Serengeti Kings™ Slot – Free Spins + Free Play Matt D 3rd February 2020 New Slots Free Spins Explore the natural wonders of the African plains with NetEnt’s new slot for 2020, Serengeti Kings™. Serengeti Kings is the first slot by Netent to feature a “buy” button which will let you instantly trigger free spin mode. Please note that this is a high risk feature and you really should try our free demo a few times before deciding if the risk/reward is worth it for you.

Serengeti Kings Theme/Symbols

Serengeti King takes you to northern Tanzania to the infamous geographic region. With cartoon style graphics, you’ll see mountains in the backdrop as well as trees and rocks on the plains. Symbols include A, K, Q, J and 10 royals which are nicely designed as they feature animal skins on them.

1. Play for fun online slot Serengeti Kings from NetEnt. The game offers a unique feature. The players collect Lion and Panther symbols. Every twelfth spin, either collected Lion or Panther symbols are randomly placed on reels. Three or more scatter symbols trigger a free spin round.
2. About Serengeti Kings Slot. NetEnt invites you to explore the natural wonders of Africa with the Serengeti Kings slot. Serengeti Kings is a 5 reel, 4 row and 26 fixed payline video slot that offers a maximum win of 1,300x your stake You can wager between €0.10 – €100 per spin, irrespective of whether you choose to play on desktop, mobile or tablet.

You’ll also see meerkats, zebras, giraffes, hyenas, lions and panthers – both the lion and panther (the Serengeti Kings) pay the most with 3, 4 or 5 on a payline giving you 1, 2 or 5 times your stake respectively. Wins are formed by getting 3 or more matching symbols on a payline from left to right (starting from the 1^st reel).

The sunset symbol is the wild and appears anywhere on the reels – it replaces all symbols except the scatters. More importantly, 3, 4 or 5 wilds will pay 3, 10 or 50 times your stake.

Lion feature & Panther feature

The Serengeti Kings slot begins with the Lion Spins mode and then the Panther Spins mode. Each last for 12 spins each. During the spins, all lion and panther symbols appearing on the reels are collected into the Loin Counter and the Panther Counter respectively.

On the 12^th Lion Spin, no lion symbols are collected and the Lion feature is triggered. Here, all lion symbols collected in the Lion Counter are randomly added to the reels. On the 12^th Panther Spin, no panther symbols are collected. Furthermore, the Panther feature is triggered when all collected panther symbols added randomly onto the reels. The settings turns from night to day here too.

Now, if a lion symbol is placed on top of a panther symbol or vice versa, a wild symbol is created. If a lion or panther symbol is placed on top of the same symbol or a wild, the multiplier of the symbol increases by 1. Every payline begins with a 1x multiplier – the multipliers from each symbol is applied and can result in some big multipliers which will dramatically affect your winning potential. Once the 12 spins are over in either mode, the multipliers are reset and the process begins again.

Free Spins feature

Serengeti Kings also comes with a Free Spins feature – this is played when you get 3 or more scatters (half sun/half moon) anywhere on the reels. You’ll then get 12 free spins. You can get more symbols in the Lion and Panther Counters by triggering the feature with more scatters:

• 3 scatters – you’ll begin with 0 symbols in the Lion and Panther Counters
• 4 scatters – you’ll begin with the number of symbols collect thus far
• 5 scatters – 5 more lion and panther symbols are added to the collected symbols in both Counters

Once in, all lion and panther symbols are collected in their counters as in the base game. On your last free spin, all symbols collected in both meters are randomly added to the reels. This can create wilds and subsequent multipliers.

Buy Free Spins feature

NetEnt has cottoned on to the trend of having a feature buy option – called the Buy Free Spins feature, you can enter the Free Spins feature with 3, 4 or 5 scatters. Not available to players in the UK (due to regulations introduced by the UK Gambling Commission), the various options changes with each spin. Expect over 50 x stake for 3 scatters, over 80 x stake for 4 scatters and over 240 x stake for 5 scatters.

Serengeti Kings thoughts

The Serengeti Kings slot is well designed and looks like a modern edition of the Lion King movie! Graphics aside, it’s about collecting lion and panther symbols so more of them are placed on the reels on your 12^th spin in either mode. You can get more lion/panther symbols in the Free Spins feature by triggering the feature with 4 or 5 scatters.

With an RTP of 96.2%, it’s an entertaining slot game which is quite simple in terms of gameplay. Variance wise, it’s in the middle. If you were to fill the reels with wild symbols, you’d win 1,300 x stake – the likelihood is minimal. The bigger wins will come from the multipliers but the low value symbols will make it virtually impossible to win over 1,000 x stake on each spin or free spin.

I would much rather play Blueprint Gaming’s Safari Gold Megaways which has more bonus features and potential 50,000 x stake payouts on each spin.

Serengeti Kings Slot Review

Serengeti Kings is a video slot from NetEnt with 5 reels, 4 rows and 26 paylines. Released in January 2020, this game can be played at online casinos such as LeoVegas, Vera&John or Unibet.

Theme and general information

Serengeti Kings takes us to the African Wilderness. It’s another favoured theme amongst online slot developers and as such, it’s not that easy to make it a fresh one. NetEnt draws us a lovely African landscape in this slot, which changes between day and night modes. It’s very well done, but the soundtrack is the real highlight here, not just adding to the atmosphere of the slot but creating it. When the reels are spinning, it’s upbeat and could very well be played by the people in the African savannah. When it goes quiet again, we hear the animals and their noises, which is also really well done.

The low value playing card symbols from 10 to A look a little cartoonish. They’re decorated with the fur patterns of the animals on the reels. Beyond that we get meerkats, hyenas, zebras, giraffes and the lion and the panther as the kings of the Serengeti. Never mind that panther actually describe the black form of leopards and jaguars. Either way, both are worth 5x our stake for 5 on a payline. Hyena and giraffe are worth 3x our stake for 5 of each. And the zebra and meerkats are each worth 2x our stake for such a win. The wild is the most valuable symbol with 50x our stake for 5 across a payline.

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You can play this game from 0.10 to 100.00 per spin.

Lion and Panther Spins rule the game

Serengeti Kings uses an interesting setup for this game. Every 12 spins the scenery changes from day to night and vice versa. In fact, we can watch the change of daytime especially on the last few spins of the cycle. It’s nicely done.

In any case, the Lion rules the daytime. On every spin, any lion or panther symbols are collected in counters on the left (lion) and right (panther). At the end of the day (on the 12th spin), all collected lion symbols are scattered onto the reels.

If the lion lands on a panther symbol, a wild is created. If it lands on another lion symbol, a 1x multiplier is added. And if it lands on a wild, a 1x multiplier is added to the wild symbol.

Then all wins are paid out and we change to the panther (or night) mode. Now, on the 12th spin, all collected panther symbols are scattered onto the reels in the same manner and the same things happen, when the panther symbol lands on a lion, another panther or a wild, respectively.

This can create nice wins at the end of every day and night in this slot.

Buy the free spins or win them

For the very first time, NetEnt has included a feature buy in one of their slots. So, instead of waiting to spin at least three scatters onto the reels, you can buy the free spins and get the following options either way:

• 3 scatters – start the free spins with zero lions and panthers in the counters
• 4 scatters – start the free spins keeping the current count of lions and panthers from the base game
• 5 scatters – start the free spins with +5 for both lion and panther symbols from the base game

Depending on which mode you choose, the free spin feature buy becomes more expensive. It also gets more expensive (or cheaper) as the number of already collected lion and panther symbols changes.

Or you simply hope to be lucky and win the scatters the usual way.

The main difference in the free spins is, that you get 12 one way or another (meaning, irrespective of the number of scatters or if you buy them). During the free spins, you keep collecting lion and panther symbols and now, on the 12th spin, all collected symbols are scattered onto the reels, resulting in added multipliers and multiplier wilds as well.

Verdict: NetEnt tries something unusual and it works surprisingly well

The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) for Serengeti Kings varies between 96.2 and 96.7%, depending on the free spin mode you get/choose. It’s a decent return, and with a medium to high volatility, the slot isn’t too hard on your budget. Plus, you will usually get a decent win on every 12th spin, though don’t expect massive wins.

In theory, the game should be able to pay out about 4,000x our stake. But that’s just an estimate and not officially confirmed.

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Anyway, Serengeti Kings is a solid slot. It comes with decent graphics, an awesome soundtrack, good features and it’s overall quite a fun slot to play. After some rather average slots lately, Serengeti Kings is worth checking out.

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