Savanna Roar Slot Review

Savanna Roar Slot Overview

When I first loaded up Savanna Roar from Jelly, I could see straight away they were going for a safe debut rather than some wild experiment. The game slots neatly into Yggdrasil’s YGS Masters line-up, using a very familiar African savannah set-up with a clean 5x4 layout and 1024 ways to win. It feels built for mobile play, snappy to spin, and generally aimed at players who like straightforward slots with solid numbers behind them.

Theme wise, Savanna Roar takes us to a slightly pastel version of Africa, with acacia trees, distant mountains and birds drifting across a hazy sky. The artwork looks tidy, though not as flashy as some safari efforts I have seen, and the colour palette stays on the softer side. The soundtrack is a choral piece that works well in the background and helps keep longer sessions from feeling too repetitive.

Savanna Roar Slot Information

Savanna Roar runs on 5 reels and 4 rows with 1024 ways to win, so hits come from landing three or more matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel. Stakes range from 0.25 up to 100 per spin, which should suit both casual play and more serious sessions. Over time I found the hit rate figure around one win in three spins fairly accurate, so the base game does not feel completely dead while you are waiting for features.

The slot uses a medium to high volatility model, backed by a theoretical RTP around 96.5% to 96.56%, which is slightly above the usual standard. The top win of 10,459x your stake has been reached in long-run simulations, so there is genuine punch in the maths even if most sessions hover around smaller bursts. In practice, balance swings can be lively, especially when several modifiers cluster together or the bonus round lines up multipliers.

Savanna Roar Symbols and Paytable

Symbol wise, Savanna Roar keeps things simple. The low pays are J, Q, K and A, all paying up to 0.4x your bet for five of a kind across the ways. High pays are a set of classic savannah beasts: buffalo, rhino, leopard and elephant, worth from 0.8x up to 8x for five. With 1024 ways active, those numbers add up best when several high symbols stack across the grid rather than through single line hits.

The lion acts as the wild symbol, stepping in for all regular pay icons and doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the bigger hits. The Savanna Roar logo works as the scatter or bonus symbol, and you often see it arrive in handy stacks that make the feature thresholds less painful than they sound. On top of that, mystery symbols can appear and transform into matching icons, which helps squeeze extra value from fairly average looking spins.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Special
	5	x8
	4	x2
	3	x0.8
	5	x2
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.4
	Mystery
	5	x1.6
	4	x0.8
	3	x0.4
	Special
	5	x0.8
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.32
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.32
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.32
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.32
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.32
	3	x0.2
	Scatter
	Wild, Multiplier
	Wild
	Wild

Savanna Roar Slot Features

Most of the time in Savanna Roar you are riding the random modifiers. On any paid spin you can get Rhino Stampede, which drops mystery symbols that reveal the same icon, or Wild Leopard Spotted, which turns every leopard in view into a wild. Buffalo Charge makes buffalo spread to adjacent positions, while Untamed Elephant Spotted can expand an elephant into a chunky 3x3 mega symbol that covers a good portion of the reels.

Scatter symbols bring a respin mechanic that feels quite handy. When you land bonus symbols, they lock in place and the remaining reels respin. New scatters stick as well, and you keep getting respins for as long as fresh bonus symbols hit. In my sessions that step often bridged the gap from a teasing four or five scatters up to the six needed for free spins, so it does not feel like pure window dressing.

Free spins start from six or more scatters, giving 10, 12, 15 or 25 spins depending on how many you land up to a maximum of twenty. The feature can retrigger, and inside it you get two extra twists. Wild Leopard Multiplier turns leopard symbols into wilds that carry multipliers of x1, x2 or x3, and these stack up nicely across several ways. When you land five or fewer scatters during the bonus, Savage Lion kicks in and turns those scatters into extra wilds instead.

The 200 Spins Savanna Roar Slot Experience

Running roughly 200 spins on Savanna Roar, my experience lined up well with the figures on paper. The early stretch was fairly steady, with small way wins and the odd modifier giving back a chunk of the stake. The best base game moment came from Wild Leopard Spotted combining with stacked beasts for a tidy payout. The free spins round arrived once off the back of the scatter respins, landing me a mid-tier set of spins that paid respectably without threatening the top end figures.

Savanna Roar Slot Verdict

Having put a fair bit of time into Savanna Roar, I see it as a decent, very straightforward safari slot rather than something that tries to reinvent anything. The visuals are pleasant, the modifiers are all ideas we have seen before, yet there are enough of them to stop the grind getting stale. If you like clear rules, medium to high volatility and a respectable 10,459x ceiling, this is a steady choice for both short and longer sessions.

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