Freaked Out Fish

Freaked Out Fish: Slot Overview

See the word 'fish' in an online slot title, and certain thoughts often spring to mind. One of them might be, 'Is this going to be a Fishin' Frenzy wannabe or a Big Bass pretender?' In a surprise plot twist, Blue Guru Game's Freaked Out Fish is neither of those things, having not a single fish money symbol collection device in sight. However, Freaked Out Fish is not wholly original, and it won't take long for slot enthusiasts to spot links to a certain candy slot from a competitor games maker. The theme, though, it's pretty far out, so if you're ready to take a trip, let's all hold hands in a peaceful circle, think happy thoughts, and see if Freaked Out Fish can mess with our minds.

Prepare to have your eyes and ears blown when beholding Freaked Out Fish. Music wafts about like a 60s-era jam session, while the visuals have a surreal, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, old-school Sesame Street, peace, love, and flowers look to it. In portrait mode, water can be seen pouring forth from the sun, of all things, engulfing Freaked Out Fish's 7x7 gaming matrix as it flows into a rocky flower-adorned canyon. This might be a fish slot, but we aren't near the sea for this one. Heck, we might not even be on planet Earth. Sometimes, you've just got to accept what's going on and go with the flow, man.

Freaked Out Fish provides several ways of doing business. The first is by choosing a wager of 10 c to $/€30 and hammering out some spins. Another is by activating the ante bet, which adds 50% to the bet, putting more scatters on the reels, increasing the chance of entering free spins by 150%. The other method is to buy the free spins feature. Looping back, Freaked Out Fish's regular RTP is 96.02%, and the math model used is highly volatile.

Winning clusters are created when at least 5 matching pay symbols are adjacent horizontally or vertically. Winning symbols are removed, and new symbols cascade downwards to fill empty spaces. The pay symbols are mushrooms, a pink flower, a flower with a smiley face, and 4 fish characters. Five-of-a-kind clusters pay 0.4 to 2 times the bet, whereas the biggest clusters of 15-49 OAK are worth 40 to 300 times the bet, though no wild symbol appears to help forge wins.

Freaked Out Fish: Slot Features

If you've played Sugar Rush, much of Freaked Out Fish will feel eerily familiar. Its features are Freaky Fish Zones, individual position multipliers, Freaky Fish Zone Upgrades, Extra Freaky Fish Zones, a Mega Whale, free spins, and bonus buys.

Freaky Fish Zone

Similar to games like Sugar Rush and Sugar Rush 1000, when a winning combination has landed, the winning symbol positions are highlighted, creating a Freaky Fish Zone. After a second winning combination occurs on highlighted positions, a multiplier is added to them, starting at x2. Each further winning combination on the same position doubles the multiplier up to a ceiling value of x128. The multiplier applies to all winning combinations that land on it. When more than one multiplier is part of the same win, the values are added together. In the base game, Freaky Fish Zones are cleared at the end of a spin. In the base game and in free spins, Freaky Fish Spots may randomly be upgraded by one level. Moreover, when the Extra Freaky Fish Zones feature triggers, it creates a random number of Freaky Fish Zones without needing winning combinations. This may happen in the base game and in free spins.

Mega Whale

When activated, the Mega Whale selects a random symbol on the reels and converts a block of the surrounding symbols to make a 3x3 winning cluster. This feature may occur in any phase of the game.

Free Spins

Hitting 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatter symbols anywhere on the grid awards 10, 12, 15, 20, or 30 free spins, respectively. During free spins, Freaky Fish Zones remain on the reels until the bonus round ends. Free spins can be retriggered.

Bonus Buy

The bonus buy is where players can buy their way into the free spins feature. Paying 90x the bet gets a 3 scatter free spins trigger, 150x gets a 4-5 scatter trigger, or 500x buys a 6-7 scatter trigger.

Freaked Out Fish: Slot Verdict

After reviewing Freaked Out Fish, it was hard not to mentally picture a creative exec at Blue Guru Games after having a crack at Pragmatic Play's slot Sugar Rush before exclaiming, 'We can do this, but freakier.' And why not ay? Ideas are shamelessly tossed around the gambling industry like a rag doll; some are blatantly copied, some are altered, some morph into something else altogether, only to be grabbed and tossed, causing the whole merry-go-round of idea borrowing to start all over again. In Freaked Out Fish, yes, there are links to Sugar Rush, but Blue Guru Games has seen fit to add a few personal touches of its own.

The personal touches come in the form of a freaky skin, as well as extra features such as the Mega Whale and Freaky Fish Zone Upgrades. Alongside the far-out audiovisuals, this is a game that may snowball exponentially when repeat wins occur on top of marked positions. In the base game, getting multiple wins on the same positions wasn't super easy; hence, the major benefit of Freaky Fish Zones persisting in free spins. That's where the best chances are of building an x128 multiplier (or more, preferably) and achieving the game's max win. Capped at 30,000x, Freaked Out Fish is no slacker and is one of Blue Guru Game's biggest games in terms of winning potential. Definitely the biggest we've reviewed.

In another plot twist, the character symbols in Freaked Out Fish aren't actually fish at all, they're gamblers who consumed a bad batch of black rope liquorice while playing a money symbol collect game and just think they're fish. Not really, but, maybe? All in all, Freaked Out Fish, okay, it's a copycat game to an extent, fair enough, yet the unique presentation might be worth a look at while pondering whether we're imaginative figments of a cosmically overarching Jungian collective unconsciousness. Or not.