Olympus Wins Slot Review
Zeus leans in over the reels with a lightning bolt raised, and he’s right to hold onto it, because in Pragmatic Play‘s Olympus Wins that bolt almost never gets thrown. This is a low-volatility tumble slot that has quietly bolted a 100,000x prize onto its three middle reels, and that mismatch is the whole reason it’s interesting. Everything gentle about the maths says small, frequent wins; the one loud thing on the grid says otherwise.
The numbers underneath are steady rather than dramatic: 96.50% RTP at the top setting (casinos can also run 95.50% or 94.50%), a 5×4 grid paying left to right across up to 2,000 ways, stakes from 0.20 to 240.00, low volatility throughout. It’s familiar ground for the studio, sitting alongside Gates of Olympus and Fortune of Olympus, though this one swaps the usual bruising variance for something a good deal softer. The mountain pays in drizzle, mostly, with one bolt of lightning held in reserve.
Base Game & Features
Wins are awarded for left to right adjacent symbol combinations, with a maximum of 2,000 possible ways to win on the 5×4 grid. The reels sit inside the carved stone frame, with its small flanking rosettes, while lilac and magenta cloudbanks fill the screen edge to edge behind them.
The paytable is a short ladder with royal symbols at the bottom. Crown leads it, then Ring, Goblet and Hourglass, before A, K, Q, J and 10 close things out. Values as multiples of stake:
- Crown: 0.5x for three, 1.25x for four, 2.5x for five
- Ring: 0.4x for three, 1x for four, 2x for five
- Goblet: 0.3x for three, 0.75x for four, 1.5x for five
- Hourglass: 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 0.75x for five
- A, K: 0.15x for three, 0.25x for four, 0.6x for five
- Q: 0.1x for three, 0.2x for four, 0.5x for five
- J, 10: 0.05x for three, 0.15x for four, 0.3x for five
Tumble Feature
Every winning combination is paid, then the winning symbols disappear. Remaining symbols fall to the bottom of the grid and empty positions are replaced with new symbols from above. Tumbling continues until no new winning combinations appear, and all wins are added to the balance once every tumble from the base spin has resolved.
The tumble is also where the multiplier ladder and the gold symbols do their work, since both act on the sequence rather than the spin that started it. A base spin that clears the board three times in a row is a different animal from one that pays once and stops.
Tumble Multipliers
A win multiplier applies to all wins on the current tumble in the base game. It climbs to 2x, then 3x, then 5x with each successive tumble, and from the fourth tumble onwards it holds at 5x. It resets once the sequence ends. The curved arc beneath Zeus mirrors the same ladder, its four steps lit one at a time as the climb progresses.
Gold Symbols
Normal paying symbols marked in gold can appear in random positions on reels 2, 3 and 4, on any spin. When a winning combination forms with gold symbols in it, those symbols transform into wilds for the next tumble. A gold symbol only becomes a wild when it’s part of a win; a gold symbol in a non-winning position stays as it was.
The wild itself lands on the same three middle reels and substitutes for everything except the scatter. It’s the gold layer that makes those reels interesting during a run of tumbles, since any paying symbol there can become one mid-sequence.
Super Scatter
Ordinary scatters land on all reels. The rarer Super Scatter is restricted to reels 2, 3 and 4, and any combination of three or more symbols of either kind triggers the free spins. On top of the trigger, the Super Scatter pays as follows:
- 1 Super Scatter in a combination of 3 or more scatters of any kind: 50x total bet
- 2 Super Scatters in a combination of 3 or more scatters of any kind: 500x total bet
- 3 Super Scatters in a combination of 3 or more scatters of any kind: 5,000x total bet
- 4 Super Scatters in a combination of 4 or more scatters of any kind: 100,000x total bet
Those scatter pays are instant, awarded on the triggering spin, and they don’t depend on the free spins round amounting to anything. On a low-volatility game, that’s where the serious money in Olympus Wins actually lives.
Olympus Wins Free Spins
Three or more scatters of any kind award 10 free spins, plus two additional spins for each scatter beyond the third. Special reels are in play for the round, and the Super Scatter doesn’t appear during it, so retriggers come from ordinary scatters alone.
The round makes two changes to the base game’s arithmetic, and both favour the person spinning. On reel 3, every symbol is gold, so anything on that reel that helps a win turns wild for the following tumble.
The multiplier ladder also starts higher. All wins begin with a 2x multiplier applied, which climbs to 4x, 6x and 10x with each tumble, then holds at 10x from the fourth tumble onwards. It resets to 2x, not to nothing, whenever a sequence ends.
A typical sequence inside the round runs like this: a win pays with the 2x multiplier, the winning symbols clear, and reel 3’s contribution to that win returns as wilds. The wilds help form the next combination, which pays at 4x, and the ladder keeps climbing from there. A long chain compounds both effects at once.
Landing three more scatters retriggers the feature for a further 10 spins, with the same two extra per scatter beyond three. The game’s ceiling is the 100,000x Super Scatter pay, which belongs to the base game rather than the bonus.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing this is a long, mild afternoon on the mountain: wins turn up often, tumble chains run their short course, and the balance drifts rather than leaps. The reason to sit down at it is the one thing its softer rivals don’t offer, a 100,000x pay sitting on the reels themselves rather than behind a bonus round.
The free spins are the best-built part, because the multiplier starts at 2x and falls back to 2x rather than to nothing, so even a short round pays like a round. The flat side is the ceilings. Ordinary chains stop earning at 5x in the base game and 10x in the bonus, so the long tumble run this format usually rewards has nowhere to go.
It’s a good home for players who like the Gates of Olympus style of play but not its dry spells, and for anyone who enjoys a lottery ticket riding on top of gentle maths. Fans of long, escalating multiplier chains get nothing here. Mostly the weather on this mountain is soft; the bolt stays raised, but it’s real.
Olympus Wins FAQs
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What is the RTP of Olympus Wins?
Olympus Wins runs at 96.50% RTP at its top setting, and casinos can also run it at 95.50% or 94.50%. -
Is Olympus Wins high volatility?
No. Olympus Wins is a low volatility slot, so wins tend to be smaller and more frequent than in high variance games. -
How do you trigger free spins in Olympus Wins?
Land three or more scatter symbols in any combination, including Super Scatters, and you win 10 free spins plus two additional spins for each scatter beyond the third. -
What does the Super Scatter symbol do in Olympus Wins?
The Super Scatter appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 and combines with ordinary scatters to trigger free spins. It also pays on its own: one Super Scatter in a triggering combination pays 50x your total bet, two pay 500x, three pay 5,000x and four pay 100,000x. -
What do Gold Symbols do in Olympus Wins?
Gold-marked paying symbols can appear at random on reels 2, 3 and 4. When they form part of a winning combination, they turn into wild symbols for the next tumble. -
Can you retrigger the free spins in Olympus Wins?
Yes. Landing three more scatters during the round retriggers the feature for another 10 spins, plus two for each scatter beyond three. The Super Scatter doesn’t appear during free spins, so retriggers come from ordinary scatters. -
How many paylines does Olympus Wins have?
None in the fixed sense. The 5×4 grid pays for left to right adjacent symbol combinations instead, with up to 2,000 possible ways to win. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Olympus Wins?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin.
