Olympus Unleashed

Push Gaming built its name on games that feel mechanically alive — Jammin’ Jars, Razor Shark, Retro Tapes — so I always show up to a new release expecting the reels to do something clever. Olympus Unleashed is Push doing Greek mythology, except they’ve reskinned the pantheon as chrome-plated robotic warriors in a neon sci-fi Olympus. It’s a competent, good-looking slot with a genuinely interesting hold-and-win bonus. It’s also, if I’m honest, not top-shelf Push. The base game is quieter than the theme’s bombast suggests, and the version many operators serve up runs at a stingier RTP than the default. Let me walk you through it.

Theme & presentation

The “gods as machines” angle is the best idea here. Ares, Poseidon and Athena — the three god-heroes this game is actually built around — are rendered as glowing armoured mechs, and the whole grid sits inside a humming futuristic temple that Push clearly spent real money on. Animations are crisp, the high-pay symbols have weight, and when a Power-Up fires the screen earns its energy. The soundtrack is pulsing synth-orchestral stuff — fine, forgettable, does the job without ever grabbing me. Visually it’s a clear step above the endless flat “Zeus lightning” clones flooding /games right now. It looks premium. It just doesn’t have the scrappy personality that makes Push’s best titles instantly recognisable.

How it plays

You’re on a 5x5 matrix with 50 fixed paylines, stakes from 0.10 to 100. This is a lines game, not a ways or cluster engine, so wins come from left-aligned matches across those 50 lines. The key base-game ingredient is the Power-Up symbol, which lands and triggers one of three modifiers: Expand (a high-pay symbol fills its whole reel), Surround (a high-pay symbol converts the positions around it, wilds excepted), or Upgrade (a symbol gets bumped up the paytable, up to twice). Wilds are the other draw — they arrive carrying x2, x3 or x5 multipliers, and when more than one multiplier wild joins the same winning line the values are added together before being applied, with a five-wild line worth up to 20x on its own. When a Power-Up hits, the base game sparks. When it doesn’t — which is most spins — this is a fairly ordinary lines slot that can drag. That’s the honest base-game verdict: pleasant, a little sleepy between features.

The Unleashed feature

This is the heart of the game and it’s where Push earned my attention. The Unleashed bonus triggers when five matching high-pay symbols — or the Expand symbol — land on the leftmost reel, and here’s the clever framing: each of the three god-heroes (Ares, Poseidon, Athena) triggers its own flavour of the round, with its own volatility profile, so which god sets it off changes the character of the bonus. All matching high-pays and any wilds transfer in and lock sticky, and you start with three spins. It’s a hold-and-win with a twist: every non-blank symbol that lands sticks and adds +1 spin, so a busy grid keeps refilling your own clock. On top of that, the base Power-Ups reappear (Expand, Surround, Upgrade) plus two bonus-only ones — Shift, which slides the reels one step left, and Additional Row, which literally grows the grid by up to three extra rows. That expanding board is the mechanical highlight: get the grid tall, fill it with a single upgraded high-pay symbol and multiplier wilds, and that’s how you approach the ceiling. It’s a smart, layered feature. The catch is it’s a low/medium volatility game, so those upper-end fills are rare and most Unleashed rounds resolve modestly rather than explosively.

The numbers, straight

• Max win: 2,340x your stake
• RTP: 96.32% default, but 94.36% and 85.20% variants exist — check what your casino serves (see /best/high-rtp)
• Volatility: Low to medium
• Reels/lines: 5x5 grid, 50 fixed paylines (grows up to three extra rows in the bonus, so up to 8 rows tall)
• Hit rhythm: Frequent small wins, longer gaps to meaningful features
• Bonus Buy / Ante: None — no feature buy, no ante-bet

Verdict

Olympus Unleashed is a solid, well-built slot with a genuinely clever hold-and-win that grows its own grid — that Additional Row mechanic, plus the three-god trigger that reshapes each round, is the reason to play. But the base game is unremarkable, the 2,340x ceiling is modest for a modern release, and the low/medium volatility means the big fills you’re chasing don’t come often. My real gripe is the RTP fragmentation: at 96.32% this is a fair game, but at the 94.36% variant you’re giving up a chunk of edge for the same experience — and the 85.20% floor is downright predatory if an operator serves it. Confirm your number before you spin.

SlotWhizz rating: 3.4/5.

Big-win potential: capped and infrequent — a good Unleashed round is satisfying but 2,340x is a soft ceiling. Base game drags; the bonus is the whole show. More Push reviews over at /reviews.

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