Pragmatic Play Puts Venus Centre Stage in New Slot
Pragmatic Play’s latest release trades thunderbolts for rose petals. Hearts of Venus puts the Roman goddess of love front and centre rather than leaning on the usual pantheon of warrior gods, and wraps her in a pink-and-purple grid built around a growing multiplier system that fans of the studio’s Sugar Rush series will recognise instantly.
What’s been released
Pragmatic Play has released Hearts of Venus, a new slot game inspired by Greek Mythology, and where most mythology-themed slots prefer to focus on the main deities, Hearts of Venus breaks the mold, putting Venus herself at its forefront. The studio transports players to a romantic divine realm set against glowing pink skies and lush cherry blossom landscapes. Venus hovers next to the reels, benevolently extending her power to the players.
Hearts of Venus plays across a 6-reel, 5-row grid with Scatter paylines paying left to right. Symbols pay anywhere, as long as at least eight of a kind are present, ensuring easier hits. The game arrived on Pragmatic Play’s roster at the end of August, giving UK operators running the supplier’s content the chance to add it to their lobbies straight away.
How it plays
Players are tasked with collecting various gemstones, rose-decorated helmets, pearls, harps, and golden apples, with Venus herself appearing as the game’s Scatter symbol. The slot features a tumble mechanic that removes winning symbols from the board, allowing new ones to fall in their place and therefore increasing the winning potential by allowing for multiple wins per spin.
The headline feature is the random multiplier system. The Multiplier Spots feature randomly grants a multiplier of up to a whopping 1,024x to a random position, and these multipliers apply to any win involving them. Rather than the multiplier always sitting under a winning symbol, as in some of the studio’s older releases, the spots land unpredictably across the grid, which several early reviewers noted gives the game a different feel from the Sugar Rush template it otherwise echoes.
The free spins mode is triggered by Venus-themed scatter symbols, with 3, 4, 5, or 6 such symbols awarding 6 free spins with a multiplier of 2x, 4x, 8x, and 16x, respectively. Players can also buy Super Free Spins with a starting multiplier of 8x, as well as Random Free Spins with a random scatter trigger and an all-or-nothing gamble option that allows players to upgrade the feature. For those who prefer to skip the build-up, bonus buy pricing tiers let players jump straight into the feature round at varying cost multiples of their stake.
On the numbers side, the game sits at 96.5 per cent RTP with medium volatility and a maximum win potential of 25,000 times the stake, positioning it as a mid-range option rather than one of Pragmatic Play’s ultra-high-variance releases.
Where it fits
Hearts of Venus lands as part of a packed run of Pragmatic Play autumn releases, sitting alongside recent launches such as Eastern Fury and Bubble Up! as the studio continues its rapid release schedule across UK-facing casino sites. The mythology theme is well-trodden ground for Pragmatic Play, whose catalogue already includes titles built around Greek and Roman deities, but the decision to build a game specifically around Venus rather than a headline god like Zeus marks a slight shift in the studio’s usual approach to the genre.
For UK players who have grown used to the studio’s scatter-pays, tumbling grids and stacking multipliers, the format will feel familiar, while the randomised placement of the multiplier spots gives it enough of a twist to stand apart from earlier releases in the same family. Expect it to appear across the usual roster of UK-licensed sites carrying Pragmatic Play content in the coming weeks.
