Hot Africa

The hot sun of Africa scorches the vas savannah and likewise hot wins fill the reels in this slot from SYNOT games. As you can expect the worthwhile wins come with high volatility, so be prepared to spin more than just a handful of rounds to get your hands on the big coins. The reel set up is quite standard, with fifteen paylines and twelve different paying symbols keeping the game interesting.

Theme

There’s many a slot that has tackled Africa as a theme, most of them usually going with quite a cartoonish take on the subject. Not this time around. The vast open savannah meets the high mountains on the background, while the reels fill from familiar animals and symbols of the tribal history of these lands. Uplifting music is combined with the noises of a slot machine to create a cool atmosphere for spinning the reels.

Betting Options and Functions

All fifteen paylines are fixed, and they run from left to right in the usual format. No need to pay much attention since there is no way to affect them. Betting is done via the total stake selector, which gives several options between 0.20 and 100 coins per spin. Wins are paid as a multiplier of the total bet. Three to five symbols on a payline results in a payout.

The playing card ranks are divided into two groups, which pay between one and twenty times the total bet. The gazelle and the giraffe pay out between 2 and 40 times the total bet, while the elephant goes up to 75 times the bet when five are on the line. The lion is the most valuable of the basic symbols, dishing out a cool hundred times your total bet.

Features

There are three special symbols, with two of these paying out wins for simply showing up. The wild offers up to 250 times the bet, while the scatter gives out 100 times the base bet. The extra wild, which is Africa itself, substitutes for all the basic symbols, and also multiplies wins to up to eight times the original value. It only shows up on the middle reel though.

The scatter activates 15 free spins when three or more show up on the reels. The spins can be retriggered, with 15 more added every time three scatters show up again. During these spins, all wins are doubled, quadrupled, or octupled, based on the current win multiplier. Every time you land a win the multiplier resets, with the aforementioned Africa wild increasing it.

Our Take

The theme is well done, and can easily compete with most other Africa-themed slots. The quality of the slot overall is quite good. The only shortfall is the high volatility, which is sure to divide players in half. If you like big wins then this is a sure bet for you, and if on the other hand, you want to rake in the cash bit by bit you should look elsewhere. We suggest you try the game in demo mode first to get the feel and look of it.