Cats Of Olympuss

Push Gaming casts its Ancient Greek mythology through a feline lens for Cats of Olympuss, setting the action in a city called Catcropolis complete with cat-shaped statues either side of a 5-reel, 3-row grid running 243 ways to win. The look falls a little short of the studio's brightest releases, but it carries plenty of its own fur-covered take on classical architecture and character design.

Stakes range from 10 cents up to 100 per spin, with a default RTP of 96.31% that drops slightly to 96.26% when the Push Bet is switched on — a 20% increase to the total stake that in turn makes triggering the bonus round around 60% more likely. Low-paying symbols are four suit-styled cat treats worth 0.5 to 1 times the bet for five in a row, a fish and a harp worth 2 times the bet, and three named cat characters paying 4 to 10 times the bet for five matching. A regular wild appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 and substitutes for any of these.

Stacked Wild symbols cover an entire reel, count as one symbol for substitution purposes, and carry a multiplier of x2 to x8; where more than one Stacked Wild contributes to the same win, their multipliers multiply together rather than adding, and any Stacked Wild in a spin also multiplies whatever Instant Prize symbols pay out. Those Instant Prize symbols land only on the leftmost and rightmost reels, in both the base game and free spins, and pay a value between 1x and 1,000x the bet whenever they combine with at least two wilds on consecutive reels.

Scatter symbols (and double scatters, worth two) can land on reels 2, 3 and 4, and three or more trigger free spins across up to four separate reel matrices — the number unlocked matches the scatter count that triggered the round, from one matrix for three scatters up to all four for six. Triggering the feature also hands out a free-spins-count pick alongside one Upgrade Card pick per scatter beyond the third, worth 6, 7, 8 or 10 free spins from the count pick and either a new Stacked Wild reel or the removal of up to four low-paying symbols from the Upgrade Cards. Each pick applies to progressively fewer of the four matrices — the first to all of them, the last only to the fourth — and any Stacked Wild symbols added this way stay in place for the rest of the round. A separate set of Special Instant Prize symbols appears during free spins on the outer reels, and collecting five of them unlocks the next reel matrix early and hands out another round of card picks.

The bonus can also be bought outright: 60.3x the bet for a guaranteed three scatters (96.24% RTP), 110x for four scatters (96.38% RTP), or 109x for a random scatter count that carries the highest feature-buy return at 96.39%. Rated medium-high volatility, Cats of Olympuss tops out at 23,442x the stake.