Floating Dragon slot review

Floating Dragon slot: two bonus rounds in one game

Most slots build everything around a single feature. Floating Dragon gives you two, each with its own trigger and its own way of paying. The first is a Hold and Spin round, where money symbols lock in place and the respin counter resets each time a new one lands. The second is a free spins round that works much like the Big Bass Bonanza bonus: fish carry cash values and wilds collect them.

That pairing isn't a coincidence. Floating Dragon was made by Reel Kingdom, the studio behind the Big Bass series, and released through Pragmatic Play in 2021. It takes the fishing collect mechanic and sets it on an East Asian river, with dragon imagery in place of the lake and tackle box.

Layout, paylines and symbols

The game uses 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines, paying left to right. Higher-paying symbols follow the river and festival theme, card ranks fill the lower end, and a wild substitutes for paying symbols. Money symbols, each showing a printed value, feed the Hold and Spin round, while the scatter starts free spins. The paytable updates every value to your current stake, so the figures you see are already in pounds.

How to play Floating Dragon

1. Open the rules and paytable and check the RTP; 96.71% is the default, but lower versions are available to casinos.
2. Choose a total stake. All 10 lines are fixed, so the stake is the full cost of a spin.
3. Stay within the UK limit of £5 a spin for players aged 25 and over, or £2 for those aged 18 to 24.
4. Spin manually; there's no autoplay or turbo on UK slots, and each spin lasts at least 2.5 seconds.
5. Look out for money symbols, which can start Hold and Spin, and scatters, which start free spins.

If any symbol or rule is unclear, our guide on how to read a slot paytable explains where to find each piece of information in a typical game menu.

Floating Dragon Hold and Spin explained

Pragmatic Play's game page ties the Hold and Spin trigger to money symbols landing on the middle of the grid, but its wording is brief, so read the paytable in the game for the exact condition. Once it starts, you get three respins in which only money symbols can land. Each new one locks in place, everything visible is counted, and the counter resets to three.

Standard money symbols show 1x to 20x your bet. During the feature, diamond symbols can also appear, and the developer lists their values from 100x into the thousands. Those diamonds are where the feature's big results come from, and they're much rarer than standard money symbols.

Worked example at 40p

Say the round locks five money symbols worth 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x and 10x, a total of 28x, which is £11.20 at a 40p stake. Two more of 4x and 6x land before the counter runs out, taking it to 38x, or £15.20. A single 100x diamond in the same round would have added £40 on its own.

Floating Dragon free spins and the wild collector

Three, four or five scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. During the round, fish money symbols carry values of up to 500x the bet, and they pay only when a wild lands on the same spin to collect them. Two wilds on one spin collect the total twice.

Every wild you land is counted. The fourth adds 10 more spins, and the developer says the collect multiplier rises to 2x, then 3x, and finally 10x with later retriggers. The structure will feel familiar to anyone who's played the fishing slots in the Big Bass range.

Floating Dragon's two features are independent. A strong Hold and Spin doesn't make free spins more or less likely on the next spin, because every spin is decided by the RNG on its own.

Floating Dragon RTP and volatility in practice

The default RTP of 96.71% gives a house edge of 3.29%, among the better figures in Pragmatic Play's catalogue. High volatility means the base game pays small amounts and most of the return sits inside the two features.

Two features give you two routes to a decent result, which can make sessions feel a little less one-dimensional than a single-bonus game with similar volatility. It doesn't change the long-run cost.

Max win: how 5,000x can be reached

The max win is 5,000 times the stake: £500 at 10p, £2,000 at 40p, £10,000 at £2 and £25,000 at £5. In free spins it needs high-value fish collected at the 10x level; in Hold and Spin it needs several large diamonds on a nearly full grid. Neither happens often, and the developer doesn't publish the odds.

UK rules and demo access

UK players can't buy either feature, can't use autoplay, and always see their net position. A demo is available at licensed casinos once age verification is complete, explained in our free slots guide. The UK slot rules page lists every requirement.

Floating Dragon vs similar slots

Big Bass Hold & Spinner uses a similar two-feature idea in a fishing setting, at higher volatility. Chilli Heat is the calmer respin option. For more games with this theme, see our dragon slots and Asian themed slots pages.

Pros, cons and who Floating Dragon suits

Floating Dragon suits players who enjoy the Big Bass collect mechanic but want a second feature to aim for. If you want one simple bonus, the original Big Bass Bonanza is more direct.

Where to play Floating Dragon in the UK

The UKGC-licensed casinos below stock Pragmatic Play games; search for Floating Dragon and check the RTP in the game. PlayOJO gives 80 no-wagering spins on Big Bass Bonanza after a £10 first deposit, Casumo offers a 50% match up to £100 with 10x wagering in 7 days and a £5 max bet, and Coral gives 100 spins after you bet £10. 18+, terms apply.

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