Gates of Olympus: free demo of Pragmatic Play's Zeus slot

Few slots from Pragmatic Play have been copied as often as this one, and once you have played a few dozen spins you can see why. The Gates of Olympus slot drops paylines altogether: the grid is six reels wide and five rows high, and a win simply needs eight or more matching symbols landing anywhere on it. Gems fill the lower end of the paytable, while chalices, rings, hourglasses and crowns sit at the top. The demo opens with 1,000 virtual credits, with no download and no sign-up.

Tumbles and the multiplier orbs

Every winning cluster vanishes, the remaining symbols drop, and new ones fall in from above. That tumble repeats until nothing more connects, so a single spin can pay several times. The part people remember, though, is the multiplier symbol: Zeus throws an orb that carries a value. When the tumble sequence ends, every orb on screen is added together and the total multiplies the win from that spin. An orb that lands on a dead spin does nothing, which is worth noticing early on.

Free spins on Mount Olympus

Four or more Zeus scatters, anywhere on the grid, award 15 free spins. The big difference from the base game is that multipliers no longer reset: each orb that contributes to a win is added to a running total, which then applies to every later winning spin of the round. Three more scatters during the feature add five extra spins. A round that builds its total early can look very different from one that only catches orbs near the end.

How to test it in free play

Set a modest stake, say the equivalent of £0.20 or £0.40, and play 150 to 200 spins. Count how many tumbles chain past two steps, and how many orbs arrive on spins that actually pay. The free spins can take a long while to show up; that wait is part of the game's character, so judge it over a decent sample rather than the first fifty spins. When you know how it behaves, the same game runs for real money at the casinos listed below.