Hacksaw Gaming released its Wild West-themed slot Buried by Night on Nov. 10, with OLBG listing it as available at Boyle Casino and other leading UK slot sites. The five-reel, four-row game uses 14 paylines and centres on gunfighter duels that turn VS symbols into horizontal Wild DuelRows.
The developer’s official game page describes the title as a reckoning that begins with a duel at dawn and ends by night. It lists a volatility rating of four out of five and RTP configurations of 96%, 94%, 92% and 86%.
The core feature revises Hacksaw’s earlier vertical DuelReels format into a horizontal system. A VS symbol involved in a win can expand into a Wild DuelRow, with the length determined by the reel on which it lands. Symbols on reel 3 can cover all five reels, while those on reels 2 and 4 cover three reels.
A DuelRow triggers a duel, after which the surviving character applies a multiplier to connected wins. Those multipliers range from 2x to 100x, and multiple winning DuelRows can have their values added together.
Three FS Scatters activate Trigger Warning, awarding 10 free spins and increasing the chance of VS symbols. Further FS Scatters can extend the feature.
Four FS Scatters instead launch Shoot to Kill with eight free spins. Its DuelSpin Bar unlocks DuelSpins that can award VS symbols, downward nudges and additional free spins.
The third feature, Six Feet Under, is triggered by three Hot 100 Scatters. It begins with one free spin and continues to nudge the reels until it has awarded 100 wins.
Hacksaw lists the game’s maximum win at 15,000 times the stake, a figure also given in OLBG’s Nov. 13 weekly slots roundup. However, OLBG’s separate release article gave the maximum potential as 5,000x, an inconsistency with the developer’s page and its later roundup. That article also cited a 96.32% top RTP, rather than the 96% highest configuration listed by Hacksaw.
Buried by Night continues a Wild West strand that Hacksaw first used in 2021’s Wanted Dead or a Wild, according to Bigwinboard. The new game sits alongside Bullets and Bounty and Duel at Dawn, while using horizontally expanding multipliers rather than vertical ones.
