Twelve arcade fish shooters from JILI and its sister studio TaDa Gaming, every one with an official free demo. If you came here searching for a fishing game and found a wheel, this is probably the page you actually wanted.
You pick a bet level, which sets the cost of one shot. You fire at creatures crossing the screen. A kill pays a multiple of that shot cost, and a miss pays nothing. Big creatures absorb dozens of shots and pay far more when they finally die.
That is the whole game. There is no spin, no round and no moment where the machine decides for you.
Evolution's Ice Fishing is a live game show. You place a bet before the window closes, a 53-segment wheel turns, and the fishing part is an animated bonus that plays out without you touching anything.
Both are called fishing games. Only one of them lets you aim, and the difference decides which page you need.
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Slot players tend to read a fish shooter wrong on the first attempt. There is no stake per round, because there are no rounds. There is a cost per shot, and you fire continuously.
Take Mega Fishing, the best documented title here. An ordinary fish returns 2x to 8x the cost of the shot that killed it. That sounds generous until you count the shots that missed, and the ones that hit a creature which needed nine more. Meanwhile a thunderbolt round costs 25x the base shot and can still hit nothing.
So the number that decides your session is not the headline RTP. It is how much ammunition you spend per kill, and how big those kills are. Watching that ratio in a demo for ten minutes teaches you more than any strategy article.
Slots normally run one certified RTP everywhere. Fish shooters frequently ship with several settings, and the casino chooses. That is why Dinosaur Tycoon is quoted anywhere from the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties depending on which page you read.
Neither figure is a lie. They are different builds. The only number that applies to you is the one printed in the game information panel on your account, and it takes ten seconds to find.
Sorted by how much they are searched.
The most searched fish shooter of the lot, and the one with a jackpot attached.
The sequel to Jackpot Fishing, and the best documented game in the range.
A golden shark, a meteor strike, and the highest ceiling in the range.
The arcade cabinet that gambling software has been copying for twenty years.
Monsters instead of fish, and the lowest volatility in the range.
The bright, friendly one, aimed squarely at first-timers.
Prehistoric targets, and the clearest example of why you must check the RTP yourself.
Explosives over precision, with the same RTP question as Dinosaur Tycoon.
The God of Wealth theme, applied to a cannon and a tank of fish.
The darkest-looking game in the range, and not an aquarium at all.
A greatest-hits build of the studio’s own fish-shooter ideas.
Dragons as bosses, on the same ammunition economy.
Six titles have figures that agree across sources. Six do not.
| Game | Studio | Published RTP | Ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackpot Fishing | TaDa Gaming | Up to 97% | 888x from a single catch |
| Mega Fishing | TaDa Gaming | 97% to 97.78% | 950x |
| Royal Fishing | JILI | 97% to 97.8% | 1,000x |
| Ocean King Jackpot | TaDa Gaming | Read it in the game | Progressive jackpot |
| Boom Legend | TaDa Gaming | 95.50% | 1,000x |
| Happy Fishing | JILI | 96% | Read it in the game |
| Dinosaur Tycoon | JILI | Varies widely by operator | Read it in the game |
| Bombing Fishing | JILI | Varies widely by operator | Read it in the game |
| Cai Shen Fishing | JILI | Read it in the game | Read it in the game |
| Nightfall Hunting | JILI | Read it in the game | Read it in the game |
| All-Star Fishing | JILI | Read it in the game | Read it in the game |
| Dragon Fishing | JILI | Read it in the game | Read it in the game |
Where a row says to read it in the game, that is not us being cagey. It means the independently published figures either disagree with each other or do not exist, and repeating a number we cannot stand behind would be worse than saying so.
Fish shooters look like skill games and are sold that way, which is most of their appeal. Aiming well genuinely reduces waste: you spend fewer shots per kill, so a budget lasts longer and the session feels better.
What aim cannot touch is the return built into the game. A perfect player and a careless one face the same maths; the careful one simply gets more play for the money. Treat the skill element as a way to extend a session, never as a way to beat one.
Setting a budget that survives contact →01Play the free demo first
02Find the RTP in the game information panel
03Note what one shot actually costs
04Watch your shots-per-kill for five minutes
05Set the ammunition budget in advance
Including the studio question that confuses everyone.
An arcade game where you aim a cannon at fish moving across the screen. Every shot costs money, and killing a creature pays a multiple of what that shot cost. There are no reels, no paylines and no spin button. You are buying ammunition and hoping the kills return more than the firing did.
No, and this is the most common mix-up in the whole category. Ice Fishing is an Evolution live game show: you place a bet, betting closes, a 53-segment wheel decides, and you watch. A fish shooter puts a cannon under your control and charges you per shot. Same theme, opposite mechanic, different studios.
They are sister brands run by the same people, with the same games appearing under both labels. TaDa targets Europe and Latin America and holds Maltese, Swedish and Greek licences; JILI focuses on Southeast Asia. That is why a search for a JILI title often lands on a TaDa demo.
Yes. The studio hosts official demos for every title on this page, playable in a browser with no account and no deposit. Those are the links used here, and they are the fastest way to learn the ammunition economy without paying for the lesson.
Aim matters a little: hitting what you intend wastes less ammunition than spraying. What skill cannot do is change the underlying return, which is set in the maths of the game. Better aim makes your money last longer; it does not make the game profitable.
Because fish shooters are commonly shipped with several RTP settings and the casino picks one. A slot usually runs a single certified figure everywhere. Here the number on a review page may simply be a different build from the one on your account, which is why the in-game information panel is the only figure that applies to you.
