Buffalo Toro Slot – Free Demo

Six Reels, 4,096 Ways and a Toro

Buffalo Toro is a 6-reel, 4,096 ways slot. Wins pay for matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel. Its reels are 4 symbols tall, and the game is accessible on all platforms from €0.20 to €50. I played at a stake of 6.00 from a starting balance of 5,000.00. The Buffalo Toro web slot contains 4 mechanics with re-spins, roaming wilds, multiplier wilds and wilds left behind by Toro. Over 470 spins I wagered 2,820.00 and got 1,449.00 back. But it all boils down to the Free Spins, which I will dig into further below. In my session they paid 706.80 of the 1,449.00 I won, which is 49% of the total.

Bears, Wolves and the Two-of-a-Kind Buffalo

Symbols on the reels comprise 9, 10, J, Q, K, A playing cards as well as 5 high-value symbols in the shape of bears, wolves, pumas, eagles, and buffalos, and the buffalo is the most profitable of all symbols. The Buffalo is also the only symbol that pays for 2 of a kind on adjacent reels from the left, while the rest need 3 or more.

It grants a 6x win for 6 of a kind. The Gold Buffalo is a separate special symbol that matters only in the bonus rounds, where it is collected. The wild symbol substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus, Super Bonus, Matador, Toro and Multiplier Wild.

Matadors, Toro and the Walking Respins

Buffalo Toro is a volatile slot. Only 77 of my 470 spins paid anything, and 36 of those paid less than the 6.00 stake. It has 4 mechanics that can emerge in the base game:

Matador Respin - Re-spins are granted when 2 or more Matadors land, and all Matadors cling to the reels. Every new Matador provides another re-spin. The X-iter menu sells one spin with a guaranteed Matador Respin for 10x the bet.

Multiplier Wild - A Wild with a random x2 or x3 multiplier on the wins it is part of.

Toro - A roaming Wild. It moves one reel to the left per re-spin until it exits the matrix. Each step it takes awards a respin, so the further right Toro lands, the more respins it walks through before leaving the grid.

Toro Goes Wild - When Matadors are on the reels, Toro will rush across the display. It bumps the Matadors off and drops Wilds behind. A spin with a guaranteed Toro Goes Wild costs 25x the bet in the same menu.

Bonus Symbols, Gold Buffalos and Rampage Reels

3, 4, 5 or 6 Bonus symbols showing on the reels trigger the Free Spins. I triggered the round three times in 470 spins, on spins 109, 185 and 241. They grant 8, 12, 16 or 20 Free Spins correspondingly. My first trigger, on spin 109, came with all 6 Bonus symbols for 20 free spins and paid 354.00, or 59.0x the stake.

Free Spins - 2 Bonus symbols grant 4 additional Free Spins, and moreover, every 3 Gold Buffalos collected, up to 12, promote a high-value symbol to Buffalo. On spin 185 my 12 free spins were retriggered by 2 Bonus symbols to 16, and that round paid 306.00.

Super Bonus - A Super Bonus symbol on reel 6 with 2 or more Bonus symbols grants Free Spins with Rampage Reels. These are reels stacked with Buffalos, and 3, 6, 9 or 12 Gold Buffalos release up to 2, 3, 4 or 5 Rampage Reels. The X-iter menu sells the Super Bonus for 500x the bet and regular Free Spins for 100x, and a 50x mode buys 3 spins with guaranteed Rampage Reels.

The Minty Summary: What everyone is apt to question themselves is - does it have any upside? Well, in the base game there is little to no upside. My biggest base-game win was 66.00 on spin 357, which is 11.0x the stake. So it all boils down to the Free Spins. My balance never rose above the 5,000.00 I started with, and I finished on 3,629.00.

A 50,000x Cap Against a 34-Spin Drought

The max win is 50,000 times the stake, per individual spin. At my 6.00 stake that ceiling works out to 300,000.00.

It's a high volatility game. My longest run without a win lasted 34 spins and ended on spin 449.

Buffalo Toro has a 94.00% RTP. My own 470 spins returned 51.4% of what I wagered.