Booming Games Expands Its Slot Portfolio With Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win Featuring 5,000x Win Potential

Booming Games has released another addition to their growing portfolio of slots with Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win, a game that incorporates all the common trends associated with high-volatility slot designs currently available in today's online casinos.
Recently, Focus Gaming News announced the release of Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win as part of a greater plan from the developer to release multiple titles within the month of April. As such, Booming Games is reaffirming itself as a major competitor in what is becoming an increasingly congested iGaming marketplace.

Upon initial inspection, Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win employs a very typical model. The game utilizes a 5 x 3 reel layout, providing 20 fixed pay lines; this is still a fairly common configuration due to the fact that it creates a balance of both simplicity and great opportunities for feature development. Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win is set against a desert background, utilizing buffalo, wolves and eagles as some of the primary symbol representations. Traditional animal-based slot themes have long been staples of the gaming industry and continue to remain so to a significant degree due to their ability to create positive emotional connections with players while simultaneously creating a sense of "storytelling" commonly seen in older-style slots.

It is here where Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win tries to differentiate itself from other slot titles via its layer upon layer bonus system. The Buffalo Bonus Wheel becomes active once three bonus symbols appear on reels one, three and five. Upon activation, the Buffalo Bonus Wheel presents various reward options ranging from Grand Rewards down to Minor and Mini prizes. Players may choose to accept instant cash prizes or enhanced versions of gameplay modes. One of the gameplay modes that may become active during enhanced versions of gameplay is called Ultra Mode and provides an increased row count, thus expanding the size of the grid and increasing the possible combinations present on the screen at any given time.

Players may experience an additional level of unpredictability through the Wild Buffalo Herd feature. This random base-game feature will convert any symbols on the screen to either standard wilds or Wild x2 multiplier wilds. Such immediate changes in the outcome of a single spin may help keep players engaged and interested until the next bonus round begins.

However, it is the Ultra Hold and Win feature that represents the centerpiece of the game. Once five or more coin symbols are collected, the Ultra Hold and Win feature is activated. At this point, the reel structure expands significantly to provide an enormous 5 x 8 grid for collecting coins and accumulating potential rewards. Collecting all coin values on the new 5 x 8 grid awards the Grand Prize Pot which will award the player 2,000 times their bet amount.

Further escalation of the bonus sequence can occur through the use of the Ultra Reel feature. If players collect enough to fill up a complete 1 x 8 reel, an additional feature will activate that allows players to multiply or add together coin values across the entire grid. In conjunction with the standard hold and win structure, this could potentially produce a total payout potential of 5000x, clearly placing this slot in the high risk / high reward category.

From a gaming industry standpoint, this release further illustrates a prevailing trend throughout much of the current online slots market. The majority of developers are using expanded grid mechanics and evolving hold and win structures to enhance established gameplay mechanisms rather than abandon them entirely. Rather than abandoning proven configurations, studios are now incorporating larger reel sets, prize wheels and layered modifiers to prolong the duration of a bonus round.

Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win also exemplifies Booming Game's desire to rapidly expand its portfolio. The company has recently confirmed that several other titles will be launched later in the month including Fly On! and Fish Tales Monster Bass 10000, both of which boast large maximum win amounts designed to attract players seeking large payouts.

As previously mentioned, games such as Ultra Buffalo Hold and Win offer easily identifiable promotional opportunities to operators due to familiarity with the mechanics presented by many slot-playing customers. With regard to Booming Games, their strategy is simple: enhance recognized slot features, raise the volatility factor, and consistently release titles that ensure visibility within a saturated market.