Savannah King Slot – Free Demo

Big game on five reels and fifteen win lines

If there is a theme that maker Tom Horn Gaming appears to prefer, it is those packed with animals, aside from fruit. The cast here runs to lion, elephant, zebra, giraffe and gazelle, with playing-card ranks sitting underneath them. And surely it doesn't get much wilder than a genuine African savannah on a 5x3 layout? The lion is the symbol identified as the base-game wild, substituting for others where it lands. The herd of large game on display is more than equalled by a rather steep multiplier. It can appear in the free spins.

Players strike wins when matching symbols drop on the reels. The Baobab Tree works apart from that, and what it does is start the Free Spins. It is played across 15 win lines. As is usual with this game category, wins are resolved line by line. Across 320 spins in the session 106 of them paid, and 53 of those came back under the 15.00 stake. And there is a Risk game lurking on any finished win: name the colour of a card to double it or forfeit it, and the next fresh spin can start.

Strange how often these apparently majestic and stately slots hide a punishing math model, though unexpectedly, Savannah King dials down the volatility to a more moderate level. The lowest the balance got over those 320 spins was 9,955.00, 45.00 under where it opened. Tom Horn Gaming has targeted the mid-ground(ish) when it comes to volatility with a medium grade. The longest stretch without a win ran 11 spins and ended on spin 30. The stated RTP is 96.41%.

What the Baobab Tree starts

The Free Spins are the king around here. In 320 spins they came in four times, on spins 170, 178, 257 and 316. They appear when at least 3 Baobab Tree scatters drop anywhere on the reels, and the round arrives with a multiplier of up to 5x. A captured frame shows the round running at 2x with nine spins still to go, so the ceiling is plainly not what every round carries. The round runs 10 free spins. The gaps between the four in the session ran 8 spins, then 79, then 59.

A Green Diamond that only shows up in the bonus

Along with the Free Spins, the other feature to be mindful of is the Extra Double Wild, a Green Diamond wild that emerges only during the free spins. It turned up in one of the session's four rounds, landing twice inside the feature on spin 257. It doubles any win it participates in. That particular round finished at 510.00, or 34.0x the stake. Here, that extra wild is in play on top of the round's multiplier, and that is the distinction between free and regular spins.

320 spins at a 15.00 stake

Over 320 spins at a 15.00 stake the balance moved from 10,000.00 to 14,084.50, a return of 185.1%. Behind that sit 4,800.00 wagered and 8,884.50 won. A lone base-game hit of 4,320.00 on spin 4 did most of that work, though. That single spin paid 288.0x the stake and pushed the balance to 14,260.00, which stood as the session peak for the remaining 316 spins. The four Free Spins rounds paid 1,980.00 between them, 22% of everything won. Individually they came in at 630.00, 480.00, 510.00 and 360.00.

The Minty Summary: The four free spin rounds paid 1,980.00 between them, 22% of everything the session won, while one base-game spin paid 4,320.00 on its own — the feature is the part of this game with a sequence to follow, and it is not the part that moved the balance.

Where the ceiling figures sit

The 5x free spins multiplier and 5,000 times the stake win cap are the ceiling figures. Getting near the second one asks for the free spins, a top multiplier and the Green Diamond doubling to arrive on the same line at once. In the session, the free spins arrived four times, none of them retriggering. Each ran out its ten spins and closed on a screen totalling what the round had paid. The best of them paid 42.0x the stake.