Big Bass Splash is the fifth game in the Big Bass fishing series, released by Reel Kingdom and Pragmatic Play in June 2022. It keeps five reels, 10 lines and a fisherman wild who collects the cash on fish in free spins, and adds up to five random modifiers before the round, a bonus buy and a 5,000x cap. It returns 96.71%. Play the official Big Bass Splash demo below free, no download.
The Big Bass Splash slot runs on five reels and three rows with 10 fixed lines that pay left to right. Bets run from 10 cents to $250 a spin, although some casinos cap the maximum lower. The default RTP is 96.71%, the only figure on Pragmatic’s own page, but casinos can also run 95.67% or 94.60%. Volatility is high. According to OLBG, something pays on 13.66% of spins, about one in seven, the free spins come about once every 113 base spins, and wins of 1,000x or more about once in 85,761 spins. The maximum win is 5,000x the total bet, $1,250,000 at the top stake, and OLBG puts it at about one in 3,086,876 spins.
Big Bass Splash Pokies Characteristics
Lines pay left to right, and the monster truck is the only symbol that pays for two of a kind. The hooked bass is the scatter: three or more anywhere start the free spins. The fish are money symbols carrying cash values from 2x up to 5,000x the total bet (Pragmatic’s maximum; some reviews quote lower caps), but in the base game they only pay as a line symbol. Their values count only when a fisherman collects them, and the fisherman wild, which substitutes for every paying symbol except the scatter, appears only in the free spins.
When two scatters land, a random feature can try to find the third: the reels holding scatters nudge down one position while the rest respin, or a hook pulls a reel up to reveal one. Most sources call it random, and whether it always fires is unclear. No ante bet or gamble feature is documented, and autoplay is available.
Wins are multiples of the total bet for three, four and five of a kind; only the truck pays for two.
No scatter pay is listed; the hooked bass is there for the free spins. Five trucks on a line pay 200x the total bet, the best base-game line, and the fisherman has no documented line pay of his own. The bigger numbers come from the fish, whose cash values only pay out in the bonus.
Three, four or five scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. The fisherman wild joins the reels, and each one that lands collects the value of every fish on screen. Every fourth fisherman retriggers the round with 10 more spins and lifts the multiplier on collected values: 2x after four, 3x after eight and 10x after twelve, where retriggers stop. With the +2 Spins modifier each retrigger is worth 12, so the longest possible round is 58 spins.
Three helpers can rescue a dead spin. According to OLBG, Dynamite adds fishermen when fish land without one, the Hook pulls a reel to add a fisherman in the same situation, and the Bazooka adds fish when a fisherman lands with nothing to collect. Reaching the 10x level is the goal: every value collected there is worth ten times its face.
Before each round a short fishing scene catches up to five fish, and each catch adds one modifier for the round:
A round with no catch is close to Big Bass Bonanza‘s bonus plus the helpers; a round with four or five catches starts loaded. This pre-bonus draw is what most sets Splash apart.
Where it is allowed, the free spins can be bought for 100x the total bet, with at least three scatters guaranteed. It is not offered in some jurisdictions, including the UK, and one source says buying does not change the RTP. At $1 a spin that is $100 a round, and on a high-volatility game a bought round often returns less than it cost, so the buy only makes sense with a bankroll that can absorb several.
The Big Bass Splash RTP is set by the casino. At 96.71% the game keeps about 3.3 cents of every dollar over the long run, at 95.67% about 4.3 cents and at 94.60% about 5.4 cents, and one database’s listings of casinos that take Australians show the setting as unknown, so the information screen is the only reliable check. On OLBG’s figures, high volatility here means wins on only about one spin in seven, mostly small, with most of the return waiting in a feature that comes about once every 113 spins.
At 50 cents a spin, $50 buys 100 spins, a little under the average gap between bonuses, so finishing without one is a common outcome. At $1 a spin, $100 buys the same 100 spins or a single bought bonus, and that choice, steady exposure or one big swing, is the main decision this game asks of you.
Big Bass Splash shares Big Bass Bonanza’s 10-line base and its fisherman collect with the 2x, 3x and 10x ladder; Splash adds the two-scatter help, the truck, the modifiers, more helpers than Bonanza’s lone dynamite and the buy, and raises the cap from 2,100x to 5,000x. Big Bass Bonanza has its own review on our site.
Bigger Bass Splash (February 2025) puts the Splash gameplay on a 5×4 grid with 12 lines, keeps the 5,000x cap, runs at 96.50%, 95.50% or 94.50%, and offers buys at 100x and 350x, the dearer one with all modifiers. Big Bass Splash 1000 (December 2025) has fish values up to 1,000x, a 25,000x maximum win, 96.52% and a 450x Super Free Spins buy, and Big Bass Halloween Splash 1000 (96.50%) uses pumpkins to reveal the modifiers. If a lobby lists plain Big Bass Splash, it is the 2022 game reviewed here.
Splash keeps the series’ cartoon fishing trip: a fisherman who reels in fish carrying cash values, a rusty monster truck as the top symbol, a rod and reel, a dragonfly lure, a tackle box and royals from 10 to A. The pre-bonus scene on the water, where the catch becomes the modifiers, gives every trigger a moment of suspense. Symbols are rendered in 3D, and the game runs in HTML5 on desktop and mobile.
Big Bass Splash is an online game; we found no version in Australian clubs, pubs or casinos. Australians who want to play Big Bass Splash for real money will find it widely at offshore casinos that accept them: one database’s scan found it at 114 of 161 such casinos, though lobbies change, so the lobby search is the way to check a given casino. For a Big Bass Splash demo, Pragmatic’s own game page offers free play, so the modifiers and the collect mechanic can be tried without staking money.
Big Bass Splash is Big Bass Bonanza with more to it: the same simple collect bonus, but with modifiers, more helpers and a 5,000x ceiling that give the free spins real range. It suits players who will sit through a quiet base game for a feature that arrives about once every 113 spins. It does not suit anyone who wants frequent wins or a long session on a small balance. The one thing to check is the RTP: 96.71% is a fair price for a high-volatility game, 94.60% is noticeably worse.
96.71% by default, the figure on Pragmatic’s own page. Casinos can also run 95.67% or 94.60%, so check the information screen.
Land three, four or five hooked bass scatters anywhere for 10, 15 or 20 free spins. Where it is offered, the round can also be bought for 100x the bet.
5,000 times the total bet, which is $1,250,000 at the $250 maximum stake. OLBG puts the odds at about one in 3,086,876 spins.
Before each free spins round a fishing scene catches up to five fish, each adding a modifier: more fish, more fishermen, more helpers, a level 2 start at 2x, or two extra spins per round and retrigger.
Not in clubs or pubs, since it is an online-only game. Offshore casinos that accept Australians carry it widely, at 114 of 161 in one scan.
It keeps Bonanza’s 10-line base and fisherman collect, then adds two-scatter help, the monster truck, pre-bonus modifiers, extra in-bonus helpers, a bonus buy and a 5,000x cap instead of 2,100x.
