Gods of Olympus 5

Gods of Olympus 5 Slot Review

A sunlit Greek mountaintop, marble columns, peach cliffs and a waterfall: Olympus has rarely looked this relaxed, and rarely done this little with it. Gods of Olympus 5 spends almost nothing on its base game and bets everything on a single bonus round, which is either lazy design or admirably honest focus depending on your taste in coin collectors. The one from Iron Dog Studio argues for the second.

It runs on a 5×3 grid with 10 winlines paying left to right, at an RTP of 95.15% and a win ceiling of 7,500x the stake. The RTP sits a little under what most modern slots quote. The marble staircase behind the reels, meanwhile, climbs out of frame and goes nowhere, which feels about right for a game that saves everything for one room at the top.

Base Game & Features

The reels carry the card royals, A through J, alongside a character symbol. Wins form across 10 winlines that run strictly left to right, and only the highest combination on a line counts. There’s no scatter-pays system here and no cluster mechanics hiding in the margins. What you see is a straight five-reel game.

Wilds appear on all five reels and substitute for every non-special symbol. When a run of Wilds on a winline is interrupted by a special symbol, the win pays according to the paytable rather than treating the interruption as part of the line. That’s the wild’s whole job here, and it does it quietly.

The symbols that matter are the coloured coins. Land at least one anywhere on the board and the Hold & Win round may trigger. Outside that, the base game is a waiting room with a nice view, and the view really is nice: a blue silk banner slung across the rotunda, pale cliffs with a thin waterfall on the left, and warm summer haze over the whole scene.

Gods of Olympus 5 Bonus Features

How the Hold & Win round works

When the round starts you receive 3 respins, and winlines switch off for the duration. The twist is what happens to the board: it splits into separate boards, one for each coloured coin type that took part in the trigger. A single coin gives you one board; three colours give you three boards running side by side.

Once inside, the symbol set narrows completely. Only Special Blue, Green and Red Coins, the Special Bonus symbol, the Special Mini, Minor, Major and Mega Prize symbols, and blanks can land. Any symbol other than a blank resets that board’s respin counter back to three, so a board stays alive for as long as it keeps feeding you something.

The round ends when respins run out on every active board, or when the active boards fill with symbols. Because each board keeps its own counter, a three-board round can easily outlast a single-board one by a wide margin, and the fill condition is what the Grand Jackpot hangs on.

It’s worth being clear about what “filling” means, because it’s stricter than it sounds. Every position on a board has to carry a symbol, with no blanks left anywhere on it, before the jackpot for that board pays. The respin mechanic works against you here: each blank that lands burns a respin without adding anything, so a board that’s nearly full can still die one symbol short.

The special coins

• Blue Coin upgrades Bonus and Prize symbols in a 3×3 area around it.
• Green Coin multiplies coins and bonus symbols by a random 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x when Hold & Win ends.
• Red Coin collects 1-3 random cash values and adds to its own value.

The three do very different jobs. The red coin hoovers up value immediately, which makes it the most reliable of the three. The green coin is where the big finishes come from, since its multipliers apply at the tally rather than on landing. The blue coin quietly fattens whatever sits near it, prize symbols included.

Blank symbols are the enemy. They’re the only thing that doesn’t reset the counter, so a run of blanks on one board can end it while the others keep spinning. Three boards means three chances to stay alive.

Grand Jackpot

Filling a board is the prize condition, and the ladder scales with how many you manage:

• One board filled: Grand Jackpot of 2,500x the stake.
• Two boards filled: 5,000x the stake.
• All three boards filled: 7,500x the stake.

That top step is the game’s ceiling. It’s also a demanding fill: three boards, each holding symbols on every position, with counters that reset only on non-blank landings. The Mini, Minor, Major and Mega Prize symbols carry their own cash values along the way, so a round that misses the jackpot entirely can still pay respectably.

Bonus Buy

A shopping cart icon in the main interface opens the buy menu, which offers two ways into the round:

• 60x stake: Hold & Win with 1 random board active.
• 120x stake: all boards running from the very first respin.

The cheaper buy leaves the board count to chance, which caps the jackpot ladder at whatever the random selection gives you. The 120x option is the only way to guarantee all three boards from the off, and it’s the only route to a bought 7,500x finish. Whether any single round can climb that far is another matter; three full boards asks a lot.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Most of your time on this mountaintop is spent waiting. The base game is royals, a character symbol and the odd wild, and the gods above the reels do very little while you grind towards the coins. The reason to sit through it is the Hold & Win round, which is the only place this game keeps any of its personality.

That round deserves the wait. Running up to three boards at once, each with its own respin counter, means no two triggers feel the same, and the green coin’s end-of-round multipliers can turn a modest tally into something much bigger.

The price of that focus is the rest of the game: there is nothing here between bonuses, and the 95.15% RTP means the mountain pays you back slowly. If you already like Hold & Win games and don’t mind a quiet climb, this is a well-built one with a genuinely good split-board idea. Anyone who wants entertainment on the way to the bonus will be bored on the stairs before the coins arrive.

Gods of Olympus 5 FAQs

• What is the RTP of Gods of Olympus 5?

  The RTP is 95.15%. That’s the total expected return, and it sits slightly below the figure most modern slots quote.
• How do you trigger the Hold & Win round in Gods of Olympus 5?

  Landing at least one coloured coin anywhere on the board may trigger the round. The board then splits into separate boards, one for each coloured coin type, and you start with 3 respins.
• What do the blue, green and red coins do in Gods of Olympus 5?

  The Blue Coin upgrades Bonus and Prize symbols in a 3×3 area. The Green Coin applies a random multiplier, between 2x and 5x, to coins and bonus symbols once the round finishes. The Red Coin collects 1-3 random cash values and adds them to its own.
• How do you win the Grand Jackpot in Gods of Olympus 5?

  Fill a board during the Hold & Win round. One filled board pays 2,500x your stake, two pay 5,000x, and all three pay 7,500x.
• When does the Hold & Win round end in Gods of Olympus 5?

  It finishes when every active board has either exhausted its respins or run out of room for new symbols. Each board’s respin counter resets to three whenever a non-blank symbol lands on it.
• Can you buy the bonus on Gods of Olympus 5?

  Yes. A Bonus Buy menu offers two options: Hold & Win with one random board active for 60x your stake, or with all boards active for 120x your stake.
• What symbols can land during the Hold & Win round?

  The reels switch to a special set: Blue, Green and Red Coins, the Bonus symbol, the Mini, Minor, Major and Mega Prize symbols, and blanks. Winlines are disabled for the whole round.
• How many paylines does Gods of Olympus 5 have?

  There are 10 winlines, and they all run from left to right across the reels.
• Who makes Gods of Olympus 5?

  Gods of Olympus 5 is made by Iron Dog Studio.