Boat Bonanza Slot Review

03/11/2022 | Categories: Play'n GO Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

We have pretty much said all there is to say about Play’n GO in the past, so there is no sense in giving any additional historical info about this world-famous provider here. The latest bit of news regarding this Swedish company is that it continues its US conquest by pairing up with the BetMGM brand in New Jersey and expanding in Italy via Lottomatica. It has done this while maintaining a steady slot release schedule, churning out four games in October 2022 alone. One of Play’n GO’s most novel games that caught our eye was Boat Bonanza, as it attained decent playability stats in multiple markets. It appeared in online casino lobbies on October 13th and managed to enter the top one hundred most-played slot rankings in Canada and other territories instantly. So, we chose to explore this release and give you the skinny on it.

Theme & Design

Right off the bat, we will tell you that with Boat Bonanza, Play’n GO is going after fans of Reel Kingdom’s fishing hit Big Bass Bonanza. That game gets distributed to gambling sites by one of our favorite providers, Malta’s Pragmatic Play. Boat Bonanza looks and feels super similar to Big Bass. It has the same light blue-heavy color palette, and its symbols are similarly-colored to the slot from which it draws its inspiration. The top water surface visual also reminded us of the one in Reel Kingdom’s Big Bass Splash. Their smash hit sequel.

The reels in Boat Bonanza are underwater, the same as in Big Bass, and the only animations are rising bubbles and the moving water surface. Even though this is a rip-off game, it must get said that it looks slightly more polished than its source material. That is so because Play’n GO’s design team is better and more experienced than Reel Kingdom’s one. The ships on the top of the game interface also move around in different patterns in specific game scenarios. The direction could have been more randomized, as it is repetitive on non-winning spins. Nevertheless, this reel spinner’s presentation is more dynamic than the one in Big Bass. That said. We found the sailor-like music off-putting, giving off too much of an Irish vibe. Though, the sound effects incorporated are decent.

There is nothing specific to mention about the button interface here. The spin and auto-play functions are on its left side, with the bet-adjuster left of them. The I icon is on the right of this configuration, and it pops up all the necessary info pertaining to enjoying this Play’n GO title.

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Specs & Gameplay

Spec-wise, this is a five-reel, three-row game with twelve paylines. It accepts bet sizes up to $50, and the lowest wager one can make on it is one of $0.2. The max win of this high variance release is x5,000, and the default RTP here has gotten set to 94.2%. Nonetheless, this setting can fall to 84.2% at some operators and can go as high as 96.2% at others. So, please be wary and check to see which return-to-player percentage your chosen crypto casino implements.

Wins in Boat Bonanza occur when matching symbols hit on a payline on adjacent reels, beginning from the first onwards. You must line up at least three identical ones for this game to produce a prize, except when it comes to the most-valuable symbol, which pays a reward for two or more instances of it showing up on one of the twelve paylines.

The star of the show here, as expected, is the cash symbol collection feature, which we will explain below. The low-pay tokens of this game are A to 10 royals, yielding wins of up to x10 for five-of-a-kind combos. The high-pay ones are a fishing cage, a seagull, a fishing rod’s reel, and a buoy. These pay from x50 to x200 for combinations boasting five identical symbols from this batch landing on the same spin.

Boat Bonanza has no wilds, but it has boat scatters.

Bonus Features

As mentioned, the main attraction in this slot is its symbol collection mode, which functions as the one in Big Bass Bonanza. The system works as so. Greyed-out boats above the reels, floating on the water’s surface, are inactive ones. When they are in color, they are active, and they can catch the fish value symbols on the grid that appear beneath them, collecting and awarding their values. When two active boats float above a fish value token, that triggers the Mega Match feature, causing them to collect all the values displayed on the reels.

Landing at least three scatters in Boat Bonanza’s base game activates the free spins round awarding ten complimentary reel rotations. Hitting four scatters gets you fifteen. And if five stop in view, you get twenty on-the-house spins. In this round, two multiplier boats are always active. Also, we must point out that in this mode, re-spins get provided when the boats collect cash symbols.

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