Big Bass Christmas Blast 1000 review
Pragmatic Play · November 13, 2026
Ho, ho, hokay, gamblers, Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom have teamed up to design Big Bass Christmas Blast, another Xmas-themed slot to pad out the already bulging Big Bass Range. Is this the sixth one so far? There was Christmas Big Bass Bonanza, Bigger Bass Blizzard, Big Bass Christmas Bash, Big Bass Xmas Xtreme, and Big Bass Christmas Frozen Lake, so maybe so, unless we missed any. Six seems extraordinarily excessive, but what with all the gift-giving, partying, and feasting, Christmas can be a time of excess, even if its original meaning points toward something quite different. As usual, Big Bass Christmas Blast has been built on the foundations of another game, Big Bass Blast in this case. However, the studio has made enough changes to ensure this is no mathematical clone, even if the gameplay has mostly carried over.
As well as fishing, Big Bass Christmas Blast might be considered a Santa simulator, as players are given a seat on a sleigh as it slides through a wintry scene. You don't see any reindeer pulling the thing, but houses and snow-covered trees constantly zip by on the side of the screen, creating a sense of perpetual motion. A bunch of batteries lie around the bottom of the sleigh, creating a visual link back to Big Bass Blast, which added a strange electrification element to the overall fishing theme. Spose, after years of releasing BB slots, Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom have made so many of them they've got to get creative with theme ideas, though it's hard to call a Christmas idea a very creative one.
Floating along the ice is a sleigh bearing a 5x3 aligned grid with 10 paylines. The top available RTP is 96.5%, and the math model volatility rating is medium. Base stake choice ranges from $/€0.10 to $/€250, and an ante bet and feature buys are also options.
There are nine regular paying symbols on the paytable. They are 10-A royals, then Christmassy-looking fishing boxes, fishing rods, sleighs, and floats. Hitting five matching royals pays 5x to 10x the bet, or a winning one of 5 matching premium symbols is worth 50x to 200x.
In Big Bass Christmas Blast, the Fisherman Wild symbol appears in the base game and in free spins to collect Money symbols. Free spins may be bought, and there is also an ante bet.
The Fisherman Wild may land on the leftmost and rightmost reels in the base game and all reels in the bonus round. Wilds substitute for all symbols except the scatter. During the base game, the Fisherman Wild may randomly land with a multiplier of x2, x3, or x10. Money symbols have a value of 0.5x to 1,000x the bet. Money symbol values are collected and awarded by the Fisherman Wild symbol, in the base game and in free spins. Money symbols also pay as payline symbols in free spins, up to 20x for 5 OAK.
Scatter symbols appear on all reels. Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. In the base game, when 2 scatters hit, a third scatter may be brought onto the screen by a hook animation. Also in the base game, when 2 scatters hit, they are collected in one of the 3 present boxes next to the grid. At random, when this happens, 10, 15, or 20 free spins can be triggered, depending on which present box the scatter was collected.
During free spins, each landed wild symbol is collected. Every 4th collected Fisherman Wild symbol awards +10 free spins, and the multiplier for Money symbol collection increases to x2 for the first retrigger, x3 for the second retrigger, and x10 for the third retrigger. Retriggered spins are played after the previous batch of free spins ends. Multipliers are applied to the retriggered spins. After the third retrigger, no more retriggers can occur.
During free spins, when there are Fisherman Wilds on the grid but no Money symbols, at the end of a spin, Money symbols may randomly appear. Also, Fisherman Wilds and Money symbols can randomly be bought onto the reels when the spin has ended with a hook animation. Thirdly, when there are Fisherman Wilds but no Money symbols, at the end of a free spin, a Bazooka may change all symbols on the reels except wilds into something else. These features may randomly trigger in the base game as well.
By paying 100x the bet, players can buy the free spins round triggered by 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols or pay 410x for super free spins, which have a higher chance of landing 1,000x Money symbols. Activating the ante bet increases the bet by 50% for a greater chance of winning free spins.
Santa manages to cover the globe in one night, but even he must have limits, and surely six festive fishing trips are pushing things a bit far? If you disagree, then Big Bass Christmas Blast is another Xmas angling slot to consider. Pragmatic Play's Big Bass series isn't known for its limitations, and Christmas Blast yet again follows a well-established formula, adding a snowy setting to the familiar Big Bass gameplay. The Christmas theme is hardly original, given how many times Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom have returned to this particular well, though the sliding sleigh through a wintry landscape effect is quite neat. As you'd expect, the game offers plenty of Money collecting to get stuck into, though whether there is enough here to justify another entry in an already crowded series is another question.
Where Big Bass Blast, and by extension Christmas Blast, stand out is by allowing Money symbol collection to occur in the base game as well as the bonus round. Fish values are quite high, with a maximum of 1,000x compared to Blast's 500x. There are other generous touches as well. The number of free spins awarded is higher than in the previous game, and players only need to collect 4 Fisherman Wilds instead of 7 to move to the next bonus round level. The win cap is much higher in Big Bass Christmas Blast as well, jumping all the way to 20,000x or four times BB Blast's. Does it all add up to a Christmas miracle? Maybe not, but Big Bass Christmas Blast feels like it is the more generous option, in some ways, though behind-the-scenes mathematics can have a way of rebalancing things.
What can you say? It's another Big Bass Christmas-themed slot to put under the tree if you can't get enough of this sort of action. There's nothing new, nothing exciting, no online slot evolutions to unwrap, but there is dependable Big Bass gaming with decent stats. Pragmatic Play has given Big Bass Blast a few seasonal bells and whistles to go with upgraded max fish values, lower wild collection targets, and higher winning potential, so for players ever hungry for more festive fishing, this one should do the job.
Big Bass Christmas Blast might be just another Big Bass remake, but it expands on the original in several ways while laying on a festive atmosphere.
As well as fishing, Big Bass Christmas Blast might be considered a Santa simulator, as players are given a seat on a sleigh as it slides through a wintry scene. You don't see any reindeer pulling the thing, but houses and snow-covered trees constantly zip by on the side of the screen, creating a sense of perpetual motion. A bunch of batteries lie around the bottom of the sleigh, creating a visual link back to Big Bass Blast, which added a strange electrification element to the overall fishing theme. Spose, after years of releasing BB slots, Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom have made so many of them they've got to get creative with theme ideas, though it's hard to call a Christmas idea a very creative one.
Floating along the ice is a sleigh bearing a 5x3 aligned grid with 10 paylines. The top available RTP is 96.5%, and the math model volatility rating is medium. Base stake choice ranges from $/€0.10 to $/€250, and an ante bet and feature buys are also options.
There are nine regular paying symbols on the paytable. They are 10-A royals, then Christmassy-looking fishing boxes, fishing rods, sleighs, and floats. Hitting five matching royals pays 5x to 10x the bet, or a winning one of 5 matching premium symbols is worth 50x to 200x.
In Big Bass Christmas Blast, the Fisherman Wild symbol appears in the base game and in free spins to collect Money symbols. Free spins may be bought, and there is also an ante bet.
The Fisherman Wild may land on the leftmost and rightmost reels in the base game and all reels in the bonus round. Wilds substitute for all symbols except the scatter. During the base game, the Fisherman Wild may randomly land with a multiplier of x2, x3, or x10. Money symbols have a value of 0.5x to 1,000x the bet. Money symbol values are collected and awarded by the Fisherman Wild symbol, in the base game and in free spins. Money symbols also pay as payline symbols in free spins, up to 20x for 5 OAK.
Scatter symbols appear on all reels. Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. In the base game, when 2 scatters hit, a third scatter may be brought onto the screen by a hook animation. Also in the base game, when 2 scatters hit, they are collected in one of the 3 present boxes next to the grid. At random, when this happens, 10, 15, or 20 free spins can be triggered, depending on which present box the scatter was collected.
During free spins, each landed wild symbol is collected. Every 4th collected Fisherman Wild symbol awards +10 free spins, and the multiplier for Money symbol collection increases to x2 for the first retrigger, x3 for the second retrigger, and x10 for the third retrigger. Retriggered spins are played after the previous batch of free spins ends. Multipliers are applied to the retriggered spins. After the third retrigger, no more retriggers can occur.
During free spins, when there are Fisherman Wilds on the grid but no Money symbols, at the end of a spin, Money symbols may randomly appear. Also, Fisherman Wilds and Money symbols can randomly be bought onto the reels when the spin has ended with a hook animation. Thirdly, when there are Fisherman Wilds but no Money symbols, at the end of a free spin, a Bazooka may change all symbols on the reels except wilds into something else. These features may randomly trigger in the base game as well.
By paying 100x the bet, players can buy the free spins round triggered by 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols or pay 410x for super free spins, which have a higher chance of landing 1,000x Money symbols. Activating the ante bet increases the bet by 50% for a greater chance of winning free spins.
Santa manages to cover the globe in one night, but even he must have limits, and surely six festive fishing trips are pushing things a bit far? If you disagree, then Big Bass Christmas Blast is another Xmas angling slot to consider. Pragmatic Play's Big Bass series isn't known for its limitations, and Christmas Blast yet again follows a well-established formula, adding a snowy setting to the familiar Big Bass gameplay. The Christmas theme is hardly original, given how many times Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom have returned to this particular well, though the sliding sleigh through a wintry landscape effect is quite neat. As you'd expect, the game offers plenty of Money collecting to get stuck into, though whether there is enough here to justify another entry in an already crowded series is another question.
Where Big Bass Blast, and by extension Christmas Blast, stand out is by allowing Money symbol collection to occur in the base game as well as the bonus round. Fish values are quite high, with a maximum of 1,000x compared to Blast's 500x. There are other generous touches as well. The number of free spins awarded is higher than in the previous game, and players only need to collect 4 Fisherman Wilds instead of 7 to move to the next bonus round level. The win cap is much higher in Big Bass Christmas Blast as well, jumping all the way to 20,000x or four times BB Blast's. Does it all add up to a Christmas miracle? Maybe not, but Big Bass Christmas Blast feels like it is the more generous option, in some ways, though behind-the-scenes mathematics can have a way of rebalancing things.
What can you say? It's another Big Bass Christmas-themed slot to put under the tree if you can't get enough of this sort of action. There's nothing new, nothing exciting, no online slot evolutions to unwrap, but there is dependable Big Bass gaming with decent stats. Pragmatic Play has given Big Bass Blast a few seasonal bells and whistles to go with upgraded max fish values, lower wild collection targets, and higher winning potential, so for players ever hungry for more festive fishing, this one should do the job.
Big Bass Christmas Blast might be just another Big Bass remake, but it expands on the original in several ways while laying on a festive atmosphere.
