Big Bass Splash 1000

If you thought you had enough Big Bass slots, think again. Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom continue the Big Bass Bonanza franchise with Big Bass Splash 1000, a game that joins both the fishing and the ‘1000’ upgrade series. Sounds like fun for anglers, but not so much for fans of repetitive themes. But when something is popular, you best believe Pragmatic Play will create 3 more slot games with the same theme.

The game uses a familiar scene: underwater terrain, fishermen, fish, and calm shallows. It starts with a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines where random fish appear carrying values from 2x to 1,000x. The main booster is the Free Spins round, but you’ll have fun with fish collection and multipliers too.

The game has a max win capacity of 25,000x, which is quite high. Let’s see how to hit – or at least try to get near – that high game win potential.

Big Bass Splash 1000 uses a traditional 10-payline structure on a 5×3 grid. To win, you should land matching icons on one or more of the 10 possible paylines.

There’s not much to say about the game. It’s a fishing game, and it looks just like any other Big Bass game – there are 12+ of those in the slot franchise – and your goal is the same – collect as many fish as possible and get the best payout you can.

The symbol set includes 10-A card royals as low-paying icons, as well as high-value icons such as fish, tackle boxes, dragonflies, fishing reels, and automobiles.

Fish symbols double as money symbols, too. They can bring you values from 2x to 1,000x the bet. But to get these prizes you will need to get Wild Fishermen.

Pay close attention to the game’s RTP as it dictates how often and how well the prizes might look when you hit something.

Theme & Design

Big Bass Splash 1000 is a Big Bass slot, so if you’ve seen one of them, you’ve seen them all. There’s nothing overly special about this release, to be honest.

The soundtrack has been slightly tweaked from earlier Splash versions but retains the upbeat, positive tone that’s become a Big Bass trademark. Everything feels familiar because it is familiar. This isn’t a visual revolution but the same aesthetic Big Bass players know well (perhaps even better than they would like to).

The soundtrack is mood-lifting without becoming intrusive, so it matches the vibe nicely.

RTP & Volatility

Big Bass Splash 1000 offers a 96.52% RTP in its highest configuration, sitting slightly above the 96% industry average but slightly lower than some earlier Big Bass games. Lower RTP models likely exist at some casinos, so please check the variant before playing. All in all, a game fit for high rollers, because it’s highly volatile and has a lot of intense moments that could either deliver big wins or trigger dry spells.

The high volatility means wins are less frequent but can be more than worth your time when features align.

To wager on Big Bass Splash 1000, players can place bets from $0.10 up to $250 per spin. This range is unsurprising for Pragmatic Play.

There’s also an Ante bet that increases winning chances but also increases the wager, so when it’s active, the range doubles to $0.20 to $500.

The max win reaches 25,000x the bet, which is a bit of a dramatic increase from Big Bass Splash’s 5,000x cap.

But it’s exactly this steep increase in maximum potential that is the appeal of the ‘1000’ upgrade. However, individual fish money symbols now cap at 1,000x, down from the original Splash/Bigger Splash where fish could display 1,666x, 2,500x, or even 5,000x values. The higher maximum comes from feature multiplication rather than individual symbol values.

Paytable

Here’s the full paytable for Big Bass Splash 1000.

High-Pay Symbols:

• Automobile: 5x for 3 OAK, 20x for 4 OAK, 200x for 5 OAK
• Fishing Reel: 4x for 3 OAK, 15x for 4 OAK, 150x for 5 OAK
• Dragonfly: 3x for 3 OAK, 10x for 4 OAK, 100x for 5 OAK
• Tackle Box: 2x for 3 OAK, 8x for 4 OAK, 75x for 5 OAK
• Fish: 1.5x for 3 OAK, 6x for 4 OAK, 50x for 5 OAK

Low-Pay Symbols (Card Royals):

• A: 1x for 3 OAK, 3x for 4 OAK, 10x for 5 OAK
• K: 0.8x for 3 OAK, 2.5x for 4 OAK, 8x for 5 OAK
• Q: 0.6x for 3 OAK, 2x for 4 OAK, 7x for 5 OAK
• J: 0.5x for 3 OAK, 1.5x for 4 OAK, 6x for 5 OAK
• 10: 0.4x for 3 OAK, 1.2x for 4 OAK, 5x for 5 OAK

Here’s an overview of all features used in Big Bass Splash 1000.

Free Spins Modifiers

Before free spins begin, between 0 and 5 modifiers are randomly chosen to be active during the round. Here’s what you might get:

• More Fish: this modifier adds more fish icons
• More Fisherman: this modifier adds Wilds
• More Dynamites, Hooks and Bazookas: similarly, this modifier adds these special icons
• Start From Level 2: the round immediately starts at progression level 2 with 2x multipliers
• +2 Spins: you get 2 more spins

The number of active modifiers per round is random.

Free Spins

During free spins, the fisherman is the Wild that collects values from the fish money symbols. The collection system should be familiar already, but we’ll explain it a bit again.

Wilds themselves are counted and accumulated. Every 4th Wild that is collected triggers a retrigger of Free Spins. When this happens, you get +10 free spins and go to the progression level:

• First retrigger (4 Wilds): +10 spins, level 2 with 2x multiplier
• Second retrigger (8 Wilds total): +10 spins, level 3 with 3x multiplier
• Third retrigger (12 Wilds total): +10 spins, level 4 with 10x multiplier
• Fourth retrigger (16 Wilds total): +10 spins, remain at 10x multiplier

The feature can be retriggered a maximum of 4 times.

Special Features During Free Spins

During Spins you are probably also going to trigger one of these special features.

• Dynamite – randomly adding fish to the screen when there are no fish or fisherman
• Hook – when you have fish but no fisherman, you get a hook which adds Wilds to the grid
• Bazooka – when you don’t have fish but there’s a fisherman, you might get a bazooka when all regular icons transform into random icons.

Feature Buy

You have 2 options. You can pay 100x to get to Free spins with a random number of Scatters (3-5) and a random number of modifiers. You can also pay 450x to get Super Free Spins and get 3-5 Scatters and a higher chance of fish money symbols displaying the maximum 1,000x value.

Of course, the game also adapts seamlessly to mobile devices, so there’s no reason to worry how the gameplay could look on a smaller screen.

Our Experience Playing Big Bass Splash 1000

Big Bass Splash 1000 feels like it’s all been done before, probably because it has been.

The base game is pure Big Bass: simple, straightforward, focused entirely on building toward free spins. Even the fish collection has been seen so many times before that we cannot get that excited for the game, but we do enjoy what it offers in terms of profits and playability.

Pros & Cons

Pros:

• 25,000x max win is 5x higher than in the original game
• The betting range is huge
• You have so many modifiers and special symbols
• RTP is high with 96.52%

Cons:

• Highly volatile so not for casual players
• Gameplay can get repetitive
• It’s one of many Big Bass slots

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• Big Bass Bonanza (Pragmatic Play) – The franchise’s origin game that started it all. Choose the original Bonanza if you want the purest, most straightforward Big Bass experience without subsequent additions.
• Golden Fish Tank (Yggdrasil Gaming) – The ultimate fishing game from the one and only Yggdrasil Gaming.