Gates of Olympus 1000

The 2023 re-tune of Pragmatic Play’s flagship. Everything structural is carried over unchanged from the original — grid, trigger, tumbles, ante, buy price — and two numbers move: the multiplier ceiling triples the top orb to 1,000×, and the maximum win goes from 5,000× to 15,000×.

Quick facts

The RTP you actually get

This is the part most pages about this game get wrong, and it is the single most useful thing to know before you play it. Pragmatic Play does not ship one game with one return. It certifies the same title at several different RTP settings and lets each casino choose which one to license. The game looks identical either way — same symbols, same features, same maths on screen — but the money is not the same.

This title is unusually well documented: unlike the original, its operator paytable states the return for the ante bet and the buy feature explicitly, so we can publish them rather than infer them.

Two things are worth drawing out. The ante bet does not cost you return — it buys frequency at the same RTP, which is the honest version of a feature often sold as a discount. And buying the feature costs you 0.01 of a percentage point, which is negligible; the real cost of the buy is variance, not return.

One caution: at least one widely-read review presents 95.51% and 94.50% as the ante and buy figures. That contradicts the paytable and appears to be a mislabelling of the three operator settings. The paytable wins.

How the game works

Structurally this is the original game. A 6×5 grid with no paylines, eight or more matching symbols paying anywhere, winning symbols removed and replaced by drops from above, and no limit on consecutive tumbles.

The change is the orb ladder. Values run 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1,000×, and as in the original every visible orb is summed and applied to a win landing on the same tumble. Adding a 1,000× step to the top of that ladder is what lifts the ceiling from 5,000× to 15,000×.

That extra top end is paid for, as it always is, out of the middle. The base game is slightly thinner than the original’s and the outcomes are rarer and larger at the same headline RTP. The 1000 is not a more generous game; it is a differently shaped one.

Features in detail

Free spins

Four or more scatters award 15 free spins, with the scatters themselves paying 3×, 5× and 100× your bet for four, five and six. Three or more scatters during the round add another five spins, repeatably.

The accumulating multiplier

As in the original, the orbs behave completely differently inside the feature. Each one collected is added to a persistent running total that holds for the remainder of the round and multiplies every win that follows. With a 1,000× orb now in the pool, a single lucky drop can reshape a feature that was going nowhere.

Bonus buy, ante bet and what they cost

The ante bet adds 25% to your stake, roughly doubles the trigger rate, leaves the RTP at 96.50%, and disables the buy while it is active. The buy costs 100× stake — the same price as the original — and runs at 96.49%.

Worth being blunt about what the buy is for. At 100× stake it is not a shortcut to value; the price is set so the edge holds. What it buys is the removal of the base game, which is the part of this title with the least going on.

Where the game plays differently

United Kingdom

UK-licensed casinos strip the feature buy out of this game entirely — the Gambling Commission treats buying a bonus as incompatible with its remote technical standards, and has done since 2019. Autoplay and turbo spin are also gone, spins take a minimum of 2.5 seconds, and since September 2024 stakes are capped at £5 a spin, or £2 for players aged 18 to 24. Demo play is available but only behind age verification.

Germany

Germany’s state treaty regime removes the buy feature, bans autoplay and imposes a roughly five-second minimum spin. The per-spin stake cap, long fixed at €1, was raised in July 2026 to €3 for players over 21 and €5 for players showing no risk markers over the preceding 90 days.

In the UK both the ante bet and the buy are removed, which leaves the base game and naturally-triggered free spins only.

Where to play it

As with the original, availability is broad and the meaningful variables are the RTP version and whether the ante and buy survive in your market. Both are visible in the game’s paytable.

Stake.com is the only operator we have reviewed so far.

What we could not verify

Publishing a number we cannot stand behind is worse than publishing nothing, so these are the specifications for this game we were unable to confirm to our own standard. They are set out in our review methodology.

• The absolute cash cap. One database gives 625,000 and another quotes a figure that is simply the maximum multiplier times the maximum bet. It is configured per operator and currency.
• A published volatility index number for this title specifically, as distinct from the 5-out-of-5 rating.
• The hit frequency of 28.41% rests on a single source. We publish it here only as a caveat, not in the facts table.

Questions people ask

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Specifications verified against Pragmatic Play’s own game information and cross-checked against independent slot databases in August 2026. Where sources disagreed we have said so rather than picking a number. Tell us if something here no longer matches what your casino displays and we will re-check it.