Olympus slots: the big guide 2026

When Pragmatic Play released Gates of Olympus on 13. februar 2021, it was one game among many. Five years later, Olympus has almost become a genre label: an entire subgenre of titles with thunderbolts, godlike faces and marble pillars, where the only constant is the word in the name. In our catalog there are currently 50 games with Olympus in the title, from major providers such as Play'n GO, Pragmatic Play and Push Gaming to studios few Danes have heard of.

This guide is an attempt to tidy up. Not in taste — you can decide that yourself — but in the numbers and in the mechanics. What separates the many titles technically? Where does the RTP actually stand when you read the providers' own sheets? And how do you work out in a few minutes whether a new Olympus game is a cascade machine, a respin machine, or something completely different?

01Why Olympus became a genre of its own

Greek mythology has always been fertile material for slot machines. The symbols are obvious — helmets, harps, goblets, gold coins — and a god hurling lightning down onto the reels is a built-in explanation for why a multiplier suddenly appears. But it is not only the aesthetics that has attracted developers. It's that one particular mathematical model turned out to work extremely well with that aesthetic.

In practice the model is called Pay Anywhere plus cascades plus random multipliers. Symbols pay regardless of position, winning symbols disappear, new ones fall down, and along the way multiplier balls land that are added together. If you scan the feature lists across the catalogue's 50 titles, that exact combination appears again and again — with Barbara Bang in Supreme of Olympus, with Formula Spin in Sky of Olympus, with Skywind in Lightning of Olympus, with PlayStar in Zeus of Olympus.

It makes the genre easy to recognise and hard to tell apart. That's why it makes sense to approach a new Olympus game as a calculation rather than as a universe: what does it say about RTP, variance and max win, and which words appear in the feature list?

02Cascades, Pay Anywhere and the big multipliers

The first big branch is the cascade branch. The original belongs here: Gates of Olympus from Pragmatic Play with 95,51 procent i RTP, high volatility and a max win of 5.000 times the stake. The provider's sheet also notes an RTP range, which means the operator may have chosen a configuration other than the standard — more on that later.

Pragmatic has continued to build on it. Gates of Olympus Super Scatter from 28. april 2025 runs 96,5 procent and a ceiling of 50.000 times the stake, and Olympus Wins Super Scatter from 4. juni 2025 has the highest ceiling in the entire catalogue: 100.000 times the stake at 96,5 procent. By comparison, Play'n GO's Rise of Olympus 1000 from 25. januar 2026 sits at 96,24 procent and 60.000 times the stake, while Rise of Olympus Extreme from september 2025 combines Cluster Pays and symbol removal at 96,2 procent and 50.000 times the stake.

On paper, high ceilings don't mean the money is any closer. They mean the distribution is pulled far out to one end. A game with 100.000 times the stake as a theoretical max uses a very large part of its payout percentage on events that almost never occur. It's worth keeping in mind when a ceiling is used as a selling point.

03The Hold & Win branch: the other half of Olympus

The other big branch looks completely different, even though the banner art is similar. There are no cascades here. Instead you collect cash symbols, lock them in place and get three respins, which reset every time a new symbol lands. The feature list reveals the branch immediately: Hold and Win, Respins, Cash Collector, Sticky Symbols, Fixed Jackpots.

There are many examples. Olympus Mania: Hot Bonus from Fugaso runs 96,25 percent with medium-high to high variance and a cap of 3.000 times. Olympus Coin Link from the same studio sits at 96,12 percent and 5.000 times. Olympus Glory Gods & Kings Link from EGT Digital is the only game in the catalogue with a Progressive Jackpot listed, and is noted at 96,5 percent and 4.280 times the stake. Aphrodite Legends of Olympus from Inspired Gaming goes the other way with 94,5 percent and 5.000 times.

The difference is felt in the rhythm. Cascade games give long, quiet periods interrupted by one big sequence. Hold & Win games give multiple small bonuses, where the majority land modestly and where the fixed jackpots at the top of the table are rarely triggered. Neither is better — but they require different levels of patience.

04The numbers you should look at before you choose

Three numbers tell most of the story. RTP says what share of total stakes the game theoretically pays back over a huge number of spins. In the catalog it ranges from 93,18 procent in Olympus Divine Reels fra Spinberry til 97,34 procent i Rings of Olympus fra Turbo Games. That's over four percentage points between bottom and top — a difference much larger than most expect.

Volatility tells you how unevenly the money comes back. Most of the Olympus catalog is stamped High, but there are exceptions: Olympus 7's Dream Drop from Relax Gaming and Olympus Unleashed from Push Gaming are both listed as low volatility, and Olympus Lightning from Wizard Games sits low-to-medium. The maximum win indicates how far the tail reaches — from 700x the stake in Rings of Olympus to the mentioned 100.000x.

And then there's the fourth, which is just as important: fields that are not filled in. For several titles — among others Olympus Destiny, 3 Pots of Olympus and Treasures of Olympus 1000 — RTP is not stated in the material we're working from. Then we write it. We don't guess.

05How to read an Olympus game in five minutes

Start with the name, but don’t trust it. A name containing Zeus or Gates says nothing about the engine. Go straight to the feature list. If it says Avalanche or Cascading together with Pay Anywhere, it’s the cascade branch. If it says Hold and Win together with Respins and Cash Collector, it’s the respin branch. If it says Megaways or Reelset Changing, the number of symbols per reel changes from spin to spin.

Then check the RTP and variance in the game's own info screen, not in the ad. Pay particular attention if it says RTP range: the game then exists in multiple configurations, and the figure you get at one casino is not necessarily the same as the one at another. This applies, among others, to Gates of Olympus, Rise of Olympus Extreme, Fortune of Olympus and Olympus Unleashed.

Finally: set a limit before you open the game, not during play. All gambling in Denmark is for persons over 18, Danish casinos are subject to the Danish Gambling Authority, and if you need a break you can exclude yourself via ROFUS or find help at stopspillet.dk. It's dull text to read in a game guide, but it's the only part of the guide that works no matter which game you choose.