Ocean Catch Bonus Buy Slot Review

At least one Wild and at least one Fish landing on the same spin sets it off. Every Wild on screen collects and sums the values of all the Fish showing, and that total lands on top of whatever the paylines paid that spin. Two Wilds means the fish total gets paid twice, independently. Main game fish run x1, x3, x5 and x7 of the total bet, so a busy screen in the base game is pleasant rather than life-changing, and the whole thing hinges on the Wild turning up at the same moment the fish do.

Any spin with a Wild on it can set off the dynamite, which blows 3 to 6 regular symbols off the reels and drops Fish in their place (never on top of existing Fish), then hands straight over to Fish and Collect. This is where the build pulls ahead of its older siblings on the same engine, where the equivalent only fired after a losing spin that had a Wild and no Fish. Here a spin that already paid can still get blown up and paid again. Dynamite never reveals the Gold Fish, so the big single value stays locked to natural landings.

Three Bonus symbols award 10 free spins, four give 12, five give 15, and before the round starts the player picks Bay, Lagoon or Ocean. Evoplay's own page says only that the Gold Fish 'reaches up to x100 depending on volatility' and leaves the rest blank, so here is what actually sits behind each door. Bay pays fish at x1, x3, x5 and x7 with a x25 Gold Fish. Lagoon runs x8, x11, x14 and x17 with a x50 Gold Fish. Ocean goes x15, x20, x25 and x30 with the x100 Gold Fish.

Look at how far apart those bands sit. They do not overlap anywhere. The Ocean's worst fish, x15, is worth more than double the Bay's best ordinary fish at x7, and the Bay's Gold Fish at x25 is worth less than one ordinary Ocean fish at the top of its range. These are not three moods of the same round, they are three different games with the same expected value, because the return is identical across all three at every spin count. The choice changes the shape of the round and nothing else, which is what a volatility selector is supposed to do and almost never does.

Wilds collected during free spins fill a meter, four per level, five levels total. The multiplier starts at x1 and steps to x2, x5, x7, x10 and x20, and every completed level also adds 8 more spins. That is up to 40 extra spins on top of the 10, 12 or 15 the trigger gave, so the longest possible round is 55 spins with every Wild carrying x20. Once level five is done, Wilds stop being collected. The multiplier applies to the Wild's own collected fish value and to any payline win it takes part in.

One rule to get right, because it goes the other way in several Evoplay games: multiple Wild multipliers on the same payline are added together, not multiplied. Two x10 Wilds on a line is x20, not x100. Worth knowing before anyone does the wrong arithmetic in their head mid-round.

Set against the older builds, this is a real step up. Mega Greatest Catch and Neon Capital run three levels of four Wilds at x2, x3 and x10, adding 10 spins each and capping at 30 extra. This one doubles the top multiplier, adds two rungs, and pushes the longest round from 50 spins to 55. Not a reskin.

Reel five only, free spins only, and it always pays out with something: a multiplier boost of x3, x5, x10 or x20 added on top of the current Wild multipliers for that spin alone, or +2, +3, +5 or +8 spins. The detail nobody mentions is the smart one. If there are no Wilds anywhere on the reels, the Tackle Box can only reveal Extra Spins, because a multiplier boost with nothing to boost would be thrown away. Same instinct as the dynamite needing a Wild before it fires. Small thing, but a lot of games would happily hand over a dead x20 and let the player feel robbed.

Three spin counts across three locations gives nine bonus buy options: 10 spins at 88x, 12 at 118x, 15 at 175x, each available in Bay, Lagoon or Ocean. Evoplay publishes the fact that a buy exists and nothing else, not the prices, not the returns, not even that there are nine.

All nine return 96.00%, against a base game of 96.00%. Not a fifth of a point down, not two hundredths. Nothing. That is rare enough to be worth stating plainly, because across Evoplay's other buy titles the button usually costs something: Money Minter skims 0.08, Northern Temple 0.06, Neon Capital as much as 0.30, and Oath of Steel has a tier sitting a full 0.35 below its own base game. Here the price of skipping the wait is zero.

The per-spin price does climb, 8.80x, 9.83x then 11.67x per free spin, which is consistent rather than greedy: the ladder is cumulative, so a longer round is likelier to climb it and is worth more per spin. A flat return across all three says the pricing is tracking the value correctly. Practical version: there is no wrong button on that menu. Pick the round length and the water you want to sit in and the maths will not mind.

The main game also has a Double Chance ante at 1.50x stake, doubling the natural free spins chance with payouts still calculated on the original bet. No return figure is published for it anywhere and the game does not carry one. Worth being honest about that, since the same Evoplay ante design has measured a fraction below base on one title, a third of a point below on another, and a quarter of a point above base on a third. From the outside it is unknowable, so nobody should be quoting a number.