Hacksaw Gaming

Hacksaw Gaming builds small frames, short paytables and features that turn symbols into numbers rather than mazes of ways to win. Great Game Serengeti, released on 10 September 2026 and carrying game id 2620 in the studio’s own catalogue, is a clean example of all three habits, which makes it a good lens for looking at the studio through.

The studio’s handwriting, read on one game#

Everything below is visible in this one release:

• A compact frame. Five reels, three rows, nine paylines paying left to right. Nine lines is a deliberate choice: the screen stays legible at phone size, and every win is easy to trace back to the symbols that made it.
• Symbols that carry cash values. The hunt converts animals by star rank into Coin and Trap symbols, with Bronze running 0.2x to 1x the bet, Silver 2x to 5x, Gold 10x to 50x and Diamond at 100x, 150x, 250x and 500x. Once conversion happens, the round is arithmetic you can follow in real time.
• A collector symbol. The Trap gathers the values of every Coin and every other Trap on the grid into its own total. This one idea is what turns a scattered board into a single figure.
• FeatureSpins™ as a running cost. Rather than only selling one-off rounds, the studio offers modes that stay switched on until you disable them and charge their price on every spin. In this game BONUSHUNT makes a bonus three times more likely, HUNTING SEASON guarantees the symbol and BIG FIVE guarantees a Stampede Reveal.
• Named, trademarked features. Super Turbo™ and FeatureSpins™ sit in the menu alongside Khaki Quest, Roaring Reign and Zebrawl. The studio treats its mechanics as products with names rather than as generic options.

The buy menu deserves a line of its own because it is the clearest signature. Five entries at 2x, 50x, 60x, 100x and 200x the bet, each with its own published return: 96.35%, 96.23%, 96.26%, 96.1% and 96.31%. Publishing five prices with five separate returns, rather than one door at one price, tells you what the studio thinks a buy feature is for: a price list you read, not a button you press. The features page covers what each entry delivers, and the RTP page sets the five figures beside the base game’s own 96.29%.

Licences the studio holds as a supplier#

A supplier licence is not a casino licence, and the difference matters when you read one of these lists. It covers the company that builds and supplies the game, and it is the reason a single title can appear in lobbies answering to very different regulators.

Eight regulators, one game. That is the practical takeaway, and it explains why Great Game Serengeti turns up in markets with very different rules about pace, autoplay and buy features while the reels, the paytable and the 5,000x ceiling stay exactly the same.

The dates on those licences are worth a glance too, because they tell you the supply chain is a standing arrangement rather than a one-off approval. The Maltese licence runs under the number MGA/CRP/501/2018, the Swedish B2B software licence is valid to 30 June 2028, the Ontario registration is GRSM1241574 and the Danish one is 24-432338. The Swedish entry is the easiest one to see working: Great Game Serengeti, released on 10 September 2026, is already carried by licensed Swedish sites, where Spelinspektionen supervises the operator and the software behind the game holds its own B2B licence.

What a supplier licence does and does not tell you#

It is worth being precise, because these lists get quoted loosely. A supplier licence says the company that builds the game has been approved to supply software into that market. It does not say anything about the casino you are sitting at, about bonus terms, or about the return tier that table has selected. Those are the operator’s business, and they are what you check yourself before depositing.

What the list does give you is a reason to trust the game itself. Software supplied under these regimes goes through the market’s own approval process, which is why the same title behaves consistently from one lobby to the next: the same nine paylines, the same paytable running from the royals at 0.1x for three of a kind up to the lion at 25x for five, the same conversion ranks during a hunt and the same 5,000x round ceiling. Consistency across markets is the practical benefit of a licensed supply chain, and it is why the figures on this site apply wherever you open the game.

Where the studio’s games sit#

In Sweden, Great Game Serengeti is in the lobbies of licensed sites, where Spelinspektionen is the supervising authority and the software behind the game carries its own B2B licence. That is the clearest example of the supplier chain working end to end.

Portugal and Brazil run on the same principle with different paperwork. Online games in Portugal are operated by SRIJ-licensed entities, and the regulator publishes the list of licensed operators. In Brazil, since 1 January 2025, only operators authorised by the Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas may run online gaming, on .bet.br domains, with games submitted through Sigap and certified by an accredited body.

Those are market frames rather than statements about any particular casino. What they tell you as a player is that the game you are looking at reached the lobby through a chain of approvals, and that the specific table you pick is still yours to evaluate. The where to play page sets out what to look at before a deposit, starting with the return tier.

The studio’s pricing philosophy, in numbers#

Look at how the studio prices access to its features and you learn what it expects of a player. Great Game Serengeti offers five entries spanning a hundredfold range, from 2x the bet to 200x, with a separate published return for each. That turns a binary question, pay or wait, into a graded one: how much of tonight’s budget is this round worth?

At the 0.10 minimum stake that menu costs 0.20, 5.00, 6.00, 10.00 and 20.00; at the 2.00 default it costs 4.00, 100.00, 120.00, 200.00 and 400.00. The point is not that any one of those is a bargain, since the published returns sit within a quarter of a percentage point of each other, 96.1% to 96.35%. The point is that a player with a small budget and a player with a large one are both given a sensible option, rather than one of them being priced out of the feature.

The FeatureSpins™ design pushes the same idea further. Those three modes charge per spin rather than per round and stay switched on until you disable them, which turns the purchase into a running cost you control: 0.20 a spin at the minimum stake for BONUSHUNT, with a bonus three times more likely while it runs. That is a different relationship with a buy feature than a single large payment, and it is the part of the studio’s approach that changes how a session is actually played.

Great Game Serengeti in the catalogue#

In the provider’s own catalogue the game carries id 2620, and it was released on 10 September 2026. The build ships native language files for English, Swedish and Portuguese, among many others, so the paytable, the rules panel and the names of the five buy entries read properly rather than through a translation layer.

The headline figures are the ones you would compare across any studio: a 5 reels x 3 rows grid, 9 paylines, 96.29% in the default configuration and a round ceiling of 5,000x the bet that is available in every game mode. Those last two are worth reading together, because the studio ships four return configurations in all and the operator selects one; the RTP page explains how to see which one your table is serving.

The three bonus rounds show the same catalogue thinking. Khaki Quest at three FS symbols gives eight free spins with a raised hunt chance; Roaring Reign at four gives ten free spins driven by the Lion Bar, which advances a step for every low-paying symbol on a reel hit during a hunt and fires at ten steps; Zebrawl at five FS symbols gives ten free spins with a guaranteed hunt every spin. Only the first two of those can be reached from the buy menu, and the studio’s decision to keep the best round off the price list is the most interesting thing about this release.

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