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In-game camera view of a lion standing over a fallen figure beside a safari vehicle.
Co-op / Early Access

Safari-TV gives your film crew nine levels and a mystery on the tenth

Safari-TV opened its co-op safari agency on Steam on November 9. Rival bus races are planned for a later update.

November 9, 2026
Studio image · Mercy Games / stre1itzia
Launch briefing

Safari-TV is now available in Steam Early Access. The developers describe nine full levels for an online crew of two to four. The developers are keeping one thing out of the launch briefing: what happens on level ten. Their November 8 announcement describes a surprise there, while putting races against rival safari operators on the list for a later update.

Somebody has to keep filming

A group has two jobs on the same trip. There are tourists to transport in a destructible truck and wildlife encounters to film. The camera gives an accident a second life: friends can watch their footage together and post it to the agency’s in-game channel, where videos earn views and subscribers. Those are part of the game’s fiction. During an October playtest, the developers said players could also save recordings to a PC and share them elsewhere.

For a pair planning a session, that changes what counts as a good outing. The friend at the wheel has a reason to avoid a wreck. The friend with a camera has a reason to keep it pointed at the truck. Driving, looking after passengers and filming are tasks your group can divide up.

Safari truck dashboard and windshield seen from inside the cab, with a passenger on the right.
From the cab, the tour is a driving job. From behind the camera, the same trip becomes a film. Mercy Games / stre1itzia

What the studio says about the first nine levels

Mercy Games and stre1itzia call the first nine levels full levels and leave the tenth deliberately unexplained. Their announcement gives no length for a level. A group can plan to work toward the surprise without assuming the developers have promised ten equally long tours.

On the Steam page, the developers include equipment upgrades alongside filming and transporting passengers in the initial co-op experience. The Steam listing supports inviting a friend online on Windows. The storefront specifies online co-op and doesn’t list a shared-screen mode.

Three people and a large animal are framed by the camera’s recording indicator in a clearing.
The red recording indicator belongs to the game’s camera view. Mercy Games / stre1itzia

Bus races are a return trip

The team wants to release a major content update within the first four months. Its targets include races and shootouts with competing safari operators, 15 additional road events and 10 additional main events. The announcement counts those as events, separately from the nine launch levels, and gives no date for any individual addition.

If the appeal is an evening spent making a wildlife film with friends, the Windows version is available on Steam now. If racing another operator is the draw, wait for an update that actually puts the buses on the starting line.

A hippo stands beside a tipped blue booth as a character watches from the right.
Wildlife encounters are part of the trip. This promotional still doesn’t identify a particular level. Mercy Games / stre1itzia
The Wire · By David Bennett

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