Olympus Slots with Sticky Wilds

The wild that stays

A sticky wild is a wild that stays where it landed after the spin ends. It holds its place for the respins or free spins that follow, and every win it completes in that time is paid like any other. A plain wild does its job once and goes. A sticky one keeps working.

Now, a wild that stays isn’t extra money. The published RTP counts every spin a sticky wild will ever spend on the reels, so the wins it helps along were priced in before it landed. What it changes is how your wins bunch together, since one wild that won’t move can feed several paying spins in a row. The percentage doesn’t move with it.

The vikings on the mountain

Vikings Go To Olympus is the sticky wild game in this catalogue. Yggdrasil’s launch news calls the Vikings its flagship series, and this one sends them to fight the Greek gods. In the base game a scatter sends the vikings into a Wild Fight Respin against Poseidon, and a viking can come out of it as a wild that stays put. With 2 scatters on the trigger, those wilds carry 2x. The sea god is the one they fight.

The free spins move the fight up the mountain. 3 or more scatters open them, and the vikings face Zeus on every spin. Every fresh sticky wild lifts the ones already standing by 1 on their multipliers, and a Berzerk viking can’t lose a fight once the round is running. Here both gods have a job, one in the base game and one in the bonus.

Every viking collects coins towards his Rage, and a full Rage turns him Berzerk, which raises the chance of the free spins. The intro screen shows you a gold wild tile with an 8x multiplier on it, above the words multipliers on wilds. Yggdrasil’s own art for the game puts a temple on a rocky island under storm clouds, with green waves breaking below. The cap is 6,000x the stake.

The stacks that stay

Cats of Olympuss keeps its sticky wilds for the free spins. Before the round you pick cards, and a wild card puts a stacked wild over the whole of reel 2, 3 or 4. Once it lands, the rules keep it in place until the round ends. A stacked wild can carry 2x to 8x, and 2 or more in one win multiply each other. On the intro screen the card shows a goblet marked W with a 2x multiplier below it.

Olympus Unleashed goes the other way and makes almost everything sticky. Its feature opens with the symbols that triggered it and every wild already on the grid held in place. Each empty spot then spins, and whatever lands stays there until the feature ends. The 3 heroes on its intro screen wear green, blue and red armour, and Push Gaming names Ares, Poseidon and Athena among them. Here the wilds are only part of what stays.

In Take Olympus the stickiness belongs to a god. Apollo marks spots on the reels that stay marked through his 10-spin reign, and his God Event at the end of it brings wilds. Aphrodite marks spots the same way for her mystery symbols. The marks wait for the god.

The plain wild

The other Olympus games use wilds that leave after one spin, and the wild symbols page covers them. Zeus is a plain wild in Take Olympus outside the god events, and Poseidon drops plain ones onto the Rise of Olympus grid. A plain wild finishes one win. A sticky one gets a run of spins to work with.

The carrier games

Yggdrasil lists Vikings Go To Olympus at 96.00% and at 90.50%, with a 6,000x cap and a medium-high rating. It came out on 24 April 2025 and takes stakes from $0.10 to $100. Cats of Olympuss prints 96.31% in its demo rules and 94.26% as a second version on Push Gaming’s page, with 13,195x in one game round. Olympus Unleashed prints 96.32%, lists 94.36% as well, and stops at 2,340x. Your demo’s rules name the version you’re playing.

The wilds, the art and the figures above come from the studios’ own pages, rules and intro screens, and How the Reviews Work explains why nothing else is used.