Savanna’s Life Pokies
The people and wildlife of the African plains are featured on the reels of the Savanna’s Life video pokie from EGT. It’s a popular theme, carried across multiple games, but as usual, EGT have managed to design an attractive pokie that has some potentially rewarding bonus features, including free spins with a unique multiplier feature, wild substitutions and a high-paying scatter symbol. These are on top of the gamble round and Jackpot Cards progressive features that all EGT pokies come with.
There’s a standard layout of 5 reels, symbols in 3 rows and 20 fixed paylines running across them, and the low limit bet to get started is set at 0.20, while the most that can be staked on a spin is 400.00. Free Savanna’s Life video pokie games can be played at many casinos, although obviously there’s no real cash awards until actual bets are made.
Above the reels, there’s the 4 levels of the progressive jackpot feature that we will cover in a bit, and behind the games, there’s a nice picture of the grasslands of Africa, along with a few wildebeest and vultures.
Playing Savanna’s Life
Lower value, but the more common wins, come from landing the playing card 9, 10, J, and Q symbols across a payline in an unbroken line from the left side, with 5x the line bet paid out when 3 of a kind appear, 20x when a line of 4 is landed and a full run of 5 is worth 100x. The K and A symbols will pay out 10, 50 and 250x for the same combinations, and then we go up in value and find the unique picture symbols.
A zebra and a rather surprised-looking monkey will each return 20, 100 or 500x for landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels, while the elephant pays 20, 250 or 750x. The top paying standard symbols are the man and woman, who are both worth 75, 100 or 1000x the line bet, but the king of the jungle, and king of the pay table is the lion, who will pay punters 20x when he stops on just the first 2 reels, and a massive 5000x for a full line right across the game.
He’s also, appropriately, the wild symbol, able to replace any other if needed to complete a winning line. So, players who have matching symbols, but there’s a gap in the sequence, will still get a win if the wild is in the right place to plug that gap, while he can also stretch wins across additional reels.
Savanna’s Life
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Bonus Features
A nice view of the savanna at sunset is a scatter symbol, which pays 40x when landing in any 2 positions at once, while seeing 3, 4 or 5 at a time will not only pay 100, 400 or 2000x, but also trigger 12 free spins with a great multiplier feature throughout them.
A kingfisher bird will fly onto the reels any time players get a winning line in the free games, multiplying the value of the win by random amounts from 1x to 10x. It’s a simple but very effective way to boost winnings, and if 3 or more scatters land in a free game, an extra 12 spins are added on to the end of the round.
Other Features
Like all EGT casino pokie machines, Savanna’s Life offers players the chance to gamble wins, doubling the amount won by correctly guessing the colour of a playing card, but losing the triggering prize if a wrong choice is made.
There’s also the guarantee of a progressive jackpot payout if the Jackpot Cards round is awarded. It’s a random round that has 12 playing cards laid out and players click them in any order to reveal the suits. Once 3 of the same have been found, the Club, Heart, Diamond or top-value Spade jackpot is won.
The Verdict
Because it sticks to a popular theme, this pokie is bound to attract lots of players, but even fans of the design wouldn’t stick around for long if the gameplay wasn’t up to a high standard. Fortunately, Savanna’s Life has some decent bonuses along with a high return to player ratio, but it’s the multipliers in the free spins round that really stand out as a unique feature.
The gamble round can be a fun way to try and multiply a win, although it can be difficult to double a prize several times over, even though it’s a true 50/50 gamble. While the Jackpot Cards feature always pays out a prize, it’s not triggered very often, so players shouldn’t expect to cash out a progressive jackpot every day.