Winter Fishing Club Review

Every winter since 1917, the town of Nenana, Alaska has dragged a wooden 🪵 tripod out onto the frozen Tanana River and run a line from it to a clock on the bank.

You buy a ticket and guess the exact minute the ice gives out and hauls that tripod far enough downriver to stop the clock. It's the oldest legal betting pool in America, and the pot has climbed past a few hundred thousand dollars.

A whole town with money down on when the ice 🧊 decides to move. I've waited on worse things for less.

BGAMING's Winter Fishing Club hands you a hole, a rod 🎣, and the same stubborn patience.

Gameplay

BGaming has put you on a frozen lake at sunset, and the art is magnificent. It's so good that you can't help but feel like you’re in that frosty environment, and that’s also due to the first person approach the studio took. It feels like we're in the game, not watching it.

There's no grid and no paylines because this ain’t a slot - it’s an Instant win game.

You cast a line and pull a fish toward the hole. A fish you catch is a win, and each fish carries its own multiplier that gets applied to your bet. The paytable displays 13 fish and I can't tell one from the other, but I have memorized their respective payouts.

The top fish is printed open-ended at 100x and up, with no upper figure given. Under it the bands step down through 50x to 100x, 40x to 50x, 30x to 40x, 20x to 30x, and 15x to 20x.

The bottom half keeps shrinking: 10x to 15x, 5x to 10x, 4x to 5x, 3x to 4x, 2x to 3x, 1x to 2x, and then the last fish at 0x to 1x.

Oh, and before I get too sidetracked, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 97.16%, volatility is low to medium, the max multiplier is 3,000x, and the max win is $375,000. Bets run from $0.20 to $125.

You’ll see 2 cards at the right of the screen. Best Catch is the highest multiplier you've pulled up and Best Win is the biggest amount from one cast of the rod. I guess their job is to motivate you to do better?

Features

There are no real features in this game, but there’s one thing you can do which will affect how much money you walk away with, so here it is.

RISK LEVEL:

Down the left edge of the screen is a menu you set before you cast. There are 3 levels, shown as a bare hook, a weighted lure and a hooked fish. BGaming's wording is that a higher risk level increases your chance of big wins - makes sense.

Performance

I've never caught anything during a fishing expedition, and that luck seemed to carry over when I tested this game. Fortunately, you're not me, so your luck will inevitably be better, but at least the game performed flawlessly across all devices.

Maximum Win

The max win of $375,000 is the max multiplier of 3,000x taken at the top bet of $125. The smallest bet you can put down is $0.20.

Conclusion

The money is in the fish, because there's nothing else here to carry it. No feature is going to bail out a cold stretch, so the only place real money lives is that top band at 100x and up.

At 97.16%, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. invites us to spend more time in this game than many others would. And that’s a perfect fit because we’re fishing - everyone knows that takes patience, right?

The 3,000x max multiplier is a decent trade-off against the risk we’ve been asked to take. I have no quarrels with this.

If you're the kind of player who parks at a game for a long time, then this one’s built for you. My thinking is to start at the $0.20 floor on level 1, and move up through the levels gradually.

Slot Details

Game Provider: BGAMING
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: Instant win
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 97.16%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).

The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Low/Medium
Bonus Round: No
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: No
Max Multiplier: 3,000x
Max Win: $375,000
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