Savannah Pride: Slot Overview
Check your travel docs are up to date players because we’re heading to the African countryside to have a spin with Red Tiger in its online slot Savannah Pride. Of the many, many world destinations to choose from, the African grasslands are one of the higher-ranking choices on software providers’ bucket lists. Perhaps it’s because Africa is where humanity is said to have started, and there’s an urge to return to the source; maybe it’s the culture or the incredible wildlife. Whatever the reason, the African savannah is up, and Red Tiger mingles the local population with wild symbol transformation action.
Looks are a highlight of Savannah Pride, and its grassland setting, replete with elephants grazing on the left and lions on the lookout to the right, is easy on the eyes. Casino game makers have a lot of experience making African nature slots, and you know, a lot of them blur together after a while in the graphics department. Savannah Pride doesn’t totally avoid this effect, but the animals, the landscape, and the smattering of cultural items should put a smile on the faces of gamblers looking to play this style of game.
The journey begins by choosing the right stake, which can be as low as 10 c or as high as $/€20 per game round. Savannah Pride does not supply ante bets or feature buys, so patiently pounding the spin button is the only way to go. Its medium-high volatile math model plays out on a 5×3, 20 payline reelset, maxing out the return to player value at 95.75%.
Carved from wood and splashed with colour are Savannah Pride’s 10-A low-pay symbols. They award 2.5 to 3 times your stake when a win containing 5 matching symbols hits. Worth more on the table are the high-pay animal symbols – giraffes, zebras, buffalo, rhinos, and elephants. A 5 OAK animal symbol win pays 5 to 50 times your bet.
Savannah Pride: Slot Features
Wilds are one of Savannah Pride’s principal weapons, coming in the form of Warrior Wilds and Princess Wilds, while the game is divided between base and bonus modes.
Shield & Warrior Wild
The Shield is a 1×3 symbol that may land partially or fully in view. When a Shield lands fully in view, it converts into a Warrior Wild. The Warrior Wild substitutes for all paying symbols. Shield symbols are able to form winning combinations worth up to 100x.
Princess Wild
The Princess Wild substitutes for all paying symbols, as well. The Princess Wild also transforms any vertically or horizontally adjacent Shield symbols into Warrior Wilds. Any Shield symbols adjacent to Warrior Wilds transformed by the Princess also transform into Warrior Wilds. No matter the type of wild, a line of 5 wilds pays 100x the bet.
Free Spins
In the main game, hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols awards 8, 12, or 20 free spins, respectively (possible to retrigger in the same manner). At the start of the feature, 1 Princess Wild is added to the reels in a random position. This Princess Wild stays on the grid for the duration of the bonus round, and it may move to a new position between spins. Additional Princess Wilds may land.
Savannah Pride: Slot Verdict
Something that Savannah Pride excels at is throwing up a rich, vibrant view of Africa. Yes, it is romanticised and all, but the game is nice to look at while packing in loads of wildlife and cultural touches. One thing that may spoil the experience, to a degree, is the turbo button, if available. When switched on, the turbo button doesn’t just speed up the reels, it speeds everything up. So the elephants and lions that were casually grazing in the background fields look like they’ve consumed a bunch of uppers and are suddenly bopping about hard, chewing the inside of their mouths to oblivion. But since the turbo button isn’t available everywhere, this is unlikely to be much of an issue.
Aside from the stylised representation of Africa’s savannah side, Savannah Pride wasn’t a major sightseeing attraction of a slot. The base game gets Shield to Warrior Wild conversions every so often, but they are somewhat limited by the reel/payline configuration. Having to either land the Shield symbol fully in view or hitting a Princess next to one before it transforms into a wild seemed a bit pointless in some ways. Maybe it would have been just as good, if not better, if Warrior Wilds just landed without needing to be transformed. However, perhaps having a transformation step adds a vague mission element to the game that would have been missing if the Shield/Warrior Wild was simply wild all the time, no matter how much was visible. The mission ramps up in free spins with the roaming Princess symbol doing her conversion duties, and the domino way neighbouring Shields transform if they’re next to a transformed Shield/Warrior Wild might be the game’s best bit.
Should Savannah Pride domino hard, like giraffes shredding tree leaves to bits hard, it can achieve wins of up to 3,425.8x the bet. Not massive, and once you’ve seen the Shield transformation a few times it’s easy to walk away from this safari.
Mediocre
Savannah Pride delivers a few handsome highlights of Africa, but that’s about it.
