Buffalo Hunter Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Buffalo Hunter Review

Buffalo Hunter takes you to the wide open plains of the North American heartland, into a mythological time when the wild animals could roam free and barbed wire was not yet invented. The proud native american indians were at the top of the food chain, and their favorite animal was the buffalo. The frame of the reels is neatly carved in wood, and the animal symbol meter to the left looks a bit like a totem. The big attraction here is the 3 different bonus rounds, and the max win potential of 12,647x your stake.

The soundtrack combines native drums with a pan flute in the foreground, and visually the game is quite pleasing, but nothing extraordinary. It all plays out on 5 reels, 4 rows and 40 ways to win, and you can place bets between 20p and £100 per spin on both mobile, tablet and desktop/laptop. Buffalo Hunter is part of the “Extreme Volatility” series from NoLimit City, and it’s really a brutal beast that will either make you somewhat rich or stampede all over your bankroll.

The theme is not exactly unheard of, but NoLimit City has added their own flavour to it. You can trigger 2 bonus rounds that come with unique extras here, and a Super free spins round that combines the best from both of them. This is a somewhat familiar setup from this developer, and it’s all about transforming animal symbols into the highest value buffalo and/or increasing a progressive multiplier up to 5x for each animal symbol. We bought the best bonus round in our 200 spins test session, and you can check out how it went further down in the review.

What are the bonus features?

The base game doesn’t come with all that many bonus features, but you find just enough to keep you somewhat entertained while you wait to trigger one of the highly potent bonus rounds.

The Dream Catcher is the wild symbol here, and it will step in for all regular symbols to help you form winning combos. It also shares the top spot in the paytable together with the buffalo, and pays 50x for 5 on a payline.

There is also a Mystery symbol that looks like a glowing blue spiral, and any instances of this symbol on the reels will turn into identical regular symbols. That’s it for the base game really, so we’ll move on to the big highlight of Buffalo Hunter slot, namely the bonus rounds.

The eagle totem symbol is the scatter in this game, and it will help you trigger 3 different free spins features. The first 2 bonus rounds - the Buffalo Horde and Prairie Multiplier features - are triggered when you land 3 or 4 scatters on the same spin (you get 8 or 10 spins for 3 or 4 scatters, respectively).

If you land 5 scatters however, you’re in for a real treat, as this triggers the Stampede Super Bonus feature. We’ll take a closer look at each of the features below:

Buffalo Horde spins

Is the least volatile option (albeit still high volatility), and you will sometimes land buffalo symbols with a glowing frame here. These special symbols are collected in the animal symbol meter on the left-hand side.

Filling each animal meter with 5 special symbols will progressively turn each of the lower value animal symbols into the highest value buffalo symbol. You also get +2 free spins for every symbol you transform, and the possibility of 8 extra spins in total.

Prairie Multiplier spins

Is a somewhat similar feature to the above, but here you collect glowing framed buffalo symbols to attach multipliers to the animal symbols along the same progressive meter. You need 5 special symbols to fill one animal meter, and this increases the multiplier with +1 up to 5x. The buffalo symbol also benefits from the achieved multiplier, and you get +2 spins for each upgrade.

Land 5 new special symbols, and the next animal gets a 3x multiplier, while the first 2x animal is also upgraded to 3x. You can thus upgrade all animal symbols with a 5x multiplier if you reach the top of the meter.

Stampede Super Bonus

Combines the 2 other bonus rounds into one highly potent mix, and gives you 12 free spins. This means that you will not only convert the animal symbols into high-paying buffalos, but also benefit from the multiplier that gets added.

Bonus Buy Option (not available for UK players)

You can also buy either of the bonus rounds, and it will cost you 100x your stake for the 2 “regular” features and 600x your stake for the Super Bonus.

How to play

In this section of the review we take a closer look at how to play Buffalo Hunter slot, and all the settings and adjustments you can make to the game. You might wanna skip to the next part, or skim through this, if you’re already well-versed in the world of online slots, but new players and beginners might wanna pay attention.

The icon with 3 dots opens up a set of menus for you, and you will be taken into the info section and paytable by default. Here all the features are briefly described without too many details, and you can scroll down to find the symbol values. The paytable is dynamic, which means you will get updated symbol values according to your chosen bet level.

The premium symbol values range from 6.25x to 50x, and consists of 5 animals typical for the north american prairie (pronghorn, wolf, cougar, eagle, and buffalo). You also have the 5 regular royal symbols, ornamented with indian feathers for the occasion and with a value range from 5x to 3.75x your stake.

You can click the gear icon to get to the game settings, and here you can turn on/off the music and the game sounds separately.

Turn on the lightning icon (makes it look yellow) right below the spin button if you want higher paced gameplay. Finally, you can set up the autoplay feature with between 10 and 1,000 autospins. You can also stop the autospins when your bankroll increases or decreases by a given percentage, or when a single win exceeds a chosen amount.

Where to play Buffalo Hunter?

NoLimit City is still a relatively fresh developer in the industry, but they have already established themselves as a decent provider with some interesting games in their portfolio. You will usually find any new slot from this Malta-based developer in many different casinos, and we certainly provide you with the best possible overview right here on this site.

The reason we can brag of doing just that is because of our unique casino scan system. We basically scan the lobbies of all the casinos on a daily basis. This means that we know not only which casinos that carry any given game, but also which lobby position it has.

Perhaps you are not quite sure about this game yet, or you want to see what the gameplay is like before you make any decisions. This is no problem at all, as we have the free demo version of the game installed at the very top of this page. You can even use the buy option to check out all 3 bonus features risk-free with play money, if you wish. Following this link will get you started with the Buffalo Hunter demo game in no-time.

The 200 Spins Buffalo Hunter Experience

The first 100 spins are not included in the video highlights, as they were pretty much completely uneventful. With this kind of volatility you should expect nothing less, and we landed a long-winded sequence of dead spins with minor wins sprinkled in between for good measure. We started our last 100 spins with our hopes high, as we felt our luck was about to turn.

Already after a few spins into our final 100 spins we got a taste of the mystery symbol, which landed heavily on the 2 first reels. It turned into the low value 10 symbol however, so we won only 2x our stake. The following spin gave us a scatter tease, and we were kind of fed up of those at this point.

We therefore decided to throw in the towel, and simply pay for the bonus round instead of grinding around even more in the base game. We went for the Super Bonus round, of course, and paid a solid 1,920 euros for it. This landed us 5 scatters, and we were super excited to see how our 12 free spins would play out.

It took a few dead spins before we landed a smaller win, and then we also landed enough glowing framed buffalos to upgrade the first animal on the ladder. We kept getting minute wins for a while, and then we upgraded the second animal, which meant that we now benefitted from a lot more buffalos and all of them with 3x multipliers attached.

Our wins were now more decent, like around 2x to 5x, but with only a few spins left we were beginning to worry. Our first “big win” of around 15x came with only 2 spins left to go, but then we upgraded the third animal. This gave us some breathing space, and now we landed a solid 264x win. We needed only 1 single special symbol to make the next upgrade, and had our fingers crossed like crazy on the final spin.

It went on for what felt like an eternity before the last reel finally stopped, and by some miracle we got the special symbol we needed. With only 5x multiplier buffalo symbols and royals on the reels, we won 500x on the first extra spin and 100x on the final spin. All in all, we got away with 917.75x our stake, which gave us a nice 317.75x profit.

Review Summary

While Buffalo Hunter doesn’t really offer anything brand new, all the parts have been put together nicely for a super volatile ride through the north american prairie. The base game is pretty basic though, and you’re really just hanging in there for one of the bonus rounds to trigger. The combination of 2 more basic bonus rounds into a Super feature is not unheard of from NoLimit City, and their solid wild west title, Deadwood, immediately comes to mind.

Also this game is made in such a way that buying the free spins gets very tempting after a while, but the price of the biggest enchilada is not exactly cheap. The game feels a bit more generic than some of the better games from this developer, but the 12,647x potential should be solid enough to draw some attention. The bonus round is just as much a hit or miss as the game itself, and the sooner you can get the symbols upgraded the more likely you are to skyrocket your winnings.

Pros

• Mystery symbols and high value wilds
• 3 different bonus rounds where the third combines the 2 others
• High volatility and 12,647x max win potential

Cons

• Can take a while to trigger the all-important bonus rounds

If you love Buffalo Hunter you should also try:

There are 58 games with a buffalo theme in our catalog at the time of writing, and you can check them all out via the link. Below, we will present you with some alternative games you might like if you enjoyed the game at hand. These will come with different themes, but somewhat similar features.

Buffalo Blitz - is a very popular Playtech slot with 6 reels and 4,096 paylines, also set in the prairies of North America. The high value buffalo can land fully stacked on all reels, and the bonus round comes with up to 100 free spins and a diamond multiplier wild that can boost your winnings up to 5x. Wins up to 10,000x your stake is possible in this highly volatile buffalo galore.

Buffalo Blitz - is a very popular Playtech slot with 6 reels and 4,096 paylines, also set in the prairies of North America. The high value buffalo can land fully stacked on all reels, and the bonus round comes with up to 100 free spins and a diamond multiplier wild that can boost your winnings up to 5x. Wins up to 10,000x your stake is possible in this highly volatile buffalo galore.

Pink Elephants 2 - plays out pretty much the same as the mighty popular original game, but this sequel has been given a solid makeover. The volatility is a bit more rounded around the edges, while the potential has been increased to 10,000x your stake. It’s really all about the bonus round here, which comes with a similar symbol transformation feature as the game at hand.

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