Savanna Squad

Savanna Squad Overview

Savanna Squad is a big-cat slot from NetGame that skips the studio’s familiar Hold ‘n’ Link feature and builds everything around stacked symbols and free spins instead. It runs on 5 reels and 3 rows with 25 paylines. NetGame’s own game sheet lists a release date of 10 February 2023, an RTP of 96.12% (other RTP profiles exist), low volatility, a hit frequency of 28% and a top win of 2,000x the bet. SlotCatalog quotes different figures (96.63% and 1,500x), so the exact values depend on the version a casino runs.

Symbols and Paytable

The five premium symbols are a lion, a tiger, a jaguar, a panther and a puma, all peering out from the jungle leaves, while the card ranks from 10 to A fill the lower tier. Our paytable screenshot was taken at a 40.00 stake:

• Lion – 480 for five (12x), 80 for four, 32 for three
• Tiger and jaguar – 320 for five (8x), 64 for four, 24 for three

The Wild substitutes for everything except the Scatter and appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only. The paw-print Scatter also lands on the middle three reels and pays 1.25x the bet by itself.

Free Spins and Reel Respin

Four to nine Scatters trigger the free spins bonus. According to the game’s published description, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 Scatters award 10, 11, 12, 15, 18 or 20 free spins. During the round, a stack of matching big cats on reel 1 starts a Reel Respin: the other reels spin again for as long as new matching symbols or Wilds keep landing.

Filling the whole screen pays a fixed jackpot, and the panel on the left of the reels shows exactly what each cat is worth. At a 1.00 stake it reads Lion 1,000, Tiger 500, Jaguar 300, Panther 200 and Puma 150 for 15 symbols, and at 40.00 the same panel shows 40,000, 20,000, 12,000, 8,000 and 6,000 – always 1,000x, 500x, 300x, 200x and 150x the bet.

Our Demo Spins

At a 40.00 stake two panthers and a Wild paid 16.00, a typical small line win for a low-volatility game.

Our Take

Savanna Squad is a calm, frequent-paying slot with clear jackpot values and a respin feature that can fill the reels with one big cat. The free demo on the left runs without registration.

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