Ice Fish

Quick verdict: a colour wheel with a fishing hole in it

Ice Fish is listed as an instant game, but you play it like a stripped-down roulette wheel. You put chips on a sector type, the wheel spins, and it lands on a white anchor, a grey anchor or one of three fish bonus sectors. Before each spin, some sectors can be given a multiplier. If a bonus sector hits, the game cuts to a short under-ice scene where one fish is pulled at random and its value becomes your result.

InOut Games gives the RTP as 95.5% and the release date as 11 June 2026. The top result is 5,000x the bet. It suits players who want a round that takes seconds, with one decision and a rare but big bonus. It's not for anyone who wants depth. Some basic rules, including what a plain anchor hit pays, aren't published outside the game, and this review flags that wherever it matters.

Ice Fish: key rules

Reading the wheel: 45 sectors and what each share means

Everything in Ice Fish starts with the wheel map. Published rule summaries list 45 sectors in five types:

• White anchor: 19 sectors
• Grey anchor: 19 sectors
• Lil' Blues bonus: 4 sectors
• Big Green bonus: 2 sectors
• Huge Reds bonus: 1 sector

Assuming every sector is the same width (the published rules count sectors but don't say whether they differ in size), each type lands this share of spins over the long run:

So the two anchor colours split about 84% of the wheel evenly between them, and the fish sectors share the rest. The bonus sectors get rarer as their fish get bigger. Lil' Blues are four times as common as Huge Reds, and Huge Reds have the highest fish cap. That shape tells you most of what you need: the anchors are the frequent, lower-variance outcome, and the fish are the rare, higher-variance one.

These shares are geometry, not predictions. Each spin is independent, so a run of grey doesn't make white more likely next. The Provably Fair system described below exists so you can check a finished round wasn't changed after the bet was placed.

Placing chips: white anchor, grey anchor and the fish bets

Betting uses chips. Published rule summaries list five chip values (0.2, 0.5, 1, 5 and 10), and you can put several chips on the same segment to build the stake you want before spinning.

The bets follow the sector types:

1. White anchor. A bet that the wheel stops on any of the 19 white sectors.
2. Grey anchor. A bet that it stops on any of the 19 grey sectors.
3. Lil' Blues. A bet on the four-sector bonus that leads to the small-fish round.
4. Big Green. A bet on the two-sector bonus that leads to the medium-fish round.
5. Huge Reds. A bet on the single-sector bonus that leads to the large-fish round.

Regular anchor hits are what keep the game close to roulette. It helps to think of white and grey like red and black, just without numbers, dozens or columns. The game drops those extra roulette bets for this simpler layout, so the whole decision is which sector type, or which mix of types, to cover before the spin.

One thing isn't published outside the game: the base pay on an anchor hit before multipliers. InOut's official page doesn't include a paytable, and this review doesn't fill that gap with a guess. The in-game rules or help screen will show it, and it's the first thing to check before playing.

Pre-spin multipliers: the part that decides big results

Before the wheel spins, random multipliers can be placed on sectors. Published rule summaries give two ranges:

• Anchor sectors can get multipliers from 3x to 10x.
• Bonus sectors can get multipliers from 2x to 10x.

If the wheel stops on a sector with a multiplier, that sector's result is multiplied by it. For an anchor, the anchor pay is multiplied. For a bonus, the multiplier applies after the fish pull. The fish value becomes the bonus result, and any pre-spin bonus multiplier is applied on top of it.

Some details aren't published: how many sectors get a multiplier each spin, how often multipliers appear at all, and how likely each value between 3x and 10x is. Because the multipliers are shown before the spin, you can see what's on the wheel for that round. The results come from randomness, not player skill, so seeing a multiplier doesn't make that sector any more likely to be hit.

Regular anchor hits keep the game close to roulette, while multipliers and bonus rounds deliver the bigger results. The sector map supports that. Most of the variance sits in two places: a multiplier landing on the stop sector, and the fish pull.

The three fish bonus rounds, step by step

All three bonus rounds work the same way. Only the fish and their value caps change.

1. The wheel stops on a bonus sector that you've bet on: Lil' Blues, Big Green or Huge Reds.
2. The fishing scene starts. A short animation shows fish swimming under the ice.
3. Each fish has a value. Every fish shown has its own base multiplier.
4. One fish is pulled at random. You make no choices during the animation. The result comes from a random fish pull.
5. The fish value becomes the bonus result.
6. Any pre-spin multiplier on that bonus sector is applied on top of the fish value.
7. The round ends and the award is added to your balance, then play returns to the wheel.

The caps per bonus:

The minimum fish value in each round isn't published. That matters, because the floor would tell you how bad a bonus can go. We know the ceilings but not the bottoms.

How 5,000x is reached

Ice Fish's max win is listed as 5,000x the bet. From the published ranges, the maths only works one way. The largest fish value is 500x, in Huge Reds, and the largest pre-spin bonus multiplier is 10x. Multiplying the two gives exactly 5,000x.

To reach the top award, three things have to happen in one round:

1. Huge Reds, the only single-sector type on the 45-sector wheel, has a 10x pre-spin multiplier.
2. The wheel stops on that one sector.
3. The random pull picks a fish at the 500x cap.

The best Big Green result from the published figures is 200x times 10x, or 2,000x. For Lil' Blues it's 100x times 10x, or 1,000x. An anchor with a 10x multiplier pays 10 times the anchor pay, which isn't published. The anchors can't come close to the 5,000x ceiling, so the top award depends on the rarest sector on the wheel.

RTP 95.5% and what volatility we can infer

InOut Games gives Ice Fish a theoretical RTP of 95.5%. Over a very large number of rounds, the game is designed to return 95.5 units per 100 wagered. No lower RTP version has been published; check the game's info screen for the setting in use.

To put that in context, InOut's portfolio list shows its own Roulette at 98.5% RTP and its Wheel game at 95%. Ice Fish sits in the middle of the studio's range, which runs from about 90% to 99% across its games.

Volatility isn't published, and published spec listings show no rating. The structure still gives some hints:

• About 84% of spins land on an anchor, per the sector shares above. A white-or-grey bet alone behaves most like an even-money roulette bet, with some extra swing from pre-spin multipliers.
• Bets on the fish sectors are more volatile. Huge Reds lands about once in 45 spins, and even then the fish pull decides whether the result is modest or large.

RTP and volatility describe long-run design only. No bet mix changes the 95.5% figure, and the wheel doesn't remember past spins.

Provably Fair: what you can check after a round

InOut Games uses its Provably Fair framework across its portfolio, and Ice Fish is included. Each round can be verified after it finishes, so you can see how the result was generated and confirm it wasn't changed after the bet was placed. The game also keeps a game history.

That doesn't change the RTP or make results predictable. It's an audit tool for finished rounds, not a forecast.

Ice Fish vs Evolution's Ice Fishing

If the bonus names sound familiar, Evolution runs a live game show called Ice Fishing, built around a wheel with fish bonus rounds. Here is what each studio publishes about its own game:

The main differences are format and published detail. Ice Fish is a solo, on-demand RNG round with Provably Fair checks. Evolution's is a game show format. Evolution publishes minimum fish values and exact leaf multiplier steps; the published Ice Fish rules give only ranges and caps. Don't assume Evolution's minimums or segment rules apply to Ice Fish. They're separate games from separate studios.

What the published rules leave out

To be clear about gaps in what's published, these Ice Fish details aren't published outside the game:

• the base pay of a white or grey anchor hit
• the minimum fish value in each bonus
• how many sectors get pre-spin multipliers per spin, and how the multiplier values are weighted
• whether sectors are equal width (the shares above assume they are)
• a volatility rating or hit rate

The official InOut page gives the RTP, release date, single-player format and a description of a catch that builds tension before the result. The sector counts, multiplier ranges and fish caps above come from published rule summaries, and the in-game help screen is the final word on all of them.

Who Ice Fish suits

• Players who like quick wheel rounds. One bet, one spin, and a short fishing scene when a bonus hits.
• Anyone curious about the fish-bonus format who would rather play a single-player round than a game show.
• Players who like checking fairness. Each finished round can be verified through Provably Fair.

It's a weaker fit if you want strategy or several decisions per round, since the fish pull is fully random. It also won't suit anyone who wants to see a full paytable before trying a game, because the anchor pay isn't published outside the game.

What we like about Ice Fish, and what we don't

Pros

• Simple to understand: two colour bets and three bonus bets across a 45-sector wheel
• Pre-spin multipliers of up to 10x on both anchor and bonus sectors
• A clear route to the 5,000x top award (500x Huge Reds fish times a 10x multiplier)
• Provably Fair verification and game history

Cons

• Key rules aren't published outside the game, including the anchor pay and minimum fish values
• The biggest results depend on Huge Reds, one sector out of 45
• RTP of 95.5% is below InOut's own Roulette (98.5%)

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