Buffalo Spirit
Buffalo Spirit is one of the many free online slots that WMS develops and is hosted on sites like SlotsClub.com. The game is free in the sense that you can play as much as you like with no money on the line. If you do play slots for money, then you can use this feature to sample the game and get used to the features before playing it for real. Note that some of this games most interesting features, such as free games and replicating wilds, aren’t indicated in the paytable on all versions of this game.
The Buffalo Spirit slot machine has five reels and 30 bet lines. All thirty lines are active by default, so the smallest amount you can wager in that case is 0.30 coins per spin. However, you can switch the game into classic mode, which lets you choose the bet count and lower the minimum spin to 0.01 coins. You can wager as much as 90 coins a spin, and the game offers a nifty slider feature that lets you set your exact bet amount quickly and easily. Buffalo Spirit also has an auto play toggle for convenience.
Buffalo Spirit Details
| Wheels | 5 |
| Rows | 3 |
| Paylines | 30 |
| Min. Bet | 0,30 |
| Max. Bet | 90,00 |
| Betting Levels | 1 |
| Max. Win per Line | 1.500 |
| RTP | 95,96% |
| Special Features | Buffalo Bonus, Free Spins, Jackpot Symbol, Wilds |
| Jackpot | Yes |
Game Theme and Background
Buffalo Spirit uses a Western American theme, a theme which is quite prevalent among pub-style slot machines in the U.S. This one doesn’t have Native American trappings but instead focuses almost exclusively on wildlife. In addition to buffalos, the symbol set has foxes, owls, eagles, lizards and snakes. The flora represented in the set include cactuses and corn.
WMS rounds out the symbol set with playing card symbols: spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. This is a good aesthetic choice for the game. This theme doesn’t involve people. Playing cards and especially the number cards may have seemed out of place. The symbols add to Western theme without drawing attention to the fact that they probably don’t belong.
Special Features in Buffalo Spirit
The wild symbol and the jackpot symbol are one in the same in Buffalo Spirit, but this games adds a twist to the classic setup. The standard wild symbol appears on the first, second, fourth and fifth reels. The special wild symbol, which has a stylized border, only appears on the center reel. In terms of winning the jackpot or helping to form another combo, the wild and special wild are interchangeable. However, whenever the special wild helps form a win, it can replicate additional wilds that can trigger additional wins in the current spin. The feature symbol is a scatter that can overlap the row above it and below it where possible.
These large symbols will only ever overlap the poker symbols, and overlapping doesn’t affect combinations. In other words, if you have three clubs in a row and one of them is overlapped, you still win on that combination. The feature symbol also awards 10, 20 and 40 free spins when three, four or five of them are anywhere on the reels on a single spin.
Conclusion
The online version of Buffalo Spirit is basically the same game found in WMS machines at casinos and pubs. Like most Vegas slots by WMS, it’s developed in the classic video slot style. That provides it an antiquated look compared to most modern online video slot games, but that isn’t a bad thing and is actually a style that many slots fan enjoy and like to work into their rotations. The features on this machine are refreshing in the sense that they’re quite different from most other online slots. One minor gripe is that the paytable doesn’t even indicate all of the features the game contains. Players figure out soon enough, but this a very good game with a lot of interesting aspects, and WMS undersells it to some degree.
