Hope Unleashed Fortune Rises

Play'n GO returns to Greek myth for Hope Unleashed Fortune Rises, framing the Pandora's Box story inside a moonlit, column-lined set piece where magic and spirit imagery stand in for the tale's darker turns, since the design leans toward souls and mystery rather than the plague and misery Pandora is said to have released.

The grid runs 4x4 with 20 paylines active, paying on runs of three to five matching symbols. Ten through ace make up the low pays, while scrolls, locks, hourglasses, harps and urns sit above them as the premiums, worth 1.2x to 8x the stake for five of a kind. A wild pays that same 8x for a five-symbol line and appears only through Mystery symbols, which can also reveal ordinary pay symbols or a Magic Circle. Mystery-revealed wilds carry their own multiplier of x2 to x5, and landing two or more multiplier wilds on one payline adds their values together.

Magic Circles expand into wilds and trigger a respin the moment they appear, with fresh Mystery symbols guaranteed on that respin. If another Magic Circle turns up during the streak, the multiplier on the new expanding wild climbs — starting at x2 on the first respin and capping at x5 from the sixth streak onward — and the chain can run up to 30 respins deep.

Souls attach themselves to regular symbols, never ones revealed by Mystery symbols, and the more that build up on the grid, the better the odds of unlocking Pandora's Box. Once triggered, the box's fixed prizes run from a 5x Mini up to the 1,000x Grand payout, with 20x Minor and 100x Major sitting in between.

Free Spins need three, four or five scatters to open, handing out 8, 12 or 15 spins respectively, and further scatter hits during the round add 3, 5 or 8 more, up to a 40-spin cap. Inside the feature, Mystery symbols can reveal Spirit Orbs attached to regular symbols, each carrying an instant win of 1x to 5x the stake — paid only when Souls are present on the grid, and multiplied by however many Souls are showing.

Medium volatility and a hit rate of roughly 1 in 4.61 spins keep the base game ticking over, with the top RTP configuration set at 96.2% against four lower settings down to 84.2%. The max win caps at 1,234x the stake, and bets scale from 0.05 up to 100 per spin.