Best Bonus Buy Slots 2026

Bonus buy (feature buy) slots let you pay a fixed multiple of your stake to go straight to the bonus round. Bonus buys are banned in some markets, including Great Britain, and they do not change the long-term RTP in your favour.

We currently list 275 bonus buy slots from 8 studios, led by BGaming (141), Nolimit City (108) and Pragmatic Play (12). Across the 275 games with a published RTP, the average is 96.34%. Cat’s Soup has the highest at 98.06%, while Hot Rocket Mega Potz is lowest at 94.15%. Max wins range from 500x up to 500,000x on Tombstone Slaughter: El Gordo's Revenge. Of the 269 games with a provider volatility rating, the most common ratings are very high (57%), high (23%) and medium-high (9%). 275 of them (100%) offer a bonus buy where it is legal.

275 slots match this list. Rankings use our editorial review score and the published game data; they are not paid placements.

1. Wanted Dead or a Wild – Hacksaw Gaming

Wanted Dead or a Wild is the game that made Hacksaw a household name with high-volatility players. Three separate bonuses, each purchasable on its own where bonus buys are allowed, give the game far more variety than a single free spins round. The Duel at Dawn feature – expanding VS reels with multipliers – can produce huge results on just a few spins, which is why it is popular with streamers. It is very swingy; most bonuses pay modestly and a few pay enormously.

96.38% RTP · Very high volatility · 12,500x max win

2. Gates of Olympus – Pragmatic Play

Gates of Olympus is the game that turned Pragmatic's pay-anywhere tumble engine into a franchise. There are no paylines: eight or more matching symbols anywhere on the 6x5 grid pay, and the grid keeps tumbling until no new wins form.

96.50% RTP · Very high volatility · 5,000x max win

3. Money Train 2 – Relax Gaming

Money Train 2 remains the benchmark for "money cart" style bonuses. The persistent special symbols – Collectors, Payers, Snipers and the Necromancer – combine in so many ways that no two bonuses look the same. It's very volatile, but the bonus is entertaining even when it pays poorly, which is rare.

96.40% RTP · Very high volatility · 50,000x max win

4. Sweet Bonanza – Pragmatic Play

Sweet Bonanza introduced the pay-anywhere tumble format years before Gates of Olympus made it ubiquitous, and it still plays well. The candy presentation is bright and light, but the math is not: the base game pays mostly fruit and small tumbles, and nearly all of the real potential sits in the free spins.

96.48% RTP · High volatility · 21,175x max win

5. Gates of Olympus 1000 – Pragmatic Play

The 1000 version keeps everything familiar about the original – the same grid, symbols and pay-anywhere tumble – but stretches the multiplier range and triples the max win to 15,000x. In practice this makes an already swingy slot swingier: the average bonus doesn't feel much bigger, but the ceiling is far higher.

96.50% RTP · Very high volatility · 15,000x max win