Cheetah Wild

Cheetah Wild is Pragmatic Play‘s safari slot where animal symbols turn into cash as a free spins round levels up (96.50%, low volatility, 5×4, 1,024 ways, 5,000x). If you want a steadier ways game with a collect feature, start here. Pragmatic’s own page doesn’t print a release date, and SlotCatalog lists October 8, 2026.

Read the volatility label first

The intro screen and the rules both print low volatility, and the rules explain it in one line. Low volatility games pay out more often in smaller amounts, with a chance to win big. That’s a useful label next to Triple Beasts of Fortune (96.20%, 5×4, 30,000x). The grid and the way count are the same, 1,024 ways. The top win here is a sixth of that game’s, and the return is 0.3 points higher.

How the base game pays

Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, and you don’t need a payline. My paytable view was set to a 2.00 bet. The elephant and the rhino pay 4x for five of a kind, and the card symbols pay from 1.5x to 2.25x. Five scatters pay 11.25x. Wilds sit on reels 2, 3 and 4 and carry x2 or x3. When two or more wilds sit in a win, their values multiply instead of adding, up to x27.

Money and the collect symbol

Money symbols land on reels 2 to 5. Each takes a random value from 0.25x up to 100x the bet. The collect symbol sits on reel 1 only. When it lands next to money symbols or wilds in a left-to-right way, their values are collected and paid. A wild with a multiplier multiplies what’s collected. The intro screen puts it plainly, with cheetah values up to 100x, and you’ll see them stack up in the paytable’s money set.

Free spins and the level meter

Three, four or five scatters award eight, 15 or 20 free spins. Two to five more scatters during the round add 5, 8, 15 or 20 spins. A level up symbol appears only in the free spins and fills a meter. After four symbols, every elephant on the reels becomes a money symbol. Three more turn the rhinos, six more the zebras and two more the gazelles. After the fifth level, the symbol stops appearing.

The ladder is the reason you should read the info page before you start. Each level turns the symbols that pay a little into symbols that pay by value, and you can watch the meter fill spin by spin.

Ante and buy options

The ante raises the bet multiplier from 20x to 50x. The demo showed 5.00 against a 2.00 bet, and the rules say it doesn’t change the pay table, only raises the chance of money symbols with higher values. Two buy options sit in the menu. The plain free spins cost 100x the bet, and the super free spins cost 500x and start with 9 to 15 level up symbols already collected, so the round begins at level three or higher. The demo menu priced them at 200 and 1,000. The 100x option is the upsell.

The cap and the version

The maximum win is 5,000x. If a free spins round reaches that total, it ends at once and the remaining spins are forfeited. Bets run from 0.20 to 600. The rules print a return for every mode, 96.50% for the base game, 96.51% with the ante, 96.57% for bought free spins and 96.50% for super free spins. SlotCatalog also lists lower versions at 95.51% and 94.51%. Your casino can load any of them, so it’s worth checking its info page.

Who should open it

If you’d rather have a feature you can follow than one you have to hope for, this fits. If you want a big top end, you’ll want another game. The level meter makes the free spins easy to read, and the 5,000x cap isn’t one you’ll chase. I’d shelve it in the middle rows of a lobby, behind the games with bigger caps. My tier is Worth a try, seven out of 10.

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