Immortal Ways Buffalo

Immortal Ways Buffalo Slot Review

A longhorn skull lies half-buried in the desert sand, horns curling out past the gold bracket that bolts the reels into the canyon like a brass machine, red-rock mesas stacked behind it and prickly-pear cactus crowding in from the corner. RubyPlay have built Immortal Ways Buffalo so that almost nothing you spin for comes from the reels themselves: the paytable tops out below a third of your stake, and every serious win has to be assembled coin by coin and collected later. The result is a game that looks like a classic frontier slot and plays like a savings account.

It runs on a 5×4 grid doubled and shown side by side, giving 10,000 ways to win. The game doesn’t publish an RTP figure or a max win number, so the coins, which hold their positions and build towards the free games, carry all the promise on their own. Whether the buffalo pays out comes down to how long you’ll wait for it.

Base Game & Features

Two 5×4 reel sets sit side by side, and wins run across 10,000 ways. Matching symbols pay wherever enough of them appear, with no payline map to follow: the count is all that matters, from 3 of a kind up to 6. Scatter wins are added on top of any other combination payouts, so a spin can pay both at once. The base game’s real work, though, is collecting coins: that’s where the money in this game is stored up.

Scatter Pays

Scatters pay anywhere on the reels, multiplied by the total bet:

• 6 scatters – 25.00x the total bet
• 5 scatters – 7.00x the total bet
• 4 scatters – 3.00x the total bet
• 3 scatters – 2.00x the total bet

The step from 4 to 5 scatters more than doubles the pay, and the jump from 5 to 6 nearly quadruples it again, so the top of the scatter ladder is worth considerably more than any run of ordinary symbols. A full set of 6 scatters pays 25.00x the total bet on its own, before anything else on the spin is counted.

Symbol Values

Paytable symbols, as multiples of the total bet:

• Cougar/Puma: 3 pays 0.12x, 4 pays 0.16x, 5 pays 0.20x, 6 pays 0.28x
• Deer: 3 pays 0.12x, 4 pays 0.16x, 5 pays 0.20x, 6 pays 0.24x
• Eagle and Snake: 3 pays 0.08x, 4 pays 0.12x, 5 pays 0.16x, 6 pays 0.20x
• A, K, Q: 3 pays 0.04x, 4 pays 0.08x, 5 pays 0.12x, 6 pays 0.16x

The cougar and the deer lead the table and match each other at 3, 4 and 5 of a kind, only splitting at 6, where the cougar pulls ahead to 0.28x. Below them the eagle and snake share a row, and the royals bring up the rear. Even the best line here is modest: a 6-of-a-kind cougar pays 0.28x the total bet, which is why the coins and the wheel carry the real money.

The wild appears only on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5, and substitutes for all paytable symbols except the scatter, the coin and the coin wheel. Those exceptions matter, because the coins are the game’s whole economy and the wild can’t fake them.

The Immortal Array

Coins carry credit values and land in fixed positions that make up the Immortal Array. A scatter that lands behind a coin is active, and active scatters are what trigger the free games. The interlock is the clever part: a scatter on its own does nothing until it has a coin to sit behind, so filling arrays and lining up scatters are one job rather than two.

Each coin in an array can be won only once, and the whole set is settled when the free games finish. The values on the coins, multiplied by the total bet:

• x14, x13, x12, x11, x10, x9, x8, x7, x6, x5, x4, x3
• x2.4, x2, x1.6, x1, x0.8

Immortal Ways Buffalo Free Games & Bonuses

Free Games

Three or more scatter symbols trigger 8 free games. The round starts with empty Immortal Arrays that are independent from the base game, so whatever you built before the trigger is set aside and the feature begins from nothing. Every coin that lands in an array during the round holds its position until that array is won or the feature ends.

That holding rule is what gives the feature its shape. Coins don’t expire between spins, so each of the 8 games either adds to the arrays or leaves them as they were, and the total climbs steadily rather than resetting. Anything still sitting in an array when the free games finish gets paid out anyway, so a late coin is never wasted.

The once-only rule carries over too: during the free games, each coin can be won once, so an array that pays out is done and its positions are free again. Landing another 3 scatters during the feature awards 8 additional free games, so the round can extend well past its starting count. Free games run at the same bet value as the round that triggered them.

Coin Hold & The Prize Wheel

In the base game, a new coin landing in an empty array position holds every coin in place for an additional 3 spins. Each fresh coin inside that window restarts the count, so an array that keeps being fed keeps its protection. If 3 spins pass with nothing new landing within the Immortal Array, the coins reset and the positions empty out.

The coin wheel substitutes for the coin and triggers the Prize Wheel at the end of the spin. When one or more coin wheels land, the wheel randomly assigns each of those coins one of four outcomes: a jackpot, a credit value, a multiplier, or a collect. A multiplier applies to all credit-value coins in the corresponding array, never to jackpot prizes, and once applied it converts itself into a credit value.

The four outcomes aren’t equal in kind. A jackpot is a fixed prize on the ladder, a credit value adds a flat amount, a multiplier scales everything already sitting in the array, and a collect closes the coin out at whatever it’s worth. The Prize Wheel values, multiplied by the total bet:

• Grand Jackpot – x500
• Major Jackpot – x100
• Minor Jackpot – x40
• Mini Jackpot – x16
• Credit values – x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10

Those credit values sit in a narrow band, from x5 to x10, while the jackpots climb by rough multiples of two and a half from Mini to Grand. A multiplier is the outcome that scales with the array rather than paying a fixed sum: landing one over a well-stocked array is worth more than any single credit value on the wheel.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

Playing this is mostly watching an array fill up and hoping nothing resets it on the way. That’s the whole reason to pick it over a pretender: unlike most coin slots, the free games pay out whatever is left standing when they end, so a run of patient spinning always settles into something. The buffalo-hunt framing suits that, a long stalk across the canyon rather than a stampede.

The best thing here is the hold rule. Because each new coin buys the whole set three more spins, a lucky streak compounds instead of expiring, and the ladder from x0.8 to x14 makes a full array genuinely worth building. The worst thing is the dead air between streaks. Every meaningful payout is deferred behind a feature that needs 3 scatters, and the wheel’s random assignments can quietly squander a well-stocked set.

It suits players who enjoy the build and can sit through a quiet stretch without reaching for the stake button. Anyone who wants regular hits on the way will find the canyon a lonely place. For the rest, the desert gives up its coins eventually.

Immortal Ways Buffalo FAQs

• What is the grid size of Immortal Ways Buffalo?

  Immortal Ways Buffalo runs on a 5×4 grid, shown as two 5×4 reel sets side by side.
• Who makes Immortal Ways Buffalo?

  Immortal Ways Buffalo is made by RubyPlay.
• How do you trigger the free games in Immortal Ways Buffalo?

  Scatter symbols trigger the feature: 3 or more awards 8 free games, and the same count appearing during the round adds 8 more.
• What does the wild substitute for in Immortal Ways Buffalo?

  The wild stands in for every paying symbol apart from the scatter, the coin and the coin wheel, and it only turns up on the second, third, fourth and fifth reels.
• How does the coin hold mechanic work?

  Each fresh coin that lands in an empty array position freezes the set for 3 more spins. If that window passes without another coin arriving, everything resets to empty.
• What prizes are on the Prize Wheel?

  The wheel carries jackpots of Mini (x16), Minor (x40), Major (x100) and Grand (x500) the total bet, alongside credit values running from x5 up to x10.
• What are the coin values in the Immortal Array?

  Coins run from x0.8 up to x14 the total bet. A coin is won once, and the set is paid out when the free games conclude.
• Can the Prize Wheel award a multiplier?

  Yes. A multiplier handed out by the wheel applies to every credit-value coin in the matching array, though never to jackpot prizes, and it then becomes a credit value itself.