Big Bass Xmas Xtreme Slots

Reel Kingdom slot clones decorated for Christmas have become quite a tradition, and this year, the company has decided to give the festive makeover. But you don't get an over-the-top explosion with this one. The slot is more subdued in its theme than some of the earlier versions in the series. You wouldn't find Santa hats on those fish symbols. Here, we see a bearded fisherman ice fishing near the North Pole, with a rather cozy decorated house barely in the background.

What's it about?

The five-reel game grid is below the icy surface, and you'll be out to land three symbols across any of the ten paylines to win prizes. You can bet from $0.01 to $250 per spin. These fishing gear symbols, floaters, rods, and backpacks pay higher but can only award a maximum of 200x your stake for hitting 5. Occasionally, every fish prize in view increases it using a random multiplier of up to 50x.

Money Symbols

Similarly, the fisherman can randomly scoop up cash prize values between 0.2x and 1,000x of your stake in the base game for the Fish Money Symbols. If the fish prizes drop, the total will increase with a random multiplier from x1 to x50.

Free Spins

When you land two hits, sometimes you get it, such as when a Narwhal nudges the 3rd hit in position or when a Narwhal can change a random symbol into the last vital 3rd hit. If you win on 4 or 5 scatters, 1 or 2 Xmas presents are already opened. This game sees you unwrap gifts revealing your bonus round extras and modifiers as part of your pre-bonus pick game. And any time you read a boot, the picks are indefinite until you say a boot, which is when you stop the pre-bonus game.

Fish Collection Bonus

That's where the fisherman's wild symbol steps in. He can be on any reel, and he will collect all the fish prizes visible on the reel every time he is. On top of the game grid sits the ever-familiar multiplier upgrade trail. As you pick up fisherman wilds, you'll progress along this path, upgrading the fish prize multiplier up to x50 if you can. You also get ten extra free spins for each upgrade.

Fisherman Wild

The bonus round is the only place where the Fishmen Wild symbols appear (substitutes for regular pay symbols), bringing all the fish money symbols into view. The fisherman wild appears in the Progression Trail, with each 4th collection upgrading the fish prize win multiplier and giving ten extra free spins as an additional reward. If it's on x1, the multiplier increases to x50, meaning no more–triggers are possible.

Four Modifiers

Bonus Round contains four randomly triggered modifiers to help catch even more money fish prizes. That's a highly volatile game. However, the game is sweeter, with a 96% RTP and a maximum win of many times your stake. The average hit rate is below average, which means the base game will have a lot of dead spins and more petite tops up. The bonus round gets played about every 110 spins, a well above-average hit rate by our stats.

You can play all year round to get a cool color scheme on the underwater backdrop to help you cool off in the middle of all those hot summer nights. The backdrop is intriguing; there are a lot of colors in the ice, and in the distance is some structure that could be Santa's workshop or, more likely, the fisherman's cabin. But while the soundtrack is pleasant, it doesn't, and neither does that overall theme summon up that classic Christmas nostalgia.