4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing

4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing: Slot Overview

Casino game makers 4ThePlayer and Yggdrasil Gaming have combined forces to bring together popular slots from their respective portfolios into one seaborne spot. The occasion is 4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing and sees the 4 Fantastic Range bump uglies with the Vikings Go range for a dose of angling alongside a gang of Vikings teetering on the verge of berserkness. If that sounds like the crossover of your dreams or just a curious oddity, let's set sail for the realm of Njǫrd, the Viking god of the sea, and see what we can haul up.

4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing has neither the eye-blazing sheen of 4 Fantastic Fish nor the heaviness of Vikings Go Berserk (for one example), but sits somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. A longship carries a gaming grid with recognisable Viking characters as it floats through a jagged icy realm set beneath a romantically lit sky. Leisurely fishing off the side of a wharf on a warm, sunny day, this is not. Not only do wannabe anglers have to contend with a harsh, if beautiful, environment, but with an equally if not harsher set of characters who have a tendency to go berserk.

After choosing a stake of 10 c to $/€80, players hit the spin button to land 4 rows of symbols on each of the gaming grid's 6 reels. One goal is to land matching symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel to create winning combinations, and there are 4,096 ways to win. Like its main characters, 4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing is highly volatile and is available in two RTP configurations, with 94% being the highest possible value.

Sigrid, Knut, Yngue, and Gunnar are joined by a squid, a bird, gold coins, silver coins, black coins, and bronze coins as the regular pay symbols. Six-of-a-kind coin symbol wins pay 1.5 to 2.5 times the bet; the rest pay 2.5 to 10 times the bet. Wilds help complete winning combinations by substituting for anything except scatters. They land on all reels except the leftmost.

4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing: Slot Features

4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing mixes bits from the 4 Fantastic line together with some Vikings Go fun. The resulting features are Money Ways wins, Big Game Prizes, a Fighting Respins Bonus, the Shark feature, Viking Fights, Viking Fights modifiers, a Giant Squid bonus, and feature buys.

Money Ways & Big Game Prizes

Cash symbols can land on any reel, and if they form a winning way, they award their values. Depending on the reel, each fish money symbol can have a value of up to 1.8x to 50x. On the rightmost reel is where Big Game Prizes may land. These are named money symbols, such as the 100x Big, the 250x Super, the 1,000x Mega, and the 5,000x Ultra. Big Game Prizes award their values when part of a winning way with cash symbols. Cash prizes and Big Game Prizes land in the base game and in Fighting Respins.

Fighting Respin Bonus

Hitting 3 or more scatter symbols awards the Fighting Respin bonus. Each reel that landed a scatter is unlocked, while all others are locked. Any cash prize landing on the triggering spin is locked to the reels if they land on open reels. Symbol positions spin, and any new cash symbols that land on open reels are locked in place. Cash prizes which land on closed reels do not lock.

If a scatter lands on a locked reel, the reel is unlocked from that point onwards. Scatters cannot land on already unlocked reels. 3 respins are awarded. If a new cash prize is locked in place or a scatter unlocks a reel, the respin count is reset to 3. Viking symbols may also land in the feature - their effects are described below.

Shark Feature

If an unlocked reel in the Fighting Respin Bonus is filled with cash prizes, a shark swims up the reel and collects all the prizes. The total prize value is multiplied by 2 and stored in the top position of the reel. The other positions, therefore, become available to land new symbols on.

Viking Fights

Viking symbols may land with coins on them. Above reels 3 to 6 are Viking collection areas, where collected coins are stored. Each time a coin is collected, there is a chance of triggering the respin bonus. When triggered this way, the bonus starts with 3 random unlocked reels, and the Viking that collected the coin is Berzerk.

Viking Fights in the Fighting Respins Feature

If a Viking symbol lands during the respins feature, a fight occurs. If the Viking wins, it awards a unique modifier:

• Cash Collector - collects all cash prizes in view.
• Cash Incrementor - increases all cash prizes in view.
• Cash Multiplier - creates a multiplier on 1 or more reel positions. Any cash prizes landing in these positions are multiplied by the amount.
• Cash Nets - creates nets on 1 or more reel positions. Cash prizes are guaranteed to land in these positions on the next respin.

If a Viking is Berserk, any Viking symbols of this type that land automatically win their fights. Coins on Vikings can be collected in the bonus, meaning more than one Viking can be Berserk.

Giant Squid Bonus

The Giant Squid may randomly appear on any spin to rearrange Fish symbols. In the main game, the Squid may swap symbols to create or improve a Fish symbol win. In the respins bonus, the Squid may move a Fish symbol from a locked reel to an unlocked reel.

Feature Buy

At the feature buy is where players can pay 125x to buy the Fighting Respins Bonus, or 500x for the Mega Respins Bonus where 4 Vikings are Berserk.

4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing: Slot Verdict

Search for what Vikings ate during long sea voyages, and the results vary, but no doubt solid helpings of fish made up part of their diet. Hopefully, fish catching skills are on display should players take to 4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing, which presents a somewhat surprising yet heartwarming collaboration between 4ThePlayer and Yggdrasil Gaming. Perhaps the least heartwarming part is the RTP drop both studios are pushing, which means 4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing's return values are not as rosy as some others found in both the 4 Fantastic Fish range of related slots and the Vikings Go lineup. Aye, well, such is the trend amongst certain slot makers with their take-it-or-leave-it mentality.

If you're going to take it, then 4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing provides a fun and unusual atmosphere for gamblers to get a fishing fix. One positive about the 4 Fantastic slots is that they don't follow the Big Bass Bonanza or Fishin' Frenzy herd, so the game puts on other ways to potentially drag up rewards. Hitting fish symbols in winning ways is one way to get your hands on scaly prizes, and dangling Big Game Prizes on the rightmost reel is a tease. Who knows, they just might be netted. The Vikings add a new dimension to the respins bonus round by mixing the old, such as the Shark feature, with the new Viking modifiers, which are a neat addition.

From a picky perspective, it might be said that 4 Fantastic Vikings Go Fishing doesn't really kick the can all that far down either the 4 Fantastic or the Vikings Go road. However, it's a fun mashup, providing not only entertainment for fans of fish, Vikings, or both, but also sparking thoughts about possible future collaborations, even amongst rivals.