Gems of Serengeti Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Gems of Serengeti Review

The word ‘Serengeti’ keeps popping up in many different African safari-themed slots, and it refers to a massive protected area in Tanzania. This area includes a large National Park, and the endless savannahs are known for the largest annual animal migrations in the world. You get a glimpse of the beautiful landscape behind the 5x4 grid in Pragmatic Play’s Gems of Serengeti, and the reels are filled with wildlife and tribal characters.

The visual presentation is typical both for the safari slot genre and for Pragmatic Play, and everything is accompanied by a pleasantly upbeat soundtrack. The base game is barebones and nothing special, but you get the hold & win style Respin round on a fairly regular basis. The bonus round is all about gems collection as well, and these become your starting sticky gems in the post feature Respin round for prizes up to 4,000x your stake.

Gems of Serengeti Slot - Reels Screen

Gems of Serengeti Slot Features

The premium animal symbols pay between 10 and 37.5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the wild symbol pays 50x your stake for the same. The wild also steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins, like wilds normally do.

You need at least 5 gem symbols in view to trigger the Respin feature, and gems can appear on all reels. It’s a hold and win style feature where you start with 3 respins, and only new sticky gems or blanks will appear on the otherwise cleared grid.

The respins tally resets each time you land at least 1 new sticky gem, and the feature ends if you run out of spins or fill the grid.

The total win is determined by the number of sticky gems, and it ranges from 1x to 500x your stake for 5 to 20 gems, respectively.

The Bonus Round triggers from 3 bonus scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5, and this gives you 10 free spins. All gem symbols that appear during the bonus round are collected, and this is how you climb the gem prize meter seen on the right. If you collect between 5 and 19 gems during the bonus round, you get the Respin feature after the free spins have played out.

The post bonus round Respin feature starts you off with the number of sticky gems on the grid that you managed to collect during the free spins phase. You win 500x your stake without getting the Respin round if you collected 20 gems in the free spins round, and the following prices if you collect more either in the free spins or Respin round:

Collect 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 or 27 gems to win prizes of 1,000x, 1,500x, 2,000x, 2,500x, 3,000x, 3,500x or 4,000x your stake, respectively. If you collect less gems than 20, you still win the prizes that range from 1x to 300x your stake also in the Respin round.

The 200 Spins Gems of Serengeti Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of what the base game has to offer, before we trigger the bonus round around 30 seconds into the 3-minute highlights video.

We managed to collect 13 gems in the free spins round, and this gave us the post bonus round Respin feature which starts at 1:30 into the video. Check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

Gems of Serengeti is a typical Pragmatic Play release in so many ways, and it's understandable that they cannot afford to be too daring and innovative every time with such a busy production schedule. This might be a run of the mill effort, but it still has its moments when things go your way. The base game is admittedly barebones, but the Respin round triggers fairly often to break things up.

This feature can land you decent prizes, but don’t expect anything massive from regular line wins in any stage of the game, not least since the gem symbols block regular win ways. What you want is to collect as many gems as possible to get the best possible start in the post FS Respin round. Overall, this is hardly a very memorable release, and this will probably be reflected in the game’s shelf-life.

Pros

• Streak Respins round w/ up to 500x prizes
• Gem collect FS w/ Respins that follow
• FS/Respin prizes can go as high as 4,000x

Cons

• Beware of customizable RTP ranges

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