Gates of Olympus POP

Gates of Olympus POP is a Pragmatic Play slot, released on 31 August 2026 under its POP label, that fits the Zeus pay-anywhere formula into an upright 3x5 grid. Wins tumble, multiplier orbs reach 1,000x, and POP symbols can add a fixed 50x, 500x or 25,000x prize to a free spins trigger. The rules call it low volatility, with a 97.05% top RTP. We played 100 spins of the Gates of Olympus POP demo at $1.

What is the Gates of Olympus POP slot about?

Mount Olympus is a pastel city in the clouds, all golden domes, marble temples and flaming columns. The reels sit on a narrow purple panel in the middle, under three prize plaques named SNAP, BURST and SPARK, and a small, smiling Zeus stands by the spin button. The layout is made for a phone held upright, so on a wide desktop screen the sides are just scenery.

There are six pay symbols: red, purple and yellow gems, a gold ring, an hourglass and a jewelled crown, and no wild. Five or more of one symbol anywhere on the grid make a win, and nine or more pay 2x to 50x the bet, depending on the symbol. With 15 positions, nine of one symbol covers 60% of the screen.

Pragmatic Play's figures put a win on 28.82% of spins and free spins on one spin in 221.58 on average. Our session matched the first figure, with 29 of 100 spins paying, though most of those wins were small change.

Before our first spin at $1: the plaques read $500, $25,000 and $50. FluxPlays demo test, 15 October 2026.

Gates of Olympus POP bonus features

Tumbles

Each win clears its symbols, the rest slide down and new ones fill the gaps. The chain runs for as long as new wins form and is paid as one total when it stops, and that total is what the multipliers act on.

Multiplier orbs

Multipliers arrive as winged orbs in five designs, each with a random value: 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x or 1,000x. An orb stays put until the tumble chain ends, then all the orbs in view are added up and multiply the chain's total win, if there is one. They land in the base game as well as in free spins.

The demo's rules: orbs from 2x to 1,000x, and 15 free spins from 3 scatter or POP symbols. FluxPlays demo test, 15 October 2026.

POP symbols and the three prizes

POP symbols give this version its name. A POP counts toward the free spins trigger just like a Zeus scatter, and any three of the two together start the round. POPs in that trio also pay a fixed prize: one pays SPARK at 50x the bet, two pay SNAP at 500x, and three pay BURST at 25,000x, which equals the game's maximum win.

One review we read says the trigger needs at least one POP, but the game's rules accept any mix, so three plain scatters start free spins without a prize.

Free spins

The round gives 15 free spins on its own reels, where the orbs build. An orb on a winning spin adds its value to a total multiplier that lasts all round, and from then on every winning spin with a new orb is multiplied by that total. Two or more scatters add five spins. A round that reaches 25,000x the bet ends at once.

What changed from Gates of Olympus

Next to the original Gates of Olympus, POP is a trimmed, phone-first cut. The 6x5 grid shrinks to 3 reels by 5 rows, with five of a kind needed for a win. The top orb value doubles from 500x to 1,000x, the POP prizes are new, and the special bets and bonus buy are gone, so free spins can only be won by spinning.

Our Gates of Olympus POP demo test

We played 100 spins at $1 on the official demo, one at a time, and got $41.00 back. Wins came often, 29 of them, close to the official hit rate, but they were tiny: 19 paid under $1, mostly $0.20 to $0.60, and only two paid more than $5. The longest dry run was nine spins, from spin 37 to spin 45.

The best moments came early. Spin 4 ran five winning tumbles that took the win from $2.00 to $5.60 and put us briefly ahead. Spins 16 to 18 paid three times running, and the last two held the session's only orbs: on spin 17 a 2x orb doubled $1.60 to $3.20, and on spin 18 two orbs worth 10x together turned $0.20 into $2.00.

Spin 4 of 100 at $1: five winning tumbles for $5.60. FluxPlays demo test, 15 October 2026.

After that the balance drifted down, with one exception. On spin 79 two small tumbles paid $0.20 and $0.40, then a third added $10.00, for $10.60, or 10.6x the bet. Two Zeus scatters sat on the bottom row as it settled, one short of free spins. Without spins 4 and 79, the other 98 spins returned $24.80.

Spin 79 of 100 at $1: $10.60, our biggest win, with two scatters showing. FluxPlays demo test, 15 October 2026.

That near miss summed up the session. Two scatters landed on eight spins and three on none, and the POP symbol never appeared, so we never saw free spins, the running total multiplier, the retrigger or any of the three prizes. A hundred spins is far too few to judge a 97.05% RTP or a volatility label: these figures describe one session, not a forecast.

The demo opens at a $2.00 bet, with the plaques at $100, $1,000 and $50,000, and has no Buy Feature or special bets button. The minus button lowers the bet in $0.20 steps.

Is Gates of Olympus POP worth trying?

Its strength is how little there is to learn: one free spins round, no buys, no modes, and a grid built for a phone in one hand. Orbs work in the base game too, so any win can be multiplied. The 97.05% top RTP is the version the demo runs, but casinos can choose a lower one, down to 94.57%.

The small grid is also its limit. With 15 positions and a paytable that stops at 50x for nine of a kind, ordinary wins stay modest, and the real value depends on orbs landing on winning spins or on a POP prize. Without a buy, the base game is the only way into the bonus, and BURST needs all three POPs in a single trigger.

Sources disagree on how much it swings. The game's rules page and Pragmatic Play both call it low volatility, two review sites we checked say medium, and a third says low to medium. We go with the game's own label. In our sample, low meant frequent but small wins, not a steady balance: after spin 6 it fell for most of the session.

The game's own rules page settles the volatility question: low. FluxPlays demo test, 15 October 2026.

For the same pay-anywhere tumble and multiplier idea on a full 6x5 grid, with buys and special bets as well, compare it with Death Dominion, where a Doom symbol can wipe your multipliers or add to them.