About Big Bass Splash
Big Bass Splash arrived on 23 June 2022 from Reel Kingdom, the Pragmatic Play studio that owns the whole fishing franchise. It keeps the layout that made the series work — 5 reels, 3 rows, 10 fixed paylines — and spends its budget on the bonus instead. Default RTP is 96.71%, with 95.67% and 94.60% builds also in circulation. Volatility is high, the maximum win is 5,000x your stake, and bets run from 0.10 to 250 per spin. The fisherman has swapped the quiet lake for a monster truck and a party, which is the entire aesthetic argument.
Where it sits in the series. The franchise now runs to a dozen titles and they are not interchangeable. Big Bass Bonanza (2020) started it at 96.71% and a 2,100x cap with no buy button. Bigger Bass Bonanza (2021) pushed the ceiling to 4,000x, and Big Bass Bonanza Megaways (2021) matched it at 96.70%. Splash was the 2022 entry that lifted the cap to 5,000x. After it came Big Bass Amazon Xtreme and Big Bass Hold & Spinner in 2023, both at 96.07% and 10,000x, and Big Bass Christmas Bash at 96.71% and 5,000x. The 2025 wave went further again: Big Bass Bonanza 1000 at 96.51% and 20,000x, Big Bass Splash 1000 at 96.52% and 25,000x, Bigger Bass Splash at 96.50% and 5,000x. Splash is therefore the middle of the range — a better ceiling and a better RTP than the early titles, well short of the 1000 variants, and the one most people mean when they say the series peaked before it got extreme.
The paytable is deliberately thin. Ten through Ace fill the bottom, then the tackle box, the dragonfly, the fishing rod and the monster truck as the top regular symbol. None of them will make your session on their own. The symbol that matters is the money fish: it carries a printed cash value drawn at random between 2x and 5,000x your stake, it does nothing at all in the base game, and it only pays when a fisherman collects it during free spins. That is the whole design — the base game is a queue, the bonus is the game.
Three, four or five scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. Inside the round the fisherman wild appears, substitutes for regular symbols and collects every money fish on screen. The multiplier climbs in steps of four collected wilds: the fourth wild takes you to x2, the eighth to x3, the twelfth to x10, and each of those steps also retriggers the feature with an extra 10 free spins. A round that reaches x10 with several high-value fish on screen is where the 5,000x cap becomes theoretically reachable.
Splash's real addition is the modifier screen before the round starts. Up to five upgrades can be unlocked at random: Extra Fish, Extra Fisherman, Enhanced Special Features (dynamite, hooks and bazookas that reveal more fish), Level 2 Upgrade — which starts you at the x2 multiplier instead of x1 — and Extra Free Spins. A bonus buy at 100x your stake guarantees three or more scatters and drops you straight in, at the same RTP as the base game. It is unavailable in the United Kingdom, where feature purchases were banned in 2023.
