Verdict: The Charge Path and the pick bonus both fire from ordinary spins, so Buffalo Charge's base game has more going on than wilds and scatters. The 95.34% RTP is average, and the game is not confirmed at US online casinos.
Two wilds and everything in between
The feature that gives Buffalo Charge its name works like a fence going up. A buffalo wild lands on one reel. Another lands on a different reel in the same spin. The two link, and every symbol on the path between them turns wild too. CORE Gaming calls this the Charge Path, and on a 5x4 grid with 25 fixed paylines a single linked band of wilds can complete several lines at once.
It changes how a spin looks while it resolves. In most buffalo slots the wild is a lone symbol, or a stack on one reel. Here the interesting moment is the second wild, because it decides whether the first one does anything special. Some reviewers describe the same mechanic under the name End2End, and the feature list treats the two as one.
The game came out in 2019 from CORE Gaming, a UK studio. It is unrelated to Charge Buffalo, a similarly named game from JILI, also sold as TaDa Gaming. The provider name is the quickest way to tell them apart in a game list.
Why 25 lines on a 5x4 grid matters
Twenty positions and only 25 fixed lines is a lean setup. A 5x4 grid of the same size pays 1,024 ways in Aristocrat’s Buffalo, where any adjacent match counts. Buffalo Charge asks for matches along set paths, so most symbol combinations on a given spin pay nothing at all. So the Charge Path carries a lot of weight: a band of wilds crossing the grid hits several of those set paths at the same moment, and it turns a grid that pays sparingly into one that can pay on several lines in a single spin. Without a linked wild, the base game is a fairly plain line slot.
The horseshoe pick
Reel three carries a horseshoe bonus symbol. When it lands, a pick bonus starts, and the pick decides which of three things the player gets: free spins, a Buffalo Spin or a cash prize.
The Buffalo Spin is the unusual one. It is a single spin that always lands at least one buffalo wild, which makes a Charge Path more likely on that spin because only one more wild is needed to complete it. Its value depends entirely on where that wild lands and whether a second one follows.
The cash prize is the plain option. Sources do not publish its range, so this page does not quote one.
Putting the bonus trigger on one reel has a side effect: the feature can arrive from a single symbol, without needing three scatters to line up. That keeps the base game busier than in games where every feature hangs on a scatter count.
Free spins with a rising multiplier
When the pick lands on free spins, the award is between 5 and 12 spins, according to scams.info. The multiplier is what makes the round. It rises every time a bonus symbol lands on the centre reel, so a round that catches several of them early builds a larger multiplier for every spin that follows.
Slotcatalog lists the feature as a free-spins multiplier and gives no ceiling. Neither source says what value the multiplier starts at or how much each centre-reel symbol adds. Those details sit in the game’s help screen.
A 5-spin round with no centre-reel symbols is a quiet outcome. A 12-spin round in which the multiplier climbs early and a Charge Path fires on top of it is where the game’s better results come from. The spread between those two outcomes is the real character of the feature.
The numbers that are published
The RTP is 95.34%, the figure slotcatalog, scams.info and slotstemple share. One casino page lists 95.5%. CORE Gaming has no product page online, so there is no provider figure to settle it. At 95.34% the game sits in the middle of the buffalo pack: above the 94.72% of Aristocrat’s Buffalo online and below Pragmatic Play’s Buffalo King at 96.06%.
Stakes run from 0.25 to 100 per spin, in dollars on slotcatalog and pounds on scams.info.
Volatility is unlabelled. Scams.info calls it medium, while slotstemple says CORE Gaming never stated one, and this page follows the cautious reading.
What is not published
The maximum win is blank. Scams.info quotes 250,000 credits, and slotcatalog prints 250,000x, which looks like the same credit figure read as a multiple. Neither works as a stake multiplier.
There is also no jackpot: no source names one, and the feature set every reviewer describes has none. Nor is there a feature buy.
How it compares
Among buffalo slots built on paylines, Buffalo Charge has the busiest base game. Microgaming’s White Buffalo runs 25 selectable lines with a single free-spins feature. WMS’s Buffalo Spirit has 30 lines and a replicating wild. Booming Games’ Buffalo Hold and Win also uses 25 lines, with its weight on a coin respin bonus. Buffalo Charge has a linking wild, a pick bonus and a multiplier round, all reachable from normal spins.
What it lacks is a documented ceiling. With no maximum win published and no jackpot, it is harder to judge the top end of the game than for most of its rivals. The all buffalo slots list shows the field in full.
Availability
Buffalo Charge is not confirmed at any regulated US online casino. Slotcatalog lists 30 markets, with Great Britain, Finland, Norway and Canada at the top, and the US is not among them. FanDuel does not carry the game. Buffalo slots that US players aged 21 and over can play for real money are sorted by state in the real-money guide.
Where to play Buffalo Charge for real money
Buffalo Charge is not confirmed at a US-licensed online casino by title. None of the 30 markets Slotcatalog lists for CORE Gaming's game is a US state, and FanDuel's lobby does not carry it.
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