Buffalo of Wealth

Buffalo of Wealth Slot Review

Carved totem poles crowd either side of the reels, their painted thunderbird faces jutting past a horned timber frame, while a waterfall tumbles into a river where a shaggy bison grazes below snow-streaked peaks. Buffalo of Wealth hides its real game inside that postcard: almost nothing interesting happens in the base game, and the whole design quietly points you at one scatter-chasing free spins round where the grid itself is the prize. Play’n GO have rarely built a slot this single-minded.

It runs on a 5×4 grid with 32,768 ways to win, a 96.2% RTP, mid to high volatility and a 7,000x win ceiling, which puts it in the same conversation as Raging Rex 2 rather than the studio’s tamer fare. Sister titles like Beasts of Fire and Book of Dead give you the lineage; the row-expanding free spins round here gives you the reason to stay.

How the Base Game Pays

Way wins are awarded for adjacent symbol combinations running left to right, and only the highest winning combination pays for each symbol group. With 32,768 ways in play on the 5×4 grid, that adds up to a lot of possible lines on any given spin. It’s a generous canvas, and the paytable keeps things readable across two tiers of animal symbols and the standard royals.

The symbol set splits into three groups. The Buffalo and Bear share the top tier, the Wolf and Eagle share the second, and six royals from A down to 9 make up the rest. Values are shown as currency amounts on the game’s paytable screens:

• Wild: 2 pays 0.60, 3 pays 1.00, 4 pays 2.00, 5 pays 5.00
• Buffalo: 2 pays 0.40, 3 pays 0.80, 4 pays 1.40, 5 pays 3.00
• Bear: 2 pays 0.40, 3 pays 0.80, 4 pays 1.40, 5 pays 3.00
• Wolf: 2 pays 0.20, 3 pays 0.40, 4 pays 1.00, 5 pays 2.00
• Eagle: 2 pays 0.20, 3 pays 0.40, 4 pays 1.00, 5 pays 2.00
• A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9: 3 pays 0.20, 4 pays 0.40, 5 pays 1.00

Worth noticing: the Wild is the richest symbol on the board, out-paying even the Buffalo at every count. A five-Wild line at 5.00 is comfortably the best single combination in the game, and the Wild pays from two of a kind like the animals do. The royals fill out the lower rungs, paying only from three of a kind and never before.

It’s a flat, readable paytable with no dramatic gaps between tiers. Two-symbol wins exist only on the animals and the Wild, which is where the short-side value sits. Every win runs left to right, so the first reel does the heavy lifting. A royal five-of-a-kind at 1.00 won’t move the needle, but the top symbols paying from two means the board isn’t dead money between features.

Wilderness Wilds

The Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Coin Scatter, and it lands in three versions: plain x1, x2 and x3 Multiplier Wilderness Wilds. The multiplier versions carry a second job that’s unusual enough to be the game’s signature idea. When an x2 or x3 Multiplier Wilderness Wild lands, it increases the number of pay ways on that spin.

That’s a mechanic worth pausing on. On a game already running 32,768 ways, a wild that grows the ways count mid-spin can turn an ordinary spin into something much bigger. The plain x1 version substitutes and nothing more.

The three versions stack into a clear hierarchy. An x1 Wild is a filler. An x2 or x3 is an event, because every extra way it opens is another line the substitution can complete. The distinction matters most when several land together, and it carries into the free spins round unchanged.

Free Spins and Expanding Rows

Triggering the Round

Land 3 or more Coin Scatters and the free spins round begins with 8 free spins. The Wild can’t substitute for the Coin Scatter, so there’s no shortcut to the trigger. What each Scatter count does:

• 3 Coin Scatters: triggers the round and awards 8 free spins
• 4 Coin Scatters: triggers the round, and symbols get collected into the first locked reel
• 5 Coin Scatters: triggers the round, and symbols get collected into the first locked reel

Those four- and five-Scatter triggers matter more than they first appear, because the extra symbols get collected into the first locked reel.

Expanding Rows

Inside the round, every 3 Coin Scatters collected unlocks one new row. Up to 4 new rows can be unlocked over the course of the feature. Each time a row unlocks, the free spins count resets to 8.

The x2 and x3 Multiplier Wilderness Wilds can land throughout, so the way-growing effect from the base game carries into the expanded grid. The reset is the clever part. Unlocking a row doesn’t just widen the grid; it tops the spin counter back up, so a scatter-rich round can keep extending itself well past its starting length.

Run the sequence end to end and the shape of a full round becomes clear. Scatters collected during free spins tick the unlock counter along, row by row, until the fourth row drops in. Four unlocks in one round is the ceiling, and each one along the way has already handed back a fresh set of 8 spins.

With the grid fully opened, there’s a serious amount of board for those multiplier wilds to work on, and every reset gives them another 8 spins to land on it. The maths compounds at the top end: the widest grid is exactly where the way-growing wilds are worth most, and that’s also where the spin resets keep arriving.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Most of your time here is spent watching a handsome, quiet set of reels and waiting for coins. That’s the honest shape of it, and it’s a better time than it sounds, because every scatter that lands is progress you keep: rows unlock, the board grows, and the spin counter keeps refilling. The one reason to choose it is that round, which can run far longer than 8 spins has any right to.

The strength is how the pieces feed each other – the widest grid is exactly where the way-growing wilds pay most, so the round gets better the longer it lasts. The weakness is everything before it: the base game has one live idea and a flat paytable, and between triggers there isn’t much to do but admire the totems.

It’s for players who enjoy a long build towards one big, compounding round, and it isn’t for anyone who wants variety between bonuses. The wilderness is genuinely lovely, and for patient players it earns the wait.

Buffalo of Wealth FAQs

• How does the Expanding Rows feature work in Buffalo of Wealth?

  During free spins, one new row is unlocked for every 3 Coin Scatters collected. Up to 4 new rows can be unlocked, and the free spins count resets to 8 each time a row unlocks.
• What do the Multiplier Wilderness Wilds do?

  Wilderness Wilds substitute for all symbols except the Coin Scatter. The x2 and x3 multiplier versions also increase the number of pay ways when they land, both in the base game and during free spins.
• How do you trigger free spins in Buffalo of Wealth?

  Land 3 or more Coin Scatters to trigger the round, which awards 8 free spins. If 4 or 5 Coin Scatters land, the extra symbols are collected into the first locked reel.
• Can free spins retrigger in Buffalo of Wealth?

  There’s no conventional retrigger. Instead, every row unlocked resets the free spins count back to 8, which extends the round by the same effect.
• Does the Wild substitute for the Coin Scatter?

  No. Wilderness Wilds substitute for all other symbols except the Coin Scatter, so scatters have to land on their own to trigger the free spins round.
• What is the RTP of Buffalo of Wealth?

  The RTP is 96.2%.
• Is Buffalo of Wealth high volatility?

  It sits at mid to high volatility, so wins can be sizable but spaced out.
• How many paylines does Buffalo of Wealth have?

  The game offers 32,768 ways to win, with way wins awarded for adjacent symbol combinations from left to right.
• What is the maximum win on Buffalo of Wealth?

  You can win up to 7,000x your normal bet.
• What is the grid size of Buffalo of Wealth?

  The base game uses a 5×4 grid, which can grow during free spins as up to 4 additional rows are unlocked.
• Who makes Buffalo of Wealth?

  Buffalo of Wealth is made by Play’n GO.