Buffalo King Untamed Megaways

Buffalo King Untamed Megaways: Slot Overview

Look who's riding across the range now, players; it's Buffalo King Untamed Megaways, hot off software provider Pragmatic Play's production line. The game is part of its own herd, a small herd, as two slots, the iconic Buffalo King release and Buffalo King Megaways, preceded it in 2019 and 2021, respectively. This one, ooh, is untamed. It is unclear what this means at this stage, but it sounds like these buffalo are the off-the-hook variety rather than the peaceful grazing type. There's one way to find out.

Have you seen those Instagram vs reality clips on the internet, where, for example, the rosy version shows a solo traveller walking alone through a bucket list destination before dreams are crushed by a reality clip, showing the location is actually rammed with tourists getting snaps to make their online friends jealous? The American wilderness slot genre is like that. Each one presents a magnificent scene of natural isolation as if players are discovering this part of the world for the first time when, in reality, there are fourteen hundred other slots set in the exact same spot. A lot of them do look quite alike, as does Buffalo King Untamed Megaways, and not just because it is linked to two earlier slots.

Buffalo King Untamed Megaways' game grid is mildly unusual. It makes use of 6 reels, where up to 6 rows of symbols may land on the leftmost and rightmost reels or up to 7 symbols on the middle four. This means the maximum number of ways to win tops out at 86,436. Like the others, this one is highly volatile, though it has the lowest default RTP of the three at 96.02%. When betting, players can choose wagers of 20 c to $/€240 and are able to boost the stake using the Ante Bet. When activated the Ante Bet makes it three times as likely to win the feature for an increase to the stake of 50%. The RTP is the same if using the Ante Bet.

The game's pay table lists 11 regular paying symbols. The lower value bunch are 9-A card ranks, pulling in 0.5 to 1 times the bet for a 6 OAK winning combination. Rising up past them are deer, wolves, cougars, eagles, and buffalo, worth 1.5 to 5 times the bet for a 6 OAK winning way.

Buffalo King Untamed Megaways: Slot Features

Wilds are one of the key weapons in Buffalo King Untamed Megaways' arsenal, as they may appear with multipliers and have a progressive element in free spins.

Wilds

The wild substitutes for all symbols except the scatter and lands on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5. Wild symbols can carry a multiplier of x2, x3, or x5, applying to all wins on the screen. If more wilds with multipliers are on the screen, their multipliers multiply between themselves.

Modifiers

On any spin, at random, a minimum of 10,000 ways may guarantee to hit. It is possible the full 86,436 ways may be randomly awarded. Also, on any spin at random, 100 buffalo symbols may be added to the reel strips.

Free Spins

Hitting 4, 5, or 6+ scatter symbols triggers 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. During free spins, wild symbols start with no multiplier, but each time a wild symbol is present on the screen and a winning combination is formed, the multiplier for future wilds increases by +1. During the round, hitting 3, 4, 5, or 6+ scatter awards a further 5, 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. Scatter symbols also pay 2x, 5x, 15x, or 100x the bet when 3, 4, 5, or 6 of them respectively hit.

Buy Free Spins

The free spins round can be bought for 100x the bet, and the default RTP when doing this is 96.02%. Once bought, 4, 5, or 6 scatters are guaranteed to land on the triggering spin.

Buffalo King Untamed Megaways: Slot Verdict

One of the most memorable things about the Buffalo King series so far is how the first game advertised winning potential of more than 90,000x, while the second slot drastically chopped the figure back to 5,000x (which became a new standard for Pragmatic). Today, it remains no question that the advertised top prize in the original release was and remains a total pipe dream. So yeah, there's that. Instead of pointing accusatory fingers, however, let's just say, 'Hmmm, interesting,' and let the matter lie. Buffalo King Untamed Megaways finds a happy middle ground, its 10,000x the bet win cap being neither eye-rolling unrealistic nor scoffably small for a Megaways slot.

Pondering the controversies in Buffalo King Untamed Megaways' past was probably the most intriguing part of reviewing the game. The theme raised absolutely zero in the way of interest, and the gameplay wasn't much more impressive as such. On a technical level, however, Buffalo King Untamed Megaways has a number of potent effects it can pull together to hammer out a big return and the retriggers can be fairly generous. Whilst the common subject matter made it hard to get as excited as you would if presented a more unique approach, there is no doubt that Buffalo King Untamed Megaways is at least as good, if not better than, the previous two Buffalo King slots. There is a good reason to why previous entries have performed so well, and there is little reason to believe the third entry in the series won't perform just as successfully.