Age Of The Gods Wheels Of Olympus Slot Review
Temples stacked on cliffs under a violet sky, marble columns framing the reels, a gilded statue watching from a domed roof: Olympus at permanent golden hour. The odd thing about Age Of The Gods Wheels Of Olympus is that its best-paying decision isn’t on the reels at all – it’s a toggle that doubles your stake and quietly returns a full percentage point more. Ash Gaming build the game on a 5×4 grid with 30 paylines and a total RTP of 95.09%, with gold symbols ready to turn any spin into a wheel of multipliers and free games.
It belongs to the same linked-jackpot family as Age Of The Gods Helios, and shares studio lineage with Fishin Bonanza and the Gold Hit series. From up here, the view is genuinely lovely – the climb is what the rest of this is about.
The Base Game and Its Symbols
Wins land on 30 fixed paylines across five reels and four rows. On any given line, only the highest winning combination pays, while wins on different lines stack together. It’s a conventional setup, and the game doesn’t complicate it.
The wild substitutes for all symbols, and it shares the top of the paytable with the goddess. There’s no scatter here; the gold symbols carry the feature work instead, which we’ll come to shortly.
The paytable runs from mythic riches down to ordinary letters, and every value below is for a line win at the game’s unit bet:
- Woman (goddess figure) – pays 1 for two, 12.50 for three, 25 for four and 75 for five
- Wild – identical to the goddess: 1 for two, 12.50 for three, 25 for four, 75 for five
- Cornucopia – 7.50, 17.50 and 50 for three, four and five
- Crown – 6, 12.50 and 37.50
- Fruit bowl – 5, 10 and 25
- Pomegranate – 3.50, 8.50 and 20
- Leaf/feather – 2.50, 7.50 and 17.50
- A, K, Q and J – 1, 5 and 12.50 for three, four and five
The goddess pays from two of a kind, which is a small mercy in a game where everything else needs three. The royals are the bulk of the reel-spinning; they pay least and appear often enough to keep the balance ticking between features.
Gold Symbols and the Wheels of Olympus
On any spin, any symbol can arrive as a gold symbol. Land three or more adjacent gold symbols on a single row and you trigger a Gold Symbol Wheel. The count determines the size: a three-symbol run spins the small wheel, four the medium, five the large.
Each wheel’s segments show multiplier and wild values, and the wheels range from modest 20x values up to 500x. The bigger the wheel, the bigger the numbers on it, which makes the difference between three adjacent golds and five more than cosmetic. A five-symbol line is the one worth chasing.
Free Games
The Wheels of Olympus also trigger the Free Games feature, and the wheel you hit decides what you get:
- Small wheel: 5 or 8 free games
- Medium wheel: 8 or 12 free games
- Large wheel: 12, 24 or 50 free games
Fifty free games from a single wheel is a serious prize by anyone’s measure, and it’s only available on the large wheel. At the end of the feature, a pop-up totals the win before returning you to the main game.
Feature Bet Mode
In the main game you can toggle Feature Bet mode on and off. It boosts your chances of triggering the Wheels of Olympus feature, at a price: your total bet doubles. Payouts don’t change.
The RTP does, though. The base game returns 95.09%, and Feature Bet mode returns 96.13%. That’s a full percentage point back for the doubled stake, which makes the mode more than a simple surcharge – for anyone settling in for a longer session, it’s the better-paying configuration.
The Age of the Gods Jackpot
Numerous games in the family are linked to four mystery progressive jackpots: Power, Extra, Super and Ultimate. All four are won randomly, and any spin of any linked game can win entry to the jackpot round – including spins that win nothing in the base game. The higher your bet, the better your chance of getting in.
Entry guarantees a jackpot win. The round presents a 5×3 grid of 15 coins hiding different jackpot symbols; you click coins to reveal them, and matching three identical symbols wins that jackpot. There’s a reaction timer, and if you don’t act in time the win is paid automatically, so the guarantee is genuinely a guarantee.
It’s worth being clear about what this system is: a random draw bolted alongside the game rather than something you earn through the reels. The jackpot contribution is part of that 95.09% total return, and no amount of skill or feature play influences which of the four tiers drops.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Most of a session here is spent watching a pretty conventional 30-liner tick over – wilds, royals and the occasional goddess – until a run of adjacent golds lights up and the game remembers it has wheels. That moment is why anybody picks it: three, four or five gold symbols in a row genuinely means something different each time, and 50 free games on the large wheel is a ceiling worth holding out for.
The smartest thing in the game is Feature Bet mode, which doubles the stake but pays back 96.13% and triggers the wheels more often. The weakest is the jackpot: it’s a raffle you fund rather than a round you earn, and it eats into a base return that already runs below the better examples in this family.
It suits players who like a plain reel game with one big, escalating pay-off, and who don’t mind feeding the progressive pot for a chance at a random strike. Anyone who wants their features earned rather than raffled will find the mountain a long climb – but the view, and the wheels, are worth it for the patient.
Age Of The Gods Wheels Of Olympus FAQs
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What is the RTP of Age Of The Gods Wheels Of Olympus?
The total RTP is 95.09% in the standard base game. With Feature Bet mode active, the RTP rises to 96.13%, since that mode doubles your total bet while boosting the chances of triggering the Wheels of Olympus feature. -
How do you trigger the Wheels of Olympus feature?
Any symbol on the reels can turn gold on any spin. Landing three or more adjacent gold symbols on a single row triggers a Gold Symbol Wheel – three gold symbols spin the small wheel, four the medium, and five the large. The wheels carry multiplier and wild values, and they also award the Free Games feature. -
How many free games can the wheels award?
The small wheel awards 5 or 8 free games, the medium wheel awards 8 or 12, and the large wheel awards 12, 24 or 50. Fifty free games is the maximum, and it only comes from the large wheel. -
What does Feature Bet mode do?
Feature Bet mode doubles your total bet in exchange for a better chance of triggering the Wheels of Olympus feature. It doesn’t change any payouts, but it does raise the RTP from 95.09% to 96.13%, making it the better-value configuration for longer sessions. -
How does the Age of the Gods jackpot work?
Four mystery progressive jackpots – Power, Extra, Super and Ultimate – are linked across numerous games and won randomly. Any spin can win entry to the jackpot game, even spins with no base game win, and higher bets improve your chances. Inside, a 5×3 grid of 15 coins hides jackpot symbols; match three identical symbols to win that jackpot. Entry guarantees a win, and the round pays automatically if the reaction timer runs out. -
What does the wild symbol do in Age Of The Gods Wheels Of Olympus?
The wild substitutes for all symbols, with no exclusions. It also matches the goddess as the joint top payer on the paytable, and it pays from just two of a kind. -
How many paylines does Age Of The Gods Wheels Of Olympus have?
It’s a 5-reel, 30-line slot on a 5×4 grid. Only the highest winning combination pays on any given payline, while wins on different paylines are added together. -
Who makes Age Of The Gods Wheels Of Olympus?
Ash Gaming. Age Of The Gods Wheels Of Olympus’s release date is 11 November 2021.
