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.
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.
How Safari Sam 2 Works
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.
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.
- Compass — wild and top-paying symbol
- Sam & Pam — the duo high-pays
- Lion, zebra, safari car, tent — mid-value icons
- Acacia Tree — the scatter that triggers free spins
If you want a refresher on how slot features and free spins work, our guide covers it quickly. Safari Sam 2 also sits among BetSoft’s wider slot range of 3D titles.
Safari Stacks
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.
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. The process keeps repeating while new wins appear, so a single spin can resolve into several payouts before it settles.
On its own it is a steady extra rather than a showpiece — reviewers tend to treat it as the supporting act to the bonus features below.
Call of the Wild
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.
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.
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.
Acacia Tree Free Spins
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.
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.
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.
RTP, Volatility & How It Compares to the Original
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.
The contrast with the original Safari Sam slot is the real story. The 2012 game pays 97.50% with a 50.78% hit rate; the sequel trades both away, landing wins on roughly 36% of spins in exchange for a flashier feature set.
The single-spin ceiling is a modest 505x the stake. Operators can deploy lower RTP variants, so it is worth checking the posted figure before playing for real money.
Playing Safari Sam 2 in Demo Mode
The free Safari Sam 2 demo, or free play mode, loads on practice credits with no download or sign-up, so we can trigger Call of the Wild and learn the free-spins maths before risking a cent.
Demo play is especially useful here because the lower hit rate means longer gaps between wins — better to feel that pace for free first. The game behaves the same way in mobile browsers.
You will find it alongside other free demo slots to line up against the original before committing.
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Final Verdict
Safari Sam 2 is the more entertaining game to watch. Cascading Safari Stacks and the reel-flooding Call of the Wild give it a momentum the 2012 original never had, and the free-spins round can turn genuinely dramatic.
The trade-off is real, though: a lower 96.30% return and fewer winning spins. We would point players chasing steady value back to the original, and send anyone who wants the bigger bonus spectacle here.
