Wild West Buffalo Blast

Theme and Design

Atmospheric Soundtrack and Trippy Colors Uplift This Simple 3x3 Slot

Fantasma have made a name for themselves with some superb game designs and despite its simple format, Wild West Buffalo Blast continues in this vein. The backdrop is a wild western one with rocky canyons and desert with cacti and tumbleweed blowing across it. But the striking part is the purple-blue-red-orange tint given to the whole scene, which lends it all a nice psychedelic twist. Meanwhile the paytable is filled with beautifully-drawn prairie beasts, and a desolate twanging guitar and harpsichord western soundtrack completes the picture. Top stuff.

RTP and Variance

Wild West Buffalo Blast has one RTP setting of 95.7%, a little under the 96% that most players see as the average for online slot games. But it’s a fixed RTP – you won’t play this game anywhere at less than 95.7%. That is a good thing at a time when many slots providers are producing games with multiple RTP settings, some lower than 90%, and leaving it to the slot site operator to decide which setting to run the game on.

Fantasma say the game has a medium variance which makes it less unpredictable than their more volatile products. The win distribution should be relatively even over the course of your session.

I should add the caveat that despite its nicely balanced variance and good RTP, this slot has a particularly low win rate of just 14.4% (most are in the range of 20% to 30%), so only 14% of spins will be a winner, on average.

Maximum Win

Wild West Buffalo Blast has a very enticing max win of 10,000x. In other words, you can win £1,000 with the minimum 10p stake. That’s unusually high for a mid-variance slot, most of which have potential of around 5,000x. But if you prefer hunting out the bigger prizes, you can check out our article on slots with the highest max wins.

Symbols and Paytable

With 3 rows and 3 reels, Wild West Buffalo Blast is one of Fantasma Games’ simplest slots to date. Wins are triggered by landing 3 identical symbols from left to right across 5 paylines – 3 horizontal and 2 diagonal.

The pay symbols come in the form of 5 prairie animals – the fox (2x), the wolf (2x), the hawk (6x), the bear (8x) and the buffalo (10x).

There are no wilds in this game.

Features and Gameplay

Wild West Buffalo Blast has a Hold and Win game and a Jackpot Wheel with 3 jackpots to spin for.

Hold and Re-Spins

The Hold and Spin feature is a simple Hold and Win game. You need to land 3 or more Golden Coins on separate reels on a single spin to trigger this. The coins do NOT have to land on a payline.

The feature starts with 3 spins on an expanded 5x3 grid. Your coins from the triggering spin lock in place and only more coins or blanks can now land. Any time a gold coin lands it locks in place and the counter re-sets to 3. And the round ends when either the entire grid is full or coins OR you run out of spins.

Jackpot Wheel

Landing blue coins during the Hold and Re-Spins triggers a jackpot wheel with segments for each of 3 jackpots - the Mini (30x), Max (80x) and Mega (1,000x). Where the wheel lands triggers the respective prize.