Age of the Gods: Goddess of Dawn Slot by Playtech

Two different Wilds run this game, and both live only on the middle three reels, always stacked tall. One is a plain Wild. The other is the Goddess Wild, and that one is the reason to keep spinning. When it lands stacked high enough to cover an entire reel, it locks and hands you the Wild Harp Respins. On each respin the Goddess Wild slides one column to the left and a multiplier ticks up, climbing as high as x5. The respins keep arriving until the Wild is pushed off the left edge of the grid, and that final exit spin is the last one you get.

Sitting above all that are four network-wide progressive jackpots, the pots the whole Age of the Gods series is built around. From the bottom up they run Power, Extra Power, Super Power and Ultimate Power, and they trigger at random. Any spin can be pulled into the jackpot game, a winning one, a dead one, any stake, though betting more improves your odds of being picked. Once you are in, a tier is guaranteed. The screen fills with 20 coins hiding jackpot symbols, you click them one at a time, and matching three identical symbols wins that tier. The progressive pot is the real top prize here, since no fixed maximum is printed anywhere.

No free-spins round, no buy button, which is unusual for a release this recent. The respins and the random jackpot are the only two events, so the base game leans on those stacked middle reels to set them up. The mood is serene rather than loud. Eos stands pale-haired in a winged crown and white gown over a dawn breaking across snow-capped peaks, a green-and-pink aurora rippling through a star-strewn sky with a glowing Greek marble temple off to one side. A golden long-haired god, a red-plumed Spartan helmet and a gold urn top the paytable, with golden 10-through-Ace royals filling the lower rungs.