Savanna King Slot

"Savanna King" is nearly identical to "Wild Reindeer Wins" slot, both created by the company "Genesis Gaming", and they physically differ only in the design of their themes, although at a somewhat more subjective level, I would say that in Savanna King it is not so hard to trigger the free round as it is on its sister slot.

This slot has 5 columns and 4 rows, 1024 different ways to win, a modest paytable, a wild symbol that only appears on reel 2, 3 and 4, and acts only as substitute for standard symbols during the base game, but during free spins it can contain multipliers of x2, x3 and x4 that can be combined with each other with a maximum potential of 64x. Arguably the most interesting aspect of this slot is its free spins round, which can be initially triggered by the occurrence of 3 simultaneous scatters, and once the first scatter appears, a herd of reindeer runs right over the reels while the rest of reels rotate quickly, both things to convey suspense and excitement while player expects the emergence of scatters remaining; 3, 4 or 5 scatters give a round of 8, 15 or 20 spins respectively, and when I said that this round was very interesting, I mean, besides the potential multiplier of x64 already explained above, the ease that exists to re-trigger the round, this thanks to Genesis Gaming added an extra round of 5 spins with the appearance of only two scatters; 3, 4 or 5 scatters add the same 8, 15 or 20 games; in my short experience with this game, the longest round I've ever done, it has been a total of 39 spins, which meant an acceptable profit to me; because we have to understand that hit average of this game is not very good as wanted.

My overall impression of this game is in a medium term, I think the game is fun but I think it could be better, especially on specific issues such as the paytable and hitting average, I always miss stacked wilds on a slot having a layout of 5 x 4 reels, but I need to clarify that in this game it could not happen that way because of the x64 combined multiplier of wilds during the free games, which certainly I do not remember that contributed much to my winnings though.

Savanna King, of course, an animal slot that gives us an insight of the wild life of Africa and it wouldn’t be surprise at all but the graphical realization of the theme makes the slot an impressive, unique product. I don’t mean here the 4 rows the slot uses much more the very detailed and awesome graphical work that fall that category I really appreciate. The game uses noble animal portraits as symbols like lion, zebra, rhino which are all fantastic looking but the supplementary pictorial decorative elements in the background are even more captivating if it’s possible. The green trees, stones, blue sky are really life-like and a little bit reminds me of great 3D pictures what BetSoft uses but I find this visual solution more charming as a very cleverly chosen color sets just increases the overall pictorial effects. This is a really demanding and well-made project and all I can do just enjoy this whole interface and say ‘Thanks’ to the creators.

The extra paying row of course gives option for many more winning combinations so it’s no surprise the slot offers in total 1024 ways to win and that also gives high hopes for players to be rewarded well. Because of the numerous paylines and the almost evident simultaneous wins there’s not much sense to give much attention to the numbers on the paytable but we really have to focus on Wild and the free spin session once because it’s the only bonus the game offers and partly they could offers an even greater chance to win big. The Wild hadn’t got any other function than to replace other symbols in winning combinations and sadly it appears only on the 3 inner reels but with these limited functions this symbol still can be effective and powerful but real excitement is coming when at least 3 Scatters land on the reels and 8 free games are awarded (4 Scatters trigger 15, 5 Scatters 20 free games) and there there’s no limit for Wilds. Every substituting symbol during free games reveals a randomly chosen multiplier number from x2 to x4 but the best part is it not just valid for the win (if there’s any) where the Wild is involved but all other simultaneous wins are automatically multiplied and it’s even can be enhanced if another Wild appears on the screen and it also reveals its own multiplier value and then all wins are multiplied by the cumulative of these two independently assigned multipliers. So in lucky situation when 3 Wilds show themselves and all of them would have x4 multiplier ability then all wins of that unique win will be multiplied by x64! Incredible isn’t it?

While in normal game mode the wins pop up in just ordinary frequency and to be honest I would have waited better winning combination appearing tendency and the payouts have just average quality but in free games (which is triggered in acceptable occasions) the things usually turn out good and with the help of Wilds sometimes really have a chance for winning some nice prizes. My best sequence came when I played with just €0.80 (here I must mention that every time when I tried to play with higher bets the winnings noticeably come less often and always must to return to base bet where the slot’s working scheme gives better results) so my little success was thanked to the mention situation when 2 Wilds appeared and both gave x2-x2 multiplier on the table and I was fortunate enough that spin also brought a 5 of a kind win with Rhinos but getting one more Wild on the fourth reels and fourth row made this spin a good start of that session and when I got 2 times another sets of Scatter that increased the number of free spins almost 20 I could hope for something real good was happening and when the extra session was finished and my balance increased by just €120 for some reasons I couldn’t be totally satisfied.

Though the slot’s qualities and feature really look good and very promising on paper but in reality I can’t really feel that kind of greatness what I initially hoped. I’m not saying this slot would be a bad paying product but it can’t really live up to my expectations and that’s why the slot is overall a little bit disappointing for me. Probably I have unrealistic expectations regarding to its paying ability but I still really think the game should be a little better rewarding and it’s especially true for the normal game segment. On the other hand Savanna King is a real beautiful and very entertaining slot that I always like to spend my time with and maybe there were once or twice when I didn’t feel myself well-entertained and it’s always a pleasure to see these wonderful animal pictograms. If someone likes animals and likes video slots this game can be a right choice to mix the two leaning and be surrounded in a great environment.

Let's say you just found a 5x4 slot with all ways win and having as its theme the wild African savanna. What would you say about this game? This is great, isn’t it? Then let's say you would play 30-50 spins with a bet of 40 cents with the biggest win you had of 30 cents. And on the spin number 30 you entered in Free Spins (that promise a multiplier of up to 64x) and you had won from 8 Free Spins exactly 20 cents! Perhaps by now you have changed completely the opinion about the game, I guess.

Let’s continue with assumptions saying that in the following 10-20 spins you just got 2-3 Big Wins with an average value of about 4 Euro. And the game play continues like this long enough. At some point although a Big Win is only 10x bet, and although a normal win is smaller than the bet despite the fact that you expect to lose, you may find yourself winning. Why? Because these Big Wins (with a value of 10x-15x maximum) are so frequent. Extraordinary and I suspect that again you will say that the slot is good.

Like this is “Savana King”, a slot from Genesis Gaming casinos. That is, a slot you do not really know what to say about because many wins are too small and only the Big Wins matter. The game does not have too many surprises here, nor the rounds of Free Spins (as frequent as those Big Wins) bring too many emotions. Those multipliers of 2x, 3x and 4x that it is said they can bring up to 64x wins are almost absent, and generally the average wins from Free Spins do not exceed again 10x-15x bet. It is too bad that this slot has 1024 ways because in general the game play is excellent at these slots. Here the game is a kind of all or nothing and the value of this “all” is quite small. Overall (though the losses are not so big) the slot is weaker than average.

The value of the regular wins is less than the bet. The maximum value of a Big Win is about 15x bet. About the same is the win from Free Spins.