Golden Catch Megaways Slot Review

Golden Catch Megaways Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Golden Catch Megaways slot uses the popular mechanic from BTG and is played on 6 reels and up to 117,649 ways to win. Every reel will display between 2 and 7 symbols randomly. The more symbols per reel, the more ways to win/Megaways.

For 117,649 Megaways or ways to win, you will need to see 7 symbols on each of the 6 reels. Then a win is constituted by landing 3 or more matching symbols from left to right on consecutive reels. Wins also need to begin from the leftmost reel. The only exception is the purple fish where only 2 are needed.

Bet wise, you can spin away from 20p to £15 per spin. Look for the ‘Stake’ box and then click on the arrows to adjust to your desired level. There’s also an Autoplay feature which is not available to UK players.

The Golden Catch Megaways RTP is 96.53% which is very high for an online slot game and above the Big Time Gaming average of about 96.4%. High volatility, expect a win every 2.6 spins on average as the hit frequency rate is 38.45%.

When it comes to payouts, the most you can win is 31,430 x your total stake per free spin. In the base game, wins of up to 10,550 x stake are possible. In the free spins however, the average win will be just over 106 x stake.

Theme – go fishing for gold fish

With a fishing/nautical theme, the Golden Catch Megaways slot is set in Whitby Yorkshire, where Big Time Gaming CEO Nik Robinson is originally from. The beautiful seaside town is represented in the game in its full glory, with turquoise waters, cliffs, a lighthouse and a sunken vessel below the water.

Symbols on the reels include A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 royals. You’ll also see blue, green, red and purple fishing lures. The purple fishing lure is the best paying symbol giving you 1, 2, 4, 7.5 or 50 x stake for 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 in combination.

Then you have the golden anchor wild symbol which substitutes for all symbols except the scatter. It will only appear on reels 2, 3, 4 and (i.e. not reels 1 and 6). The scatter is depicted by the Golden Catch coin. You will also see green, blue, red and gold boats appearing on the horizontal reel as well as gold fish (more details below).

Symbol	Payouts/Info
9	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.05, 0.1, 0.15 or 0.25 x stake
10	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.05, 0.1, 0.15 or 0.25 x stake
J	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 or 0.4 x stake
Q	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 or 0.4 x stake
K	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.15, 0.2, 0.25 or 0.5 x stake
A	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.15, 0.2, 0.25 or 0.5 x stake
Green Fishing Lure	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.25, 0.3 or 0.6 x stake
Blue Fishing Lure	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.25, 0.3, 0.5 or 0.8 x stake
Red Fishing Lure	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.3, 0.4, 0.7 or 2 x stake
Purple Fishing Lure	2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 = 1, 2, 4, 7.5 or 50 x stake
Golden Anchor Wild	Substitutes for all symbols except scatter
Bronze Gold Fish	Contain cash prize
Silver Gold Fish	Contain cash prize
Golden Gold Fish	Contain cash prize
Blue Boat	Contain multipliers + triggers Gold Fish Bonus feature
Green Boat	Contain multipliers + triggers Gold Fish Bonus feature
Red Boat	Contain multipliers + triggers Gold Fish Bonus feature
Golden Catch Coin Scatter	3+ triggers Free Spins feature
Gold Boat	Only appears during free spins

Golden Catch Megaways Mobile

Big Time Gaming create all their slots with HTML5 technology and Golden Catch Megaways is no different. Available to play on mobile, tablet and desktop devices, you have the choice of devices using iOS, Android and/or Windows operating systems. The best visual experience occurs when playing in a 16:9 ratio window. I would personally use a laptop or PC to see the game in its full glory.

Golden Catch Megaways Bonus Features

The Golden Catch Megaways slot comes with 5 bonus features. With reactions for continuous wins, look out for gold fish appearing with boats above them. This will trigger the Gold Fish Bonus feature where bonus prizes up to 500 x can be won. Each boat has a multiplier too which also apply. This feature is present during the free spins where boat multipliers increase with each new boat. Boats appear more frequently too. Finally, you can exchange your ways for free spins.

Reactions feature

The Reactions feature occurs whenever a winning combination is created in the base game. All participating symbols are removed, with the exception of scatters. 1 or more gold fish will appear in the empty/vacated spaces and pay bonus prizes if there is a boat above the reels. You will see gold, silver or bronze gold fish.

Boats can come in over reels 2, 3, 4 and/or 5. There is a 9.75% chance that a boat will appear. Boats can have a multiplier of 10x or no multiplier at all. There is a 1 in 35 chance of this happening. The gold fish are then removed from the reels, whether a bonus prize is won or not. New symbols cascade in from above. The reactions continue until no more wins land. Every reaction moves existing boats 1 reel to the left.

Gold Fish Bonus feature

Every time a win lands, 1 or more gold fish appear in the empty spaces after winning symbols are removed. If there is no boat above the reels, these gold fish disappear and nothing happens. If there is 1 or more boats above the reels, the Gold Fish Bonus feature is triggered.

Each gold fish will pay the displayed bonus prize once per boat and then removed. Bonus prizes range from 4 to 500 x your total stake. If there is 1 boat anywhere above the reels, each bonus prize is awarded with the multiplier for that boat applied. If there is more than 1 boat, each bonus prize is award for each of the boat multipliers.

Free Spins feature

The Free Spins feature is activated by landing 3 or more Golden Catch coin scatters at the end of a base game spin. You will get 10 free spins for 3 scatters plus 2 extra free spins for every scatter beyond the fourth. For example, landing 6 scatters will give you 14 free spins.

Importantly, there is a 2 in 3 chance that a boat will land above the reels for every free spin.  The first boat will have a 1x multiplier with the second and third boats having a 2x and 3x multiplier respectively. Further boats see the multiplier increase by 1 each time. The Boat multipliers are unlimited too.

New boats will benefit from a higher multiplier even if the previous boat didn’t award a bonus prize. For example, a 5x multiplier boat can lead to no wins but the next boat will offer a 6x multiplier. As mentioned previously, boat multipliers only apply to bonus prizes.

Landing 3 or more scatters during a free spin will give you 4 more free spins with 2 extra free spins for every scatter beyond the third. The number of free spins to be won is infinite.

Win Exchange feature

Golden Catch Megaways comes with the Win Exchange feature found in other Big Time Gaming slots like Wild Portals Megaways and Apollo Pays Megaways. This can be triggered by winning 100 x your total stake. If you win over 100 x stake, you will gain entry to the Free Spins feature with any amount over 100 x stake paid back.

If you win between 25 and 100 x stake, you can gamble to win access to the free spins (with 10 free spins). There’s a wheel with green and red segments. Fall in a green segment to play the free spins or fall in a red segment to go back to the base game and lose your win.

Bonus Buy feature

Finally, there’s a Bonus Buy feature available outside of the UK. You can buy your way into the Free Spins feature for 100 x your total stake. This will reward you with 10 free spins.

Golden Catch Megaways Summary – boats + gold fish key to a huge catch

The Golden Catch Megaways slot may use the popular engine but BTG has gone in a different direction with this release. Visually good but not excellent, the gameplay is superb. Landing boats and gold fish on the same reels can lead to some huge prizes.

With the gold fish bonus prizes ranging up to 500 x stake, multipliers from the boats can give you huge wins. The gold boat with a 10x multiplier is obviously the one you want to land but this will appear every 35 spins on average.

Your chances improve during the Free Spins feature as the multipliers increase with each boat that appears and boats will land more frequently. With 10,550 x stake wins per base game spin, you can win up to 31,430 x stake on every free spin. So each free spin can pay nearly 3 times what a base game spin pays on average.

Golden Catch Megaways also has a very high RTP rate of 96.53%. Coincidentally, it offers the same return rate as Pragmatic Play’s Big Bass Bonanza which shares a similar theme. The Fishin’ Frenzy slot from Blueprint Gaming is probably the most popular with this theme and also has fish bonus prizes but the game only offers 5,000 x stake max wins.

With wins landing frequently (every 2.6 spins), I suspect Golden Catch Megaways is going to become a player favourite in no time. It’s fast-paced, unique and fun.