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Zeus vs Hades: Gods of War
If you’re looking for a slot that lets you pick your own volatility level, Zeus vs Hades: Gods of War is ready to test your luck. This release from Pragmatic pits the ruler of the Greek gods against the lord of the underworld, with a switch to toggle two gameplay locations. That’s Olympus with Zeus for a slightly steadier ride or the underworld with Hades for higher-risk spins.
It all goes down on a 5 x 5 grid, with 15 paylines, expanding wilds, and a max win of 15,000x your stake. It’s certainly got potential. But does the ability to choose your volatility actually make this game more exciting, or does it just disguise an unbalanced slot that leans too hard on extreme variance? Let’s look into the features and overall experience here to see if Zeus vs Hades: Gods of War is worth a place in your slot rotation.
Pros
- Fun concept, allowing you two different gaming modes
- Theoretically high RTP and max win
- Looks great with the usual Pragmatic Play polish
Cons
- Too highly volatile, to the point where it feels unbalanced
- Tough to win anything in the free spins - the lack of a retrigger option really shows
- Soundtrack is repetitive
Gameplay
How To Play
- Select your mode to start with: Zeus is high volatility and Hades is very high volatility. You can switch between modes between every spin.
- Choose your bet size and start spinning.
- In the base game the aim is to line up symbols on 15 different paylines from left to right.
- Expanding Wilds can appear on any reel. If they can help form a payline, they’ll expand vertically with a randomly assigned multiplier value.
- Scatter symbols take you to the free spins round when you land 3 of them.
- During this feature, any Expanding Wild symbol that lands will expand and become sticky for the duration of the round. You get 10 free spins with no option to retrigger.
- You can buy into the free spins with 75x or 150x your bet, depending what mode you’re in. There’s also a Super free spins option for 300x your bet, and in this feature your first spin always lands an Expanding Wild.
Bonus Symbols
- Scatter symbol: Can appear on reels 1, 3, and 5. 3 of them will take you to the free spins round.
- Wild symbol: They substitute for all symbols (except Scatters) to form paylines.
- Expanding Wild symbols in the base game: Can appear on any reel. If they can help create a payline, they will expand vertically and a multiplier value will be assigned from 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x. They work like a standard Wild symbol on any square they occupy. If more than one is involved in a payline, the multiplier values will add to each other.
- Expanding Wild symbols in the bonus round: Similar to the above, but regardless of whether they can help form a payline, they will expand and stay in place for the rest of the round (sticky).
Bonus Features
- Choose your mode: Select your mode, which influences both the base game and bonus round.
- In Zeus mode, the volatility is described as high. The chance to win the free spins feature is higher but your returns in it will be lower. RTPs are 96.05% in the base game, 96.04% in the standard free spins round, and 96.01% in the Super free spins round.
- In Hades mode, the volatility is described as very high. The chance to win the free spins feature is lower but your returns will be higher. RTPs are 96.07% in the base game, 96.14% in the standard free spins round, and 96.08% in the Super free spins round.
- Free spins round: Similar to the base game, except that any Expanding Wild will always expand, then stay in place till the end of the round. You get 10 free spins with no option to retrigger.
- Super free spins round: This is the same as the standard free spins round, but the first spin guarantees an Expanding Wild.
- Buy the bonus: Buy into the standard free spins round for 75/150x your bet. Buy into the Super free spins round for 300x your bet.
- Hit frequency: 1 in 6.5/6.91 depending on mode.
- Free spins frequency: 1 in 203/409 depending on mode.
- Max win: Set at 15,000x and the chance of landing it is 1 in 1,335,1131/1,766,784 depending on mode.
SweepsPlays Verdict
- This Zeus vs Hades concept really had potential but the slot ultimately doesn’t deliver.
- The base game is not that interesting, even with the ability to change modes, and the free spins round is not exciting enough for the most part.
- Another huge problem is that it’s too difficult. Maybe you could call this extreme volatility, but upon testing we never earned back our spend from buying the bonus once. This is almost unheard of – why would you play a slot if you don’t ever win?
- Maybe if the free spins round had been given the chance to retrigger, it would make more sense and feel more balanced.
- If you want a Zeus-themed slot, you’d do much better to play something like Gates of Olympus.
