Hades Fever Boost Gold Blitz Fortune Tower

Hades Fever Boost Gold Blitz Fortune Tower: Slot Overview

Having given the ruler of the Greek pantheon the starring role in Zeus Gold Blitz Fortune Tower, software developer Fortune Factory Studios has turned to one of his brothers for a follow-up. The brother in question is Hades, and the slot he stars in is titled, wait for it, Hades Fever Boost Gold Blitz Fortune Tower. As you might have suspected, much of what's here is reused from the Zeus game, and while it is essentially a redo in many ways, the Fever Boost and bonus buys are new additions that help nudge the range along.

Hades, famously, was given rulership of the underworld in ancient Greek myth, after the Titans were defeated. In addition, Hades was said to preside over the natural cycle of death, but while he might have been stern yet fair, he wasn't a malevolent figure like some underworld entities in other belief systems can be. The central character in Hades Fever Boost is a green-eyed guy with pecs that look like they could crack walnuts by flexing them together, wearing a chic green ancient Greek outfit. Behind him lies a green-hued base game (or reddy when using the Fever Boost), depicting a built-up underworld area, and swirling vapours in the bonus round, all quite neatly done.

Fitting snuggling against the buildings in the background is Hades Fever Boost's 5-reel grid, where symbols in the base game fall in a 3-4-5-4-3 pattern with 720 ways to win. Winning combinations pay left to right from the leftmost reel and right to left from the rightmost reel. Fortune Factory Studios has designed a highly volatile math model to go with it, producing 96.5% as the greatest of the RTP variants, where players can stake $/€0.20 to $/€50.

The pay symbols are Greek-style 9-A royals, three-character-like symbols, and a very non-ancient Greek dollar sign. Hitting winning combinations of 5-of-a-kind pays 0.8x-1.2x for the royals, or 1.5x-2x for everything else. Wilds are present on the three middle reels. They are used for substituting any regular paying symbol.

Hades Fever Boost Gold Blitz Fortune Tower: Slot Features

Many of the features are named in the title, while the full list includes the Gold Blitz Fortune Tower, a multiplier, a free spins bonus round, and the Fever Boost.

Gold Blitz Fortune Tower

Landing the Hades trigger symbol on the middle reel and at least one Collect symbol on any other reel activates the Gold Blitz Fortune Tower. The tower displays a list of jackpots and cash values. The yellow Jackpot Collect symbol collects a jackpot worth 5x to 1,000x the bet. The blue Cash Collect symbol collects a cash value worth 0.5x to 15x the bet. Landing multiple trigger symbols on the same spin gives a chance to upgrade Cash Collect to Jackpot Collect symbols. Upgrades can only occur after the tower has been awarded once.

Gold Blitz Fortune Tower Multiplier

Landing 5 trigger symbols without a Collect symbol awards 5 random x1 multipliers. Each multiplier is added to a random jackpot or cash prize on the tower, accumulated up to x5. Multipliers are applied to the jackpot or cash prize when collected. Multipliers remain on the tower until they are awarded; then they reset. All multipliers reset at the end of free spins. An x5 multiplier is awarded to the highest jackpot when returning to the base game.

Bonus Feature

Should 3 scatters hit on the leftmost, middle and rightmost reels, players win 8 free spins. The bonus round is played on a 5x5, 3,125 ways to win, pay both ways grid. Hitting 2 or 3 scatters awards an extra +3 or +8 free spins, respectively.

Fever Boost & Feature Buys

Activating the Fever Boost increases the frequency of Cash Collect, Jackpot Collect, Trigger and scatter symbols. It removes all other symbols from play in the base game for an increased chance of triggering features. When activated, the stake increases by 100%. Two features may be bought. One is 8 free spins costing 100x, while the other is 16 free spins costing 180x the bet.

Hades Fever Boost Gold Blitz Fortune Tower: Slot Verdict

Fortune Factory Studios has made the arduous journey down from the clouds of Olympus to the green-lit depths of the underworld. It's brought with it the gameplay and features of Zeus Gold Blitz Fortune Tower, keeping much of the core, while making a few alterations and adding new betting options. Hades Fever Boost is a muscular redo of its Zeus-themed predecessor, and while the technical experience is very, very close, it brings a smidge of 'upgrade' in an attempt to prevent the game from feeling like complete and total repetition.

However, unless you're planning on using the Fever Boost (or the feature buys), and it won't be everyone's first choice, prepare to settle in for a very comparable repeat performance. These are games that deliver a big chunk of their thrills through the Fortune Tower system, where Collect symbols don't come to life unless a Trigger symbol is also in view, then prizes from the tower are heading your way. The Trigger symbol has a dual role, that of multiplier generator, and this appears to be an essential component for achieving the full 5,000x max win, equating to the top jackpot prize with an x5 multiplier attached to it.

The pay both ways adds more than it detracts, but collecting tower prizes remains the main event, so that style of play will have to be if interest is Hades Fever Boost Gold Blitz Fortune Tower is going to avoid being a hard pass. There must be potential gamblers, since this isn't the first one of these games Fortune Factory Studios has designed, so despite not a huge amount differentiating it, aside from the ante bet, bonus buys, and skin, Hades Fever Boost is likely to draw at least part of that crowd back for a round two.