Let’s get it out of the way, yes, I know this is not the first fish tank themed video slot machine you have seen and it certainly won’t be the last. Developed by one of the emerging companies in the industry called Yggdrasil Gaming this 5×3 game with 20 different paylines is not really got that much to offer.
The design is colorful and vivid but the fished represented on the reels look a bit cartoonish, and other than the minigame that matches the theme consisting on getting bonuses from the bottom of the fish tank, it does not cause an impression.
Last year by Yggdrasil Gaming released great games such as Chibeasties, Cyrus the Virus, Cazino Zeppelin. They are a Sweden-based developer of online and mobile casino games founded by Fredrik Elmqvist an industry veteran.
he interactions the player will have with the game will be limited to the bottom area of the screen, on the left side you will find the tool that will let you set how much your wager is going to be worth, right next to it you will see how pay-lines will be available on your next spin, the number of lines will depend on the amount of your wager, right on the middle you will find the traditional spinning button and right next to it you will see a small display with your balance on it.
Golden fish tank presents the popular wild symbol, this special feature will help you get small combinations you you did not expect by replacing a card that you could not use with a useful one, it will also improve all combinations that did not use it on the first place, helping you get some big wins.
Free spins will be available if you get three or more free spin symbols on the reels during a regular spin, for every free spin symbol in the combination you will obtain a free spin added to the prize you won.
By playing free spins mode you can get to play the included minigame, in it you will obtain rewards by checking the shells located at the bottom of the tank, but don’t be fooled, you won’t participate on any sort of decision making during the minigame since everything happens at random and automatically; the rewards from this minigame are pretty good though, like multipliers on all wins, extra free spins, random wilds, fixed wilds, super stacker symbols and symbols that become wild.
As stated before I do not find this title to be very attractive, with a somewhat boring theme, a lack of special features barely mitigated by a mediocre minigame and a relatively small I find it hard to believe Golden Fish Tank will have a chance competing with more interactive and fulfilling games once it gets released by the end of this February.
Yggdrasil Gaming was very consistent with the quality of the products they released, combining great aesthetics with fun gameplay and elevated RTP’s had become their trademark, but this time I think they dropped the ball, on a market that is already saturated you need to impress if you want your game to be popular, Golden Fish Tank creates the opposite effect. I would recommend players who are looking for fun and engaging games to skip this one, I got bored pretty fast.