Forge of Olympus Slot – Free Demo

Thirty Positions on the Screen

Forge of Olympus is a 6-reel, 5-row video slot with no paylines and a 96.25% RTP. Wins are settled by counting matching symbols anywhere on the screen at the end of a spin. Pragmatic Play created it, and players are permitted to bet between 0.20 and 300 credits. My own session sat near the bottom of that range, at 2 credits a spin for everything except a 22-spin stretch at 2.50. That six-reel grid is one Pragmatic Play returns to often.

It has a Greek forge theme, with weighty hammering audio and action-packed play, as you can see by examining the screenshots. Free spins can be bought outright as well as triggered by scatters. That play includes a free spins mode and a Multiplier symbol feature.

The Medusa Medallion and the Gems Below

The game comprises premium symbols, low-value symbols, a scatter symbol and a Multiplier symbol, and the low-value symbols are depicted by coloured jewels while the premiums are depicted by the Medusa medallion, a helmet, a cup and a ring. The scatter sits on all six reels and pays from any position. The top premium symbol (the Medusa medallion) is the most lucrative, paying 50x for 12 or more anywhere on the screen. The helmet behind it pays 25x on the same band, the cup 15x and the ring 12x. Below the four premiums come five gems, with the red one at the bottom of the table. Four scatters pay 3x the stake, five pay 5x and six pay 100x. Six reels and five rows put thirty positions on the screen, which is why the top band runs to 30 symbols. Wins begin at eight matching symbols and are grouped 8–9, 10–11 and 12–30, which is where the Multiplier symbol comes in.

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Tumbles, Orbs and the Sum on the Screen

The base game revolves around the Tumble and Multiplier symbol features: in other words, winning symbols are paid and vanish. Most of the base spins that paid me returned between 0.25x and 2.3x the stake. The remainder fall to the bottom, new symbols drop in from above, and it repeats until a tumble yields no win. The longest chains I saw ran five paying steps, and nearly all of my largest base wins came from one. There is no cap on the number of tumbles, and the entire sequence is paid to the balance once it concludes. The biggest of mine was 59.5x the stake, five steps under two multiplier orbs. There are three elements that determine what the sequence is worth:

Tumble The winning combination is cleared and the symbols above it fall into the gap. That can generate another win and another removal, step after step.

Multiplier symbol In the base game and the free spins alike, it lands on any reel. It assumes a random value from 2x to 100x.

Multiplier totalling Every multiplier value on the screen is summed together when the tumbling sequence concludes. The sequence's overall win is multiplied by that figure.

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Fifteen Orbs to the Top Level

The free spins feature is activated with 10, 15 or 20 opening spins if 4, 5 or 6 Scatter symbols land anywhere on the reels. I got there naturally twice in 490 paid spins, on spin 66 and then 248 spins later. During the free spins, special reels are in play. The first of those triggers came on four scatters and returned 107.75x the stake over its 10 free spins. Unlike in the main game, the round operates a progressive meter, and that meter collects multiplier symbols and lifts the floor of what they can reach. Level 1 works on the same 2x to 100x range the base game uses.

This allows for a much better chance to collect a run of large multipliers. Neither of my natural rounds got past Level 2, and one of them never left Level 1. Six collected symbols carry the meter to Level 2 (8x–100x), another 5 to Level 3 (15x–100x) and another 4 to Level 4 (50x–100x), where it remains for the rest of the round. That is fifteen orbs inside a single round to reach the top level. Three or more scatters inside the round grant 5 more free spins, and those who don't wish to wait can buy in at 100x, 200x, 400x or 500x the total bet for a round that begins on Level 1, 2, 3 or 4. One of my rounds did retrigger on three scatters, and its 15 free spins added 15.6x the stake between them. Switching Double Chance on raised my stake from 2 to 2.50 credits a spin and greyed out the buy menu, and the rules say it doubles the chance of a natural trigger.

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Final Minty Score: Two natural triggers in 490 paid spins, and the round that carried my session was one I bought at 200x the stake. A 100x orb inside it turned a five-credit sequence into 500 credits and the round finished at 475.95x; the Level 1 buy alongside it, at half the price, came back at 12.15x.

Two Triggers in 490 Spins

Anyone anticipating another ultra high variance slot from Pragmatic Play will get exactly that. Dead runs of fourteen, eleven, twelve and twenty-one spins turned up in my session, and the base game handed back roughly 30% of what it took. This is a 5-of-5 volatility slot with a max win of 5000x per individual round, and attaining it ends the round at once and forfeits every remaining feature. During my testing nothing came close. The two natural triggers returned 107.75x and 92.4x the stake, and the closest thing to a big round was a purchase. But a purchased Level 2 round landed a 100x symbol on a 5-credit sequence for 500 credits and finished at 475.95x the stake, so there certainly is some juice in there.

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Both in terms of graphics and mechanics, Forge of Olympus is a well-made slot of high calibre. It can seem a bit uneven at first. Scatters landed in ones and twos constantly, and three of them came at least six times without a fourth ever following. The unevenness is likely down to the Multiplier symbol, which decides the size of a win rather than whether there is one - the biggest single multiplier of my entire base game, a 75x sitting beside a 2x, landed on a spin that paid nothing at all, and I suppose you could say this feature adds some additional variance to the game - lose, lose, lose, lose ...bang! The Level 2 purchase opened on six scatters, which paid 100x the stake before a single free spin had been played.

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This game might not receive as much attention as Gates of Olympus or Sweet Bonanza. But it ships everywhere Pragmatic Play does, so it is going to attract a lot of playtime regardless.