Have you ever wanted to go on a safari, an exciting trip down to African plains, where all sorts of gracious animals await? Pragmatic Play released a product that will allow you to visit the beautiful savannah and see a Lion, Baboon, Elephant, Rhinoceros, Zebra, Gazelle and a Lemur from the comfort of your chairs.

Hot Safari is a five-reel slot with 25 fixed paylines that offers Expanding Wilds, Super Wilds, Raining Wilds, Free Spins and Multipliers, for a starting price of $0.25 per spin. The 2016 release boasts very good graphics and a catchy soundtrack, so gamers will have the feeling they are actually in one of the hot African savannahs.

Developer

Pragmatic Play is a software development company based in Malta. The company is pretty new on the market, being founded in 2015, but the founders have years of experience in gambling industry.

Despite the fact that Pragmatic Play has been around just over a year, the company already has more than 150 titles in their catalogue, most of them being video slots, but also table games, card games, video poker, etc.

How To Play It

Before you start exploring the plains of Africa, check out the betting options simply to secure your stay in the savannah. This is a standard five-reel, three-row video slot that offers 25 fixed paylines, and a possibility to bet 1-10 coins per single line.

The coin value goes from $0.01 up to $0.50, meaning that the minimum wager you can place is $0.25, while the maximum is set at $125. Like in other Pragmatic Play products, Autoplay option offers up to 1,000 automatic spins.

The slot pays left to right, starting from the leftmost reel, and you need at least three matching symbols on an active payline to land a win. Once you land a winning combination, it will be multiplied by the Win Multiplier placed on the sixth reel on the right, which may go up to 10 times the win.

Lots of people simply love safaris because of the beautiful nature and lovely animals they see over there. Just imagine how nice it would be to see an Elephant, Rhinoceros, Zebra, Gazelle, and Lemur in their natural habitats, and not only as the high-paying symbols of the slot.

Or see the king himself, the mighty Lion running down the plain in search for his pray. The Lion is the Wild that substitutes for all symbols except Scatters, represented by Baboons. As for low-value symbols, they are 10-A playing cards.

Special Features

We mentioned earlier that there is a Win Multiplier placed on the sixth reel on the right side of the screen that can reward you with a maximum 10x multiplier, but that is not its only reward, since you can also land a Super Wild icon, and trigger a Super Wild Bonus, causing the Wilds to rain down on the reels during the Super Wild Respin.

A Wild will land on every reel, but if they all land on the central row, they will all expand, filling all the reels and resulting with an awesome payout of 100,000 the bet per line.

It is important to remember that the Lion Wild will expand every time it lands on the central position of the reel, both during base game and the Bonus features.

The Pragmatic Play title also offers a Free Spins feature, triggered by three or more Baboon Scatters. Gamers will be awarded with 10 freebies to begin with, but the feature can be retriggered at any time, with no limits, so you can end up with lot more free spins, if you are lucky enough to land plenty of Baboon Scatters.

Maximum Payouts

The biggest payout you can expect from a single spin is the one that may come as the result of the Super Wild Bonus. If Lady Luck helps you land all five Lion Wilds on the central row, you will get five expanding Wilds and a maximum prize of 100,000 the bet per line, which can go up to $50,000.

The Wild is the highest-paying symbol of the slot, offering 400 coins for five of a kind. Elephant is next in line, and will reward you with 250 coins for the same combination.

Summary

Gamers will see for themselves that this savannah is a very exciting place to be in, thanks to a number of additional features that may reward you with some serious cash.

We love the fact that every win comes with a multiplier, and that the Lion Wild is present in almost every spin, even though it does not form a winning combination every time it lands.

The Super Wild Bonus is a neat addition to the story, with the Raining Wilds, Expanding Wilds and a cool cash reward. Taking everything under consideration, we feel that Hot Safari is definitely a slot worthy of your attention.