Goals of Olympus BoltLock: Zeus Takes the Stage in a Stadium Atop Olympus
A rundown of Yggdrasil’s new release Goals of Olympus BoltLock. BoltLock breaks blocks with wins to expand the board up to 3,125 ways, plus Extra Life and an unlimited global multiplier. RTP 94%, max win 5,800x.
Key takeaways
- On July 9, Yggdrasil released Goals of Olympus BoltLock, which mixes soccer with Greek mythology.
- Consecutive wins break blocks and widen the board, and once everything is open it becomes 3,125 ways.
- Once the board is fully open, Extra Life and the unlimited global multiplier follow.
- The base RTP is a low 94.00%, and the max win is 5,800x.
The world’s biggest soccer tournament was approaching its final. Yggdrasil timed a soccer slot to land right then. But the ones on the pitch are not players, they are gods. Goals of Olympus BoltLock, released on July 9, is set in a huge stadium built on the summit of Mount Olympus.
A soccer slot with a mythological twist
A typical soccer slot fills out its theme with a ball, a goal and jerseys. This game turns in a slightly different direction. The premise is that Zeus and the gods come down to the stadium to compete. Marcin Tomala, the senior game designer who led development, said, “Instead of a traditional soccer slot, we imagined what it would be like if the gods of Olympus took the pitch.”
Greek mythology is one of the most widely used themes in slots. Gates of Olympus is the best-known example. Goals of Olympus brings in the same gods but moves the setting to a soccer stadium. The sound is filled with the roar of a packed crowd.
BoltLock: break the blocks with wins
The backbone of the game is BoltLock, Yggdrasil’s own mechanic. Yggdrasil has long used a mechanic brand strategy, naming mechanics like Gigablox and reusing them across multiple games. BoltLock belongs to the same family.
The board is 5×5. At first, some cells are covered by blocks. When wins land in a row, the blocks break, and the number of ways to win grows with the cells that open up. Once every cell is open, it becomes 3,125 ways. Because each win enlarges the board for the next one, how quickly you break blocks early on sets the flow of the game.
Put the other way around, the game’s core features stay locked until all the blocks are broken. If wins stop, the board stays narrow. That is why the first few spins can feel flat. In return, the board visibly widens each time a block breaks, and the number of ways grows with it. Because progress is something you can see, you keep waiting for the next win.
The main game starts once the board is fully open
Once all the blocks are gone, the game moves into its climax. This is when Extra Life kicks in. It is a mechanism that gives you one more chance even when a round would otherwise end. On top of that, an unlimited global multiplier is added. This multiplier keeps rising with no cap as long as the feature continues.
The two features work as a pair. When Extra Life extends the round, the global multiplier has more time to build. The way the two interlock, more than either feature alone, is this game’s main path to big wins.
The global multiplier is not a multiplier attached to a single win. It applies to the whole board, so once it grows, every later win receives that value. Yggdrasil also specifically highlights that there is no cap.
The numbers
The max win is 5,800x your bet. According to our game page, the base RTP is 94.00%, with 92% and 90.5% versions also available. It helps to know up front that the RTP version can differ from casino to casino, even for the same game. Volatility is medium-high, and hit frequency is 22.79%.
Bets range from 0.10 to 100. An RTP of 94% is on the low side for new releases these days. In exchange, hit frequency is 22.79%, so you get a win roughly once every four or five spins. Since this is a game where wins need to keep coming to break the blocks, that frequency makes a big difference to how it feels.
Yggdrasil’s summer
Later that same month, on the 21st, Yggdrasil made its first US entry in New Jersey and Michigan through Caesars. We covered that news separately. Goals of Olympus came out just before the US launch, combining two popular themes, soccer and mythology, in one game. You can watch the blocks break right away in the free demo.
Source: Yggdrasil official news