Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win Slot Review & Free Play

Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win: Join the Wild Buffalo Herd in Search of Gold Coins and 5,000x Wins

Out on the prairie, it’s just you, a herd of buffalo, and gold coins in Booming Games’ Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win. We’ve got wild buffalo symbols with 2x multipliers, random wild drops, a hold and win bonus game with cash rewards, and four jackpots going up to 2,000x your bet. The 5,000x ceiling is there, but getting to it takes some patience, let me explain.

The game runs on a 5x3 grid with 20 paylines. In my session, base game wins were scarce, usually landing between 0.10x to 0.40x my bet. Wilds technically land on reels 2 to 5, but it honestly felt like they were hiding on the last two reels most of the time. Most wins came from low symbols, and without any help, the base game barely moved the balance.

The Wild Buffalo Herd feature is what actually brought wilds into play. It triggers randomly and turns symbols into wilds, sometimes adding a 2x multiplier on top. When it connected properly, I managed to push wins up to 12x my stake, which helped recover some of the slower spins. It didn’t show up often, but when it did, it actually made a difference.

Hold and Win is triggered by landing 5 or more coin symbols. Once it starts, all coins lock in place, and you get three respins that reset with every new coin. The grid expands upward as you unlock more rows, and coins sitting in locked rows stay there until you open them. Then they count immediately, which is a super neat addition.

In my session, most coin values sat between 1x to 3x, but the feature builds through quantity rather than big numbers. As more coins dropped and the grid expanded, the total added up steadily. By the end of the round, I walked away with a 40x win, nothing massive, but enough to make the feature feel worthwhile.

Overall, Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win is built around that one feature. The base game does very little, and you’re mostly waiting for coins to land. When they do, the expanding grid and coin prizes give it enough weight to pay something decent, but it rarely goes beyond that.