Catch & Release Slot
Grab that rod and line and head down to the water with one of the latest releases into the online slot pool. The free Catch & Release slot will give punters hours of fun to perfect those fishing skills and reel in the big ones. There's plenty to catch with 5 reels and up to 20 paylines with a super bonus round, with scatters and wilds to help boost the prizes.
Placing a bet is in 3 easy steps to set coin value, select the lines and choose how much to bet per line. It will leave you spinning in no time to a betting range of 0.20 to a max bet of 100. Players who like to shift the stakes a lot during play, will be glad to know there is a max bet button included for making those fast high stake changes.
Looking Good, Feeling Happy
Using great software by Nucleus Gaming, Catch & Release is a game using super 3D graphics to bring a piece of quality to the online casino home. The fish that adorn the reels are cute, and that includes the hammerhead shark that is in the high value set of symbols. There’s also blue fish and red puffer fish, and a green turtle. The fisherman holds the highest value in the group with a possible 1,750 multiplied by the line bet for 5 of him snared on a line. The fisherman is also seen throughout the game at the side of the reel grid with occasional animations to help celebrate wins. For the standard symbols on the reels, Nucleus includes classic card icons in bright colours to keep things looking cheerful.
The special symbols that bring on the game features are the pearl bonus, and the octopus scatter symbols. These are joined by the wild symbol of fish in a bucket. This performs its usual job during the base game, happily acting as a sub to other symbols to make up payline wins. During the scatter feature, these change into clingy wilds that anchor themselves to their position as they appear.
Trusted Techniques
The octopus scatter is a purple grinning octopus and these have no value other than to trigger free spins with possible re-triggers, and provide a showground for clingy wilds. The bonus game that is triggered by 3 of the oyster pearl symbols, will instantly award players with 100 credits plus whisk players away to a new screen to start some serious fishing. Then it's time to reel in the fish or at least pull them from the water, with the more the merrier, as the big hauls receive the greater payouts.
Online slots will often tack on a gamble feature with many opting for a generic game that usually is nothing like the theme of the game. Nucleus has added a coin toss to Catch & Release that features the fisherman on the coin and fits right at home. It also has a safety net of the option to only gamble half. There are times when this feature won’t be activated, such as during auto play. With an auto spin option to play with a pre-set number of reel spins, safety seems to figure again as the settings give advice on the amount spent for the number of selected spins. This can avoid some nasty shocks to the credit balance.
Come Join the Celebration
Fish Party video slot by Microgaming is a 5 reel water themed slot with a massive 243 ways to win. This fishy game is set in an aquarium and has super stacked wilds and 20 free spins that can be retriggered with up to 1940,000 coins to be won from a 30 to 300 coin bet. The scatter symbol of the clam shell that triggers the free games also has its own payouts as a multiplier to the total bet.
The game uses 3D graphics and is wonderfully animated to bring the underwater characters to life and add air bubbles to their tank. Punters using older systems to play the game on can adjust the settings to turn off animations and sounds, or even turn down the image quality to ensure the game plays smoothly for them. There is also a gamble feature which we are happy to say is also incorporated into the games theme.
Reel Fishing for Real Fun
We hugely enjoyed Catch & Release. All the game play seems to hit the right spots, not only through excellent graphics and sounds, but with nice additions for more safe play. For example, the clear view of what is wagered when using the auto play feature is a fine addition that will especially help players that are new to online gambling.
The choice of being able to keep half of the wins when deciding to spin the gold coin of the gamble game is good for anyone's pocket, experienced or not. The free spins that take place underwater, and the bonus game were fun to play and really useful to win big, and when looking to cash out well. Catch & Release is sure to be a popular choice for water themed slot fans.
