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Bigger Bass Splash earns its name in two places, a bigger set of reels with two more paylines than the original, and a new Super Free Spins buy that opens the bonus with every modifier already switched on. Beyond those, this is the 2022 Big Bass Splash you remember, the fisherman wild sweeping up money fish, the multiplier climbing 2x, 3x, 10x, the same draw of random modifiers before a round. The sequel scales the formula up instead of rewriting it, no bad thing when the original was this well-liked. It is the same lazy-lake fishing slot at heart, just with more lines in the water.
The fish only pay in the free spins, and the fisherman is the reason. He turns up as the wild across the reels, and each landing banks the cash carried by every fish on the board.
A meter up top keeps tally, and every fourth fisherman banked adds ten more spins and nudges the collection multiplier up a rung, to 2x, then 3x, then a top of 10x. Reach the 10x rung, and the round stops retriggering, but by then every fish you reel in is worth ten times its value.
A free-spins round can come pre-loaded with as many as five modifiers, settled before the first spin and shaping how the whole thing plays. Get all five, and the round starts heavily stacked in your favour:
If you would rather not wait, the buy menu has two options. A hundred times your bet drops you straight into the free spins with whatever modifiers the draw hands you, just as a natural trigger would. Three hundred and fifty times your bet buys the Super Free Spins, which begins with all five modifiers already unlocked, the closest the game comes to a guaranteed strong start.
An Ante Bet is also available, adding half your stake again for a better trigger rate and more scatters.
As with every game in the Big Bass series, the money fish on the reels stay inert in the main game and take on value only in the free spins, where the fisherman wild reels them in, so the standard reels mostly mark time until three scatters drop. It plays at high volatility, with an RTP of 96.50% and the same 5,000x cap that ends a round the moment it is reached. Stakes range from $0.10 to $300 a spin.
Three helper features keep the free spins lively. When fishermen land with no fish, a Dynamite spin scatters money fish into empty spots; when fish land with no fisherman, a Hook reaches up to drag a fisherman onto the reels; and the Wipeout sends a motorboat skidding across the screen, whiting it out and turning every non-fisherman symbol into something new. The Wipeout is the original’s Bazooka under a new name, the same symbol-changing effect now dressed up as a speeding boat, and it can drop a clutch of fresh fish at just the right moment.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motorboat | 5x | 20x | 200x |
| Fishing rod | 3x | 15x | 100x |
| Lure | 2x | 10x | 50x |
| Tackle box | 2x | 10x | 50x |
| Fish | 1x | 5x | Total money value |
| A, K | 0.20x | 2.50x | 10x |
| Q, J, 10 | 0.20x | 1x | 5x |
| Fisherman Wild | Free spins only; substitutes for all but scatter | ||
Symbol wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel as a multiple of the bet, the motorboat alone also paying 0.50x for two.
| Symbol | Possible values (x bet) |
|---|---|
| Money fish | 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 500x, 1,666x, 2,500x, 5,000x |
Each money fish takes one of these values at random, collected by a fisherman wild and multiplied by the trail level, up to 10x.
Bigger Bass Splash does what a good sequel should, taking the 2022 original and adding the parts it was missing. The new Super Free Spins buy, loading all five modifiers from the first spin, is the strongest the bonus has played and the best reason to choose the sequel over the original. Past that it is more refinement than reinvention, enough to edge ahead of the 2022 game without shaking off its quiet stretches and hard swings.
What strikes you first is how calm it all feels. Where some Big Bass games go loud, the sequel leans back, a backdrop of distant mountain peaks and drifting clouds, flowers hanging from branches over turquoise water, and a softer, slower soundtrack to match. It is a handsome, easygoing scene. Underneath sits the familiar lull of a fishing game, modest line wins trickling in while the money fish go uncollected, biding time until the scatters land and the round that matters begins.
The free spins modifiers shape how the bonus plays out, and our first natural round showed it in action. Seventy-odd spins passed with only small wins, so we switched on the Ante Bet for a better shot, and five spins later three scatters and a hook brought the More Fish modifier with them. A Wipeout on the eighth spin then sent the motorboat across the screen and dropped five fresh fish for a $39 collect. We finished one fisherman short of the next level and its multiplier, a recurring near-miss that says a lot about how the round is paced.
Buying the Super round is the better way to see the system stretched. At 350x, it opens with all five modifiers live, a real headstart over a natural trigger. Ours ran twelve spins, a whiteout adding four fish to turn a $19 win into $38, an $80 spin landing, and the fourth fisherman banked on the ninth spin to push us along the trail. The extra spins paid out after the first batch, and with the multiplier up at 3x, a tame $14 win became $42, and a $30 became $60. It closed at $294.20, short of the buy-in, and one fisherman short again of the final 10x level.
That last detail is the whole story of the game. The 3x level alone clearly lifted our wins, and the 10x rung sits four fishermen above it with more free spins attached. Reach it, and an ordinary round turns into a memorable one; fall short, and you are left imagining what might have been. It is a clever, cruel piece of design that keeps you waiting for more fishermen, and it carries over unchanged from the original.
So, how much has actually changed since 2022? The shape is the biggest difference. The original Big Bass Splash, which we reviewed separately, played on a 5×3 grid with ten lines; the sequel adds a row and two more paylines for a 5×4, 12-line board, giving the fish more places to land. A new Super Free Spins buy sits above the returning 100x buy, guaranteeing all five modifiers from the off. The three helper spin-features carry over unchanged in effect; only the third is dressed differently, the original’s Bazooka renamed and reanimated as the motorboat Wipeout.
The numbers shift slightly. Its RTP drops from 96.71% to 96.50%, and Pragmatic has dropped the rating from very high to high, though both are small enough steps that you would be hard-pressed to feel either in a single session. The soundtrack is new as well, and this is where opinion splits; we found ourselves missing the original’s jingle, which lodges in your head in a way the calmer new theme does not. None of it makes the 2022 game obsolete. The sequel does not replace the original so much as sit beside it, a fuller version for players who want more modifiers and a buy that guarantees them.
Which you pick comes down to taste. The original is leaner, swingier and carries that stickier tune; the sequel is bigger, calmer and gives you more levers to pull, the Super buy chief among them. On gameplay, theme and features the bigger version has the edge, and it is the one we would point a newcomer toward. Either way, the fisherman and his climbing multiplier remain the draw, as they have since the start.
