Buffalo King Megaways: Editorial Review

by Pragmatic Play

RTP: 96.52%
Volatility level: High
Max cash prize: 5,000x
Grid layout: ·
Winning ways: 200,704 Megaways
Release date: 29/04/2021

Buffalo face doubles as top payer and Bonus coin in the Wilderness entry

Pragmatic Play shipped Buffalo King Megaways on 29 April 2021, the middle entry in a Buffalo King line that now runs to three games, and the only one tagged Wilderness hunting. The build keeps that tag in the symbols: five North American animals painted as trading cards, with the buffalo alone paying from two of a kind. The same head embosses the Bonus coin, so the paytable's top symbol and the scatter trigger share one face. Opened in the demo at $2.00, two buffalo return exactly the stake, and wins count on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel in any shape. That much a free run teaches. What it cannot teach is how often that repeats under a volatility badge with five of five bolts.

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Symbols and their payouts

x2 / x3 / x4 / x5 / x6

Buffalo / bison High 1.00 / 2.00 / 4.00 / 10.00 / 20.00
Bald eagle High — / 0.75 / 1.25 / 2.50 / 6.25
Cougar / mountain lion High — / 0.50 / 0.75 / 1.25 / 3.75
Grey wolf High — / 0.30 / 0.50 / 0.75 / 1.50
Moose High — / 0.30 / 0.50 / 0.75 / 1.50
A Low — / 0.20 / 0.30 / 0.50 / 1.00
K Low — / 0.20 / 0.30 / 0.50 / 1.00
Q Low — / 0.10 / 0.20 / 0.40 / 0.75
J Low — / 0.10 / 0.20 / 0.40 / 0.60
10 Low — / 0.10 / 0.20 / 0.40 / 0.60
WILD Wild — / — / — / — / —
BONUS Bonus — / — / 5.00 / 20.00 / 100.00

Step-by-step guide to playing

The MEGAWAYS plaque can read 200704 ways; the aim is adjacent symbol strings from the leftmost reel. The loop is choose TOTAL BET, start a spin, and keep the round alive through Tumble refills until the result stands or BONUS diverts play into Free Spins.

Enter the base game

The loaded intro screen shows the grid preview and volatility badge; its two-arrow enter control changes the preview into the six-reel base game, where the next action is to set TOTAL BET.
Set total bet

Use − and + beside SPIN to change TOTAL BET; SPACE and ENTER also start and stop a spin. With the stake set, press SPIN to start the reels.
Resolve spins and branch

SPIN starts the reels; left-to-right adjacent matches pay, winning symbols vanish, and Tumble refills continue until no new win appears. 4 or more BONUS anywhere moves play into Free Spins and runs until FREE SPINS LEFT reaches 0; with no trigger, the settled grid returns to SPIN.

Game modes

Each spin starts on a six-reel grid whose ways are recounted after every spin and every tumble, up to 200,704. The four cards track the transitions around that grid: winning and refilling in daylight, shifting into a night round where Wilds carry multipliers, and two optional settings that change how often, or how directly, that shift happens.

Base Game

Reels 1 and 6 hold up to 7 symbols, reels 2 to 5 up to 8, so the ways total changes with every result. Wins run left to right from reel 1; the paying symbols vanish, the rest drop and new symbols fall in, repeating until a refill pays nothing, then everything won across the sequence is added to the balance at once.

Free Spins

Four or more BONUS symbols anywhere flip the desert from day to night and award 12, 17 or 22 spins for 4, 5 or 6. Wilds on reels 2 to 5 now land tagged 2x, 3x or 5x, and every tag hit within one tumble sequence multiplies together against that sequence's total win. Three more BONUS symbols add 5 spins with no limit; reaching 5,000x ends the round at once.

Ante Bet / Double Chance to Win

Switching this on moves the bet multiplier from 20x to 25x, raising the stake by a quarter, and doubles the natural chance of triggering the bonus round by placing more BONUS symbols on the reels. The paytable pays exactly as in normal play, and the Buy Free Spins option stays disabled while it runs.

Buy Free Spins

For 100x the current total bet, this bypasses the base grid and starts the bonus round immediately: 4, 5 or 6 BONUS symbols land at random on purchase, giving the same 12, 17 or 22 spins as a natural trigger. The button is disabled whenever the Ante Bet toggle is on.