“Jaws,” the 1975 classic by Steven Spielberg, is the granddaddy of all shark movies, making beachgoers everywhere paranoid about taking a dip. It’s about a massive shark with a taste for tourists and a vendetta against Amity Island. With a terrifying score that goes “da-dum, da-dum” and enough suspense to make you bite your nails off, “Jaws” turned a fish into a legend.

Spielberg scared the pants off everyone, launched his epic career, and made sure nobody looked at the ocean the same way again. It’s like “Sharknado” but without the cheese.

In Shark Hunter slot from PGSoft, the tables have turned. It’s now the shark’s turn to fear what’s hunting it!

All aboard!

Like all PGSoft games, Shark Hunter slot is built specifically for mobile devices. While you can still play the slot from your laptop or desktop, the experience won’t be as friendly as it would be if you play from a mobile device.

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While Shark Hunter slot may appear to be just another fairly generic shark-themed slot, PGSoft actually has gone to great lengths to construct a whole story around its latest release. While this story doesn’t really get told in the slot, the website has a two-paragraph synopsis. 

As the story goes, Aiden is struggling to manage a small fishing business that he inherited from his father, who mysteriously disappeared. Discovering his father’s diary, he learns about his obsession with the mysterious Emerald Bay whale shark, which offers Aiden a chance to overcome adversity and fulfill his father’s legacy.

What’s in your tackle box

Shark Hunter slot doesn’t use pay lines or ways to win to determine winning combinations; it uses cluster pay. This pay mechanic pays when seven or more of the same symbol touches either horizontally or vertically.

In conjunction with cluster pays, the slot also features cascading reels. This mechanic removes symbols involved in winning combinations, allowing new symbols to fall into the empty spots. This essentially gives you a free spin and another chance to win. The mechanic will continue to be triggered until no new winning combinations are formed from a drop.

Any round that features one or more winning combinations will produce a shark symbol with the new symbols that drop down into the empty spots left by the removed symbols. The shark symbols are multipliers with a multiplier value of between 1x and 50x. These multiplier values are applied to the winning combination if a hunter symbol appears on the reels at the same time.

A round of the slot’s free spins feature is triggered with three or more scatter symbols awarding ten free spins. During a round of free spins, every four hunter symbols collected will award five additional free spins.

Is Shark Hunter slot worth getting wet?

If you’re betting at the $80 a spin maximum, you’ll have a shot at winning up to $400,000 thanks to the 5,000x max multiplier. If you’re short on bait, betting on the slot does start from just $0.20 a spin. The slot offers an RTP of 96.73% and features high volatility, making winning on the high seas tricky.

Shark Hunter slot has a lot going for it. The graphics are great, and the bonus features are engaging. That being said, the slot’s theme is worryingly generic. The backstory certainly did help me get into it a bit more, but I had to go hunting for it. I wish that they could have found a way to bring that storytelling into the slot. All in all, though, I give Shark Hunter slot from PGSoft an eight out of ten.

If you’re looking for a few other mobile-focused slots from PGSoft to try, I recommend Fortune Rabbit and Wild Coaster.