Bow of Artemis

Bow of Artemis Slot Review

An autumn forest at golden hour, Artemis in a white gown and gold cuirass standing wrapped in turquoise light, a reel frame carved with feathered arrow fletching. Pragmatic Play has dressed Bow of Artemis beautifully, but the interesting thing isn’t the dress: it’s a cluster slot where the base game’s wins matter less as wins than as fuel. Every winning symbol explodes into a meter, so a 0.1x payout and a 5x payout both feed the same slow build towards the real game.

It runs on an 8×8 grid where symbols pay in connected blocks of five or more, at 96.05% RTP with medium volatility and stakes from 0.20 to 240.00. Six spin modifiers and a five-level Hunt feature give it more moving parts than Gates of Olympus or Gems Bonanza, and The Hunt can be bought outright for 100x your stake.

Base Game & Features

Wins form when five or more matching symbols connect horizontally or vertically anywhere on the 8×8 grid. There are no paylines in the traditional sense; the block size is what matters, and bigger blocks climb the pay ladder steeply.

Every winning spin triggers the Tumble Feature. Winning symbols are paid and removed, remaining symbols fall to the bottom, and new symbols drop in from above. Tumbling continues for as long as new wins keep forming, so a single spin can chain several payouts.

The pay ladder rewards depth. Five of a kind is barely a nudge, while 25 or more of the same symbol pays 50 to 1,000 times your stake depending on the symbol. That gap between a minimum block and a maximum one is where the game’s real win potential sits.

Symbol values at a glance, as multiples of stake:

• Blue Bear: 1x for 5, up to 1,000x for 25+
• Green Wolf: 0.5x for 5, up to 500x for 25+
• Deer: 0.3x for 5, up to 300x for 25+
• A: 0.25x for 5, up to 150x for 25+
• K: 0.2x for 5, up to 100x for 25+
• Q: 0.15x for 5, up to 75x for 25+
• J: 0.1x for 5, up to 50x for 25+

The wild substitutes for any paying symbol and appears only through the modifiers, never on its own drops. It does one job and does it inside the features below.

The Six Spin Modifiers

Winning symbols can land on coloured marks on the grid. Each colour fires a specific modifier once the tumbles from that spin finish, and several can trigger from the same spin.

• The Chase Begins (brown mark): the screen clears entirely and fresh symbols drop in.
• Wild Pack (teal mark): all instances of one random symbol on screen turn wild.
• Big Game Hunter (purple mark): random 2×2 blocks of the same symbol are added to the grid.
• Colossal Game (red mark): one 3×3, 4×4 or 5×5 block of a single symbol is dropped in.
• Lucky Wilds (blue mark): between 5 and 15 wilds are scattered across the screen.
• Power (green mark): 10 to 30 instances of one random paying symbol are added.

When multiple modifiers hit on the same spin they play in a fixed order: The Chase Begins, Wild Pack, Big Game Hunter, Colossal Game, Lucky Wilds, then Power. The order matters, because a clear from The Chase Begins can follow a Colossal Game drop that has already paid.

Bow of Artemis Bonus Features & The Hunt

The Hunt is the game’s progressive centrepiece. Every winning symbol that explodes during tumbles fills The Hunt meter, and the count carries across spins.

Collecting 105 points from a single base game spin with tumbles and modifiers triggers Level 1 with no starting multiplier. Overshoot the threshold and you’re rewarded for it: 130 points starts the feature at 2x, 155 at 3x, and 185 at 5x. That multiplier applies to every win during the feature.

Inside The Hunt, every level guarantees all six spin modifiers play once, in order. Your job each level is to collect enough winning symbols to advance:

• Level 2: 140 symbols during Level 1, plus 1x to the total multiplier, or up to +5 for 220 symbols
• Level 3: 140 symbols during Level 2, plus 1x, or up to +5 for 220
• Level 4: 152 symbols during Level 3, plus 1x, or up to +5 for 220
• Level 5: 152 symbols during Level 4, plus 1x, or up to +5 for 220

The feature ends when a level doesn’t collect enough winning symbols to advance, or when all spin features from Level 5 have played out. Because every level guarantees the full modifier cycle, a deep run stacks block drops, wild floods and symbol floods back to back with an ever-rising multiplier attached.

Buy The Hunt

The Hunt can be bought from the base game for 100x your total bet. The bought feature starts after the triggering spin’s tumbles and modifiers resolve, and the collection thresholds differ from the organic route, running lower at the early levels:

• Level 2: 125 symbols during Level 1, plus 1x, or up to +5 for 210
• Level 3: 130 symbols during Level 2, plus 1x, or up to +5 for 230
• Level 4: 140 symbols during Level 3, plus 1x, or up to +5 for 240
• Level 5: 160 symbols during Level 4, plus 1x, or up to +5 for 250

Those softer early thresholds mean a bought Hunt is slightly easier to carry into the deeper levels than one earned the slow way, which partly explains the 100x price tag.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Playing Bow of Artemis is stalking, not shooting. Most spins are quiet, small blocks pay small change, and the pleasure is in watching the meter creep upward knowing every exploded symbol counted. That visible, always-moving progress towards The Hunt is the single reason to choose it over the dozen other Greek slots on the shelf.

The best thing here is that The Hunt rewards depth properly: every level guarantees the full modifier cycle and the multiplier never resets, so a long run compounds the way most bonus rounds simply can’t. The worst thing is how rarely the base game justifies itself in the moment. Asking 105 points from one spin sequence before anything big happens means long stretches where the stalking is all there is.

It’s for players who enjoy the build as much as the payoff, and who don’t need a bonus round every few minutes to stay interested. Anyone who wants constant action will tire of the forest before the goddess delivers. Patient hunters, though, are exactly who Artemis has in mind.

Bow of Artemis FAQs

• What is the RTP of Bow of Artemis?

  The RTP is 96.05%.
• Is Bow of Artemis high volatility?

  No, Bow of Artemis is a medium volatility slot, so wins tend to come at a steadier pace than in high variance games.
• How do paylines work in Bow of Artemis?

  There are no paylines. All symbols pay in blocks of at least five matching symbols connected horizontally or vertically on the 8×8 grid.
• How does The Hunt feature trigger?

  The Hunt meter counts every winning symbol that explodes during tumbles. Collecting at least 105 points within a single base game spin sequence, including its tumbles and modifiers, triggers The Hunt at Level 1. Collecting 130, 155 or 185 points on the triggering spin starts the feature with a 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier instead.
• What do the coloured marks on the grid do?

  Winning symbols that land on coloured marks trigger one of six spin modifiers after the tumbles finish: The Chase Begins (brown), Wild Pack (teal), Big Game Hunter (purple), Colossal Game (red), Lucky Wilds (blue) and Power (green).
• Can you buy the bonus on Bow of Artemis?

  Yes. Buy The Hunt costs 100x your total bet and starts The Hunt once the triggering spin’s tumbles and modifiers resolve. The bought version uses slightly lower collection thresholds in the early levels.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Bow of Artemis?

  Stakes run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin.
• When is Bow of Artemis released?

  Bow of Artemis’s release date is 29 July 2024.