Buffalo Blitz Megaways Slot Review

Buffalo Blitz Megaways Slot RTP, Details and Wager Limits

The Buffalo Blitz Megaways slot uses the Megaways mechanic from Big Time Gaming so has 6 reels and up to 117,649 ways to win. On each spin, between 2 and 7 symbols will appear, at random, on each reel.

The more symbols per reel, the more Megaways, or ways to win/paylines. With 2 symbols per reel, you’ll play with 324 Megaways. With 7 on each, the maximum 177,649 Megaways will be in play. A win is created when 3+ matching symbols appear on successive reels beginning from the leftmost reel. With the animal symbols, only 2 are needed on adjacent reels to get a win.

Available to play from 10p to £200 a spin, you may find some UK slot sites limit the max bet at £20, £50 or even £100 per spin. It’s worth checking if you player at these higher stakes. If you’re not a UK player, you will find a Turbo Mode for faster spins and an Autoplay function for up to 100 autospins or until you trigger the free spins.

The Buffalo Blitz Megaways RTP is 96.29%. This is above the average return rate. However 0.99% is reserved for the 4 progressive jackpots meaning the actual RTP rate is 95.30%. The previous Buffalo Blitz slots both offer a 95.96% RTP by the way.

The hit frequency rate is 23.2% meaning just under a quarter of spins will result in a winning outcome. It will take approximately 190 spins to trigger the free spins.

Highly volatile, the maximum win per spin is 10,000 x your total stake. There is a 1 in 66,666,667 chance of winning this though. To win over 1,000 x stake, this will happen once every 100,664 spins on average.

The 4 progressive jackpots can pay a lot more with the Blitz Jackpot guaranteed to pay out at least £100,000 (more details below).

Theme – head to the African savannah once again

Like previous Buffalo Blitz games, the Buffalo Blitz Megaways slot has an African theme as it’s set in the African Savanna. Boasting identical graphics to it’s predecessors, you will see the plains at sunset which is rather beautiful. With an intense and epic quality to the soundtrack, the graphics/audio will appeal to fans of the original slots.

On the dark blue reels, you will see A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 royals. The higher value symbols are represented by various animals including moose, bears, racoons, pumas and buffalos. The buffalo is the most rewarding symbol giving you 1, 3.5, 4.5, 5 or 6 x your total stake for 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 in combination. It will also appear stacked on all 6 reels.

The diamond wild symbol substitutes for all symbols mentioned (and not the scatter). Appearing on all reels except the first one, it can apply multipliers up to 10x in the free spins (more details below. The Free Games symbol is the scatter and is key to triggering the Free Games features. Here’s a table showcasing all symbols you’ll see on the reels:

Symbol	Payouts/Info
9	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.4, 1.2 or 2 x stake
10	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.4, 1.2 or 2 x stake
J	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.5, 1.5 or 2.5 x stake
Q	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.5, 1.5 or 2.5 x stake
K	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.5, 1, 2 or 3 x stake
A	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.5, 1, 2 or 3 x stake
Moose	2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 1, 1.5, 3 or 4 x stake
Bear	2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 1, 1.5, 3 or 4 x stake
Racoon	2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.4, 1.2, 3, 4 or 5 x stake
Puma	2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.4, 1.2, 3, 4 or 5 x stake
Buffalo	2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 = 1, 3.5, 4.5, 5 or 6 x stake
Diamond Wild	Substitutes for all symbols above
Free Games Scatter	4+ triggers Free Games features
More Free Games Scatter	Adds more free spins to your tally

Buffalo Blitz Megaways Mobile

Created using HTML5 technology, Buffalo Blitz Megaways is available to play on mobile, tablet and desktop devices. This includes ones that use iOS, Android and Windows operating systems. For the best experience, naturally, a bigger screen is recommended. Saying that, the clear display works well on mobiles too.

Buffalo Blitz Megaways Bonus Features

The Buffalo Blitz Megaways slot comes with 5 bonus features. 4 of them give you free spins with wild multipliers up to 10x. Then you have the Jackpot Blitz jackpots with the biggest jackpot paying over £100,000.

Free Games features

Unlike its predecessors, there are 4 Free Games features. These can be played by landing 4, 5 or 6 Free Games scatter symbols anywhere on the reels on a base game spin. The more scatters you land, the more starting free spins you’ll get.

You then pick from the 4 free spins modes. The more free spins you choose, the lower the potential multipliers. The higher the multipliers, the less free spins. Here’s what they offer:

The wild multiplier is applied randomly when part of a win during a free spin. If more than 1 wild is part of a win, the multiplier values are added up and not multiplied. If you were to land a 5x and 10x wild multiplier, you’d benefit from a 15x multiplier for example. I would always opt for the bigger multiplier values personally.

Furthermore, 3 or more scatters will give you additional free spins. 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters can give you varying number of extra free spins depending on the Free Games feature you chose. In all instances, the maximum number of free spins you can play is 1,000.

Jackpot Blitz feature

Being part of the Jackpot Blitz network, there’s a Jackpot Blitz feature that is randomly triggered. Once in, you are guaranteed to win 1 or 4 progressive jackpots.

You need to match 3 jackpot symbols to win that jackpot. Do this by picking from the diamonds on the screen. Here’s how much the jackpots will pay at a minimum (seed amount) and the actual real-time jackpots:

Buffalo Blitz Megaways Review Summary – Megaways + Jackpots add another dimension

The Buffalo Blitz Megaways slot was an obvious choice from Playtech to be given the Megaways treatment seeing that Buffalo Blitz and Buffalo Blitz 2 are very popular.

Buffalo Blitz 2 offered more ways to win that the original game and has 14,400 ways to win in the free spins and multiplier wilds in the base game. Whilst the Megaways version doesn’t have base game multiplier wilds, it does come with up to 117,640 ways to win.

Overall, it made sense for Playtech to add Megaways to the Buffalo Blitz series. The extra wrinkle here is that there are 4 progressive jackpots to be won at random. In summary, expect more of the same but with bigger max wins and the potential for jackpot wins.

Playtech followed up this game with the Buffalo Blitz: Mega Merge slot. With 2 reel sets that can merge into 1, up to 196,608 ways to win are possible. Offering free spins with wild multipliers and 4 progressive jackpots, you can win up to 11,677.8 x bet.