Power of the Gods: Hades

Power of Gods: Hades Overview

Wazdan, the prolific slot creators, have produced another slot in their Hold and Win games series. This time the premise is the Greek Mythical God Hades, Lord of the Underworld. You will journey down the river Styx with the rest of the lost souls into the dominion of the dark ruler himself. In this desolate and foreboding place, you will have to acquire the assistance of Hades to defeat several cursed creatures. Be warned this slot is as spooky as it is potentially lucrative.

The features for this slot include a collection of interesting bonuses. The first is the cascading reels feature which is triggered every time that players score a win. It blasts the winning symbols off the reels, replacing them with new ones, giving players multiple chances to score more than one from the same spin. There is also a Hades bonus symbol that is sticky and helps score wins. However, the top feature in this game is the Hold the Jackpot feature, which gives you the opportunity of scoring a handful of jackpot wins.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for this slot is the underworld, as interpreted by the ancient Greeks. According to Greek mythology, the underworld is hidden deep in the earth's bowels and is ruled by the Greek God Hades and his wife, Persephone. The underworld itself was split into four different regions: Tartarus (the place for the worst offenders), the Elysian Fields (where only the finest of men's souls dwell), the Fields of Mourning (for those hurt by love) and the Asphodel Meadows (for the souls of regular people). The gates of hell and the murky depths are all players manage to see here, however.

The background for this slot is the volcano and its surroundings, where the gates of hell are supposed to be located. The screen has been made blurry by the intense heat of the volcano, with red lava flowing all around. In the sky, all players can see are distorted smoking plumes generated by the huge volcano bubbling aggressively around them.

The board has been constructed to resemble one of the many entrances to the underworld kingdom of hell. Its dark skeletal constructs make the board quite terrifying and, in a way, quite realistic (if you believe in the notion of hell).

The symbols for this slot are eleven different icons, each belonging to a regular or special family. The lowest value symbols are the card royals from J to A, paying in the range of 0.1x to 1x your stake. On the other hand, the higher value symbols are the Helmets, Bidents, Keys, and Cerberus, which produce payouts of between 0.5x to 6x your bet. The highest paying symbol is the Head with two illuminated eyes that pays an awesome 50x the stake for the top combination. The specials comprise the fiery balls, the scatter that activate the bonus game, and the Hold and Win jackpot bonus. The image of Hades' Head, on the other hand, is the wild icon.

Game Play

Power of Gods: Hades is played on a 5-reel, 3-row playing board with 243 ways to win. To win combinations in this game, players must land matching combinations of 3 or more of the same symbol starting from reel 1.
The betting range for Power of Gods: Hades is 20p to as much as £100 per spin. To change your betting level per spin, use the bet adjuster tool located at the bottom of the playing window.

Further information regarding the slot, including a display of the paytable, can be accessed by clicking on the settings menu. The spin button is located to the bottom right of the reels. You can set up auto spins in the game's menu.
The volatility for Power of Gods: Hades is variable from low to high. The return to player percentage for Power of Gods: Hades is 96.14%, which is about average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 5,000x your stake.

Features

The first feature in this game is the cascading reels feature. After scoring a win, all of the winning symbols instantly leave the reels and are replaced by a new set, giving players multiple chances to score wins from the same spin. The cascades end when no new winners are found.

The next feature concerns the Power of Gods: Hades bonus wild symbols which can appear and become sticky. These sticky icons have a number of lives, starting from five and decreasing with every spin. Their stickiness gives players more chances to use them before they disappear from the reels.

The main feature in this game, however, is the Hold the Jackpot feature. To trigger this feature, players must land six or more bonus icons on the board at once. Unlike the base game, this special round plays out on 15 reels, with all fireball symbols sticking to the reels for the entire round. In place of the Power of Gods: Hades free spins, you are instead given 3 re-spins to try and land more bonus symbols. Every new fireball symbol landed resets the number of re-spins to three. The game continues until there are no more re-spins or all available spaces full of fireball icons. In which case, you will win the top jackpot prize of 3,000x the stake.
There are also other jackpot prizes available that can be attained by landing blue fire, mystery or Hades mystery symbols.

Conclusion

Power of the Gods: Hades is a fairly run of the mill Hold and Win slot in a fun underworld theme with a decent top payout and a collection of paying dynamics that should thrill players. The RTP and volatility are also fairly favourable. So, players could round up a few tidy wins here.