Big Bass Hold and Spinner Megaways Slot Review & Free Demo

Big Bass Hold and Spinner Megaways Review

Bass are known for their strength and fighting ability amongst game fishers, and the word refers to many different fish species belonging to the order of perch-like fish. They are ambush predators, and certainly also popular in the world of online slots. Pragmatic Play partner, Reel Kingdom, has made sure of that more than any other developer, and Big Bass Hold and Spinner Megaways is a feature-rich installment jam-packed with fish prize collection action in different forms.

The dynamic grid comes with 3 rows to the top horizontal reel, and mystery symbols and tumble wins will benefit you in both the base game and in the FS round. What makes the feature stick out, however, is the fact that the multiplier upgrade trail comes with no upper limit. You can keep adding +x10 to the fish prize multiplier indefinitely, and you can win up to 20,000x your stake also in the Hold & Spinner bonus. This is a reskin of Floating Dragon Megaways, however, but still well worth checking out for fans of the super-popular Big Bass series.

Big Bass Hold and Spinner Megaways Slot - Reels Screen

Slot Features

There is a 3-row sliding reel above positions 2 to 5 on the main grid, and the topmost reel slides in only wild symbols and/or blanks. The 2 top reel rows below the topmost reel can slide in any kind of symbol, and the reels spin from right to left. The top reels lock and unlock randomly per spin, and only unlocked reels are active. This gives you up to 147,456 Megaways, at best.

Big Bass Hold and Spinner Megaways slot comes with a Tumble mechanic, and this means that winning symbols are removed. New and/or existing symbols drop down to fill the gaps, and the process repeats as long as you keep winning. Fish prize symbols pay 1.5x your stake for 6 of a kind wins, while the premium symbols award 2 to 50 x your stake for 6-oak. Wilds step in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve wins.

Mystery Symbols can appear both in the base game and in the free spins round, and all instances of this symbol turn into a randomly chosen matching symbol each time. In the bonus round, mystery symbols will only come into play after a spin with at least one fisherman symbol, but no fish money symbols, in view. The mystery symbols will turn into a random symbol also in this case.

Free Spins Slot - Reels Screen

The Free Spins Bonus Round triggers from 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters in view, and this gives you 10, 15, 20, or 25 free spins, respectively. The fish money symbols are worth between 2x and 5,000x your stake, and fish symbols drop to the bottom of the grid if part of a regular tumble win (instead of being removed, like in the base game).

All fisherman symbols in view collect all present money fish prizes, before the fisherman wild himself is collected in the multiplier and extra spins upgrade meter. You get +10 extra free spins per 4 fisherman wilds that are collected in the meter, and the money fish multiplier increases to x2, x3, and x10 the first 3 times. After that, the multiplier keeps increasing by +x10 for every 4 collected fisherman wild, with no upper limit.

Keep in mind that the multiplier you have achieved becomes active only as your newly won extra spins start, and the multiplier boosts money fish prizes only. Fish money symbols will sometimes be added randomly to the grid, but only on spins where at least one fisherman wild is present without any fish money symbols in view from before.

The Big Bass Hold and Spin Megaways Hold & Spinner Bonus triggers when you land at least 3 coin money symbols anywhere on the same spin, and the triggering money symbols become sticky on an otherwise cleared grid. The money symbols have random values between 1x and 2,000x your stake, and only blanks, money, or diamond money symbols appear during the feature.

The triggering money symbols add their values to your total win from the get-go, and you start with 3 respins. The respin tally resets for each new non-blank symbol you land, and the feature plays out on the full Megaways grid with the 3 top reels active as well.

All present money symbol prizes are collected for each new money symbol that lands, but only the triggering symbols are sticky. Diamond money symbols are worth between 50x and 2,000x your stake, and you get 3 extra respins if the feature ends with a lower total win than 20x your stake.

The Big Bass Hold and Spinner Megaways Bonus Buy Feature is available in some jurisdictions, but not in the UK for sure. If eligible, you can purchase the Free Spins round for 100x your stake, and this gives you 3 to 5 triggering scatters on the spin that follows. The Hold & Spinner Bonus will set you back 120x your stake, and it’s triggered by 3 to 6 coin money symbols. The free spins round has an organic hit rate of 1 in 319 spins.

The 200 Spins Big Bass Hold and Spinner Megaways Slot Experience

You get a very brief taste of the base game, before we purchase the free spins round at 0:18 into the 6-minute highlights video. We then purchase and trigger the Hold & Spinner Bonus at 3:44 into the video, and we got 4 triggering coins. The feature plays out for the remainder of the video, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The fact that this is a reskin of Floating Dragon Megaways steals some of its thunder, but Big Bass Hold and Spinner is still a rock solid installment in Reel Kingdom’s ultra-popular fishing slot series. The Megaways grid is even bigger and bolder than usual, thanks to the triple top reel, and you get both tumble wins and mystery symbols to keep you going in the base game. Not the height of innovation, perhaps, but at least you’ve got 2 different bonus rounds to look forward to instead of just the usual one.

Even “the usual one” has been enhanced compared to the rest of the series, as the multiplier upgrades come with no upper limit. Of course, fisherman wilds aren’t always in abundance, but things can really pop on a lucky day. The nocturnal Hold & Spinner feature is an exciting addition as well, and solid payouts up to 20,000x your stake are possible in both features. The max win hit rate is a solid 1 in 1,496,522 spins, and Big Bass Hold and Spinner Megaways is among the very best installments in the whole fishing slot genre in our opinion.