Buffalo Blitz Demo (Playtech) Slot Demo & Review

Game Overview

If you have ever played the WMS slot Raging Rhino, you are going to get a seriously strong sense of Déjà vu when you load up Buffalo Blitz from Playtech. Aside from changing the animal from the Rhino to the Buffalo, Playtech hasn’t really done much else in the ways of innovation. However, with 4,096 ways to win, an RTP of 95.96%, and a maximum win of 10,000x your stake, Buffalo Blitz does appear to have a lot going for it upon first impressions.

Like so many other slots, Buffalo Blitz is all about the free spins feature – three scatters awards eight free spins, but catch the maximum of six and the game will reward you with 100 free spins with a random multiplier of 2x, 3x, or 5x on each winning spin! The free spins can also be retriggered – just two scatters will add five free spins to your remaining total, and you can even hit the full six again – essentially, Buffalo Blitz offers unlimited free spins!

Have we put you in the mood for stack symbols and potentially 100s of free spins? Then why not try out the Buffalo Blitz demo slot? It’s available here on our platform with unlimited free play credits.

Large African animals seem to be popular with slot developers, and the Buffalo is particularly well catered for as far as slots go. It’s a real shame that the best versions of Buffalo Gold are not available for online play – many players have taken secret videos inside Las Vegas casinos showing these games, and they look truly amazing. It’s a shame that Playtech chose to copy Raging Rhino here rather than Buffalo Gold, but Aristocrats will surely eventually port their land-based Buffalo games to online casinos. On the plus side, the graphics look great, and the soundtrack suits the game’s theme well. If Buffalo Blitz has put you in the mood for more games with the same theme, take a look at Almighty Buffalo Megaways and Crazy Buffalo from Fa Chai Gaming.

Taking a look at the paytable, it is presented in a very different way from that of Raging Rhino, but almost every payout is exactly the same. There are a few differences, though, such as the fact that the scatter symbol has no payout of its own in Buffalo Blitz – in Raging Rhino, you could win up to 1,000x your stake just from hitting six scatter symbols. Buffalo Blitz compensates for this by doubling the number of free spins you receive from 50 to 100 and adding the random multiplier feature to the bonus round. The effect of this is that it is definitely possible to win more from Buffalo Blitz, but Raging Rhino players will undoubtedly miss the 1,000x payout for six scatters if they try this game. Of course, that is assuming they have ever seen six scatters – the combination is extremely rare in both games. The top symbols in Buffalo Blitz pay 7.5x, 6.25x, and 5x your stake for a full line of six. This sounds extremely disappointing until you remember that the top symbols are stacked and that this is a 4,096 ways game – there is plenty of potential for big hits both in regular play and the bonus round.

The betting range begins with a coin value of one penny, giving a total bet size of €0.40. You can increase this by 200x if you wish, all the way up to €80.00 per spin. You’ll need a serious bankroll to survive long at those kinds of stakes, but I guess it’s nice to have the option just in case you feel like throwing in one or two €80.00 spins on the off chance they hit a bonus round!

The Buffalo Blitz video slot is played on a 6×4 grid. Any combination of matching symbols from left to right will result in a win, as the game uses 4,096 pay ways instead of traditional pay lines. It is quite frustrating that the quick spin and autoplay options have been removed to satisfy the UK Gambling Commission, even if you are playing from a country such as Sweden, where gambling regulation is handled in a much more sensible manner. Removing the quick spin and autoplay features entirely may be the easiest option for Playtech’s developers, but it also penalises players outside the UKGC’s jurisdiction. It’s quite depressing looking at older screenshots of the Buffalo Blitz slot game where the Turbo Mode and Autoplay options are still visible on the status bar.

Once you hit three or more scatters, the bonus round will begin. New reel strips are used during the bonus round which includes far more stacked gold buffalo symbols, and the random multiplier of 2x, 3x, or 5x that is applied to every win can seriously boost your bonus rounds potential, should you manage to hit a 5x multiplier after a spin featuring lots of 6-of-a-kind combinations.

Re-trigger Feature

As we mentioned earlier, hitting two or more scatters during the bonus round adds additional free spins to your total. Two scatters are reasonably common, and if you are lucky enough to score a 100 free spin bonus, you will likely end up playing closer to 200 spins thanks to the large number of retriggers.

If you hit six scatters again during the bonus round, a full additional 100 spins will be added to your remaining total. I don’t know how often this happens, but there is one great video on YouTube where a player hits six scatters three times in a row, which is completely unbelievable! He ends up playing a total of almost 500 spins and wins over 7,000x his stake as a result of his good fortune. There is no better advertising for an online slot than a video of somebody winning big like this!