Bronco Big Bounty: Slot Overview

Games Global partner studio Alchemy Gaming has headed out into the saddle for the horse-led online slot Bronco Big Bounty. It’s a title that idealises rural life while introducing the studio’s Big Bounty Wins concept. Put simply, you build Big Bounty Wins during the base game; then, once free spins begin, every stored prize has to be paid out at some point. The feature quite literally keeps on rolling until all Big Bounty Wins have been handed over. Is it worth dusting off the stirrups for?

We’ve already used the word “idealises,” but it’s difficult to find a better fit for Bronco Big Bounty’s presentation. It’s framed like a Manifest Destiny-era scene: blazing skies, fertile land ready to be “made productive,” and wildlife to be tamed—especially the region’s horses. It’s an evocative fantasy, and it’s easy to imagine how strongly it appealed to people at the time, including Europeans who left the poverty, illness, and hunger of overcrowded old-world cities for the open promise America seemed to offer. Of course, there were already people living on that land, but that inconvenient fact didn’t exactly slow westward expansion.

Bronco Big Bounty runs on a 6-reel, 4-row grid with 4,096 ways to win. A highly volatile math model does the heavy lifting behind the scenes, delivering a default RTP of 96.24% and a hit rate of 27.64% on this version. Stakes range from 20 c to $/€50, and an Upsizer feature enhancer is offered when free spins trigger for players who want to load the bonus with extra Big Bounty Wins.

The low-pay royals in Bronco Big Bounty don’t totally convince—more like something you’d see as chrome trim on a vintage car—but anyway, the 9-A symbols pay 1 to 1.5 times the bet for landing 6 matching ranks. Above them sit a house, a lady, a man, and a bronco, forming the game’s 4 premium symbols and paying 2 to 5 times the bet for 6 OAK. Wilds appear on every reel except the far-left reel, and they substitute for all symbols apart from scatters or coins.

Bronco Big Bounty: Slot Features

The action out on this range includes Bronco Rush, Big Bounty Wins, free spins, Upsizer, and the Big Bounty Wheel Bonus.

Bronco Rush

On any spin, the Bronco Rush feature can randomly trigger, dropping multiple bronco symbols onto the reels.

Free Spins with Big Bounty Wins

During the base game, landing 5 scatter symbols boosts the Big Bounty Wins count by +1, with up to 10 stored at once. Big Bounty Wins are free spins wins that are 10x or more than the triggering bet. If you spell out ‘B’, ‘O’, ‘U’, ‘N’, ‘T’, ‘Y’ by landing 6 scatter symbols in the base game, the free spins feature starts. Free spins keep going until every accumulated Big Bounty Win has been awarded. Golden Bronco symbols can also show up in free spins. They are collected when they land, then reveal a premium bronco symbol. Collecting 5, 10, or 15 Golden Broncos, respectively, swaps the house, female, and male symbols for the high bronco symbol on the next spins.

Upsizer

When free spins trigger, players can choose to pay extra to unlock more Big Bounty Wins within the feature. The price for each option is shown on-screen.

Big Bounty Wheel Bonus

Coin symbols that land on the rightmost reel can randomly trigger the Big Bounty Wheel bonus. Once activated, the Wheel spins to award the 15x Mini Prize, 50x Minor Prize, 250x Major Prize, or the 5,000x Mega Prize.

Bronco Big Bounty: Slot Verdict

There’s a sense that if horses aren’t really your thing, Bronco Big Bounty might not be either. If it’s not the horses specifically, then perhaps it’s aimed at anyone captivated by the notion of stepping back in time to claim a plot of land (awkwardly taken from the original inhabitants?), then shaping it while also breaking in the local wild stallions—turning nature and beast to your own purposes, carving out a corner of the world, and raising a huge family on the frontier through all the hardships and victories that implies. Or… no, let’s stop the daydream there before it gets ridiculous.

The real takeaway is that, from a gameplay perspective, Bronco Big Bounty sat more on the middling side, enough that the mind started to wander. One of the better moments is building the Big Bounty Win count in the base game—an event that feels significant—then unleashing them in free spins. It would have helped to have a clearer idea of how valuable Big Bounty Wins can get, because “10x or more” is fairly non-specific. You can store up to 10, but even so, they didn’t feel like the slot equivalent of a multi-billion euro ECB cash-hose stimulus programme. Maybe that’s unfair, but Big Bounty Wins came across more like an interesting sideshow than the headline act. That role, by default, went to landing a fortunate Big Bounty Wheel spin, since its clearly stated 5,000x the bet top prize matches the overall max win figure for Big Bounty Wins.

By the end of the trail, Bronco Big Bounty comes across as a decent-looking ride with a couple of unusual stops along the route. Unless trying to strike it lucky among horses suddenly becomes the next big craze, though, it’s difficult to picture Bronco Big Bounty drawing a massive, devoted crowd.