Action Ways Buffalo

Action Ways Buffalo Slot Review

Three buffalo stand knee-deep in heaped gold coins at the foot of a glowing amber canyon, and the game behind them cares more about what you collect than what you spin. Action Ways Buffalo is one of the few ways-based slots where the base game genuinely decides your bonus: the coloured coins you’ve banked shape the free spins round you eventually get, so a lazy spin can cost you the version you were building towards.

SpinPlay Games built this one on a 5×4 grid with 1024 ways to win, expanding to 2400 in the right feature. It runs at 96.49% RTP with medium-high volatility, a hit rate of 38.87%, and stakes from 0.20 to 25.00 per spin. Fans of the studio’s Action Bass or Amazing Link Riches will recognise the collecting loop at its heart.

Base Game & Features

This is a ways game rather than a payline one. A win is awarded when matching symbols land on adjacent reels running left to right, and the total payout is the sum of every winning way on the spin. If more than one combination lands on a single way, only the highest one counts.

Payouts are based on the initial bet, which is the total bet divided by a way cost of 10. The premium symbols pay from two of a kind, which softens the gaps between feature triggers a little. The Buffalo leads the table, and the animal symbols carry all of the meaningful value.

• Buffalo: 2 = 1x, 3 = 2x, 4 = 4x, 5 = 10x
• Bear: 2 = 0.5x, 3 = 1x, 4 = 2x, 5 = 5x
• Cougar: pays the same as Bear up to four of a kind, then 4x for five
• Eagle, Wolf and Owl: 2 = 0.2x, 3 = 0.5x, 4 = 1x, 5 = 2x each
• A, K, Q, J, 10: 3 = 0.2x, 4 = 0.5x, 5 = 1x

Diamond symbols are wild, appearing on reels two, three and four only, and they substitute for everything except the Jackpot Coins and Action Ways Coins. That exception matters, because the coins are the whole engine of the game. Two kinds of coin do two entirely different jobs, and both are worth understanding before you spin.

Jackpot Coins and the Pick Feature

At the end of each base game spin, any Jackpot Coins that landed collect into a random jackpot on a five-step ladder. When a jackpot drops, the contributed value resets. The reset value scales with your wager, but the running total carries across all bet sizes, so a jackpot built at 0.20 stakes is still there if you move to 5.00.

• MEGA – the top of the ladder
• MAXI
• MAJOR
• MINOR
• MINI – the entry prize

The same coins can randomly trigger the Pick Feature at the end of a spin. Match three icons to win the respective prize. It’s a simple pick game, and the odds of triggering it shift as the jackpot values grow, which gives the ladder a small pulse of its own. Neither the jackpot nor the Pick Feature is available during free spins, so both are base-game attractions.

Action Ways Buffalo Free Spins

Triggering the Round

Whenever one or more Action Ways Coins appear, there’s a chance the free spins round triggers. Each coin collects to its matching Action Ways icon, and the combination of coins that have collected at the moment of the trigger decides which features you get. Ten free spins are awarded, at the same bet multiplier as the triggering spin.

Jackpots aren’t available during free spins, so the coins that matter here are the coloured ones. Each colour reshapes the round in its own way, and collecting several at once stacks them together.

• Purple Coin – every wild reveals a multiplier of 2x, 3x or 5x
• Red Coin – all royal symbols are removed from the reels
• Green Coin – the reels expand to 2400 ways to win
• Multiple Coins – all collected features run at once

Purple Coin Action Ways

The Purple Coin version is the multiplier round. Every wild that lands during the feature reveals a 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier, and all ways wins on that spin are multiplied by each wild multiplier that landed. Two wilds on one spin can therefore multiply a win by both values. Stacked wilds across the middle reels compound fastest.

Red Coin Action Ways

The Red Coin version strips the reels. A, K, Q, J and 10 are removed entirely for the ten spins, leaving only the six animal symbols in play. Fewer symbols means more five-of-a-kind Buffalo lines, and it’s the round where the top of the paytable does real work.

Green Coin Action Ways

The Green Coin version grows the grid. Reel two stretches to five rows, reel three to six, and reel four to five, taking the ways from 1024 to 2400 for the feature. It’s the showiest of the three, with Buffalo stacks filling the taller reels and far more winning patterns available on every spin.

Multiple Coin Action Ways

Collect several coin colours together on one base spin and the free spins run with every Action Ways feature active at once. The Purple multipliers apply to all ways wins, the royals are gone, and the reels are tall. It’s the round the whole collecting loop exists to reach, and it’s the reason the base game’s coin symbols are worth watching on every spin.

Our Honest Verdict

Playing this one is a slow herd across the plains: coins land, the jackpot ladder ticks up in the corner, and small wins arrive often enough to keep you moving. The reason to choose it is that the base game has stakes. Because your collected coins decide which free spins round you walk into, every spin of the build-up carries a little weight.

At its best, that payoff is excellent. Triggering the round with multiple colours banked rewards the patience properly, and the Purple multipliers turn an ordinary ten spins into something worth the wait. The disappointment is the jackpot side, which sits off in the base game doing its own thing and never joins the feature, so the two halves of the game never quite meet.

This suits players who enjoy a long build with visible progress, and SpinPlay collectors will settle in fast. Chasers of a stated top prize won’t find one here, but there’s a warm canyon and a genuinely earned bonus at the end of it.

Action Ways Buffalo FAQs

• What is the RTP of Action Ways Buffalo?

  The RTP is 96.49%. That’s the total expected return including the jackpot contribution.
• Is Action Ways Buffalo high volatility?

  It’s rated medium-high, so expect a mix of regular small wins and longer gaps between the bigger feature payouts.
• How do you trigger free spins in Action Ways Buffalo?

  Free spins have a chance to trigger whenever one or more Action Ways Coins appear. The combination of coin colours that have collected at the trigger decides which features the round runs with.
• What do the Purple, Red and Green coins do?

  Purple gives every wild a 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier. Red removes all royal symbols from the reels. Green expands the reels to give 2400 ways to win. Collect multiple colours and the free spins run with all of these at once.
• Can you win a jackpot during free spins?

  No. Jackpot Coins aren’t available during Action Ways Free Spins, and the Pick Feature can’t trigger from inside the round either.
• How do you win a jackpot in Action Ways Buffalo?

  Collecting Jackpot Coins at the end of each base game spin contributes to a random jackpot on the MEGA, MAXI, MAJOR, MINOR and MINI ladder. The coins can also randomly trigger a Pick Feature where you match three icons to win the respective prize.
• What is the hit frequency of Action Ways Buffalo?

  The hit frequency is 38.87%, so roughly two in five spins produce a win of some size.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Action Ways Buffalo?

  Stakes run from 0.20 to 25.00 per spin.
• Who makes Action Ways Buffalo?

  SpinPlay Games, the studio behind Action Bass and the Amazing Link series.