Bandit Bonanza Slot Review
A fox in a green hat grins down from the cabinet clutching a loot sack, coins spilling over the frame, while a wolf sheriff levels a revolver from under a starred hat and a beaver in an eyepatch dangles dynamite over a treasure chest. Bandit Bonanza, from Evoplay, runs a Wild West town where the animals did the robbing.
The town is the good news. The paytable is the least important thing about it: reel wins top out at 100x and fall away fast, so nearly everything worth chasing sits in four coloured Bonus symbols carrying cash values and jackpot tags that pay only inside the feature round. The base game is a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed paylines and an RTP of 96.02%, and the studio’s cartoon animal capers continue in Piggyfest Bonanza and Piggy Bank: Coinstorm.
How the Base Game Pays
Wins form in the usual way, with matching symbols running left to right across the 20 fixed paylines. The more identical symbols land in sequence, the bigger the win, and only the highest combination on each payline counts. The wild is a pig symbol that substitutes for all regular symbols but never for Bonus symbols, and it only appears on reels two to five in the main game.
The paytable splits into three tiers: three animal-held cages at the top, two town-scene symbols in the middle, and a five-symbol royal run at the bottom. The Red Cage is the only symbol that pays for a two-symbol match, and the royals trail a long way behind:
- Red Cage: x0.5 for two, x3 for three, x20 for four, x100 for five
- Gold Cage: x2 for three, x15 for four, x30 for five
- Green Cage: x2 for three, x10 for four, x20 for five
- Sheriff’s Dept Window: x1 for three, x7 for four, x15 for five
- Closed Sign: x1 for three, x5 for four, x10 for five
- A and K: x0.5 for three, x1.5 for four, x5 for five
- Q, J and 10: x0.5 for three, x1 for four, x3 for five
All values are multiples of the total bet. Five Red Cages at 100x is the ceiling on reel wins, and everything below it drops away quickly: the Gold Cage manages just 30x for five, and the royals never climb past 5x. Even the mid-tier pays barely clear double figures. The real payouts in this game aren’t made on the paylines.
Bonus Symbols and the Jackpot Ladder
Four Bonus symbols drive the game: Red, Purple, Green and Gold. Each carries a random value when it lands, and those values can be:
- 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 12x or 15x the total bet
- The MINI, MINOR or MAJOR jackpot
Values are displayed in the currency you’re playing in. The colour matters more than the cash, though. Purple, Red and Green Bonus symbols only appear in the main game, and each is tied to one of three boosters: Purple to Extra Wealth, Red to Extra Reels, and Green to Extra Spin.
A four-rung jackpot ladder sits above the reels, reading MINI, MINOR, MAJOR and GRAND from bottom to top. The rungs scale with your stake, so the ladder you see always reflects the bet you’re holding. Bonus symbols can award the bottom three rungs directly; the GRAND sits at the top of the ladder as the game’s biggest prize.
Because Bonus symbol values pay only in the Bonus Game, every coloured symbol that lands in the base game is a bet on the feature arriving. The cash tags and jackpot tags stack up as potential rather than payment, and the trigger chance on each landing keeps the main game moving even when the paylines stay quiet.
The Bonus Game
The Bonus Game can arrive with one, two or all three boosters at once, which effectively makes it several different features in one round. During it, only Gold Bonus symbols appear on the reels, and winnings for Bonus symbols are paid here and nowhere else. That’s the whole engine of the game: the base game collects, the bonus pays.
Each booster changes the round in its own way:
- Extra Wealth (Purple): in each round of the Bonus Game, the values of one to four random Bonus symbols can be increased by 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x the total bet. It never applies to symbols holding the MINI, MINOR or MAJOR jackpots.
- Extra Reels (Red): an additional bonus field is added at the start of the feature, giving the round more room to fill.
- Extra Spin (Green): triggered by the Green Bonus symbol.
The Extra Wealth booster is the one that turns a modest board into something bigger, stacking increases onto whatever cash values are already sitting there. It works every round of the feature, not just once, so a board can be rebuilt several times over. The maximum lift of 10x the bet on a single symbol is a big jump from the 15x ceiling the symbols carry on landing.
Extra Reels widens the pot and Extra Spin buys another attempt, and the three stack cleanly. More reels mean more symbols for Extra Wealth to lift, and an extra spin is another pass at both. A round triggered with all three boosters at once is a different animal from a single-booster trigger.
Bonus Buy
For players who’d rather not wait on the coloured symbols, a Bonus Buy button sits alongside the reels and offers a direct route into the feature round. It’s the standard shortcut for anyone chasing the booster combinations rather than the reel wins, and with the paytable capped at 100x, the feature round is where any serious money in this game lives.
Skipping the base game also skips the coloured-symbol lottery over which boosters you arrive with, since a bought round doesn’t depend on landing Purple, Red or Green symbols at all.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Most of your time here is spent watching a cartoon frontier town tick over while coloured symbols stack up promise they can’t pay out yet. That’s the whole reason to pick it: this is a collect-and-trigger game wearing a slot’s clothes, and if you enjoy that slow build towards a round that might arrive loaded, the western dressing makes the wait easy company.
The best thing in it is the booster trigger. Because the round can land with one, two or all three boosters, no two feature entries feel quite the same, and Extra Wealth can turn a dull board into a good one after the round has started. The worst thing is the ceiling: with reel pays capped low and a jackpot ladder that never approaches the numbers high-variance players hunt, even a great round is a capped one.
It suits patient players who like feature variety and don’t measure a game by its top prize; it’ll leave anyone chasing five-figure maximums cold. For a game about outlaws, Bandit Bonanza is a law-abiding one – but the animals left enough in those cages to make the stakeout worth it.
Bandit Bonanza FAQs
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What is the RTP of Bandit Bonanza?
The RTP is 96.02%. -
How many paylines does Bandit Bonanza have?
The game is played with 20 fixed paylines on every spin. -
What is the grid size of Bandit Bonanza?
It’s a 5-reel, 3-row video slot. -
Can you buy the bonus on Bandit Bonanza?
Yes. A Bonus Buy button sits alongside the reels and offers a direct route into the feature round. -
What do the Boosters do in Bandit Bonanza?
Each coloured Bonus symbol is tied to a booster: Purple grants Extra Wealth, which can increase the value of one to four random Bonus symbols each round; Red grants Extra Reels, adding an extra bonus field; Green grants Extra Spin. The Bonus Game can trigger with one, two or all three at once. -
Which symbols appear in the Bonus Game?
Only Gold Bonus symbols appear during the Bonus Game, and winnings for Bonus symbols are paid only in the Bonus Game. -
What does the wild substitute for in Bandit Bonanza?
The pig wild substitutes for all regular symbols in winning combinations, but never for Bonus symbols. It only appears on reels two to five in the main game. -
When is Bandit Bonanza released?
Bandit Bonanza’s release date is 3 November 2026.
