Thundering Buffalo Slot Review & Free Play

Thundering Buffalo: Stampede or Standstill?

Thundering Buffalo is a 5-reel slot from High 5 Games that has got this authentic vibe that made me feel like I was at a powwow.

Although the bet limits range between a modest $0.50 and an all-in $600, I chose to bet with $1.00 throughout my gameplay.

In this game, you can score wins by lining up the same symbols on reels next to each other starting from anywhere, not just from the first reel. I found it pretty cool.

Speaking about the base symbols, there's the almighty buffalo, a teepee, and a totem symbol, aside from the usual suspects, A-K-Q-J-10.

The wild symbols landed on the middle reel three times. Each time that happened, I could see my bankroll increase.

Then, there was this epic moment when the teepee symbols filled up all the reels. With a wild symbol hitting reel 4 at the same time, I scored 16x the bet amount.

Once, the middle reel got stacked with wilds, and with teepees on the other reels, I pocketed a solid 40x my bet amount. 

I was already feeling adventurous, so I set the autoplay to pause when the bonus round kicked in. Good thing I did, because during those autospins, the game tossed me 8 free spins! The bonus round itself handed me 14x my bet amount.

If you get at least one Free Spins symbol on each reel, you unlock the free games bonus and get 8 free spins. You can retrigger the bonus up to 240 free spins if you're lucky.

The loss limits I could set in Autoplay that provided a practical feature to manage my bankroll effectively.

Yet, I couldn't help feeling that Thundering Buffalo could do with a few more features to break up the chase, especially when those Free Spins play hard to get.