Goals of Olympus BoltLock

The BoltLock respins

BoltLock is Yggdrasil’s name for the blocks that cover part of the grid and for the way they come down. Every winning combination you land chips away at them. The intro screen prints the rule in capitals, a respin on every win, so a paying spin keeps the reels turning. The run lasts as long as the wins keep coming.

Each position that comes unlocked adds ways to win. With all 25 positions open, 5 on each of the 5 reels, the grid pays 3,125 ways, the most it can. Yggdrasil’s launch news calls this progression, and the whole game is built around it. Wins in a row are what open the grid.

Now, think about what a locked position does to your spin. Fewer open positions mean fewer ways, and fewer ways mean fewer combinations that can pay. The multiplier waits for the open grid as well. The percentage already counts every stage of the climb.

The open grid

Yggdrasil’s page says Multipliers and Extra Lives come into play once the grid is cleared. The multiplier is global, so it works on every win on the grid rather than on one symbol. The launch news says it keeps growing through the feature without an upper limit, and special symbols raise it and add respins. A multiplier that only climbs is the reason you want the grid open.

The Extra Lives are the other half of the finale. The intro screen calls them second chance lives, and Yggdrasil’s page says they extend the feature. Every extra chance gives the multiplier more time to grow. The lives buy the open grid a longer stay.

Both counters sit in bronze braziers on the intro screen. The multiplier burns in a blue flame marked 2x on the left, and the lives burn in an orange flame marked 1 on the right. You’ll know both of them before the reels turn.

Yggdrasil lists no free spins round for this game and no way to buy a feature. The page names 3 features, BoltLock, the Multiplier and Extra Lives, and there’s no ante beside them. Every open grid has to be earned on the reels. In my book that’s no loss, since a bought bonus only changes the speed and never the percentage.

The pitch on Olympus

Yggdrasil set the game in a stadium on top of Mount Olympus and launched it as the world’s biggest football tournament reached its final. The art takes the idea literally. The stands are old stone with ivy creeping over them, and a striped green pitch with white lines lies below. A dark tunnel opens in the middle of the far end, with a bronze lion on a plinth at each side of it.

On the intro screen two gods pose in front of the stands, with a bare grey peak rising behind them. Zeus is the older one, with white hair, a long white beard and a gold laurel wreath. He wears a yellow shirt with a red drape over one shoulder and a gold lightning bolt on his red forearm guard. A black and white ball spins on one of his fingers. Beside him stands a dark-haired god with a long beard and a spiked silver crown, in a purple and pale blue shirt.

Yggdrasil’s text names only Zeus, and nothing in it gives either god a job in the mechanics. The multiplier grows from special symbols, and the lives come with the open grid. The gods pose for the team photo and leave the play to the blocks. A kit and a ball don’t make Zeus a player.

Yggdrasil’s other Olympus game on this site puts its gods to work. In Vikings Go To Olympus the vikings fight Poseidon in the respins of the base game and Zeus on every free spin, on 5 reels of 4 rows. Vikings Go To Olympus lists 96.00% and 90.50% and caps wins at 6,000x. Here the best version is 94.00% and the cap is 5,800x.

The reels

The grid is 5 reels of 5 rows, and it pays in ways rather than along fixed lines. How many ways your spin has depends on how many positions are open. A grid with blocks still on it pays fewer ways, and the full 3,125 needs every position free. The blocks set the count.

Yggdrasil’s page puts the share of winning spins at 22.79%. The rest end without a win, and a spin without a win brings no respin. Most of your spins are over after one turn of the reels. Only a win starts the chain.

On cup final nights the slot floor I ran went half empty for the length of the match. The regulars who stayed kept one eye on the television over the bar, and the machines filled up again at the final whistle. A football slot brings the match to the reels instead. The gods just wear the shirts.

The numbers

Now, Yggdrasil publishes 3 returns for Goals of Olympus BoltLock, 94.00%, 92.00% and 90.50%, and none at 96%. The casino picks one of the 3, and your stake has no say in the choice. Before you play, find the percentage line in the game’s rules. It’s the one figure the stake can’t change.

Yggdrasil rates the volatility Medium-High on its own scale and caps a win at 5,800x the stake. On a $0.10 spin the cap pays $580, and on the $1.50 the game opens with it pays $8,700. A $100 spin, the most the game takes, could return $580,000.

Yggdrasil’s stakes start at $0.10 and stop at $100 a spin, and the game opens at $1.50 unless you change it. A bigger stake makes every win bigger and leaves the chances where they were. Yggdrasil dates the release 9 July 2026. Every figure in this section was read on its pages on 30 September 2026.

The score

Score: 6.0 out of 10. The 94.00% best version takes half a point off, and gods who only pose for the picture take off another half. The multiplier that grows without limit on the open grid wins half a point back, and the 5,800x cap stays short of the 10,000x that would add one.

Sources

Yggdrasil’s own pages gave every number above, and the stadium and the gods are described from the game’s intro screen and the studio’s art. Nothing here comes from a third party.

• Yggdrasil’s page for Goals of Olympus BoltLock, read 30 September 2026
• Launch news for Goals of Olympus BoltLock from Yggdrasil, read 30 September 2026

The rubric behind the 6.0 is laid out on How the Reviews Work.