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Plains of North America have been famous for buffaloes. These amazing beasts were hunted for meat and fur and were almost extinct. Fortunately, there are almost half a million of them now in America.
In the 2021 release, you will not be hunting buffaloes for meat, but for big wins. Rattle your dags and saddle up your horses, you are in for a scenic adventure. The view is breathtaking and you can rest your eyes on a vast American plain while you listen to Native American music.
The buffalo rules the plain, being the strongest among the animals, and the highest-paying icon in the Skywind product.
The American eagle is also there, as well as the wolf, fox, and wild cat. Playing cards represent low-value symbols. Wild is there to substitute for all regular icons, while Scatter triggers free spins with Multiplier Wilds.
Big Buffalo Megaways is played on 6 reels and 4 rows, and benefits from up to 117,649 ways to win, thanks to BTG’s Megaways game engine. To win payouts, you need matching symbols on at least 2 successive reels, beginning from the far-left reel. For low-paying symbols, 3 of a kind is the minimum.
The betting range is quite wide, going from $0.20 to $200 per spin. If you activate the Ante Bet, you can wager as much as $250. This is a high-variance pokie with a maximum payout of 5,000x the bet and an RTP of 96.50%. The buffalo is the top-paying regular symbol, offering 7.5x the bet for 6 of a kind.
Big Buffalo Megaways is not that rich when it comes to additional features. However, it offers more than enough action to keep you busy for a very long time. Hundreds of free spins are waiting for you, combined with Multiplier Wilds.
If you don’t want to wait for the feature to be triggered at random, you can use the Ante Bet or Buy In feature.
Land 3, 4, 5, or 6 Scatters on the reels to trigger 8, 15, 25, or 100 free spins, respectively. It is possible to retrigger the feature so, in theory, you are looking at hundreds of free spins from a single trigger. Even if you land 2 Scatters within the feature, you will get 5 additional free spins.
Wild symbols come with 2x, 3x, or 5x multipliers during free spins. If more Multiplier Wilds appear in the same winning combo, multipliers are added together. I was not very satisfied with the Free Spins feature when I tested the game.
I triggered it several times. The most I got from a single trigger is 25 free spins. As for retriggers, I never got more than 2 extra Scatters. The most I got in total was 35. My biggest win was 62.5x the bet.
This feature is used by players who want to double their chances of triggering free spins. Note that the Ante Bet feature almost always increases your bet significantly. I call it a balance-sucking feature.
It usually does not give free spins, at least that was the case with me. That is why I never recommend gamers to use the Ante Bet.
The same thing goes for the Buy In feature. For a price of 100x the bet, you get a chance to trigger up to 100 free spins at once. In reality, it is almost always the lowest possible number of free spins. In this case, it is 8.
You might get a retrigger or two, but in most cases, you will not win more or even as much as you have paid for the feature. To prove my point, I used the Buy In feature twice and never won more than 50x.
Whenever I see a buffalo on the reels, I always think about Playtech’s Buffalo Blitz. And I always compare every buffalo pokie machine with that iconic game.
I will have to disappoint you and say that Big Buffalo Megaways is in no way better than the famous Playtech product. They practically have the same free spins feature.
I don’t want to offend anybody, but I feel that the good people of Skywind could have been a bit more innovative and introduced something new, something fresh. Something that would make Big Buffalo Megaways stand out from the crowd.
I fear that it will soon be lost among various pokie machines that have the same theme. Therefore, I rate it 8.2.
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