Pragmatic Play · 2023 · tested 2026-09-11
Zeus vs Hades - Gods of War
One final free spin paid USD 4,270 in our Olympus test of Zeus vs Hades; this review traces the sticky reels behind it and the many small returns surrounding that bonus.
Watch when a wild reel locks, and which lines can use it. Our strongest Olympus bonus earned most of its money on the last free spin, without a 100x wild.
measured over 10,000 spins · 50 buys
Is Zeus vs Hades - Gods of War worth playing?
quick answerZeus vs Hades offers two volatility settings, but this review tests only Olympus and its 75x standard bonus purchase. Both samples ended ahead: ordinary play returned 107.08% and purchases 105.74%. The paths were uneven. One natural feature supplied 30.18% of all money returned by the ordinary-spin sample, while 38 of the fifty purchased features failed to recover their price.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.05% |
| RTP measured | 107.08% (95% CI 39.7–174.4) |
| Hit frequency | 15% · every 6.85 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 40 / 6.83 |
| Median hit | 0.60x |
| Max win (base game) | 572.0x · spin 3811 |
| Free spins, natural | 43 · every 232.6 spins · mean 108.8x |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 101,415 |
Play Zeus vs Hades - Gods of War demo
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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 75x · USD 150 eachmean 1.06x · median 0.28x · 38 of 50 below price · best 7.04x · worst 0.00x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10 / 10–10 |
| Retriggered | 0% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 6% |
- Spent
- USD 7,50050 × USD 150
- Returned
- USD 7,930.40105.74% · CI95 57–155%
- Net
- +USD 430.40+2.9 buys
- Break-even or better
- 12 / 5024%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 10 / 5020%
- Price in base spins
- 75natural trigger every ~233 spins
One buy costs the same as 75 base spins. Natural bonuses arrived once per 233 spins in this run and paid an average of 108.8x the bet; bought bonuses averaged 79x the bet. These are different entry costs, not a prediction of which route will pay more.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 57 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 138 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 381 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
7 rules screens from the game
Olympus is the blue, high-volatility side of Zeus vs Hades. The red Hades setting raises the stated volatility to very high and changes the standard purchase price. We kept Olympus selected throughout this test, including the fifty standard purchases. The results below therefore describe one mode, rather than a comparison of the two.
The board is unusually tall for a fixed-line game: five reels show five symbols apiece, crossed by fifteen paylines. Winning symbols must connect along a line, starting at the leftmost reel. Zeus heads the ordinary symbols, then Pegasus and the eagle, followed by helmets, goblets and card ranks. The WILD word can substitute in those combinations; the lightning emblem has a separate expansion effect.
In ordinary play, a lightning emblem fills its reel when that expansion would produce a win. The resulting wild reel receives a factor from 2x to 10x, or 20x, 25x, 50x or 100x. Each paying line uses the factors on the wilds it passes through, adding them when it crosses several. A 4x reel beside a 10x reel would therefore give that line 14x, provided both belong to its winning combination. Multipliers elsewhere on the screen contribute nothing to that line.
Three temples open ten free spins; they must occupy the first, third and fifth reels. Lightning emblems arriving during the feature expand and stay for the remaining spins, with their assigned multipliers. A reel that locks early can help on several later spins, although the other positions still have to complete a paying line. The temples do not appear on the feature reels, and the ten-spin award cannot be extended.
At our USD 2 setting, normal Olympus entry cost USD 150, equivalent to 75 ordinary stakes. Its Super option costs 300 stakes and guarantees an expanding wild on the first free spin, with a random multiplier and position. Hades lists 150 stakes for standard entry and 300 for Super. We did not include either Super option or any Hades purchase in the statistical sample.
Page four of the help lists 96.05% theoretical RTP for ordinary Olympus play and 96.04% for its standard purchases; Olympus Super has a separate 96.01% figure. Hades lists 96.07%, 96.14% and 96.08% for those three routes respectively. Stakes range from USD 0.10 to USD 250 in this demo. A round stops at 15,000x the ordinary stake, with any remaining free spins cancelled.
Wild symbol
Expanding symbol
Multiplier
Sticky symbol
Scatter symbol
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Bet range 0.10 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet 2.00
Gallery
6 frames from the test
Verdict
who it suits, who should skip itRound 5632 began quietly. Its first three free spins paid USD 0.60 combined; a 25x wild reel then arrived on the fourth. A second reel joined on spin six and a third on spin nine. Going into the last spin, the feature had paid USD 2,192.60. That final screen added USD 4,270, taking the total to USD 6,462.60, or 3,231.3 ordinary stakes.
The three locked reels carried 25x, 4x and 6x. Lines crossing all three used their sum, 35x, rather than multiplying those values together. Several such lines paid USD 700 each on the final spin. This was the decisive feature in a run that finished USD 1,415.40 ahead: it alone accounted for 30.18% of the USD 21,415.40 returned. The other forty-two natural bonuses did not produce anything close to that amount.
Purchasing entry produced a different spread. Each of the fifty standard Olympus features cost USD 150, with a median payout of USD 41.50. Twelve covered their price. Purchase two was the strongest at USD 1,056.20; three purchases paid zero. Two of those zero-return features did acquire a sticky wild reel, showing that a locked reel still needs suitable symbols around it. Nine purchases went through all ten spins without an expanding wild at all.
The blue setting still left 8,541 ordinary rounds blank. Its longest uninterrupted run of zero payments was forty spins, and the 200-stake budget simulation stopped at round 381. The large demo balance kept the statistical test running to the end; the 200-stake budget would have stopped long before that bonus.
The measured 107.08% ordinary return has a broad 95% interval, from 39.73% to 174.42%. It does not establish an advantage over the configured 96.05% RTP.
- The selected Olympus or Hades setting stays visible beside the reels
- Persistent wild columns and their displayed values make later line payments possible to follow
- The English help screens separate standard and Super prices for both worlds
- A standard Olympus purchase can finish without an expanding wild or with no payout
- Blank rounds accounted for 85.41% of ordinary play here
- The 300x Super entry is four times the standard Olympus price, despite still starting with ten spins
- Natural round 9823 returned nothing despite ending with one sticky wild reel; every one of its ten free spins was blank.
- Without triggering the temples, round 3811 returned USD 1,144. At 572x the stake, it was the strongest ordinary-game hit.
- Thirteen of the 43 natural features finished without a single expanded reel. The best of that group paid USD 10.20 on round 8698.
- Waiting for the next natural feature took 699 spins after round 2987. The next temple combination arrived on round 3687.
Method & data
open data · closed rig10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 150.0 each (75.0x); mode: Olympus (high volatility), standard free spins on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.05%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-11.
The test rig recorded every round on the official demo server. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. This release has completed automated data, content and page checks; human editorial review is pending. How we test →
| 2026-09-11 | 10,000 spins · RTP 107.1% |
FAQ
4 questions · answered from the logWhich Zeus vs Hades mode do these results cover?
Olympus, the high-volatility mode shown in blue. The ordinary-spin sample and standard bonus purchases used that same setting. Hades and the Super purchases have different conditions, so these measurements cannot be used as their test results.
Which purchase price applies in Olympus?
The standard price depends on the selected world. Olympus quotes 75x, which was USD 150 at our USD 2 stake. Hades quotes 150x. Both worlds also offer a separate 300x Super purchase; those entries were excluded here.
Where does a lightning wild's multiplier count?
Its factor applies to winning lines that use that wild. When a line crosses several multiplied wilds, their factors are summed for that line. A large value on a reel cannot pay on its own, although a sticky reel may be used again on later free spins.
Can the ten free spins gain another ten?
There is no retrigger in this game. The temple scatters belong to the ordinary reels, and the feature has a fixed ten-spin award. Reaching the overall 15,000x limit can end it early.
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