Safari Shoot! Slot by Genii

Two features here, and both lean on the same shooting gag the name promises. The first is the Buffalo Bonus, a three-level pick round. Land the buffalo head on reels one, three and five and you're taken to a shooting gallery where each level puts three buffalos in front of you. Pick one, take the shot, collect whatever it hides. Three levels, three shots, and the totals from all of them are tallied at the end. It's a straight pick game with no clever twist, but it pays cleanly.

The green grenade symbol runs the better feature. Three of them, again on reels one, three and five, start the Safari Shoot round, and it works hold-and-win style. You begin with just three spins. Only the grenade symbol stays live during the round, and any that land lock in place for the rest of it. An Extra Spins symbol resets you back up whenever it drops, so a busy board can stretch the round well past those opening three. When the spins run out, every held symbol flips over to show either a cash value or one of four named animal prizes: Springbok, Wildebeest, Kudu or the top Buffalo jackpot. The prizes scale to the bet that triggered the feature, so a bigger trigger means bigger reveals across the board.

The base game is plainer. Ten fixed lines, a glowing bullet that subs for everything bar the two scatters, and a paytable that tops out at a modest 300 coins for five of the warthog. The animals come mounted like hunting trophies, each head fixed inside a wooden plaque, with cartridge belts and blue binoculars filling the low end. Behind it all sits a red metal cabinet planted in sunlit savannah, acacia trees and rocky outcrops baking under a wide blue sky. It's an unashamedly old-school big-game-hunting board, the kind Genii has been turning out for years.

One honest flag: Genii doesn't publish a return figure for this one anywhere, so you're going in blind on the math. The held grenades and that Buffalo reveal are the whole reason to spin it.