Gates of Olympus 1000 pokie: play free online and where to play for real money in Australia

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Gates of Olympus 1000 is Pragmatic Play’s re-release of Gates of Olympus, an operator exclusive from 4 December 2023 and in wide distribution from 14 December. Of the three “1000” re-releases it is the most conservative: exactly two things changed.

The multiplier orbs now carry values from 2x to 1,000x, where the original stops at 500x. The maximum win goes from 5,000x stake to 15,000x. That is the whole list. Grid, paytable, scatter rules, the fifteen free spins, the running total multiplier, the 100x bonus buy, the 25% Ante Bet and the bet ladder are all identical, and so is the headline RTP at 96.50%. There is no Super buy here, unlike Sweet Bonanza 1000 and Sugar Rush 1000.

How it plays

Six reels, five rows, no paylines. Eight or more matching symbols anywhere pay, vanish, and let new symbols tumble in until no new win forms. Orbs land in the base game as well as the bonus: when a tumble sequence ends with a win, every orb on screen adds its value to a single total that multiplies the sequence. An orb on a losing spin does nothing.

The doubled ceiling changes the base game less than it sounds. A 1,000x orb pays only if it lands on a spin that produced a win, and Bigwinboard puts the free-spins trigger at about 1 in 448 spins. Between bonuses this is the same dry game as the original.

Bets run from 0.20 to 100 units, A$0.20 to A$100 at an AUD casino; Ante Bet raises the stake 25%, to A$125 maximum, for more scatters on the reels. Unlike the other two 1000s, where databases disagree about a higher ceiling, every source we checked gives this game the same 0.20–125 ladder as the original. Ante Bet still disables the buy button while it is on.

Bonus features

Multiplier orbs. Values from 2x to 1,000x, against 2x to 500x in the original. The behaviour is unchanged in both the base game and the bonus; only the top of the value table moved.

Free spins. Four, five or six Zeus scatters award fifteen free spins, and three or more during the round add five, with retriggers uncapped. The difference from the base game is unchanged: every orb landing on a winning spin adds its value to a total that persists for the whole feature and applies to every later win. A single 1,000x orb early in a good round is where the 15,000x cap becomes reachable at all.

Bonus buy. Fifteen free spins for 100x stake, as before, published by Bigwinboard at 96.49%. No 500x Super buy here.

RTP and volatility

The default build is 96.50%, printed on Pragmatic Play’s own game page and identical to the original’s — the single most useful fact on this page. Tripling the maximum win did not buy a better return. SlotCatalog and Bigwinboard both record lower 95.51% and 94.50% builds, the three-tier pattern our RTP guide describes across the studio’s catalogue. None of the casinos below publishes which it runs.

In money: on A$1,000 of turnover, the two percentage points between 96.50% and 94.50% are A$20.

Volatility is at the studio’s five-out-of-five maximum. Because the return is unchanged while the cap has tripled, the money has to come from somewhere, and it comes out of the middle: more of the 96.50% now sits in outcomes almost nobody reaches, and less in the ordinary bonuses you will actually see. That is the trade in every “1000” release, clearest here, where the RTP is held constant and only the ceiling moves.

Where to play Gates of Olympus 1000 in Australia and New Zealand

Of the casinos we have reviewed, RocketPlay, Spin Samurai and Richard Casino all name Pragmatic Play in the pokies section of their review and run AUD accounts. LTC Casino is crypto-only — no AUD, no documents — and its review names Pragmatic Play with Gates of Olympus, Sweet Bonanza and Sugar Rush in the lobby; it is the one here where we have tested a withdrawal ourselves.

Lobbies list the original and the 1000 under near-identical tiles. Check the title reads “1000” before you spin, and open the info panel for the build: no review of ours records which version a casino has loaded, and Spin Samurai’s says so outright.

Free demo

The demo button above opens Pragmatic Play’s own free-play build of Gates of Olympus 1000 from the studio’s demo server, with the display set to Australian dollars. It is the full game on play-money credits — Ante Bet, bonus buy, free spins — running the studio’s default 96.50% build; a casino may have the 95.51% or 94.50% version switched on instead. Running a few bought bonuses beside the original’s demo shows how much rarer the good rounds are here.

Verdict

Gates of Olympus 1000 is the tidiest of the three re-releases and the least necessary. The return is identical, the bet and Ante Bet cost the same, the bonus works the same way, and the only real change is that orbs reach 1,000x and the cap sits at 15,000x. If the original’s 5,000x ceiling never felt like the constraint — and at roughly one bonus in 448 spins, it rarely is — this version offers nothing but a longer wait between meaningful results. Confirm the build either way.

FAQ

Is there a Gates of Olympus 1000 free play demo? Yes. Pragmatic Play publishes an official demo, linked above, with play-money credits.

What is the RTP of Gates of Olympus 1000? 96.50% by default, the same as the original. Lower 95.51% and 94.50% builds exist and the casino chooses which to run.

What is the difference between Gates of Olympus and Gates of Olympus 1000? Two things: orbs to 1,000x rather than 500x, and a 15,000x cap rather than 5,000x. RTP, grid, paytable, scatter rules, free spins, the 100x buy and the 25% Ante Bet are all the same.