Gates of Hades vs Gates of Olympus: What Changed

Why look for a replacement: Olympus runs on a 6x5 grid, and the shape of a win there has stayed put with it: count the matching symbols, ignore where they sit. That is a clean rule. It also gives the eye very little to follow, because a paying combination on Olympus can sit scattered across six reels with gaps between every symbol. Hades asks for contact instead. Five symbols, edge to edge, across or down. Written out the difference sounds minor, though on screen it changes what you watch, since a cluster grows from somewhere and you can see it coming two tumbles before it pays. Multiplier behaviour then splits the two cleanly. Olympus gathers its orb values and applies them to the win. Hades parks each value in a meter above the reel it landed on. Only the meters standing over a winning cluster count, and every one of them holds for a whole free-spins round. A 100x meter above an untouched reel therefore pays nothing here, which is the detail most comparisons skip. The Hades column below carries figures because we opened the client on 28 September 2026 and worked through every rules screen in it. The Olympus column mostly does not, and that is deliberate. We have never played it. Copying its return, its ante price or its spin counts off a listing is a mistake. That is exactly how the two games' numbers end up swapped on affiliate pages. What we can say about Hades on its own terms is narrower. The Super buy costs 500x the stake and returns 96.47% in theory, below the 96.52% of ordinary play. The ceiling is a hard 10,000x that ends a round on contact. Our own 27 logged base spins paid six times, a 22.2% hit rate. Those are the figures to weigh, and none of them describes the older game.