Super Safari is one of those old NextGen builds that quietly stuffs three completely different bonus games into a single 5×3 cabinet, and you only really notice once you’ve sat with it for twenty spins. The visuals are chunky storybook savanna stuff, grinning hippos, a wide-eyed elephant, a row of nervous meerkats, all bright blue sky and cartoon acacia trees. It’s not trying to be cinematic. The scrolling banner literally promises you’ll meet Africa’s amazing animals, which tells you exactly the tone the studio was going for back in 2013.
Mechanically though, it’s busier than the family-friendly skin suggests. Twenty fixed lines run across the grid, stakes drop as low as a single cent and stretch to $125 a spin, and the Wild Lion doubles as both top symbol and gateway to the first feature. Land three of those lions anywhere on screen and you get three re-spins with every prize tripled, while reel 2, 3 or 4 turns into a fully stacked expanded wild for the duration. Stacked wild column plus x3 in the same round is a properly chunky combo, even if the re-spins can’t retrigger themselves.
The Off Road Safari free games is where the design gets genuinely strange in a good way. Three jeep scatters give you ten spins at 2x, which sounds modest, but a binoculars symbol gets bolted onto reel 3 specifically for the feature. Every binoculars hit drops up to three Super Spins into a meter that doesn’t pay out yet. You bank them. Only after the ten free games finish do those banked spins actually play, and they pay at 5x instead of 2x. It’s a delayed-reward structure I haven’t seen replicated elsewhere, and chasing binoculars while still trying to hit normal wins gives the round a weird dual focus. Retrigger is on the table if three more jeeps land mid-feature.
The third path is the Hippo Pick Bonus, three hippo scatters opening a straight pick screen worth up to 150x bet. Nothing complicated, just choose, collect, exit. What’s notable is that the three triggers are firewalled, you can’t win one feature while inside another, so each round you commit to a path and ride it. Is that good design or just dated rigidity? Bit of both, honestly.
Now the honest part. The RTP is 95.416%, which sits below the 96% baseline most modern releases hit and is the clearest sign of the slot’s 2013 vintage. There’s no published max win cap, no buy-bonus button, and the cartoon presentation does look its age next to anything Pragmatic or Hacksaw shipped last year. But if you want a slot where the bonus variety actually means something, where landing scatters versus wilds feels like picking a lane, Super Safari still pulls its weight twelve years in.