Buried By Night

Buried By Night Slot Review

A grey-haired gunslinger stands at the edge of a sunset desert with a revolver already drawn, a cigar clamped in his teeth and nowhere left to run. That outlaw is Buried By Night in miniature, because this is a slot that gives itself over entirely to one confrontation and leaves the rest of the plain empty around it.

It’s a handsome frame for a game that puts nearly all of its weight on a single idea, and Hacksaw Gaming have pushed that idea further here than most slots bother. The 5×4, payline-based game runs at 96.32% RTP with a 15,000x maximum win, and it shares a stable with Duel At Dawn and Wanted Dead or a Wild. The score that began at dawn, it seems, gets settled after dark.

Base Game & Features

Buried By Night is a 5-reel, 4-row game with payline wins, where stakes run from 0.10 to 50.00 per spin and feature buys can push past that ceiling. Multiple wins in a round add together, and only the highest win per win way counts. A wild symbol stands in for paying symbols on the reels.

Everything interesting starts with the VS symbol. It can only land on reels 2, 3 and 4, and once it lands it expands horizontally along its row. If that expansion forms part of a winning combination, the row becomes a DuelRow, which counts as a wild row and substitutes for every symbol in the paytable.

Where the VS symbol lands decides how far the row spreads:

• A VS symbol on reel 2 expands to cover reels 1-3
• A VS symbol on reel 3 expands to cover reels 1-5
• A VS symbol on reel 4 expands to cover reels 3-5

DuelRows can’t overlap each other, which caps how much of the grid one spin can turn wild. A VS symbol on the middle reel is the only starting position that can sweep the full five reels.

The Duel

Once a DuelRow has expanded, it triggers a duel between two duelists. Each duelist on the row carries its own multiplier, and whichever one survives has their multiplier applied across the entire DuelRow and to every win connected to it. Where more than one DuelRow forms part of the same winning combination, their winning multipliers are added together before paying out.

The possible additive multiplier values are:

• 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x
• 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x

The additive rule is what shapes the ceiling: rows don’t compete for the same win, they pile onto it, and a spin that expands two rows at once pays on both. The route to 15,000x runs through stacked rows rather than a single lucky symbol.

Buried By Night Bonuses & Free Spins

Bonus Game: Trigger Warning

Landing three FS scatter symbols at the same time in the base game awards 10 free spins. This round keeps the base game’s mechanics intact but raises the chance of VS symbols landing, which is the whole point: more duels, more multiplier rows.

Extra FS symbols landing at the same time during the bonus add spins:

• 2 FS symbols award +2 free spins
• 3 FS symbols award +4 free spins

During free spins, each spin’s total shows in the win field while the running total for the round sits beside the remaining spin count, so the accumulating payout is always in view. If the max win lands mid-round, the game returns to the main screen and any free spins still owed are discarded.

Bonus Game: Shoot to Kill

Landing four FS scatters at the same time awards 8 free spins and brings in a progressive DuelSpin Bar displayed outside the grid. Every FS symbol that lands fills the bar by one step, and every three steps raises it by one tier. Each tier pays out a DuelSpin, a special spin carrying guaranteed VS symbols, Nudges and free spins.

• Tier one: a DuelSpin with at least 1 VS symbol, 3 Nudges and 2 free spins
• Tier two: a DuelSpin with at least 2 VS symbols, 4 Nudges and 2 free spins
• Tier three: a DuelSpin with at least 3 VS symbols, 5 Nudges and 2 free spins
• Tier four: a DuelSpin with at least 4 VS symbols, 6 Nudges and 2 free spins

When a Nudge fires during a DuelSpin, all reels drop one row together, and any wins pay before the next Nudge moves. Each drop gets its own settlement, so a single DuelSpin can pay several times as the grid works its way down.

Each DuelSpin plays out immediately after the free spin that unlocked it and doesn’t count against the bonus’s spin total. If more than one is unlocked on the same spin, they run in sequence before the next free spin begins, so a bar that fills twice at once pays out twice in a row.

Hot 100 Bonus: Six Feet Under

Landing three Hot 100 scatter symbols at the same time awards a single free spin. During that one spin, Nudges fire continuously until 100 wins have been awarded, tallied on the Hot 100 Meter outside the grid. FS symbols can’t land in this round.

It’s a committed construction: one spin that keeps grinding downward until the meter fills, wins banking the whole way. Every Nudge pays what it pays before the reels drop again, so the meter climbs one win at a time rather than in bursts. Reaching the max win ends the game immediately, with anything remaining discarded.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.8/10

Playing Buried By Night means riding through long stretches of open plain for a single showdown, and the showdown is good enough that the ride feels shorter than it is. Every spin that puts a VS symbol on the middle reel can turn into something big, and that promise carries the whole session.

The duels are the strength. Rows that stack their multipliers instead of competing for one win give this game a payout logic worth trusting, and the DuelSpin Bar in Shoot to Kill rewards every scatter with progress you can see building.

The weakness is the plainness of everything around that idea. The base game is bare, and the Hot 100 round, for all its ambition, is over in one spin. This one suits the patient Western fan who wants a small number of meaningful moments rather than a steady drip of noise, and it’ll leave anyone after constant features cold. For the right gunslinger, though, the reckoning delivers.

Buried By Night FAQs

• How do you trigger the free spins in Buried By Night?

  Landing 3 FS scatter symbols at the same time awards the Trigger Warning bonus with 10 free spins, while 4 FS scatters award the Shoot to Kill bonus with 8 free spins. Landing 3 Hot 100 scatters triggers the Hot 100 Bonus.
• What do VS symbols do in Buried By Night?

  VS symbols land only on reels 2, 3 and 4 and expand horizontally into DuelRows, which act as wild rows. Each DuelRow triggers a duel between two duelists, and the surviving duelist’s multiplier, from 2x up to 100x, is applied to all wins connected to that row.
• What is the RTP of Buried By Night?

  Buried By Night runs at 96.32% RTP.
• What is the maximum win on Buried By Night?

  The maximum win is 15,000 times your bet, achievable in all game modes. When the max win is hit, the game ends immediately and any remaining winnings or free spins are discarded.
• What is the grid size of Buried By Night?

  Buried By Night is a 5-reel, 4-row game with payline wins.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Buried By Night?

  Stakes run from 0.10 to 50.00 per spin, and feature buys can exceed that limit.
• Can you buy the bonus on Buried By Night?

  Yes, a buy bonus button sits alongside the reels in the base game, and feature buys can exceed the game’s normal maximum stake.
• Who makes Buried By Night?

  Buried By Night is made by Hacksaw Gaming.