Safari Sam 2 Slot – Free Demo

A 50-line safari at a 1.00 stake

Safari Sam 2 is a 5-reel, 3-row online slot. Line wins pay for 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols on a payline. Its 50 paylines are accessible from 0.20 to 24 credits, and the game contains a free spins round and revolves around the random Call of the Wild feature, while the 96.30% RTP is the figure the rules state. I played 480 spins at a 1.00 stake from a starting balance of 1,000.00. Regarding volatility, it's somewhere in the middle portion of the spectrum. Those 480 spins returned 256.70, a session return of 53.5%, and the balance never rose above the 1,000.00 it started with before finishing at 776.70.

Sam, Pam and the lettered riff-raff

Inspecting the paytable, I find four low-paying symbols depicted by the conventional card characters, and the six high-value symbols are depicted by Sam, Pam, lions, zebras, jeeps and tents. Pam pays 8x the stake for five on a payline, and the Lion pays 4x. Sam is the most rewarding, paying 10 times the stake for five across a payline. Among the card symbols, five A pay 1.5x the stake and five J pay 1x.

The Compass Wild substitutes for all other symbols except the Acacia Tree scatter, as expected. A reel showing 3 identical symbols triggers Safari Stacks, which pays a 3 of a kind prize, collapses those symbols and drops in new ones until no triple vertical match is left; in my session it paid 16.00 on spin 304.

Up to four reels of Compass Wilds

This slot arrives with a randomly activated feature called Call of the Wild, which, when triggered, covers up to 4 entire reels with Compass Wilds. My largest win of the session, 39.00 on spin 210, came when Call of the Wild covered reels with Compass Wilds.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: The core and spirit of the game is Call of the Wild. It surfaces now and then, contributing the biggest win to the base game. Be cautioned, as it can tease you as well. Only 137 of my 480 spins paid anything, and 82 of those paying spins returned less than the 1.00 stake. Safari Sam 2 is not the most powerful slot out there.

Seven, twelve or twenty spins under the Acacia Tree

Three or more Acacia Tree scatter symbols trigger 7, 12 or 20 free spins. The scatters also pay anywhere on the reels, 3x the bet for three, 12x for four and 50x for five. More free spins are awarded the more scatter symbols land, and free spins can also be retriggered. The Acacia Tree never landed three times in my 480 spins, so the free spins round did not start.

Call of the Wild is at the centre of things here. It functions more or less like it does when it appears at random in the base game, but with one extra perk. It is guaranteed on every free spin, and since the game is capped, the max win is restricted to 505x. Each of those guaranteed activations covers between 1 and 4 reels with Compass Wilds, and the replacement symbols Safari Stacks drops in during the round are always wilds.