Big Bass Keeping it Reel
Big Bass Keeping it Reel Stats
RTP & Maths
- RTP by Mode
- Ante Bet 96.07% · Buy Free Spins 96.07%
- RTP Versions
- 96.07% here · Other versions 95.07%, 94.07%
- Max Win Rule
- Applies in base and feature
Free Spins & Bonus
- Free Spins
- 3/4/5 scatters = 10/15/20 free spins · Retrigger: Every 4th wild collected = +10 free spins, up to 4 levels; no retrigger after the fourth level
- Bonus Buy
- Free Spins 100x (96.07% RTP)
- Ante Bet
- 1.5x stake · Bet multiplier 15x instead of 10x, with more Scatter symbols on the reels and a higher natural trigger chance · Disables the buy
- Multipliers
- 2x/3x/10x fish money collection multiplier · Persistent
Symbols & Pays
- Money Symbols
- 1x–1000x total bet
- Wild
- Feature only · All reels during the free spins round
- Scatter Reels
- All reels
- Line Pays
- Top symbol 200x · Lowest 0.2x
Keeping it Reel Overview
10,000 times the bet. That is the cap here, and it is double what any other Big Bass title on this site can reach. Nothing else about the game moved to pay for it. Same board, same fisherman collecting cash fish through the free spins, same price on the Buy plaque. Reel Kingdom raised one number and left the rest of the frame where it has been since the first Big Bass Bonanza. The interesting part is where the extra room comes from. It comes from one fish, and from how far the game will let a round run before it stops.
It belongs to the Big Bass Series, Reel Kingdom’s longest-running fishing slot set for Pragmatic Play, and it arrived in October 2022.
How the Demo Works
The Money Fish
Every fish on the reels carries a cash value, drawn fresh on each spin. In standard play, those values do nothing; the fish pay as an ordinary symbol, and the money on their backs goes nowhere. Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatters opens the free spins at 10, 15, or 20 spins, and that’s where the fisherman wild appears. He can land on any reel, and when he does, he sweeps up every fish value showing at that moment. This is the whole earning engine.
Golden Wilds
Fish that hit during free spins and go uncollected aren’t lost straight away. Their values go into a landing net at the side, which carries them over from spin to spin. The net leaks, though. At every free spin, one random fish escapes it, and its value comes off the stored total. The Golden Wild is what makes the net matter, because it takes the fish showing at the time and the net’s running value with it.
Four Retrigger Levels
Wilds accumulate across the whole round. Every fourth one collected adds 10 more free spins and moves the collection multiplier up a step, to 2x, then 3x, then 10x. Four levels is where it stops. After the fourth, extra wilds keep collecting, but the round can no longer extend. That gives the feature a shape most money-collect games don’t have. The early spins are cheap and flat, and the reward for surviving them is a multiplier on every fish the fisherman touches.
The Buy Feature and the Ante
The Buy Free Spins plaque costs 100x the current total bet and drops you straight into the round, with a random 3, 4, or 5 scatter trigger on the way in. The other route is the Ante Bet, a 50% surcharge that trades cost for a better natural trigger rate. The two don’t co-exist. Turn the ante on, and the buy plaque goes dark. One oddity survives from another Reel Kingdom title, because the ante’s own note still mentions a respin round, and no respin round exists here.
How to Play
10 fixed lines is a small board by 2022 standards, and the table behind it is modest. Five bobbers, the best line pay here, return 200x the bet, and the picture symbols under it fall away quickly. Against that, a fish can be drawn at 1,000x, and the shape of the game is clear from those two figures alone. Line wins keep the reels turning between features. The cap is the fish’s business, and only the free spins can cash one of them.
Push the top end, and the numbers meet neatly. A single top-value fish, collected at the highest multiplier step, lands exactly on the cap. The game ends the round the moment a win reaches that limit, pays out to it, and lets the remaining spins go. The maximum comes from one fish, one gold wild, and a round that has already climbed all four retrigger steps to reach the multiplier that gets it there.
That split explains why the demo can feel quiet. Fish land constantly in standard play, each with a value showing, and none of it is reachable until a third scatter arrives. The money is visible long before it’s collectable, and that is why ordinary spins read flatter here than the artwork suggests. Hold the space bar if you’d rather the reels dropped at turbo speed.
Min Bet, RTP and Paylines
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Minimum bet | $0.10 |
| Maximum bet | $375.00, with the Ante Bet selected |
| RTP | 96.07%, the same for standard play, Ante Bet and Buy Free Spins |
| Paylines | 10 fixed |
| Grid | 5×3 |
Operators can also license lower returns, 95.07% and 94.07%, and the game’s own volatility icon points to the calm end of the scale, a reading this page doesn’t share.
What the Symbols Payout
Values below are multiples of the stake, and the bobber is the only symbol here that pays for two and has the largest payout for 5.
| Symbol | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bobber | 0.5x | 5x | 20x | 200x |
| Fishing rod | – | 3x | 15x | 100x |
| Dragonfly | – | 2x | 10x | 50x |
| Tackle box | – | 2x | 10x | 50x |
| Fish | – | 1x | 5x | 20x |
| A, K | – | 0.2x | 2.5x | 10x |
| Q, J, 10 | – | 0.2x | 1x | 5x |
Ultimate Slots Verdict
The highest cap in the Big Bass family, reached by the narrowest route in it. Keeping it Reel is a well-made fishing set-up with one raised number and nothing else changed, and that makes it worth a run in free play if the caps elsewhere in the series have started to feel small.
✓ What We Like
- The landing net keeps missed fish values in play instead of discarding them
- Golden Wild adds the net's stored total to whatever is on the reels
- Four retrigger levels give the round a clear shape and a real top step
- The highest cap in the Big Bass series, at twice what the others reach
- Buy Free Spins and Ante Bet both offered, with the same return on every route
✗ What Could Be Better
- Fish values are drawn on every spin and cannot be collected outside the free spins
- The top multiplier step needs four retrigger levels inside one round, so the cap is a long way off
Detailed Review
Big Bass Keeping it Reel Play Experience
3.5 out of 5, because the cap is real and the road to it is the family’s usual one. Everything that makes this the biggest number in the series exists only inside a feature you have to reach first; otherwise, nothing on the screen improves. The rest of the game is the Big Bass frame exactly as you know it, competently made and a little dated, working at a stake you can set as low as you like.
The design does one thing very well. Fish values are drawn on every spin whether you can take them or not, so the reels always have a number on them, and the free spins turn that display into a bank. The landing net sharpens it further, holding everything you missed at the edge of the board while one fish slips out of it each spin. You end up watching a total you don’t own shrink slowly. That’s well-judged pressure, and it gives the round more to follow than the flat collect the earlier entries in the series used.
The artwork does none of that work; it’s the same boat and the same golden hour the series has used for years.
What holds up less well is the route. The biggest fish value is a rare draw on a board this narrow, and the top multiplier step only arrives after four retrigger levels inside one round. Both have to happen together. That’s the honest case against the headline, since a larger cap costs nothing if nobody reaches it, and this one asks for two long shots to land at once. The extra room earns itself in the middle of a good round, because the top step applied to an ordinary screen of fish still returns several times what the older titles could manage from the same reels.
The comparison that matters is with the games on either side. Big Bass Bonanza is the cheaper, faster version of this idea and still the best place to start. Big Bass Bonanza 1000 chases a bigger figure through the collect multiplier instead of a bigger fish. Keeping it Reel is the middle option of the three, and the one to try in free play if the older caps have started to look small.
Big Bass Series at a Glance
All Big Bass Series ›| Game | RTP | Max win | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bass Keeping it Reel | 96.07% | 10,000x | High |
| Big Bass Splash | 96.71% | 5,000x | Very High |
| Big Bass Bonanza | 96.71% | 2,100x | High |
| Big Bass Bonanza 1000 | 96.51% | 20,000x | High |
| Big Bass Splash 1000 | 96.52% | 25,000x | High |
| Big Bass Amazon Xtreme | 96.07% | 10,000x | High |
