Gates of Olympus Slot (Pragmatic Play)

The Gates of Olympus slot takes place on a 6x5 with Scatter Pays payouts. To land a winning outcome/spin, you need 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on the grid (i.e. Scatter style). Symbols don’t need to appear on paylines or in adjacent positions like Cluster Pays slots. 12 or more matching symbols will result in the top payout for that symbol. This allows for wins with multiple symbols on each spin.

You can play this trip to ancient Greece from as little as 20p to as much as £100 per spin. With not all casinos online offering the same max bet, change your stake by using the plus and/or minus buttons below the reels. If you’re not located in the UK, you can opt for Autoplay (up to 1,000 auto spins with limits) and speed up the play with Turbo/Quick Spin modes.

The Gates of Olympus RTP rate is 96.5%. Higher than the 96% average, Pragmatic Play offers their partners (the casinos/slot sites) 2 other versions: 95.51% and 94.5%. Open the Paytable wherever you’re playing to check your rate.

Very high volatility (5/5), the hit frequency rate is 28.82% meaning winning combinations will land every 3.47 spins on average. Triggering the free spins will occur every 448.12 spins on average too.

Finally, the Gates of Olympus slot game can deliver maximum wins of 5,000 times your total bet. The max win probability is 1 in 718,391 spins.

With the multipliers in the free spins key to achieving big wins, winning 1,000 times your total bet or higher will occur every 46,094 spins (again, on average).

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Released on the 25^th of February 2021, the Gates of Olympus slot sees you head to Mount Olympus. With a Greek mythology theme, you are transported to the gates of Zeus’ realm (Olympus). In case you’ve lived under a rock all your life, Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek mythology who’s known as the king of the Greek gods.

Beautifully designed, the setting is worth of these mythical deities as in the backdrop there is a marble template on top of Mount Olympus. It all looks very grand and opulent. To add to the majestic feel, you’ll see Zeus floating to the side of the grid (or above on the portrait/mobile version). With gold encasing the reels, the soundtrack is soft but ramps when you land winning combinations.

On the 6x5 grid, you’ll find a collect of 5 beautiful gems as well as higher-value goblets, rings, sand timers and gold crowns. The gold crown symbol pays the most awarding 50 times your total bet for 12 or more anywhere in view.

With no traditional wild symbol, there is a Zeus Scatter symbol that can appear anywhere on the grid. 6 Zeus Scatters will pay 100 times your total bet. 4 or more will also trigger the free spins. Find all symbol payouts below:

• Blue Gem: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 0.25, 0.75 or 2 x bet
• Green Gem: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 0.4, 0.9 or 4 x bet
• Yellow Gem: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 0.5, 1 or 5 x bet
• Purple Gem: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 0.8, 1.2 or 8 x bet
• Red Gem: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 1, 1.5 or 10 x bet
• Goblet: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 1.5, 2 or 12 x bet
• Ring: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 2, 5 or 15 x bet
• Sand Timer: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 2.5, 10 or 25 x bet
• Gold Crown: 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 10, 25 or 50 x bet
• Zeus Scatter: Pays up to 100 x bet + triggers Free Spins feature

Gates of Olympus Mobile

With all Pragmatic Play games produced with the latest technology, you can enjoy Gates of Olympus and their vast range of slots on mobile, tablet and desktop devices. Compatible with iOS, Android, Windows and MAC devices, the 6x5 grid looks great on smartphone devices.

With 4 bonus features, Gates of Olympus focuses on tumbles for successive wins and free spins which benefit from the added extra of multipliers up to 100x.

Tumble

When you land a winning combination of 8 or more identical symbols on the grid (or multiple wins), the Tumble feature comes into play. The contributed symbols in the win are removed from the grid which allows new ones to fall from above or come tumbling down.

Giving you another chance to win, the tumbles continue as long as you keep winning. Tumble are also known as Cascades or Avalanches and can be found in Megaways slots or in some NetEnt games such as Gonzo’s Quest.

Multiplier

To the side or above the grid, you’ll see Zeus hovering. Randomly on any spin, Zeus can activate the Multiplier feature with the Greek god adding 1 of 4 orbs to the grid. Zeus’ orbs contain multipliers ranging from 2x up to 500x.

If multiple orbs land, their values are added together and applied to the winning tumbles/combinations. The Multiplier orbs apply in both the base game and the Free Spins feature.

Free Spins

The Free Spins feature is played by landing 4 or more Zeus Scatter symbols on the same base game spin. With 4, 5 or 6 scatters awarding a payout of 3, 5 or 100 times your total bet respectively, you’ll enter Mount Olympus with 15 free spins.

Unlike the base game, multiplier Orbs will see their values added to the feature’s total multiplier when part of a win/tumble. With the total multiplier not resetting, multiplier Orbs will continue to increase the total multiplier.

If you land 3 Zeus Scatter symbols on the same free spin, you’ll win 5 additional free spins. This allows for unlimited retriggers and free spins.

Buy feature

Lastly, players outside the UK can opt for the Buy feature. You can grant yourself direct access to the Free Spins feature for a fee of 100 times your total bet. The RTP rate remains unaffected.

If you think you’ve seen this game before, the Gates of Olympus slot has many similarities to Sweet Bonanza which was released in June 2019. Whilst Pragmatic Play has swapped a sickly sweet world to Mount Olympus, the gameplay is by en large the same.

Offering tumbles, Gates of Olympus has the added extra of multiplier orbs in the base game up to 500x. In the Free Spins feature, the same multipliers can apply but are added to the total multiplier when part of a win. In Sweet Bonanza, Rainbow Bomb Multipliers can reach 100x.

Thematically, Gates of Olympus will appeal to more players than Sweet Bonanza. The RTP rate is 96.5% is marginally higher too. That said, Sweet Bonanza offers maximum wins of 21,175 times your total bet whilst the Greek mythology version has top payouts of 5,000 times your total bet. You are more likely to achieve the max wins in Gates of Olympus though due to the higher multipliers in the base game and free spins.

If you like Scatter Pays slots, Pragmatic Play released Gates of Olympus 1000 in December 2023. It has the same RTP rate but comes with Orb multipliers up to 1,000x and 15,000 times bet max wins (treble that of Gates of Olympus).

Prefer Greek gods? Playtech’s Age of the Gods slot features Zeus, Athena, Hercules, Poseidon, Aphrodite and Hades as well as 4 free spins features, 50,000 x bet max wins and 4 progressive jackpots. Another option is Divine Drop from Hacksaw Gaming which comes with multiplier wilds up to 200x, 2 free spins features and 10,000 x bet payouts.

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