Savannah Legend

Savannah Legend: Slot Overview

If there is one corner of the world that draws game makers back time and time again, it's the majestic, untamed parts of the African savannah. Players keen to take a first-time look, or those who have visited multiple times before, are invited to enter with Pragmatic Play's online slot Savannah Legend. It's not the most imaginative game ever made, as a tried and true theme joins reliable features, such as wild multipliers, and an upgrade to the highest-paying symbol system in free spins, but you never know; let's take a gawk.

Load Savannah Legend up, and players certainly find themselves out on the savannah alright. There's rich golden grass, a bit of water, tall leafy trees, and hills in the distance bordering a wide-open vista; it's a classic view. One that has admittedly been seen many, many times in the past, and while there are exceptions, if you've seen one, you've kind of seen them all. Or a bunch of them, at least. Savannah Legend doesn't do much visually to stand out from the herd, though the accompanying music has a charming aspirational quality to it.

Wrapped in rock is a 5-reel gaming area, landing 3 symbols per reel. The 1,024 ways to win pay system creates a win when matching symbols land across 3 or more consecutive reels starting from the leftmost side of the board. A solid 96.5% RTP is produced by the highly volatile math model, and a wide range of bets, 10 c to $/€250 per spin, are available for players to choose from.

Savannah Legend's list of pay symbols includes 9 through A card royals designed as chunky slabs of rock, as well as meerkats, hyenas, zebras, giraffes, and lions. Five-of-a-kind royal wins pay 1.5 to 2 times the bet when they hit, and premium animal symbols are worth 2.5 to 5 times the bet for 5 OAK. Wild symbols appear on reels 2, 3, and 4. They substitute for all symbols except the scatter. In the base game, wild symbols may possess a random multiplier of x2 or x3. Multipliers apply to all wins passing through them. Get more than one wild in the same win, and their multipliers multiply each other.

Savannah Legend: Slot Features

Savannah Legend has a free spins round that is triggered when at least 3 scatter symbols land on the reels. Players collect a payout of 2x, 10x, or 20x the bet plus 8, 15, or 20 free spins when 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols, respectively, land. During free spins, any wild symbol part of a win is guaranteed to have a multiplier of x2 or x3, which is applied to all wins passing throughout it. More than one wild in the same win sees their multipliers multiply each other.

A special white lion symbol may appear in free spins. It can land anywhere and is collected when it does so, then transforms into the regular, high paying lion symbol:

• 4 special lion symbols collected: The giraffe symbol is transformed into lion symbols.
• 7 special lion symbols collected: The zebra symbol is transformed into lion symbols.
• 13 special lion symbols collected: The hyena symbol is transformed into lion symbols.
• 15 special lion symbols collected: The meerkat symbol is transformed into lion symbols.

If the 15th special lion symbol is collected on the final free spin and there is no retrigger by scatters on that spin, players get +1 free spin. Hitting 2, 3, 4, or 5 scatters during the round grants a further +5, +8, +15, or +20 free spins, respectively.

Feature Buy

The free spins round can be bought for 100 times the bet, and 3, 4, or 5 scatters will land on the triggering spin. The RTP remains at 96.5% when buying the feature.

Savannah Legend: Slot Verdict

Given the amount of titles Pragmatic is churning out, it may not surprise you that this isn't the first time they've ventured into a virtual Africa, having released such related slots as African Elephant, Wild Wildebeest Wins, and The Ultimate 5, so you might think the team knows a thing or two about designing this sort of slot. For sure it does, but Savannah Legend is hardly representative of a craftsman or woman on top of their game, pooling past experiences together to forge their magnum opus. Instead, it feels like the Pragmatic Play design team was handed a list of components that the suits deemed appropriate for an African slot and robotically went through them as if on autopilot, checking them off.

It also feels like Prag might have done this sort of symbol upgrade thing before - other studios certainly have. There's Thunderkick's Pink Elephants of course, one of the premier examples of a symbol upgrade slot, as well as NetEnt's Silverback Gold, or Blueprint Gaming's Full Moon Fever, for example. So, quite a bit of choice then. Why pick Savannah Legend over them? Tough one to answer since, in many ways, it is quite generic. However, the default RTP is attractive (if available to you), as is the 10,000x win cap, and the upgrade feature does what it says on the tin. Savannah Legend is sturdily built, in other words.

Then again, not every slot has to be the greatest thing ever made; quotas must be adhered to, games pumped onto the market to attract the eyes of the gambling multitudes, and so on. Average slots are bound to be the result of saturation tactics, of which Savannah Legend can count itself one of.