Pixel-art South African bush landscape at sunset

Safari Ranger — the online safari game where you train as a South African bush ranger

EXPLORE · PHOTOGRAPH · SURVIVE

Fifty hand-tuned bush levels. Forty-four species across day, night and twilight. Find the Lodge, follow the tracker map, photograph the Big Five — free, in any browser.

PLAY HOW TO PLAY

FIELD MANUAL

The loop

Find the Lodge

Every level hides a Ranger's Lodge. Walk inside, open the map on the wall, and you'll get the day's briefing — the targets you need to photograph to clear the level.

Hunt the tracker map

Somewhere in the bush a rolled parchment map is waiting. Pick it up after your briefing and every remaining target pulses as a red paw print on your minimap.

Survive three hearts

Buffalo, lion, hippo, rhino and a riled-up elephant will charge if you crowd them. Three hits and the run is over — read the body language.

DAWN · DAY · DUSK · NIGHT

A full twenty-four hour bush cycle

Later assignments run a real day-night clock. Diurnal game grazes in full sun, nocturnal hunters take over at midnight, and at dawn and dusk everything overlaps — your best chance to catch a leopard returning to its tree or a bushbaby crossing a road.

AMBUSH HAZARD

Watch the acacias. A tail dangling from the canopy by day — or glowing eyes at night — means a leopard is coiled inside.

Lodge first, then the map.

THE WILDLIFE

Forty-four species, day and night

From springbok on the plains to a serval slinking through long grass at 2am, every photograph fills a page in your field journal — and unlocks that species for Free Ranger mode.

Pixel art of elephant, giraffe, lion, zebra, rhino, and secretary bird

THE WORKSHOPS

Find the workshop, claim the vehicle

Every tenth level hides a bush workshop with a special vehicle parked outside. Step out of your current ride, walk up, and it's yours — permanently in the Garage. Each ride trades speed, off-road grip and engine noise.

STARTER

Series Rover

Balanced · Quiet

LVL 10 WORKSHOP

Land Cruiser

Tough · Roomy

LVL 20 WORKSHOP

Scrambler & Quad

Nimble · Loud

LVL 30 WORKSHOP

Defender TDI

Fast · Quietest

LVL 40 WORKSHOP

Game Viewer

Open-top · Tall

LVL 50 WORKSHOP

Willy's Jeep

Fastest · Open-top

HOW WORKSHOPS WORK

Workshops glow at night like the Lodge. Park your current vehicle, walk up to the one out front, and a pop-up confirms it's been added to your Garage forever.

CAMPAIGN

Fifty hand-tuned bush levels

Ten core assignments across Acacia Flats and the Big Five reserve. Then forty expansion levels through heavy bush, the Kalahari red sands, arid riverbeds, a huge inland dam, and themed bonus runs for big cats, raptors, dogs and the small nocturnal crew.

New levels unlock in batches of ten — the next ten are always a surprise.

N°01Day

Acacia Flats

Learn the ropes — find springbok and zebra on the plains.

2× springbok2× zebra

PAR 4:00

N°10Day & Night

Big Five

Document every species on the reserve.

1× springbok1× zebra1× giraffe1× secretarybird+10 more

PAR 15:00

N°20Day & Night

The Big Nineteen

Final field assignment — every newcomer.

1× cheetah1× baboon1× kudu1× caracal+6 more

PAR 15:00

N°30Day & Night

The Big Twenty-Nine

Final field assignment — every Kalahari newcomer.

1× ostrich1× porcupine1× blackmanedlion1× lioness+6 more

PAR 18:00

N°40Day & Night

The Big Thirty-Eight

Final field assignment — every new species.

1× martialeagle1× bateleur1× lappetvulture1× bushbaby+6 more

PAR 20:00

N°50Day & Night

The Great Reserve

The Great Reserve — every species, one photograph each.

1× springbok1× zebra1× giraffe1× secretarybird+40 more

PAR 25:00

+ 44 MORE LEVELS ACROSS THE CAMPAIGN

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JOIN THE RANGERS

Ready your camera

Free to play. Save your runs, climb the leaderboard, unlock the bush.

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