Pragmatic Play Sends Players on Safari With Cheetah Wild
Pragmatic Play has traded its usual cityscapes and mythology for the African savannah this week, launching Cheetah Wild, a safari-themed slot built around a money-collection mechanic and a free spins round that grows more generous the longer it runs. It is a familiar setting for the studio, but the way the bonus features escalate gives it a bit more shape than the average wildlife slot.
What’s been released
Pragmatic Play has released Cheetah Wild, a new slot that celebrates African wildlife, packed with robust engagement mechanics.
The new game offers players a shot at a maximum payout of 5,000x.
The title runs on a
5×4 grid with 1,024 paylines and a 96.50% RTP, rated low volatility, with bets ranging from 0.20 to 240 of stake currency.
The game invites players to head out on safari in Cheetah Wild, where wildlife roams the reels.
Players can expect symbols representing various African animals, such as elephants, zebras, rhinoceroses, and gazelles to appear
alongside standard high-value symbols.
How it plays
A Wild symbol can appear on reels 2-4, making scoring paylines easier, and these Wilds carry multipliers of up to 3x that apply to any combination involving them.
When more than one multiplier Wild lands in the same winning line,
their values multiply each other before boosting wins.
The cheetah itself doubles as the game’s money symbol.
The titular Cheetah serves as the game’s Money symbol, which can appear on all reels except the first one, and these symbols carry values of up to 100x the base bet, claimed by landing a golden paw Collect symbol on the first reel.
Whenever a collect symbol lands on the first reel alongside adjacent money symbols or wilds, it awards the sum of their values, boosted by any wild multiplier values present.
The free spins round is where the design gets more interesting.
Landing 3-5 Scatter symbols initiates the bonus game with 8-20 free spins, and landing 2-5 additional scatters during the feature awards an extra 5-20 spins, allowing the fun to continue longer.
Rather than staying static, the round builds momentum as it goes:
special Level Up symbols that hit are added to a meter before being replaced on the grid by money symbols, and collecting enough of them unlocks up to five progressive feature levels, where all instances of certain high-paying symbols that land transform into money symbols for the remainder of the round, with level five converting all high-paying symbols into money symbols until the feature ends.
Where it fits
Cheetah Wild lands in a crowded part of Pragmatic Play’s catalogue, where safari and wildlife themes have long been a reliable backdrop for the studio’s money-collection mechanics. What sets this release apart from a straightforward animal-themed slot is the layered free spins structure, where the feature’s character changes as players climb through its levels rather than simply repeating the same spins with a multiplier attached.
The release arrives in a busy October for Pragmatic Play, which has been maintaining a steady drumbeat of new titles across its slots portfolio as the final quarter of the year gets under way. For UK players browsing supplier catalogues on their regular casino sites, Cheetah Wild should appear as one more low-volatility, high-ways option sitting alongside the studio’s existing animal and nature-themed library, offering frequent smaller wins punctuated by the chance of a five-figure multiplier through the escalating free spins.
