Buffalo Ascension
About this machine
Buffalo Ascension™ builds on one of Aristocrat’s most iconic brands to deliver tons of new features and ways to win. Persistent reel growth offers an incredible 5,488 ways to win the base game! Collect gold arrows to win the progressive jackpot and enjoy upgraded free games where your rewards can multiply to huge amounts! Be on the lookout for stampedes and super stampedes that will add buffalo to your reels for the remainder of the spin.
Description sourced from the manufacturer's public product page.
Buffalo Ascension on video
Real footage of this machine — 6 clips whose title names it. We index them; the videos live on YouTube. More on YouTube ↗
Artwork & cabinet
Official game video
Aristocrat's own demo reel for this machine. Open on YouTube ↗
Where Buffalo Ascension sits in Aristocrat's range
Buffalo Ascension is part of Aristocrat's Buffalo line, which runs to 25 documented titles. Manufacturers ship a hit as a family rather than one box, so entries in a series share branding and often a bonus structure while carrying different maths.
Aristocrat lists it as a progressive. That does not make it a wide-area jackpot: most progressives build from play on that machine or that bank of machines inside one property, and reset locally. The wide-area systems — the ones where a meter is shared across dozens of casinos — are a much smaller, separately licensed set.
What's the RTP of Buffalo Ascension?
There isn't one number — and any site quoting you a single figure is describing a different product.
Manufacturers ship the same title in multiple par versions, commonly spanning roughly 85% to 96%. The casino chooses which one to install, and that choice is not disclosed on the machine. Nevada regulation only sets a floor: every wager must theoretically return at least 75%.
What regulators actually publish is hold percentage — realised performance after player behaviour, aggregated by region and denomination. It is never broken out by game title. So the honest answer for any land-based machine is a range plus an unknown configuration, not a single figure.
Figures quoted elsewhere for this title are almost always taken from its online version, which is a different product with a different maths model.
Where to play
We don't yet have verified floor placements for this machine. Our casino cross-reference covers 442 properties, but only through IGT's public linked-progressive data — which doesn't reach Aristocrat titles. We would rather show nothing than guess.
Rest of the Buffalo line
All 25 Buffalo machines →25 titles carry this branding. They share artwork and usually a bonus structure, but each ships its own maths.
Most-filmed Aristocrat machines
All 634 Aristocrat machines →The titles from this manufacturer that slot channels actually put on camera.
