Checked in the demo on November 14, 2026 · how we test
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The princess with her winged staff, the 6×5 grid of crystals and heart multipliers up to 500x all carry over from the original. The big addition is a special scatter that pays a cash prize, up to 50,000x the bet, when it helps trigger the bonus.
In our test, regular spins wore the balance down. Then, halfway through our ante spins, the bonus triggered on its own, and that run finished roughly $300 up.
How Super Scatter works
The regular scatter is the princess herself. The Super Scatter is marked with a gold star and its own label. Four or more scatters of any kind start the bonus. If any of them are special, the game pays 100x, 500x, 5,000x or 50,000x the bet for one, two, three or four.
At a $1 bet, that means at least $100 lands on top of the free spins.
It can drop on regular spins and with the ante bet on, but never during free spins. The rules don't promise one at the start of a bought bonus, and they don't say whether the prize stacks with the payout for the scatters themselves.
Free spins and the heart-powered total multiplier
Eight matching symbols anywhere on the grid make a win. Winning symbols vanish, new ones drop into the gaps, and the tumbles keep going while new wins form.
Winged heart multipliers can fall on any reel. In the base game their values are added up at the end of the tumble sequence, multiply that sequence's win and then disappear.
You get 15 free spins, and three scatters during the bonus add 5 more. The sky turns to sunset, and a winged cat next to the grid shows the total multiplier. Every heart on a winning spin adds its value to that total, but the total only applies on a spin where a new heart lands.
Here's an example from our round. The total stood at 49x when eight turquoise crystals paid $0.80. No heart landed, so the payout stayed at $0.80. With a 10x heart on that spin, the total would have jumped to 59x and the win to about $47.
Ante bet, regular buy and Super Free Spins
With the ante on, a spin costs $1.50 instead of $1. The rules say this doubles your chance of the bonus. You can't buy the bonus while it's active.
For us, the bonus arrived halfway through 50 ante spins and paid $288 (144x the bet). Don't count on that happening every time.
Regular free spins cost 100x the bet and give you 15 spins straight away. Super Free Spins cost five times as much, 500x, and every heart in them starts at 10x. The buys run at 96.50% and 96.49% RTP, in line with normal play. You reach the bonus faster, but it pays no better on average.
In the first session the regular buy returned about a sixth of its price. Super Free Spins finished roughly 15% ahead, the total multiplier climbing to 94x by the last spin.
How it differs from the original and Starlight Princess 1000
The original came out in 2021: the same 6×5 grid, hearts up to 500x, 15 free spins with a total multiplier and a 5,000x cap. Starlight Princess 1000 (2023) pushed hearts to 1,000x and the cap to 15,000x.
This edition goes back to hearts of up to 500x but adds the prize ladder and a 50,000x cap. On paper it almost exactly matches Gates of Olympus Super Scatter: same paytable, same buy prices, same RTP. Only the artwork and the rules' description of the ante differ.
Our version comparison lines up the main editions of this game: the original, the 1000 and this one.
Who it suits
If you like how Gates of Olympus plays but not how it looks, try this one. The bonus and its growing total multiplier are identical; only Zeus is swapped for a pastel sky, crystals and a princess standing beside the grid.
Before you play for real money, try the demo to see how long the gaps between bonuses can be.
Our demo test
Before the buys we played about 210 regular spins at $2 and 50 ante spins at $3, then paid for regular free spins and Super Free Spins.
Whole session: staked $1,770, got back $1,915 — 108%.
About 210 spins at $2
▼−$144
staked $420 → got back $276
66% of the stake
50 ante spins at $3
▲+$307
staked $150 → got back $457
305% of the stake · bonus triggered on its own
Regular bonus bought for 100x
▼−$168
staked $200 → got back $32
16% of the stake · 16x win
Super Free Spins bought for 500x
▲+$150
staked $1,000 → got back $1,150
115% of the stake · 575x win
Regular spins dragged the balance down, and the natural bonus in the ante run pulled the whole series into profit. The cheap buy returned almost nothing; the expensive one paid off. Over the full day the picture flipped: six regular buys returned 144% of their cost and three Super Free Spins rounds returned 88%. Totals for every game are in our bonus buy results table.
Screenshots from the demo.
How we tested
Tested on November 14, 2026 in the demo with a $100,000 balance: regular spins at $2, ante spins at $3, then both bonus buys. More in our methodology. Amounts are rounded to whole dollars.
Symbol paytable
What each symbol pays, in multiples of the bet
| Symbol | 8–9 | 10–11 | 12+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 10x | 25x | 50x |
| Heart locket | 2.5x | 10x | 25x |
| Moon | 2x | 5x | 15x |
| Star | 1.5x | 2x | 12x |
| Red heart-shaped crystal | 1x | 1.5x | 10x |
| Blue crystal | 0.8x | 1.2x | 8x |
| Green crystal | 0.5x | 1x | 5x |
| Turquoise crystal | 0.4x | 0.9x | 4x |
| Yellow crystal | 0.25x | 0.75x | 2x |
The princess scatter pays 3x, 5x and 100x the bet for 4, 5 and 6 of them. Eight suns at a $1 bet pay $10.
Ante and bonus buys in numbers
Cost of each mode and the average return
| Mode | Cost | What you get | RTP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal play | 1x bet ($1) | Bonus for 4+ scatters, a shot at the Super Scatter | 96.50% |
| Ante bet | 1.5x bet ($1.50) | Double the bonus chance, bonus buy switched off | 96.55% |
| Free spins | 100x bet ($100) | 15 free spins, 4–6 scatters at the start | 96.50% |
| Super Free Spins | 500x bet ($500) | 15 free spins, hearts from 10x | 96.49% |
On average a regular bonus costs 3.5x the bet more than it returns, so $3.50 at a $1 bet. For Super Free Spins the figure is about 17.5x, roughly $17.50 a round.
The ante adds 0.05 percentage points of RTP but makes each spin 50% pricier. At a $1 bet, the average loss per spin rises from about 3.5 cents to 5 cents.
Volatility
Medium on paper, with long runs between bonuses
The rules list volatility as medium, the same as Gates of Olympus. About 210 regular spins cost us around 70x the bet. Without the bonus the game paid little, and hearts that landed on losing spins went to waste.
The big amounts come mostly from free spins, and our test followed that pattern.
RTP 96.50% or lower: how to check
Four figures from the demo rules
In the demo the RTP is 96.50% for normal play, 96.55% with the ante bet, and 96.50% and 96.49% for the two buys. Lower-RTP versions look exactly the same from the outside, so find the RTP line in the game rules before your first bet.