The Greatest Catch Slot by Evoplay

Two premium symbols both cap at 200x for five of a kind, but only one of them pays starting from two on a line. That second premium handing back 0.5x for a pair means it hits more often than any other paying symbol on the grid - and on 10 fixed paylines, frequency matters. The rest of the paytable drops steeply: the third premium tops out at 100x, two mid-tier symbols peak at 50x, and five card ranks (the usual A-through-10 spread) max at 10x each. Base game math leans on those top two symbols doing the work.

Fish don't appear as regular paying symbols. They activate during free spins only, carrying randomized values between 2x and 2,000x your bet. That 2,000x tag is the single biggest prize a Fish symbol holds - if a Wild collects it at the 10x multiplier stage, one Fish alone accounts for 20,000x before the cap clips it back to 10,000x. The gap between a 50x Fish and a 2,000x Fish is the entire personality of a bonus round. Most spins produce the low end. Landing the max Fish alongside an active Wild at the right escalation tier is the scenario the game is built around, even if you'll see it roughly never.

Underneath the reels, the art splits the scene at the waterline. Sunlit green vegetation and lily pads sit above, with the fisherman leaning back in a wooden rowboat. Below, the grid floats in a murky teal-green underwater space - orange pufferfish, a pink-purple creature, something that looks like a green frog-fish hybrid, and a blue-and-orange striped fish make up the symbol set. Card symbols sit inside translucent bubbles. It's bright, cartoonish, warm. The whole palette runs green and teal rather than the deep blue you'd expect from an underwater theme.

Without a buy bonus button, free spins come from scatters only - 3 for 10 spins, 4 for 15, 5 for 20. On 10 paylines with an 18% hit frequency in base game, scatter accumulation is slow. The Bonus Buy variant exists for skipping that grind. This version makes you wait for it.