Safari Sam 2 is BetSoft’s 2021 follow-up to its 2012 safari hit, and it is a louder, more feature-driven take on the savanna. Sam now shares the trail with Pam, the art turns cartoonish, and two cascade-and-wild mechanics replace the original’s quieter rhythm. We treat the Safari Sam 2 slot as the spectacle-first sibling in the pair.<\/p>\n
That extra show comes at a price: the return-to-player drops to 96.30% and wins land less often than before. The free Safari Sam 2 demo is the quickest way to judge whether the bonus drama makes up for it.<\/p>\n
The Safari Sam 2 slot runs on five reels and three rows with 50 fixed paylines, double the original’s 30. Every line stays active, so the only choice we make before spinning is the coin size, which scales from small stakes up to high-roller bets.<\/p>\n
The Compass is the most valuable symbol and doubles as the wild. Sam and Pam lead the higher-paying cast, with a lion, zebra and safari car filling the mid tier and playing-card icons rounding out the low pays. The Acacia Tree is the scatter.<\/p>\n
If you want a refresher on how slot features and free spins work<\/a>, our guide covers it quickly. Safari Sam 2 also sits among BetSoft’s wider slot range<\/a> of 3D titles.<\/p>\n Safari Stacks is the mechanic carried over from the first game. When a full reel lands three identical symbols stacked on top of each other, we collect a vertical three-of-a-kind prize on top of any standard line wins.<\/p>\n Those winning symbols then clear away and fresh ones drop into the gaps, which can form another stacked match. The same clear-and-drop cascade drives the 7×7 cluster grid of BetSoft’s Spinfinity Man<\/a>. The process keeps repeating while new wins appear, so a single spin can resolve into several payouts before it settles.<\/p>\n On its own it is a steady extra rather than a showpiece \u2014 reviewers tend to treat it as the supporting act to the bonus features below.<\/p>\n Call of the Wild is the feature that defines Safari Sam 2. On any spin, the game can sound the call and blanket up to four of the five reels entirely in Compass wilds.<\/p>\n Because the Compass substitutes for everything except the Acacia Tree scatter, four wild-covered reels can line up wins across all 50 paylines at once. Unlike the Safari Stacks symbols, these wilds hold their place and let fresh symbols drop around them.<\/p>\n It fires unpredictably in the base game, which is what gives Safari Sam 2 its bursts of excitement, and it becomes a guarantee once the free spins begin.<\/p>\n Landing three, four or five Acacia Tree scatters opens the free-spins round with seven, twelve or twenty spins respectively, and each tier also pays an instant 3x, 12x or 50x the bet.<\/p>\n The round is built around Call of the Wild: every single free spin guarantees one, so reels fill with Compass wilds far more often than in the base game. Any symbols that replace a Safari Stack during the round arrive as wilds too.<\/p>\n This is where Safari Sam 2’s best wins live, and where the game’s 505x maximum payout becomes reachable when the wilds stack in our favour.<\/p>\n Safari Sam 2 returns 96.30% at its default setting, a little above the 96% we treat as the modern average but a clear step down from its predecessor. We rate the engine as medium volatility, the same temperament as the first game.<\/p>\nSafari Stacks<\/h2>\n
Call of the Wild<\/h2>\n
Acacia Tree Free Spins<\/h2>\n
RTP, Volatility & How It Compares to the Original<\/h2>\n