Gladiator Clash

Netent frames Gladiator Clash around Ancient Rome's arena games, staging the action inside a columned coliseum built with the same attention to classical detail the studio gave earlier releases in the same setting. Rather than working through a full reel set, the game plays out on a compact 3x3 grid with just three paylines, and the regular symbols — tridents, spiked maces, swords and three styles of battle helm — carry no value of their own.

Every payout instead comes from a prize reel positioned beside the grid, holding figures anywhere from 1x to 500x the stake. Landing three matching symbols along a payline pays whatever number that reel is showing on the matching row at that moment. A wild covers all three reels, stands in for any regular symbol, and can complete a three-of-a-kind line on its own.

Three mechanics work the prize reel from the base game. A Reel Respin can lock two reels together with the prize reel once they land on a shared symbol, giving the remaining reel another spin to complete the line. A Prize Respin can lock the prize reel itself whenever its showing figure is 50x or higher, offering a second attempt at that same number. Prize-Up! can strike after any win, lifting the value tied to that line and paying the combination a second time at the new figure.

Away from the prize reel, a lion scatter symbol advances a collection bar by one point every time it lands, and filling the bar to 20 opens the Lion Bonus. Inside, players pick lion icons one at a time, each hiding either a cash prize or a Thumbs-Up marker; matching three identical cash values pays that amount, while three Thumbs-Up markers instead promote the round to a richer tier. The opening tier holds three each of 3x, 5x, 10x and 20x next to the Thumbs-Up marker; the next holds 5x, 10x, 20x and 50x; and the top tier swaps in 10x, 20x, 100x, 500x and a 1,000x prize. Paying 25 times the total stake buys direct entry into the Lion Bonus, running at the same 96.16% RTP as the base game.

Gladiator Clash carries two published RTP figures, 96.16% and 94.10%, and rates 5 out of 5 for volatility. Bets run from 0.10 to 80 per spin, and despite the high volatility rating the maximum win caps at 1,006x the stake — a sign of how the prize reel's fixed bands limit any single line, leaving the Lion Bonus as the game's main route to a bigger result. Netent released the game in June 2024.