Buffalo Claws Expanded — Royspins
Catalogues list this release under its full name, Buffalo Claws Expanded: Hold and Win, and it comes from Clawbuster, which added it to its games page in July 2026. The name declares the family immediately: Hold and Win is the coin-and-respin format that has been rebuilt dozens of times across the industry over the past few years. What is unusual about this particular title is how little the studio publishes about it. Rather than paper over that with borrowed figures, this guide separates what is confirmed from what you have to read inside the game itself.
What kind of game it is
Developer: Clawbuster. Format: Hold and Win. The studio's own games page carries no return-to-player figure, no grid size and no volatility rating for the Expanded edition, so none appear here. That omission is deliberate on our side — returns in this format are often configurable per operator, and a single-source number lifted from an aggregator would misdescribe the game more often than it would help.
Context comes from the predecessor. Clawbuster's Buffalo Claws, released in February 2026, ran on a three-by-three grid with no base-game payouts at all, medium volatility and a maximum win of roughly 1,000x, with its RTP falling between 94 and 95 percent depending on how the operator configured it. Those figures belong to the older game. The word expanded points precisely at a changed layout, so treat them as background and take the live numbers from the info panel.
Bonus features
The respin round is the heart of the format. Once enough coin symbols land, the game switches into a separate sequence where each new coin sticks to the board and refills the counter of remaining spins. The round ends when the counter empties, and every value locked on screen is paid out together.
In the earlier Buffalo Claws, coins came in distinct roles — sticky, collector and mystery — sitting alongside four jackpot tiers from the smallest up to the grand. Whether the Expanded edition keeps that exact set is a question the paytable answers in a few seconds. Open it before your first stake, because knowing which coin does which job is the difference between following the round and merely watching it.
Stakes and limits
Play is settled in euros. Since the studio names no bet range, the only trustworthy source is the stake selector inside the game, which shows both the smallest accepted bet and the ceiling the operator has configured.
Hold and Win maths carries one budgeting quirk worth internalising. When the base game pays nothing on its own — as was the case in the previous Buffalo Claws — the entire result of a session is concentrated in respin rounds that arrive infrequently. Plan the bankroll for a longer quiet stretch than instinct suggests: pick a stake that leaves room for several hundred spins, and fix a loss limit before the session rather than in the middle of one.
Demo play and wagering
The shortage of published figures is itself the argument for starting in demo mode. A couple of hundred free spins will show you how often the coin round actually triggers, which is exactly the fact no listing site can supply for this title.
Three things stay checkable rather than promotional. The operator's Estonian licence is recorded in the gambling register maintained by the Tax and Customs Board, open to anyone who wants to look. The contribution this game makes toward a wagering requirement is written into the terms of each individual promotion, together with any exclusions — Hold and Win titles are sometimes weighted below 100 percent. And the game's own parameters, from RTP to the rules of the coin round, sit in the info panel. If any of the three cannot be found, that absence is an answer in itself.