Cats of Olympuss

Push Gaming rarely ships lazy, and Cats of Olympuss is proof they’re still trying to out-engineer everyone else in the room. On paper it’s a tired pitch — cats, again, Greek gods, again — but the studio bolts a genuinely clever multi-grid free spins engine onto it, running up to four separate reel sets at once. That single idea drags this out of “another Zeus reskin” territory and makes it one of the more interesting mid-2020s releases in their catalogue. It doesn’t reinvent the base game, and I’ll be candid about that below, but the bonus is the real deal.

Theme & presentation

Cats-as-gods is cutesy and it knows it. The art is clean, brightly lit, a touch cartoonish — smug feline deities lounging on marble, gold coins glinting, the usual Olympian columns framing the reels. It’s polished rather than striking. Push’s typography and UI are, as ever, crisp and readable, and the coin symbols pop nicely against the panel. The audio is pleasant Mediterranean-lite that swells hard when the bonus lands, though the base-game loop wears thin over a long session. Presentation is a solid B: no complaints, no gasps.

How it plays

Five reels, three rows, 243 ways to win — not fixed paylines, so wins pay left-to-right on any adjacent reels. Stakes run 0.10 to 100. And here’s my honest take: the base game is a waiting room. The pay symbols are modest — lows around 0.5–1x, the top cats topping out near 10x — and you’re really spinning for two things: scatters into the bonus, or a lucky base-game brush of stacked wilds and coins. It can feel like a grind between features. That’s by design; the volatility (Push rates it medium/high, and it plays that way) lives almost entirely in the free spins.

The multi-grid free spins

This is why you’re here. Two mechanics do the heavy lifting. Stacked Wilds land full-reel with a x2–x8 multiplier attached, and crucially, when more than one contributes to a win, those multipliers multiply together — that’s how you climb toward x64 territory fast. Instant Prize Coins appear on the outer reels carrying 1x–1,000x the bet, but they’re dead money unless you connect them: you need at least two wilds on consecutive reels linking that coin into the win. When a big stacked-wild multiplier meets a fat coin, the number gets silly.

Free spins trigger on 3+ scatters (landing on the middle reels, and double scatters count as two), and scatter count sets your grids: 3 = one grid, 4 = two, 5 = three, 6 = all four. A Card Pick round then hands you real agency — trade picks for spins (6–10) or upgrades like extra stacked wilds or low-symbol removal, with more picks the more scatters you triggered on. Inside the bonus, collecting five special Instant Prize coins opens the next reel set and refreshes your picks, so the feature grows as you play it. Four grids of stacking wilds and connecting coins compounding at once is where the top-end wins come from.

The numbers, straight

• Max win: 23,442x your stake (theoretical ceiling; Push’s own testing observed a high of 13,194x, so treat the top number as a very long tail)
• RTP: 96.31% default, 96.26% with Push Bet active — but casinos can run lower regional builds at 94.26%, 88.67% or even 85.61%, so check your operator (see high-RTP options)
• Volatility: Medium/high; variance is heavily bonus-loaded
• Reels/ways: 5 reels, 3 rows, 243 ways
• Hit rhythm: base game is quiet and grindy; the feature carries everything
• Bonus Buy: yes — roughly 60x (3 scatters), ~110x (4 scatters), or ~109x random

Verdict

Cats of Olympuss is a strong feature wrapped in a forgettable base game. The multi-grid free spins with compounding wild multipliers and coin connects is smart, escalating, and delivers the kind of tension good Push bonuses do. But I won’t oversell the spin-to-spin experience — it drags between features, and if your casino is running one of the lower-RTP builds, the maths are working meaningfully harder against you, so mind which version you’re on. Nothing here promises a payout; the house edge is very real, and the 23,442x headline is a long, long tail that Push’s own testing rarely gets near.

SlotWhizz rating: 3.5/5.

Big-win potential: high, but strictly through the bonus — the four-grid stack is where the top wins live. Base game: mediocre and grindy. Bonus: excellent. Buy it if the grind bores you, and only ever with money you can afford to lose. More in our reviews.

18+. Demo for fun, not profit. The house keeps an edge. Play responsibly.