Fishing is very much a niche theme and feature across the wider entertainment space. You’ll get a flurry of fishing shows from time to time, like Wicked Tuna and Extreme Fishing, and even the odd fishing movie. However, since the turn of the decade, fishing has surged up the charts to become the most popular theme of all in casino gaming.
In the UK alone, this sector is worth £5 billion overall. Of that gross gambling yield figure, slot games have generated an amount of £4.2 billion. So, being the most popular theme within that arena is incredibly important. Here are the games that are powering fishing to new heights and what’s making them such a draw.
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Without question, fishing has been the hit theme of the 2020s in slot gaming. Even if it somehow now falls off a cliff never to return, it will have been dominant enough for long enough to already claim the decade as its own. While many studios have sought to dive into these waters, two games laid the groundwork and remain the hits.
The first to arrive in the collection of bingo slots online was Fishin’ Frenzy. Created by Reel Time Gaming, it launched as a low-to-medium volatility slot with what you’d call classic graphics in 2014. It did well at launch, but nowhere near as well as it and its series have done since. For that, Fishin’ Frenzy has a later game to thank.
Released six years later, at the end of 2020, Big Bass Bonanza truly put fishing slots on the map. With modern graphics and animations, a switch to an adventurous aesthetic, and medium-high volatility, it sent reels screaming. Still wildly popular, Reel Kingdom spun it off into a vast series, and encouraged RTG to do the same with Fishin’ Frenzy.
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Where once there were two or three, there are now 126 fishing slots, at the time of writing. There’ll be way more by the end of the year. So, is this down to an influx of anglers playing slots? The recreational fishing report has an estimate of around 2.9 million people in England and Wales being anglers, but it’s probably not down to this.
The true core of this surge in popularity is the free spins feature that is modeled on the sport itself. Hit three scatters, and you get a bunch of free spins. During this round, you can catch all of the fish that you’ve seen swimming on the reels carrying cash values whenever you also hit a fisherman wild.
So, throughout the free spins feature, you stack up a net of fish that hold their own cash values and can even upgrade the experience. Each fisherman wild adds to the tracker to unlock multipliers and more free spins. It’s this feature, and those that have built on it, that underlines the over 100 popular fishing slots found online.
One creative feature that plays into the theme more so than most is why fishing has taken over a multi-billion-pound gaming sector in the UK, and its dominance doesn’t look set to fade any time soon.
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