10 Flaming Bisons

10 Flaming Bisons: Slot Overview

Following on from the success of the online slot 10 Swords, provider Push Gaming has turned its attention back to the scatter symbol instant prize format and tweaked it to come up with 10 Flaming Bisons. Both games follow in the 9 Masks of Fire tradition while also doing things GameBurger Studios' hit wasn't capable of. For 10 Flaming Bisons, this means two grid-growing Push-Up ante bets, a progressive free spins round, and the introduction of jackpot scatter symbols awarding prizes of up to 5,000x.

As well as dabbling in scatter prize games in the past, Push Gaming has also used big, hairy beasts before in the online slot Bison Battle. Like Bison Battle, 10 Flaming Bisons is located far away from the big North American cities, far from the small towns too, actually, setting up shop on a dry plain dotted with tents and bordered by rocky outcroppings. A Native American influence can be felt throughout the game, or at least Push Gaming's interpretation of it, both on and off the grid.

Floating above the plains like an eagle is 10 Flaming Bisons' gaming grid. It lands 3 rows of symbols on its 5 reels, and there are 20 paylines. However, the grid can expand up to 7 rows high in free spins where there are 60 paylines. The game features Push-Up betting options. While the base bets are 10 c to $/€100, it is possible to activate one of the two Push-Up betting options. Increasing the reels to 5x4 ups the stake to 2.5x the base bet, while increasing the reels to 5x5 ups the stake to 5x base bet. This way, when free spins trigger, they begin with the relevant rows unlocked from the start. Mathematically, 10 Flaming Bisons is a medium volatile slot, producing a default RTP of 96.26%.

Native American-styled J-A card ranks are 10 Flaming Bisons' low pays, granting wins of 1 times the bet for a 5 OAK winning combination. Next is a necklace, a pipe, and an axe, paying 6x for 5 OAK, then 3 character symbols awarding 20-30x for 5-of-a-kind. The Dreamcatcher symbol is wild, and it substitutes for all paying symbols. It appears on all reels and has the same value as the highest-paying symbol when creating wild wins of its own.

10 Flaming Bisons: Slot Features

Instant prizes can be won by landing a certain number of Bison symbols in the base game and in the bonus round. Other symbols to look out for are Jackpot Bison symbols, awarding those prize values you can see located above the reels.

Bison Symbol

The Bison symbol may appear in the base game and in free spins. Landing 4 or more Bison symbols anywhere on the reels awards an instant prize. The size of the prize depends on the number of landed Bison symbols. When 4 to 10 Bison symbols are in view on active rows, up to 1,000x the bet is awarded, respectively.

Jackpot Bison Symbol

Jackpot Bison symbols may also land in the base game and free spins. When a Jackpot Bison symbol of any kind lands alongside 3 or more Bison symbols, the Jackpot Bison symbol instant prize is awarded. Jackpot Bison symbols also contribute to standard Bison symbol instant wins. The 4 types of Jackpot Bison symbols are the 15x Mini, 50x Minor, 500x Major, and the 5,000x Mega. Both types of scatter prizes will be awarded.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 Totem scatters awards 8, 10, or 12 free spins, respectively. During free spins, landed Totem symbols fill the next Locked Row meter. Each locked row meter needs 4 Totem symbol collections to unlock. Each unlocked row awards additional free spins. The first unlocked row grants +3 free spins, the second and third unlocked rows grant +2 free spins each, and the last row grants +1 free spin.

Buy Free Spins

Players are able to buy the free spins round at a cost of 75 times the bet.

10 Flaming Bisons: Slot Verdict

As far as mid-level scatter symbol instant prize games go, 10 Flaming Bisons is hard to fault. At the same time, 10 Flaming Bisons is not one of Push Gaming's exceptional game-changers either. On the positive side, the game has been built to the studio's customary high standard, looking and sounding good without exactly being an eye/ear-popping standout in the audiovisual department. Bison is a commonplace mainstream trope that fits quite well with the common mainstream gaming, and the Native American angle adds depth. At least, the core gaming here is commonplace, but Push has nailed on some extras that don't usually come equipped in this sort of slot.

The Push-Up ante bet is one, and as seen in DJ Cat, it gives gamblers the chance to open up the gaming grid. Since the point of 10 Flaming Bisons is to land Bison symbols and Jackpot Bison symbols, giving them more space to hit could be of interest. Bison symbols did seem to land quite often during the test sessions, too, at the lower end of the table, naturally, most of the time. The higher end of the prize table is surprisingly low value in a game like this. 10 Swords had 5,000x as its top prize, and even 9 Masks of Fire tops out at 2,000x. There is the 5,000x Mega prize, but it came across as more of a rejig of the overall payout ability of the game rather than an extra add-on. For the record, 10 Flaming Bisons' maximum payout is 5,602x.

A local jackpot inclusion could be just what some gamblers are looking for, while they might be a hard pass for others - in which case 10 Flaming Bisons probably won't be for them. It feels like 10 Flaming Bisons is aimed at a general online slot audience, one not so thrilled by 'scarier' Push Gaming slots like Razor Returns or Mad Cars but is on the hunt for a scatter prize game with one or two innovations on board.