Buffalo of Wealth

Buffalo of Wealth: Slot Overview

Mosey around the online slot range for any amount of time, and sooner or later, you're bound to be dodging stampeding herds of buffalo or bison, as they may also be called. On this occasion, buffalophiles have software provider Play'n GO to thank for rounding up these big, majestic beasts to appear in Buffalo of Wealth, an online slot which touches on themes and mechanics similar to Beasts of Fire and Beasts of Fire Maximum. However, this time, the studio has dialled back the mysticism a notch or two to produce a simplistic nature slot of expanding reels and multiplier wilds.

One thing it's nigh on impossible to accuse Buffalo of Wealth of being is an ugly game. Play'n GO's graphical artistes have painted a gorgeous outdoor spot, a veritable arcadia of waterfall, mountains, and plant life. Really, it's a shame, in a way, that humans had to come along and spoil such an earthly Garden of Eden. Sure, relatively unspoiled parts of nature exist, but they seem to be shrinking, and here's a fun fact for the day - according to the UN Environment Programme, we are using 1.6 Earths to prop up our way of life, and since there's only 1 Earth, well, something's got to give.

Buffalo of Wealth is built around expanding its gaming area. By default, it provides a 5x4 space with 1,024 ways to win, which can grow to 5x8 in free spins with 32,768 ways. The game accepts bets of 5 c to $/€100 per spin and, at 8 out of 10, is highly volatile. A bunch of RTP configurations have been created, with 96.2% being the highest.

If you can tear your eyes away from the glorious scenery for a moment to check the pay symbols, you will find 9-A card ranks, eagles, wolves, beers, and buffalo. Winning combinations of 5 matching royals pay 1x the bet, whereas 5 OAK premium wins pay 2x-3x the bet. Wilderness Wilds land with x1, x2, or x3 multipliers. Wilderness Wilds add pay ways when landing as x2 or x3, depending on the value. Wilds may hit on any reel, and if making a win of themselves, wilds pay up to 5x the bet.

Buffalo of Wealth: Slot Features

Apart from Wilderness Wilds, there are no other features in the base game. Therefore, hitting 3 or more Coin scatters moves play to the bonus round, where 8 free spins are awarded. If 4 or 5 Coins trigger the feature, the extra Coins are collected on the first locked row.

Each time a Coin lands during the round, it moves to an empty position on a locked row. Once 3 Coins are collected, the row is unlocked. It is possible to unlock 4 rows, opening up to 32,768 ways to win. The number of free spins resets to 8 when a row is unlocked, and 40 is the most you can get. During free spins, x2 and x3 Multiplier Wilderness Wilds may also land.

Buffalo of Wealth: Slot Verdict

It's tough to be calling Buffalo of Wealth a complicated slot with a wealth of rules to wrap your brain box around. The base game, for one, is pretty sparse, with only ways wins and Wilderness Wilds to keep you company. Like hiking through a desolate stretch of nature, there isn't much to see in the base phase of Buffalo of Wealth, and with no bonus buys provided for busy gamblers, kicking back for natural triggers is the one and only option. The scenery is pretty, no doubt there, but it might get tedious to look at if the Coin scatters are acting shy and not landing in large enough numbers to buck Buffalo of Wealth into the bonus round.

Once in the bonus round, that's where the magic may (or may not) happen. And by magic, the feature isn't especially magical, but more a fairly mundane process of landing Coin scatters to unlock reels and ways. Fair dues, it is possible to open up a lot more ways, and Multiplier Wilderness Wilds stir the pot, but if you're the sort of player who wants more than just brutal and basic, Buffalo of Wealth might struggle to raise pulse rates much above baseline. In another odd twist, despite putting up far more ways on a bigger expanded grid than both Beast of Fire slots, Buffalo of Wealth's 7,000x winning potential is a fraction of the 25,000x or 50,000x theoretically possible in the other two Beast games (although those advertised max wins, in true PnG fashion, appear to be highly exaggerated).

Admittedly, these are all Play'n GO slots, so any of them achieving full potential is likely to be a rare, if ever, occurrence, but still. That's about it, really. Buffalo of Wealth is an attractive nature slot that is easy on the eyes, with an even easier set of rules to digest. There's not a lot going on, so unless basic, repetitive, possibly brutally destructive gameplay when everything aligns sounds like just the thing, then it might be best to tip-toe around Buffalo of Wealth while it's quietly chewing grass.