Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways: Slot Overview

Bison Rising Megaways was a nature slot launched at the tail end of 2018, which has undergone Blueprint Gaming's Reloaded transformation to become Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways. If you've played Vikings Unleashed Reloaded you'll have a pretty good idea of what the Reloaded process involves. If not, then it means taking an established game and giving it a trio of pre-feature betting options, transforming it into a more lethal make-or-break gambling situation.

This does mean that not much else about Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways is hugely different to the original, and since we're dealing with bison, again, for goodness only knows how many times, then there isn't much original in Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways at all. Visually, players get a nice yet common eyeful of rock formations, grass, dust, animals, and so on. Nothing spectacular, nothing awful, just your typical view of the North American countryside, and that's all there is to say about that.

Sitting amidst the wilderness is Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways' gaming grid. In typical Megaways fashion, it's made of 6 reels and a horizontally spinning tracker reel above reels 2-5. When including the tracker, it is possible for each column to land 2 to 7 symbols on each spin, creating up to 117,649 ways to win. A medium-high volatile slot, players get a default RTP of 96% either when buying the bonus round or when betting 10 c to $/€10 per spin.

The cascade device removes winning symbols from the reels and drops symbols downwards to fill the empty spaces they create on the main reels or from the side of the tracker reel. If another win hits after the symbols drop, the cascade feature triggers again. A bunch of regular bison slot-related symbols line the pay table, including 9-A card royals as the low pays, then a touch of nature provided by the high pay moose, wolves, bears, and bison. Hitting a 6-of-a-kind winning low pay win awards 1 to 1.5 times the bet, or 2 to 50 times the bet for a 6-matching animal symbol win. A buffalo appears on the wild symbol, which only ever lands on the top tracker reel, able to substitute for any regular pay symbol.

Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways: Slot Features

Mystery symbols and scatters are two more symbols to be aware of in Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways, as are features such as free spins, gamble features, and the buy bonus.

Mystery Symbols

When mystery symbols appear in view, they all reveal the same random symbol. This could be anything except wilds or scatters.

Free Spins

Players are awarded 15, 19, 23, or 27 free spins when 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatter symbols land on the main reels in the base game. Before entering the free spins round, players have the choice of gambling on three separate gamble wheels for the chance to win extra free spins up to 30, a starting multiplier of up to x10, and/or a minimum number of Megaways up to 117,649. Any time a gamble is unsuccessful, the free spins round is lost. During free spins, the win multiplier increases by +1 after each cascade win, and landing 3 or 4 scatters on the tracker reel awards an extra 5 or 10 free spins, respectively.

Buy Bonus

From the buy bonus, it is possible to buy 8, 12, 19, or 27 free spins for 32x, 70x, 175x, or 350x the bet, respectively. The multiplier starts at x1 for all four options. After buying free spins, players have access to the 3 gamble wheels they would have if the feature triggered naturally.

Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways: Slot Verdict

Just like Vikings Unleashed Reloaded, for a lot of the time, Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways is not much different to the older, non-Reloaded version. In fact, Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways is not much different to a lot of Megaways slots in general. Cascades, mystery symbols, free spins with an increasing win multiplier, it might be hard to stifle a yawn over that collection of standard features. However, for gamblers who are looking to push their luck for the chance to jack a free spins round, then Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways' pre-feature gambles are able to provide frustration and possible glory like few other games can.

Users do have some control over the risk/reward levels since there are options when deciding what to shoot for. For example, you do not have to gamble for the full 117,649 minimum ways but go for, say, 5,000 minimum ways instead, or something in between. When adjusting the gamble, the wheel's green segment scales with the size of the possible reward and, according to the game info, represents the gamble's odds of success. So there is some room to manoeuvre, which is good because just jamming the wheel straight to 117,649 ways to win, as one example, was tough going. Potentially wallet-busting as well, and speaking of potential, Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways' max win is capped at 25,000x.

Engaging in pre-feature gambles is entirely optional, but they're also Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways' whole point of being, really. Without them, you're basically playing Bison Rising Megaways with a slightly lower RTP and no free spins/multiplier combo choice when triggered. So, for the chance to engage in some more Reloaded heroics, or attempt to at least, Bison Rising Reloaded Megaways provides a buffalo-infused non-Viking alternative with all the same cautions.