Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It

Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It!: Slot Overview

Pragmatic Play and pals Reel Kingdom continue their obsession with the sea and everything in it with the release of Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It! For now, let's drop the '!' from the title, shall we, lest the spellcheck explodes in exasperated fury. Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It is a follow-on from Lobster Bob's Crazy Crab Shack, which lived up to its name by being a rather crazy slot, though its features were pretty standard 9 Masks of Fire stuff. Once again, players are thrust into this wacky Sponge Bob-esque underwater world to be fed features that should be familiar to players who are conversant with the studios' work.

One of Lobster Bob's Crazy Crab Shack's draws (or repellents) was its crazily bright underwater setting where Bob, all Hawaiian-shirted, hosted the show. Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It strives to achieve the same level of brightness and is an eye-catching slot where Bob, this time, is dressed in a chef's outfit. The game board in the middle of the screen is housed in a sort of beach bar-type building, with a prize ladder sitting on the left and feature buy/ante bet buttons on the right. Even those crab guys in the lower left have returned. It wasn't as obviously wacky, but still, pretty wacky.

As before, Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It is a highly volatile online slot, this time producing a default RTP of 96.04%. This value applies when betting 20 c to $/€240 per spin and when using the ante bet. Activating the ante bet increases the stake by 50% to have an extra chance of getting scatter symbols. Also the same is the gaming grid, comprising 5 reels, 3 rows, and 20 paylines.

Along the five reels land 9-A card rank symbols as well as 4 seafood dishes plus Bob as the 5 high pays. Hitting 5 identical royals awards 1 to 2 times the bet, or 10 to 100 times the bet is doled out for getting a 5-picture symbol outcome. Despite quite a lot of activity taking place down in Bob's domain, wilds are not going to appear at any time.

Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It!: Slot Features

It's all a bit same old stuff in this section since Lobster Bob's Sea Food & Win It has Crab symbol wins, free spins with a win multiplier, a Hold & Spinner round, and two feature buys.

Crab Symbols

Hitting 3 or more Crab symbols awards a direct money award ranging from 1x to 500x the bet. In the base game, when 2 scatter symbols land without the third, if the scatters can move down one position without leaving the reel area, a respin is triggered where the reels with free spins scatters move down one position and the other reels respin. All Crab symbols hitting during respins are collected and pay according to the total number accrued at the end of the respins.

Hold & Spinner

In the base game, symbols can randomly appear with a pearl under them. Pearls are collected on oysters beneath each reel. At random times, oysters open and the Hold & Spinner is awarded. The regular reelset is replaced with reels that land blanks or money symbols. Two, 3, 4, or 5 money symbols are placed on the screen, where they remain till the feature ends. Money symbols have values of 1x to 50x the bet. Here, 3 spins are awarded, and landing a new money symbol resets the spin count to 3 (new symbols do not stick). At the end of each spin, all Money symbols in view contribute their values to a prize pot. When the round ends, the total value of the prize pot is awarded.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols appear on reels 2, 3, and 4. Hitting 3 scatter symbols triggers the free spins feature. Players are randomly awarded 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 free spins with a multiplier of x2, x3, or x5 by picking buckets shown on the screen. The multiplier applies to all wins in the round, including Crab symbol prizes. Hitting 1 scatter symbol awards +1 free spin, 2 scatters award +2 free spins, or 3 scatters award the initially granted number of free spins. It is possible to trigger the Hold & Spinner during the round. If triggering the Hold & Spinner in the feature it is played immediately.

Feature Buys

Players are able to buy the free spins feature for 50 times the bet. Buying the Hold & Spinner also costs 50 times the bet. There is a random chance of getting free spins with a Hold & Spinner guaranteed to trigger during it. The RTP for buying either feature is 96.02%.

Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It!: Slot Verdict

If the previous Lobster Bob game didn't win you over, then it seems unlikely Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It will either. It's more or less the same thing as before. It has the same wacky theme and a lot of the same features. There are changes, of course; Reel Kingdom has included a few of those, but none are especially interesting, or original either, for that matter.

On the 'less' side, Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It, for whatever reason, packs half the winning potential of the other Lobster Bob game at 3,000x the bet, which is where the win cap kicks in. What doesn't help is that the Crab symbol values have been decimated like fresh meat at a shark-feeding frenzy. Why? Who knows. The multiplier in free spins may be used to build their values back up, but still, eh. Lobster Bob's Sea Food & Win It has the Hold & Spinner, which the previous one didn't. But again, we already had one of these in Big Bass Bonanza Hold & Spinner and then again in Big Bass Hold & Spinner Megaways. It's all feeling a tad overdone by now. Although, what can you expect? This is the studio duo which has released like 75 Big Bass games… so far.

And hey, the endless Big Bass train seems to get a glowing reception, so perhaps Lobster Bob's Seafood & Win It will, too. It's harder to see that happening, though, due to the lamed winning potential and regurgitated feature set, unless the wild and crazy underwater antics of Bob happen to be a major appeal.