Epic Fish Adventure

Epic Fish Adventure: Slot Overview

Reel up, players; we're about to get a taste of warm air on our faces, a salt tang in the air, and the spray of the sea as we virtually fire up the dinghy to head out on the ocean to attempt hauling in fish. Running this charter boat is Swedish software developer Quickspin in the online slot Epic Fish Adventure. A bit of a boast in the name, huh? But, with money symbol collecting available at all times and a special Golden Fish symbol that can hit values of 5,000x on its own, who knows, maybe it will be epic. Let's see.

If fishing games are a way of taking a pretend sun-filled holiday, then Epic Fish Adventure provides sweet eye candy to fuel the fantasy. A 5-reel, 3-row gaming grid bubbles away in a warm blue ocean beneath palm tree-covered islands in a sparkling dream destination. Take a moment if you like to gaze at the screen, and let Epic Fish Adventure evaporate the stressors of work, bills, and obligations into oblivion to help pretend you're soaking up the sunlight in a romantic Caribbean paradise. Something like that.

Along Epic Fish Adventure's game grid, run 10 paylines, awarding regular symbol wins from the leftmost reel onwards. However, as a fishing game, line wins do play second fiddle to collecting cash money from fish symbols. Money collecting occurs in the base game, and the free spins round in this medium-high volatile slot, which is available in several RTP configurations, the highest being a 96% version. Players may wager 20 c to $/€100 per spin or pick any of the three bonus buys on offer.

Turning to the pay symbols, what Quickspin classes as medium pays are a fish, a compass, a message in a bottle, a star, and a pearl in an oyster, worth 10 to 75 times the bet for 5 OAK. It is important to note that the fish symbol is also the money symbol, displaying cash values. The lows are 10 to A playing card ranks worth 2 to 7.5 times the stake for a winning combination of 5 matching symbols.

Epic Fish Adventure: Slot Features

Epic Fish Adventure's features include a wild symbol collecting fish money values component, which is available in the base game and in free spins. Free spins come in 3 forms, triggered by certain numbers of scatters or bought.

Wilds and Fish Collection Feature

Wild symbols substitute for all symbols except the scatter and land on all reels. An all wild symbol win pays up to 150x. When fish symbols are in view, each wild on the reels collects the cash values of all fish symbols. Possible fish symbol money values are 1x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, and 25x.

Golden Fish Symbol

The Golden Fish symbol only lands during the Golden Marlin bonus game. It increases its prize each time it lands and can be caught by the wild symbol like a regular fish symbol. The Golden Fish starting prize value is 50x and increases in a set order up to a maximum of 5,000x.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatters triggers the Sunrise Spins bonus, 4 scatters trigger Hold the Line, and 5 scatters trigger the Golden Marlin bonus. For each bonus round, 12 free spins are awarded, and wilds are collected when they land.

• Sunrise Spins - during this bonus, +1 extra free spin is awarded for every 4 wild symbols collected.
• Hold The Line - this bonus awards +2 extra free spins for every 4 wilds collected. Each wild on the reels triggers the Fortified Wilds feature, sticking the wilds on the reels in their positions for one extra spin, counting twice towards the wild collection meter.
• Golden Marlin - +3 extra spins are awarded for every 4 wild symbols collected. Each wild on the screen also triggers the Fortified Wilds feature. This is the feature where the Golden Fish may land.

Feature Buy

From the base game, players have access to three bonus buys - 40x the bet triggers the bonus with at least 3 scatter symbols, 95x the bet triggers the bonus with at least 4 scatter symbols, and 250x the bet buys a 5 scatter trigger of the Golden Marlin round.

Epic Fish Adventure: Slot Verdict

For the most part, Epic Fish Adventure does the Big Bass Bonanza collection of fish symbol money values thing quite well. In addition, Quickspin has fiddled around with some of the rules to give fishing fans something new to digest. Some of the graphical touches Quickspin has worked into Epic Fish Adventure are good, too. This includes the sun glare when transitioning to free spins, the plane ride to the bonus round destination, and the overall look, which is warm, sunny, and inviting. These are three key elements for attracting armchair anglers into yet another fishing slot when there are so many others on the market vying for their attention.

On the mechanical side of things, Epic Fish Adventure attempts to mix things up as well. It succeeds, too, though it will be interesting to see how the innovations are received. It's not unusual for slots to deploy more powerful weaponry when more scatters trigger a bonus round, and Epic Fish Adventure is one of these. Its 5-scatter Golden Marlin round is by far the most sought-after part of the game. Additional free spin awards from collected wild symbols are greater, but more critically, that's where the Golden Fish symbol may make an appearance. It's an interesting system, but you need a few parts to come together at the same time to reach Epic Fish Adventure's peak epicness. It might have been heartening if there was a way to upgrade free spins rounds from lower levels to higher ones.

So, epic? Debatable, but Epic Fish Adventure provides a picturesque spot for gamblers to get their money symbol collecting going, and there's a twist to the usual ways these games function for players to figure out whether it is actually epic or average.