Pegasus Power

Pegasus Power Slot Review

A marble temple sits on a bank of cloud, gold-capped columns holding up a lilac sky, a winged bull watching from its pedestal. Pegasus Power has spent nearly all of its ambition on that view, because underneath the paint it’s one of the plainest five-reel games you’ll spin all year – and it’s clearly happy that way.

High 5 Games keeps the mechanics old-fashioned underneath all that paint. This is a 5×3 grid running at 96% RTP, with one bonus round and no free spins to speak of, which makes it a deliberately quiet alternative to flashier High 5 titles like Da Vinci DeluxeWays, Arctic Sky and Shadow of the Panther Infinity. The clouds are the draw as much as the maths.

Symbols and Pay Table

The reels carry a cast of Greek myth, and Zeus leads the pays. A winged WILD symbol was also seen on the reels during play, though the game’s information screens don’t state what it does. Three, four and five of a kind pay as follows, in credits and without any bet modifiers applied:

• Zeus – 50 / 200 / 500
• Medusa – 25 / 200 / 500
• Warrior/Minotaur – 25 / 100 / 500
• Sword – 20 / 100 / 500
• Horn – 20 / 50 / 500
• Trident (purple/pink) – 10 / 20 / 200
• Trident (teal) – 10 / 20 / 200
• A, K, Q – 5 / 20 / 100

The Shape of the Pays

The premium end of that table is flat at the top. Zeus, Medusa and the Minotaur all reach 500 credits for five of a kind, so the real difference between them sits in the three- and four-of-a-kind steps, where Zeus pulls clearly ahead at 50 and 200 credits against the Minotaur’s 25 and 100.

That flat ceiling tells you something about how the game is built. The top prizes are close to identical, which spreads the value across the premium cast rather than concentrating it on one symbol, and means a five-of-a-kind of almost any picture symbol is a genuinely strong result.

Below them, the sword and horn form a middle tier, and the royals are the low end, as usual. There’s very little daylight between the two trident symbols, which pay identically at every step, and the A, K and Q share a single pay row too.

The stepping is steep rather than gentle. Zeus pays ten times more for five of a kind than for three, and every premium symbol jumps sharply at the top end, so the game’s bigger line wins are concentrated in the four- and five-symbol combinations.

The gap between tiers narrows as you climb. From royals to tridents is a doubling at the five-of-a-kind step, from tridents to the sword and horn another doubling, and from there to 500 credits a further two and a half times. In practice that means the mid-tier symbols aren’t filler: five swords or horns still return a credit figure worth noticing.

One detail is worth keeping in mind when reading any win on screen. All credit wins are shown without bet modifiers applied, so the figure a line displays is the raw paytable value, and the actual return in play depends on how the bet is structured. It’s a small thing, but it explains why a big-looking number can land as a modest one.

Wilds and Scatters

The WILD is a winged horn icon that appears on the reels; the game doesn’t document what it does. Alongside it sits the BONUS scatter, which ignores paylines entirely and exists purely to start the feature.

Keeping the two special symbols this simple is consistent with the rest of the design. There’s no symbol collection, no charging meter, no second wild variant, and the base game is all line pays, scatter watching and the occasional wild landing in the right place.

The Pick Bonus

There’s exactly one bonus round here, and it’s a simple one. The BONUS symbol is a scatter that appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5; land one on each of those three reels, in any position, and the Pick Bonus begins with a single pick.

Three PICK ONE options appear on screen. Choose one, and it reveals an award worth anywhere from 5 to 500 times the total initiating bet. With only one pick to spend, the round ends as soon as that choice is made, and the credits revealed are added up and paid.

The structure is about as stripped-back as a pick round gets. Because the round ends when zero picks remain, and it starts with exactly one, there’s no chain of picks, no second stage and no retrigger – the reveal is the whole event.

It’s worth walking through what that single pick actually decides. Three options sit on screen, each hiding its own award, and the only decision the round ever asks for is which one to take. The two you leave behind are gone the moment the choice is made; there’s no chance to work through them, and no way to know whether the pick you passed on held 5x or 500x.

The floor of 5x means even the weakest reveal is a small return rather than nothing, and the 500x ceiling at the top is the best any single bonus round can produce here. Everything between those two points is down to which of the three options the pick lands on.

That’s the whole feature. No free spins, no multiplier ladder, no separate jackpot round. The game puts its entire bonus weight on one choice, which suits the unhurried feel of the base game, and means the moments that matter are short and clearly signposted.

The scatter restriction matters more than it looks. Because BONUS symbols only exist on three of the five reels, the trigger can never come from a lucky cluster elsewhere on the grid; every trigger is the same shape, one scatter on each of reels 1, 3 and 5. It’s an easy condition to read at a glance, which fits a game with nothing else to track.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6/10

Spinning Pegasus Power is a lot like sitting in that cloud-top temple: calm, pretty, and over before you’ve noticed much has happened. Somebody chooses it for the artwork, plain and simple – the painterly pastels and the marble framing are doing more work than anything on the reels.

The strength is honesty of design. Every rule fits in a sentence, the flat 500-credit top to the paytable means almost any picture-symbol five-of-a-kind feels like an event, and the single-pick bonus resolves cleanly with a guaranteed 5x floor. The weakness is the same coin: one pick between three boxes is the entire feature set, so there’s nothing to build towards and no round worth waiting for. Most mythology slots offer two or three bonuses; this one offers a tenth of one.

It’s a natural fit for anyone after a slow, low-fuss session where the looks carry the evening, and a poor one for bonus hunters who want layers to unpack. The temple keeps its charm; just don’t expect thunder from the clouds.

Pegasus Power FAQs

• What is the RTP of Pegasus Power?

  The RTP of Pegasus Power is 96%.
• What is the grid size of Pegasus Power?

  Pegasus Power plays on a 5×3 grid with five reels and three rows.
• How do you trigger the Pick Bonus in Pegasus Power?

  Land three BONUS scatter symbols, one each on reels 1, 3 and 5 in any position, and the Pick Bonus starts. It awards a single pick.
• What does the Pick Bonus pay in Pegasus Power?

  Each of the three PICK ONE options hides an award worth between 5 and 500 times the total initiating bet. You get one pick, and the round pays out whatever it reveals.
• What is the top-paying symbol in Pegasus Power?

  Zeus is the top-paying symbol. Three, four and five of a kind pay 50, 200 and 500 credits respectively, though Medusa and the Minotaur also reach 500 for five of a kind.
• Does the Pick Bonus award free spins in Pegasus Power?

  No. The Pick Bonus is a single-pick round that reveals a credit award, and there’s no free spins feature in the game.
• Which reels does the BONUS scatter appear on in Pegasus Power?

  The BONUS scatter appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and it doesn’t need to sit on a payline to count. One on each of those three reels anywhere in view starts the Pick Bonus.
• When is Pegasus Power released?

  Pegasus Power’s release date is 2 March 2022.