Hades Gigablox

Hades Gigablox Review

Hades Gigablox Reviewed October 23 2020 by Casinogamesonnet.com

Developed by Yggdrasil Gaming, Hades Gigablox is a 6x6 grid slot with 50 paylines. It follows Yggdrasil’s first Gigablox game, Lucky Neko, which came out just a few months ago.

The latter recently introduced players to the Gigablox engine. Now, Yggdrasil is already adding on this concept with yet another title.

Lucky Neko has been a solid hit so far. We’ll discuss whether Hades Gigablox figures to be a success as well.

Gameplay and Atmosphere

This slot features a 6x6 grid with 50 lines. This setup is strange when considering that most 6x6 games feature cluster pays.

Therefore, the 50 lines feel somewhat restricting for such a large grid. But as we’ll cover later, you probably won’t even notice the fairly low number of lines.

Winning combinations form when 3+ matching symbols land in a payline. The Gigablox (covered later) greatly help in scoring wins.

The best qualities to this slot include the graphics and animations. Everything from the symbols to the background offer high-quality visuals.

Yggdrasil has done an outstanding job of putting tiny details into the symbols. Meanwhile, a collection of terrifying beast skulls line the reels on both sides.

Hades stands off to the right side with a ball of blue fire in his hands. He also jumps onto the reels to fight various underworld monsters.

A hard rock tune plays throughout the game. The music completes this exciting journey into the Greek underworld.

Hades Gigablox Max Win, Payouts and Symbols

Low pays consist of cards suits, including a club, diamond, heart, and spade. High-paying symbols include four underworld monsters that pay between 4x and 8x your stake for six symbols.

Lucky Neko Gigablox offers a max win worth 6,953x your stake. Hades delivers around the double max win of 11,128x your total bet.

Hades Gigablox RTP, Volatility & Betting Options

Bet sizes run from €0.10 to €100 per spin. The Hades Gigablox RTP is 96.0%, which is a bit less than what Lucky Neko offers (96.4%).

This slot features medium volatility along with a hit rate of 20.5%. Yggdrasil notes that the bonus round hits on 1 out of every 400 spins.

Hades Gigablox Special Features

Hades brings back the same unique Gigablox mechanic that’s seen in Lucky Neko. If you haven’t played the latter, then you may have trouble adjusting to this engine at first. Oversized symbols randomly fall from the top with no rhyme or reason.

Nevertheless, you should be able to pick up what’s happening with a little explanation. The Gigablox engine features at least one large symbol (a.k.a. blox) on every spin. Gigablox symbols range in size from 2x2 to 6x6. You’re obviously hoping for the latter range, so that you can form bigger wins.

While playing, you’ll notice that Hades sometimes gets into an attack position. He then leaps onto the reels to battle monsters in what’s known as the Hades Wild Hunt feature.

This bonus turns all of the monsters that Hades destroys into wild symbols. Paylines are re-evaluated afterward to account for new wins that stem from the wilds.

You trigger free spins by landing 5+ scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. The number of triggering scatters determines the number of free games (e.g. 7 scatters = 7 free spins). Scatter symbols come in blocks, so a 4x4 block, for example, would feature 12 scatters and 12 free spins.

Hades Wild Hunt is active during every free game. Each monster that Hades beats will add +1 to the Multiplier Bar. If Hades defeats a 4x4 block full of monsters, for instance, then 16 points will be added to this bar.

You increase the win multiplier and receive +2 free spins every time that you fill the Multiplier Bar. The win multiplier begins at 1x and increases to 2x, 3x, 5x, and 10x.

Each scatter that lands during the bonus delivers +1 free spin. Therefore, you can keep the bonus round going for quite a while by getting lots of scatters.

Final Thoughts

If there’s one thing that Yggdrasil Gaming knows, it’s dark journeys to hell. They’ve hung their hat on the Vikings Go to Hell series for years. Yggdrasil has successful conjured up the demons again for another masterpiece in Hades Gigablox.

You may not be blown away by the win potential or number of features with this slot. However, you should find more than enough to like about Hades otherwise.

For starters, the graphics and cinematic quality are out of this world. Yggdrasil has spared no detail when designing Hades, the symbols, and the twisted Greek underworld.

The Gigablox mechanism is a success in this game—just like it was with Lucky Neko. However, Hades Gigablox is filled with more excitement and entertainment that Lucky Neko, which is saying a lot.

On paper, the fact that the bonus only comes around on 1 out of every 400 spins sounds frustrating. But this game is one instance where we don’t mind waiting on free spins. The overall presentation, Gigablox, and Hades Wild Hunt keeps us quite entertained during the base game.

In summary, Hades Gigablox is another hit from Yggdrasil. It’s better than Lucky Neko Gigablox in many ways and really takes this mechanism to another level.

Release Date

Hades Gigablox was released on October 23 2020.