Big Bass Splash

What the official pages disclose

Big Bass Splash is a fishing slot from Pragmatic Play, released on 23 June 2022. The studio’s own announcement called it the fifth instalment of the Big Bass series. The disclosure record is fuller than most in this catalogue. The official page prints an RTP of 96.71%, and the press release names “the slot’s maximum win of 5,000x”. The game’s configuration on the studio’s demo server repeats both figures, so three official surfaces agree.

The layout is the series standard sheet. The press release states “the game’s 5×3 reels and 10 paylines”, and wins form left to right in the way described under Paylines. In the demo configuration the stake runs from 0.10 to 250.00 credits a spin. Pragmatic Play does not publish alternative operator versions of this game, and that silence is the one hole in an otherwise complete record. Where a casino runs a lower figure, only that casino’s copy of the rules will say so. The figure printed in the rules a player actually opens is the one that governs.

Volatility is stated as high in the game’s own information pages. The studio’s repeated wording says such games “pay out less often on average but the chance to hit big wins in a short time span is higher”. A player deciding between this game and its stablemates gets no bolt scale any more, because the current official pages have dropped the old meter. The word and the odds of the maximum have to carry the comparison.

The bonus and its collection engine

The base game plays plainly, and the value sits in the feature. 3, 4 or 5 scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. Money symbols land through the round carrying printed values up to 5,000x. A fisherman wild collects every value on view when it appears, which is the pattern described under Cash Symbols and Collect Symbols. Every 4th wild collected adds 10 spins and steps the collection multiplier through 2x, 3x and up to 10x. The arithmetic of the round concentrates in that ladder, because a late wild at 10x is worth 5 times an early one at 2x against the same values.

Three smaller rules reward a careful read. Where only 2 scatters land, the game can nudge or respin towards a third. Before a bonus begins, the game can apply up to 5 random modifiers to the entry, and the rules list what each one does. A hook feature can also pull extra money symbols into view. None of these behaviours is unusual for the series, and all of them are stated in the game’s own pages rather than left to a player’s guesswork.

What it costs to play

Put in money terms, the published figure is one of the friendlier ones in this catalogue. At $1 a spin, a 96.71% game keeps $3.29 of every $100 staked over the long run. The 96.50% figure of the neighbouring grid flagships keeps $3.50, so this game is cheaper to sit with by $0.21 per $100 over time. Over any single session the difference is invisible, and no session should be read as evidence about either figure. The maximum of 5,000x is configured at odds of 1 in 3,086,876 spins. Those odds are the honest scale against which to weigh the headline, and they mean most players will never see the cap at all.

Within the series

The series has since restated the same formula at larger caps, and the comparison is instructive. Big Bass Bonanza 1000 lifts the game cap to 20,000x whilst publishing 96.51% against the 96.71% here, and its money values top at 1,000x rather than this game’s 5,000x. A player weighing the pair gives up $0.20 per $100 of long run price for a far taller cap at close to double the odds. The rules of both games print every number needed to make that trade knowingly, which is more than can be said for many rivals.

Disclosure grade and score

Disclosure comes in at a B on this site’s scale. The default RTP, the maximum, the odds of the maximum and the feature rules are all published. The missing piece is any statement of alternative operator versions. As a game, Big Bass Splash scores 7.5 of 10 on this site’s scale. It is the reference edition of the series formula, its published return sits above its own successors, and the round is simple to read from the rules. Players wanting larger stated maximums will find them in the later entries, at the price of thinner odds and a slightly dearer long run.

One check before you play

1. Open the paytable in the casino where the game is offered and find the RTP line. Where it reads below 96.71%, that lobby runs a reduced version, and the same stake buys measurably less play over time.
2. Check the money symbol values in the same paytable, because the 5,000x cap belongs to the values, and the collection multiplier applies on top of them.

Sources

The review draws its numbers from the records listed here, last read on 25 September 2026.

• Official game page (RTP, features)
• Release announcement, 23 June 2022

The checking order is public, on the Review Method page.