x the total bet for the Grand, 250x for the Major, 50x for the Minor and 10x for the Mini. The Mini and Minor can repeat within a single round; the Grand and Major are one win each, and none of them are progressive.
