Valley of the Gods Demo & review

Valley of the Gods has no free spins and no buy. Every win here awards a respin and burns away blockers on a 5x5 board, and the part of the game that matters begins only once all 12 are gone. Yggdrasil released it in August 2017. It suits players who like one chain building into something, and it will frustrate anyone who needs a feature to arrive by itself.

How Valley of the Gods works

A win needs three or more identical symbols on neighbouring reels, starting from the left, and two winning symbols on one reel multiply that win. There are no paylines: the game counts ways, and the 12 blockers decide how many. With all 12 in place the open cells form a diamond 1, 3, 5, 3 and 1 high, which is 45 ways. With every blocker gone it is five on each of five reels, 3,125 ways.

The board before our first spin: 12 blockers around a diamond of open cells, 45 ways. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

How the blockers and respins work

Each win awards a respin at the same bet, and respins continue for as long as wins keep landing. When a win forms, every winning symbol releases a golden scarab that destroys one blocker, so a win made of five symbols burns five of them. When the respins stop, the win goes to the balance and all 12 blockers return to the same positions.

So the chain is the whole game. Blockers burned in a round open more ways for its next respin, and nothing carries over to the next paid spin.

A respin from the spins we played past the test: blockers burning off and the ways readout at 240. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

Win Multipliers and Extra Lives: what starts them

Clearing the last blocker switches on both at once, a x2 win multiplier and 1 point of Extra Lives. From then on, winning symbols release scarabs that are collected instead. Red, orange, purple and pink symbols send red scarabs, and 5 of those add a life. Blue, teal and green symbols send blue scarabs, and 5 of those add +1 to the multiplier.

A life is spent to give you a respin after a losing respin, and the round ends when there is no win and no life left. A new multiplier does not count on the spin that earned it. By the rules, clearing the board and then collecting five blue scarabs gives x3 from the next respin on.

The paytable page on Win Multipliers. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

The paytable page on Extra Lives. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

The rules set the RTP at 96.2%. They carry no volatility label, so the High rating here comes from Yggdrasil's game page. The game states no cap: the provider's page names only a cash amount, which depends on the stake, and review sites disagree on a multiple, so this page leaves it out.

Our Valley of the Gods demo test

Two wins in a row was the longest chain we managed, in the test or in 175 more spins played to look for the second phase. Of 26 winning spins, only 3 produced a winning respin, so most rounds burned a few blockers and stopped. The closest the test came was 3 blockers left, and one round in the extra spins got down to 1. Win Multipliers and Extra Lives did not start in any of that play, so what they do comes from the rules. Treat this as a read on how the chain behaves, not a figure for what it pays.

A $4.00 round from the spins past the test, not one of the 100. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

Is Valley of the Gods worth playing?

One reason to play Valley of the Gods: a second phase where a multiplier and extra lives keep a round alive, and you earn it from scratch every time. That is an unusual shape for a slot, and for us it is the only thing here worth chasing. Everything before that phase is a small line game with a board that slowly opens.

Pick Rise of Olympus if you want the multiplier running from the first drop. Choose Valley of the Gods if the fight, blocker by blocker, is the appeal.

In the demo, watch the blocker count rather than the win: it tells you how close each chain came.