Age of the Gods: Prince of Olympus Slot by Playtech

Three separate bonuses run off three separate symbols here, and none of them share a trigger. The Hydra symbol opens the Hydra Bonus, a pick-a-prize round where you take cash straight off the beast. The Scatter sends you to Hercules Free Games, 10 spins carrying win multipliers of up to 3x, and landing more Scatters mid-round retriggers it. And the Wild powers Herculean Strength, where a wild expands to fill its whole reel and hands back a respin, holding those paying positions in place while the other reels turn again.

The paytable is built around the Labours. That snarling three-headed Cerberus wreathed in fire is the top symbol, four across the five reels worth 4,000x your line bet, miles clear of anything else. Under him sit the trophies from the myth: three golden apples of the Hesperides, the jewelled leather belt of Hippolyta with its green gem, and a heavy spiked club, then ornate gold Greek royals down to the nine. The Wild stands in for all of them except the Hydra and the Scatter.

It plays out in a sunset amphitheatre, the reels wedged between two tall golden Ionic pillars over a deep-purple starfield, marble seating and stone columns receding into a lightning-streaked sky. It's the heroic-arena presentation Playtech's mythology titles keep returning to, all gold and storm-light.

The franchise's four-tier Age of the Gods progressive rides on top of everything, awarded at random on paid spins through its own pick-a-coin mini-game, and it's locked to real money, so treat it as background furniture the demo will never light up. No bonus buy, no ante bet either, which leaves the reels as the only road into any of the three features.