Cats of Olympuss

Cats of Olympuss: Slot Overview

To paraphrase the philosopher Xenophon, 'If cows or horses could draw, their gods would look like cows and horses.' If we can all agree for a moment on evolution, let's pretend it was a feline creature that made the leap from a mere member of the animal kingdom to the present-day master of the planet. In such a case, the Earth might have experienced a classical age like the one on show in Push Gaming's slot Cats of Olympuss. You guessed it; this is a game which presents Ancient Greek belief through a feline lens and is linked to another anthropomorphised Push Gaming slot, Dinopolis.

Pussy cat people should be thrilled to know they'll be ascending to a realm going by the name of Catcropolis to play this game. Cats of Olympuss is loaded with sweet kitty touches like the bushy-tailed moggy statues on either side of the game grid and, of course, the lineup of cute, cuddly characters. Cats of Olympuss isn't as bright light, razzle-dazzle as the swankily designed Dinopolis was, but it packs in plenty of Ancient Greek-inspired fur ball charm.

In Catcropolis, the gaming is conducted on a 5-reel, 3-row area, in possession of a 243 ways to win pay system. Cats of Olympuss also possess a medium-high volatile math model, from which gamblers can theoretically expect an RTP of 96.31% by default. Or 96.26% when using the Push Bet. When activated, the Push Bet bumps up the stake by 20% to make triggering the bonus 60% more likely to happen. The base stake range is 10 c to $/€100.

Cats of Olympuss' low pays are nibbled diamond, club, spade, and heart-shaped cat treats, then there's a fish, a harp, and three cat character symbols. Card suits in a 5 OAK win are worth 0.5-1 times the bet, fish or harps pay 2 times the bet, while lines of 5 matching cat symbols pay 4 to 10 times the bet. Regular wild symbols may land on reels 2, 3, and 4 to substitute for any regular pay symbol.

Cats of Olympuss: Slot Features

Cats of Olympuss' flea-ridden feature list has these extras to offer - Stacked Wild symbols, Instant Prize coin symbols, free spins, a Card Pick feature, and bonus buys.

Stacked Wild Symbols

Stacked Wild symbols are full reel wilds counting as 1 symbol that also substitutes for any regular pay symbol. They may have a multiplier of x2 to x8 attached. The Stacked Wild symbol multiplies Instant Prize symbol wins by the multiplier shown. Each Stacked Wild symbol included in a win multiplies the win by the amount shown on its multiplier. If a win has more than 1 Stacked Wild symbol, the multipliers are multiplied together.

Instant Prize Symbols

Instant Prize symbols are bet multipliers that land on the leftmost and rightmost reels in the base game or in free spins. They pay when they create a combination with at least 2 wild symbols on consecutive reels. Coin wins pay left to right, beginning on the leftmost reels, and the possible values are 1x to 1,000x.

Free Spins

Scatters and double scatters may land on reels 2, 3, and 4. Double scatters count as 2 scatter symbols. Getting 3 or more scatter symbols triggers the free spins feature, which is played on up to 4 matrices. The round starts with 1, 2, 3, or 4 matrices unlocked when triggered by 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters, respectively. At the start of the bonus, players are also awarded card picks:

• 3 scatters gives you 2 card picks - a free spins picker plus an Upgrade Card.
• 4 scatters gives you 2 card picks - a free spins picker plus 2 Upgrade Cards.
• 5 scatters gives you 2 card picks - a free spins picker plus 3 Upgrade Cards.
• 6 scatters gives you 2 card picks - a free spins picker plus 4 Upgrade Cards.

For the free spins pick, it is possible to get 6, 7, 8, or 10 free spins. When it comes to the remaining picks, the feature upgrade cards, it is possible to win these:

• Stacked Wild Symbol - added to reels 2, 3, or 4. Any duplicate Stacked Wild symbols picked impact the newly unlocked reel matrices by increasing the multiplier of the Stacked Wild symbols. The Stacked Wild symbol can be selected with an x2 multiplier.
• Remove Lowest Symbols - removes up to 4 low pay symbols.

Feature Pick Upgrades are applied like so - Feature Pick 1 to all 4 matrices, Feature Pick 2 to matrices 2, 3, 4, Feature Pick 3 to matrices 3 and 4, and Feature Pick 4 to matrix 4.

Special Instant Prize symbols are present in free spins, landing on the leftmost or rightmost reels. Collecting 5 Special Instant Prize coins opens up the next reel set and retriggers the Card Pick feature and feature pick. When Stacked Wild symbols are added to the reels in free spins, they remain in place for the full duration.

Bonus Buy

Players have the chance to buy the free spins feature with 3 scatter symbols for 60.3x the bet (RTP 96.24%), 4 scatter symbols for 110x the bet (RTP 96.38%), or random scatter symbols for 109x the bet (RTP 96.39%).

Cats of Olympuss: Slot Verdict

Just as an aside, if you're thinking of recreating Cats of Olympuss at home, be sure not to feed your pet grapes because they are apparently toxic to cats. It might be tempting to try, the recreation that is, because Cats of Olympuss is quite a charming game which cat lovers will probably be all over. Push Gaming has slowly but surely been shedding its reputation for firing off predominantly massively volatile slots like the Razor Shark/Razor Returns, instead, also setting its sights on other sectors of the market. Potential examples include games like 10 Swords and Rat King, which, okay, haven't really been produced to make buddies, but that might be a better suit for gamblers who don't want to be shredded by the slot they are playing, so to speak.

Cats of Olympuss came across as one of these sorts of games, and speaking of Dinos, it shares similarities with Dinopolis, as already mentioned. This is, however, the first time Push Gaming has created a game using a 4 reel-set feature, and the results are positive. Like Pragmatic Play's, The Dog House Multihold, Cats of Olympuss doesn't have a pointless gimmicky feel to it, as its extra reel sets actually integrate with other features well. In other words, Cats of Olympuss has ways of making the process of unlocking further matrices highly desirable - not just because you get more room to hit winning combinations but also because there are chances that feature picks affect later matrices waiting to be unlocked. Coin wins might not be the freshest feature on the block; Push Gaming really does have a thing for them, yet it's hard to argue with the possible contributions they may make in getting near Cats of Olympuss' 13,195x the bet max win.

All in all, Cats of Olympuss is another strong example of Push Gaming continuing to uphold its high build standards, being a slot boasting innovations, proven mechanics, and a sweet mixture of both. At the end of the day, the studio has cracked its knuckles and gotten down to the business of producing a highly entertaining quad matrix style game with coin wins and cats.