4 Fantastic Fish in Egypt

Mention the word Ancient Egypt when there are slot machines nearby, and the next words out of someone’s mouth probably aren’t likely to be, ‘oh yeah, great fishing.’ Modern Egypt is apparently a pretty good spot for a bit of angling, though, Nile Perch can be massive. But, it’s not every day an online slot pulls two of its most populous motifs together into one place, namely fishing and Ancient Egypt. Software designer 4ThePlayer has answered the call by following up on its popular release 4 Fantastic Fish, creating 4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt, a slot with much the same gaming as before with a new cultural twist.

Making a fishing slot means going bright and positive – you don’t find any dark angling slots floating about. Makes sense; who wants to see dolphins or turtles strangled in a gigantic drift net as it trawls the open waters so the masses can eat fish fingers or whales being harpooned and sliced up back on the dock while they’re trying to win a few coins. Nah, better to do what 4ThePlayer and other studios have done, which is make a cheerful game full of bright, positive colours; heck, even the fish look happy to be here. The obvious difference this time is all the pyramids, statues, and a felucca plying its trade on the Nile above piles of coral. It’s a mashup that’ll probably really float your boat, or not.

Just like its predecessor, 4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt is a highly volatile slot which is available in four RTP models, so that’s something to be on the lookout for. The highest theoretical return value is 96% when playing regularly and must be the same when buying features, as there is no mention otherwise. Players can either elect to buy the Respin Bonus for 75 times the bet or the Collect feature for 30 times the bet, while stake levels vary from 10 p/c to £/€80 per spin.

Parked in the middle of the screen is 4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt’s gaming grid made up of 5 reels, holding 4 symbols each, providing 4,096 ways to win. The game’s low-pay 10-A card royals have been designed to look like floats with hooks, while the high pays are a tackle box, a reel, a cat, a bird, and a lady angler. Hitting a 5-of-a-kind winning way awards 1.5 to 2.5 times the bet for the lows and 3 to 10 times the bet for highs. The boat symbol is wild, and its job is to substitute for every symbol except scatters.

4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt: Slot Features

4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt has largely kept the features the same as before, meaning Fish for Cash Prizes, Giant Squid, a Sarcophagus Scatter, plus a Respin Bonus with a Shark feature.

Fish For Cash Prizes

Fish symbols may land on any reels, and if they form a winning way, they award their cash values. The value of the cash prizes depends on the reel they land on, which may be 0.1x to 50x the bet. However, big game fish can land on the rightmost reel, possessing values of 100x, 500x, 2,000x or 10,000x the bet.

Giant Squid

The Giant Squid can land on any spin. In the main game, the Giant Squid rearranges fish symbols to create a win or improve a win. In the respin bonus feature, the Giant Squid moves Fish symbols from closed reels to open reels.

Respin Bonus

Landing 3 or more respin scatter symbols triggers the respin bonus round. Triggering scatters open the reels they are on while the rest of the reels remain closed. Any fish symbols on the triggering spin on open reels will be locked. Now, 3 respins are awarded, which are reset when new symbols land. Fish symbols lock for the duration of the round when they land on an open reel, and landing a respin scatter on a closed reel opens it, but it is not locked. If an open reel is filled with locked Fish symbols, a shark swims over the reels collecting the cash prizes from all Fish symbols. The total is then multiplied by x2 and held in the top position of the reel.

Sarcophagus Scatter

If a Sarcophagus scatter lands in the respin bonus, it triggers one of these modifiers:

• The Giant Squid feature – moves Fish symbols from closed reels to open reels.
• The Shark feature – multiplies all cash prizes on a reel, leaving the total in one position at the top of the reel.
• Collect Icon – collects a value equal to all other cash prizes in view added together.
• Incrementer Icon – adds a value to all other locked cash prizes, and its own value is included in the total win at the end.

If the Sarcophagus scatter lands in the base game, it collects all cash prizes in view and awards them whether they were involved in a Cash Ways Win or not.

4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt: Slot Verdict

It’s funny, picking an Egyptian theme to go with a fishing one is either one of the most obvious moves in iGaming or one of the least obvious. It’s hard to tell. It’s also hard to tell whether this was a genius idea on the part of 4ThePlayer or one that gamblers are going to find hard to stomach. A sort of too much of a good thing scenario. Like putting ice cream all over a pepperoni pizza and chowing down. With the popularity of 4 Fantastic Fish, fishing slots in general, and Ancient Egypt, 4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt might just be the online slot design equivalent of playing 4D chess.

Before we lose our minds trying to mentally grapple with this scenario, we better take a look at 4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt’s gameplay. For the most part, it’s pretty much the same as it was before. Scoring cash prizes from Fish symbols is pretty common in this day and age, but usually with the assistance of a handy fisherman symbol somewhere on the screen. Not so in 4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt, where collecting prizes when Fish symbols form winning ways is a more novel approach. It leaves room for the Giant Squid to occasionally step in and perform in the base game. 4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt’s bonus round isn’t your typical 3 respin hold ‘n win round, either. But rather a somewhat more complicated web of unlocking reels, making the most of the Shark Feature when it activates, which can actually be pretty useful, and the new Sarcophagus feature as a sort of cherry on top.

Suffice it to say if you liked the first 4 Fantastic Fish game, then 4 Fantastic Fish In Egypt should hit the spot as well. It doesn’t do a shed load that the first didn’t, but its big max win of 15,000x the bet, Fish symbol cash prize awards, and bizarre or genius inclusion of Ancient Egypt seem sure to find an appreciable audience.