Ring of Odin

Ring of Odin Slot Review

A carved stone gate stands over the reels, gold-trimmed guardians flanking it on either side, while storm clouds break into a seam of golden light behind the arch. Ring of Odin is built on one idea, and it’s the right one: a ring that can appear on any spin, cloning a symbol across nine positions and turning a modest 10-line game into something that can genuinely reach its 5,000x ceiling.

Play’n GO know this mythology well, and you’ll find more of their Asgard work in Odin Protector of Realms, Viking Runecraft and Tales of Asgard: Loki’s Fortune. The setup here is the leanest of the bunch: a 5×3 grid, 10 fixed paylines, a 96.2% RTP and mid-to-high volatility.

The Base Game and What the Symbols Pay

Wins pay left to right across the 10 fixed paylines, starting from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win counts on each line. Winning combinations need no gaps, so a symbol has to appear on consecutive reels from the left. Multiple line wins in one round are totalled up, alongside anything won from the features.

The paytable splits into four Nordic character symbols and four rune stones, with the Odin face wild sitting joint-top. All values are multiples of the total bet:

• Odin face (wild) and red sword emblem: 30x for five, 5x for four, 2.5x for three
• White horse: 20x for five, 3x for four, 1.5x for three
• Raven: 15x for five, 2x for four, 1x for three
• Wolf: 10x for five, 1.5x for four, 1x for three
• Red and blue rune stones: 5x for five, 1x for four, 0.5x for three
• Purple and green rune stones: 2.5x for five, 0.5x for four, 0.2x for three

That top award of 30x for a full line of wilds or sword emblems is the paytable’s ceiling in normal play, and it puts the emphasis squarely on the features if you want anything bigger. The characters at least earn their place: horse, raven and wolf are Odin’s own companions in the mythology, and they carry the mid-tier pays here.

The wild substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, so it can complete any character or rune line from either end of the paytable. The scatter itself is a gold eye, and it carries no paytable value of its own; its entire job is opening the bonus rounds, which makes it the only symbol on the grid you’ll never celebrate as part of a line win.

Odin’s Ring and the Draupnir Re-spins

Odin’s Ring can activate on any spin, in the base game or the bonus rounds alike. When it does, a set of rings overlays the grid and a symbol is chosen. From there the awards build:

• Up to nine Draupnir re-spins from a single activation
• One extra re-spin for every chosen symbol that lands inside Odin’s Rings
• If a re-spin is awarded, all nine rings duplicate the selected symbol for potential big wins

In effect it’s a cloning mechanic. Land the right symbol in the right places and nine positions fill with copies of it in a single stroke, which is how a paytable capped at 30x per line produces anything worth writing home about. The re-spin counter runs one at a time, so each duplicate is a discrete event rather than one big reveal.

The name is drawn from the same myth as the mechanic: Draupnir is Odin’s self-replicating ring, the one that dripped eight new copies of itself every ninth night. The game keeps the arithmetic simpler than the legend, but the idea is faithful, and it’s a nicer piece of theming than the usual scatter-and-collect filler.

Because the ring can fire on any spin, the base game never quite sits still. Even a spin with no line win can suddenly grow rings and start duplicating, and a scatter inside the ring has its own separate job to do as well.

Free Spins

The gold-eye scatter is the trigger, and it only counts on reels one, three and five, so every appearance on those three reels is one to watch. Three of them start the round on four free spins, which then works like this:

• An initial four free spins
• +1 free spin for each scatter that lands during the round
• Odin’s Ring is always active throughout, so the re-spin awards stay in play
• Same bet and payline count as the triggering round

Four starting spins is a modest count, and the retriggers are what give the round legs. The permanent ring does a lot of quiet work here too: every spin of the bonus carries the duplication mechanic on top of the standard wins, so the round doesn’t depend purely on scatter luck to pay.

There’s a knock-on effect worth spelling out. Because scatters add spins and the ring never switches off, the two systems feed each other, and a single lucky sequence can extend the round well past its starting length while nine-position duplications stack up on each re-spin.

Foresight: Multiplier Free Spins

The second free spins mode arrives through the ring itself. A scatter landing inside Odin’s Ring awards the Foresight round, which runs on its own rules:

• An initial four multiplier free spins
• Wins multiplied by up to x9, with the multiplier active for the whole round
• Odin’s Ring always active, re-spin awards included

The multiplier holding for the full round is the important part. Rather than a one-off boost on a single win, Foresight stacks a lasting multiplier on top of a ring that never switches off, and every scatter that lands during it adds a further spin. The name fits: you can see the multiplier coming before the wins land, and the round pays out at the end like everything else.

That combination is where the game’s 5,000x ceiling stops being a poster figure and starts being a target. A full grid’s worth of duplicated premium symbols, priced at a multiple of the total bet and then multiplied towards x9, is the one route through the maths that genuinely touches the top end.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.8/10

Playing Ring of Odin is mostly a matter of watching the gate. Ten lines is thin, so the base game can go quiet, but the ring can appear from nowhere and fill nine positions with copies before you’ve settled back in your seat. That’s the reason to pick this one: any spin, no matter how dull it looks, can suddenly turn into the whole session.

Foresight is the strongest thing here. A multiplier that holds all round and climbs towards x9, sitting on top of a ring that never switches off, gives the game a genuine shot at its top end. The stingy part is the four-spin starting count: the plain free spins round runs with Odin’s Ring but without the multiplier, and that’s the version you’ll land far more often than the multiplier one.

For anyone who likes a compact Norse slot where the theme and the mechanic actually match, this is an easy game to enjoy. It won’t hold anyone who wants constant features from the first spin; Odin’s gate rewards the patient.

Ring of Odin FAQs

• What is the RTP of Ring of Odin?

  Ring of Odin runs at an RTP of 96.2%.
• Is Ring of Odin high volatility?

  It sits at mid-to-high volatility, so wins can be sizeable but you shouldn’t expect them to arrive constantly.
• How do you trigger free spins in Ring of Odin?

  Landing scatters on reels one, three and five starts the plain free spins round on four spins, while a scatter that lands inside Odin’s Ring instead awards the Foresight multiplier free spins.
• How do the Draupnir re-spins work?

  Odin’s Ring can activate on any spin and picks a symbol. It can award up to nine Draupnir re-spins, adding one for every chosen symbol that lands inside the rings, and each re-spin duplicates the selected symbol across all nine ring positions.
• Can free spins retrigger in Ring of Odin?

  Yes. Every scatter that lands during a free spins round adds one extra spin, and Odin’s Ring stays active throughout, so re-spin awards continue alongside the standard wins.
• How many paylines does Ring of Odin have?

  Ring of Odin has 10 fixed paylines, with all wins paying left to right from the leftmost reel.
• What is the grid size of Ring of Odin?

  It’s a 5×3 grid, and the same layout is used during the free spins rounds.
• What is the maximum win on Ring of Odin?

  The maximum win is 5,000x your bet.