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Provider | Pragmatic Play |
Reels | 5 |
Rows | 5 |
Paylines | Scatter Pays |
Bonus Rounds | 1 |
Bet Range | 0.20 - 100 |
Volatility | High |
Max Win | 12,000x |
Bonus Buy | Yes |
RTP | 96.03% |
Our Rating | 7.7 |
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Game Overview
I wouldn’t like to be anywhere near a charge of wild bison, that is, of course, unless it is Pragmatic Play’s Wild Bison Charge online slot! This is a scatter-pay machine, meaning there are no traditional pay lines or pay ways. What we do have, however, is a maximum jackpot of 12,000x the total bet alongside a 96.03% RTP – decent vitals that are sure to interest any hardcore slot player. And with that, let’s get down to business.
It would seem that we have a whole bunch of features that are ‘borrowed’ from the hugely popular buffalo franchise – Pragmatic Play isn’t fooling anyone by naming this slot ‘bison’ instead of ‘buffalo’! Wild Bison Charge includes three wild symbols with multiplier values of 2x, 3x, and 5x, and hitting a full screen of these will instantly award the 12k maximum jackpot. The main bonus round is a free spins feature that is capable of awarding between 9 and 15 free spins depending on the number of triggering scatter symbols. A bonus buy facility is also available at the cost of 100x the normal price per spin.
I love the buffalo games, and I’m also a massive fan of scatter-pay slots – our free demo slot of Wild Bison Charge is a perfect fit for me – will it be for you? Find out below.
Wild Bison Charge Slot Theme, Stakes, Pays & Symbols
Those with a keen eye won’t take long to spot the similarities in the symbols between this game and previous releases such as Bison Bonanza, Buffalo Rising Megaways, and Sizzling Kingdom Bison, but Wild Bison Charge is a very different kind of slot in comparison to all of those previous games. Moreover, I’d say that Pragmatic Play has done an excellent job here with their presentation too. In my view, this is one of the best-looking buffalo games to date, and the scatter-pay payout mechanic is just the icing on the cake.
A great start for Pragmatic Play then as far as the presentation is concerned, but as we always say here at Demoslot, if the paytable isn’t up to scratch, it’s all for nothing! Thankfully that isn’t the case here – the buffalo will pay you 250x your bet for 25 symbols, followed by the bear at 200x, the wolf at 175x, the bald eagle at 150x, and finally, the wolf at 125x. Just a little reminder here – these payouts are for the maximum symbol hit of 25 – the game features a 5×5 playfield, meaning you’ll need a full screen of each animal to win the aforementioned prizes. There are a few low pays, too, of course – 25 Aces will award you 100x your current stake, whilst the Kings, Queens, and Jacks are less valuable at 75x, 60x, and 45x, respectively. Unfortunately, I’m afraid there’s no payout attached to the wild or scatter symbols!
Being a Pragmatic Play release, there’s no problem when it comes to stake selection – the bet, coin value, and total bet selectors work together to provide minimum/maximum stakes of €0.20 and €100.00 respectively, and you’re free to play any multiple of the minimum bet that you wish, too.
Base Game & Modifiers
Immediately after loading up Wild Bison Charge, you’ll be presented with its five reel, five row layout. As this is a scatter-pay game, you only need to hit eight or more matching symbols anywhere on the screen to score yourself a win. With 25 available symbol positions, this theoretically means that you could hit three minimum wins just from the initial symbol drop.
Multiplier Wilds
Three symbols – all featuring angry-looking Buffalo – act as the wild symbols in Wild Bison Charge, and each of the three colours has a different multiplier attached to it. The blue wild has a 2x multiplier, whilst the green and red ones are more lucrative at 3x and 5x, respectively.
Note that if more than one wild is featured in a winning combination, their values will be added together before being applied to your win – it’s a shame that they don’t multiply together, but alas, I guess you can’t have everything!
Wild Bison Charge Slot Bonus Features
Hitting three, four, or five scatter symbols will trigger the free spins feature with 9, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. And now, for the best part, telling you all about it.
Free Spins
During this part of the game, every wild symbol that lands on the screen will become sticky and remain in place until the end of the bonus round. This is my absolute favourite type of free spins feature, and it’s made even better by the fact that you can trigger some additional free spins by hitting two or more scatter symbols whilst the feature is active.
It’s not a full re-trigger, unfortunately – even hitting five scatters will only add five extra spins to your remaining total, but the good news is that scatter symbols appear much more frequently during free spins than they do during the base game. Every bonus round I played on Wild Bison Charge became significantly extended because of this.
Bonus Buy
This is one game where I’d be buying features all day long if it wasn’t prohibited in my country – the cost is 100x the normal price per spin, which is more than reasonable, especially considering the number of triggering scatters is determined randomly. You could win your buy-in back immediately if you get lucky enough to hit five scatters right away!
Pros
- The presentation looks great on every device.
- Higher than average jackpot of 12,000x the total bet.
- Sticky wild bonus rounds are just the best!
Cons
- Wilds don’t appear very often during the feature, which is a big downer.
- A couple of base game modifiers wouldn’t have gone amiss either!
- Where’s the bonus bet? Please provide this option for us poor suckers who can’t take advantage of your bonus buy facility!
Final Thoughts
Fans of the Buffalo franchise should absolutely check Wild Bison Charge out right away – the scatter-pay mechanic works beautifully with this style of slot, there are some great hits on the paytable too, and as for those 5x multiplier wilds, Pragmatic Play really has hit the jackpot this time!
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