Eric's Big Catch

In Eric’s Big Catch by Stakelogic, we follow Viking Eric, who has the important task of catching fish.

The playing area of Eric’s Big Catch has 5 reels and 3 rows with 20 fixed paylines. On those paylines, you must spin identical symbols from left to right on at least 3 consecutive reels to form a winning combination.

The bet may vary each spin from a minimum of $0.20 to a maximum of $100 per spin, although there is an optional super stake feature that doubles your bet. In return, your chances of matching high wins are increased.

Games in Eric’s Big Catch are played with medium to high volatility and a somewhat disappointing RTP of 95.44% applies. We don’t get much more excited about the maximum win, which in Eric’s Big Catch is 4,000 times the bet.

Features

In terms of features, Eric’s Big Catch is fairly straightforward. A clear distinction can be made between the base game – in which it all revolves around standard fish symbols – and the free spins feature.

Fish symbols

Fish symbols land in Eric’s Big Catch with a bet multiplier equal to a minimum of 0.5 and a maximum of 12 times your bet. However, there is a big “but” during the base game: these displayed cash prizes cannot be cashed in at all during the base game. You can only do that during the free spins feature.

However, you can make a regular winning combination with fish symbols during the basic game. For example, a winning combination with 5 fish symbols earns you 20 times your bet.

The bigger the catch, the higher the prize money in Eric’s Big Catch!

Eric’s Big Catch free spins

You can cash in cash prizes from fish symbols only during the free spins feature of Eric’s Big Catch, as you need the wild viking symbol to do so. And that one cannot land on the playing field during the base game. To trigger the free spins feature of Eric’s Big Catch, you will need to spin at least 3 scatters in the base game. Spinning more scatters will yield more free spins:

• 3 scatters yield 6 free spins
• 4 scatters get you 8 free spins
• 5 scatters yield 10 free spins

Wild viking symbols actually have a triple function during the free spins feature of Eric’s Big Catch:

• They function as wilds, meaning you can use them as jokers to complete or expand winning combinations
• Each spin, each wild viking symbol can collect the cash prizes of all fish symbols and pay them out to the player

Eric’s Big Catch compared to 4 other slots from StakeLogic

With wild viking symbols themselves, you can also create a “regular” winning combination. For example, 5 wild viking symbols yield 200 times your bet
In addition, wild viking symbols have some other important properties, which are definitely worth mentioning:

• After a spin, a wild viking symbol does not disappear from the playing field. Instead, it moves itself one position to the left on the playing field. Each time this happens, a respin is paid out to the player. This ends when the wild viking symbol falls off the left side of the playing field at some point
• Wild viking symbols can land with a multiplier. A multiplier can also be spontaneously added to a wild viking symbol already present on the playfield. This can happen every time the symbol moves one position to the left. In both cases, it is a multiplier of x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10. Each of these multipliers is added to the total multiplier. At the end of each free spin, this total multiplier is applied to that spin’s total winnings

We’ve seen enough fish slots by now. It’s also not as if they are generally very innovative. At least not in the case of Eric’s Big Catch.

Basically, Eric’s Big Catch is exactly the same as other well-known fish slots such as Big Bass Bonanza and Big Bass Splash. Each time you see a similar design passing by in which about 80% of the screen is underwater and in which the gameplay in a sense revolves around cashing in fish symbols with cash prizes.

Going forward, we like to see especially innovative fish slots.