Nice Catch Doublemax

Nice Catch DoubleMax casts off from a sunlit beach rather than the underwater setting its sequel would later use, with Yggdrasil Gaming laying the reels over a transparent grid so the light-blue sea and sand stay visible behind the symbols. An ascending multiplier strip runs above the 5-reel, 3-row layout, which pays across 243 ways rather than fixed lines.

Card suits cover the low-value symbols, returning 0.5x to 0.6x the stake for five of a kind, while swordfish, shoes, soda bottles and old flip phones form the premium set at 1x to 8x for a full line. Fish-shaped money symbols pay separately whenever a Fisherman symbol lands on the fifth reel at the same time, collecting whatever values are showing.

Collecting fish prizes from left to right also feeds the DoubleMax multiplier, which climbs in doubling steps — 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x, 64x, 128x, up to 256x — and applies to every win on that spin. Landing three, four or five scatter symbols opens the Free Spins round with 8, 11 or 14 spins respectively, and a gamble option before the round starts can push the starting count higher. Once free spins are running, the DoubleMax multiplier carries over between spins instead of resetting, scatters stop appearing on the reels, and a Fisherman landing adds an extra spin while doubling the multiplier value for the rest of the round. Two bonus buy options skip the wait: 100x the stake for a random 3 to 5 scatters, or 500x to guarantee all five and the full 14 free spins.

Yggdrasil rates Nice Catch DoubleMax at high volatility with a 24.68% hit frequency, a default RTP of 96.1% that steps down through 94.0%, 90.5% and 86.0% in its alternate configurations, and a maximum win of 23,972x the stake from bets between 0.20 and 20 per spin.