Rise of Olympus

Rise of Olympus is Play'n GO's Greek gods grid from August 2018: a 5x5 board where lines of three or more pay, winning symbols vanish, the rest drop and nothing new falls in. A multiplier climbs with every drop, Zeus, Poseidon or Hades steps in on spins that miss, and clearing the whole grid opens free spins with a choice of three god modes. There is no buy, so we tested the Rise of Olympus slot demo with 100 spins at $1.

What is Rise of Olympus?

The grid stands between marble columns. On the left sit the multiplier readout, a list of the round's wins and the Wrath of Olympus meter; on the right stands whichever god is active. In our session the background and the god on the right changed with the active god; Hades brings a red volcanic scene.

This is the 2018 original: Rise of Olympus 100, Origins, Extreme and 1000 are separate games.

Wins are straight lines, not clusters: three, four or five matching symbols side by side in any row or column, so all ten rows and columns are live. One symbol can count in several wins at once, and only the best win per combination is paid.

The gold coin with a winged horse is the wild and stands in for every symbol. When a win of exactly three is removed, a wild appears in its middle position, and when wilds are the only symbols left on the grid they are removed too, which helps clear the board.

At a $1 bet five wilds pay $50, and five of Zeus, Poseidon or Hades $10 each. Any mix of the three gods pays $5 for five and $0.20 for three. The four object symbols pay far less: five lyres or helmets $3.00, five tridents or bolts $2.00, and three of them 10 to 15 cents.

The bet is picked from five buttons, 0.60 to 4.00 around the default, with step buttons either side. The server lists coin values of 0.01 to 5.00 at 20 coins a spin, which gives $0.20 to $100; the help text names no limits. There is no gamble.

Base spin 11 of 100 at $1, settled: three gods for $0.20 at x1, two helmets and a coin for $0.30 at x2, four bolts and a coin for $6.00 at x3. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Paytable page 4 in our demo session: the coin wild and the three gods, with pays for five, four and three at $1. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Rise of Olympus bonus features

Drops and the win multiplier

Every win is collected, its symbols are removed and the symbols above fall into the gaps. No new symbols arrive, so the grid thins out as a round goes on. Each drop raises the win multiplier by one step, and the round keeps cascading until nothing more connects.

In the base game each spin starts again from x1. Our spin 11 shows the pattern: its first win paid at x1, the second at x2 and the third at x3, and after the drops nine of the 25 positions stood empty.

Hand of God

On a spin that brings no win, the active god has a chance to step in with his own ability, and the round then continues as normal:

• Hades: one set of symbols is chosen and transformed into another symbol
• Poseidon: one or two wilds are added to the grid
• Zeus: two sets of symbols are destroyed and removed

The active god changes after each trigger, so the god on duty does not stay the same for a whole session.

Paytable page 1 in our demo session: what each god's Hand of God does on a non-winning spin, and the 5,000x cap. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Wrath of Olympus

The meter on the left has three sections and fills only from wins with the god symbols, a wild counting as part of them: five in a row fill three sections, four fill two and three fill one. Play'n GO's game page calls the result the Wrath of God; the game itself labels it Wrath of Olympus.

Once the meter is full and no wins remain, one free round is played with the multiplier reset. Each time the cascades stop, the next god performs his Hand of God, in the same order every time, until all three have acted and nothing more connects. It cannot be retriggered.

Paytable page 2 in our demo session: the Wrath of Olympus meter, filled only by wins with the god symbols. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Free spins: Hades, Poseidon or Zeus

Clearing every symbol from the grid triggers free spins, and you pick one of three gods. Hades gives 4 spins, Poseidon 5 and Zeus 8; the game says fewer spins mean higher risk and higher potential.

The chosen god's Hand of God then fires on every non-winning free spin, not just by chance. The multiplier is no longer reset between spins and can grow to x20.

Filling the meter adds 4 more spins with Hades, 3 with Poseidon or 2 with Zeus, up to 20 in all, and clearing the grid again during free spins pays 100x the bet. The Wrath of Olympus is switched off in free spins.

Paytable page 3 in our demo session: the free spins choice of Hades, Poseidon or Zeus. We did not trigger it. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

Paytable page 1 states the maximum: 5,000x the bet, which is $5,000 at $1. The help text and the five paytable pages give no RTP, and neither does the official page. Review sites list 96.5% and rate the game high volatility; the demo does not show which RTP version it runs.

Our Rise of Olympus demo test

We played Play'n GO's official practice demo at $1 a spin, 20 coins at 0.05. Its credits carry no currency label; we count each one as a dollar. The demo opened at 25,000.00 on the 1.00 bet. The first spin was a click and a script started the other 99 one at a time, without Auto Play, in one session with no reload and no error.

The 100 spins returned $37.10 and ended at 24,937.10, matching the server balance and the screen. Thirty-four spins paid, 23 of them less than $1 and seven just $0.10. The longest run without a win was 9 spins, 43 to 51.

The best spin was 11, $6.50 or 6.5x the bet, built on four bolts and a coin at x3; the next best were $4.80 on spin 29 and $3.35 on spin 62. Spin 11 is a single result: the other 99 spins returned $30.60 from 33 wins.

The balance peaked at 24,999.90 after spin 14 and slid from there, so the last spin left it at its lowest point. The first 50 spins returned $22.90 and the second 50 $14.20.

We never cleared the grid, so the free spins did not trigger, and the meter never filled, so we did not see the Wrath of Olympus either; both are described from the rules. Which Hand of God abilities fired was not recorded. A sample of 100 spins says nothing reliable about the RTP or the volatility.

Is Rise of Olympus worth trying?

Rise of Olympus plays like a short puzzle on every spin. Because nothing refills, each win makes the board smaller and the next drop worth more, and a nearly empty grid is the only road to the bonus. The Hand of God gives a dead spin a second chance, and the god you get changes as you play.

The free spins choice is the game's best idea. You can take eight spins with Zeus destroying two sets of symbols or four with Hades transforming one, each with a multiplier that carries over to x20 and a 100x prize for every fresh clear. The cost is a base game that pays mostly in cents, and our session never got near a clear.

Against Gemix, by both games' rules, each sends help to a losing round: Gemix its world's wild, Rise of Olympus its active god. Gemix refills a 7x7 grid and pays clusters of five; this one empties a 5x5 and pays lines of three. Our Gemix session paid $77.30 from 60 wins and this one $37.10 from 34, single sessions both.