Introduction to Hearts of Venus
Hearts of Venus is a casino slot from Pragmatic Play featuring the Roman goddess of love: Venus. She was one of the most important characters in Roman mythology, often associated with charm, attraction, and the power of romance. Roman mythology is more or less a ripoff of Greek mythology, but Venus actually developed her own significance, which differs from the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Venus was admired by both gods and mortals for her beauty, and although she was married to Vulcan, the god of fire and metalworking, she was also famous for her love affair with Mars, the god of war.
In this game, Venus is portrayed as a woman with long blond hair. She soars next to the reels, just like Zeus in Gates of Olympus, which is built on the same mechanics as this slot.
Theme, Gameplay, and Payouts
Hearts of Venus is a video slot from Pragmatic Play featuring 6 reels with 5 rows each. There’s a scatter pay system, awarding wins whenever 8 or more matching symbols appear anywhere on the grid. The Min.bet is 0.2, and the Max.bet of 240 can be increased to 720 using the Ante Bet. The default RTP is 96.50%, but there are also other versions with RTPs of 95.50% and 94.50%. Hearts of Venus has medium volatility and a max win of 25,000x the bet. The probability of scoring the max win is 1 in 40 million spins, and the Free Spins trigger 1 time in 439 spins, on average. The game’s hit frequency is 28.65%.
Hearts of Venus takes us to a landscape with a pink hue. Bouquets of pink roses grow in the bottom corners, and in the background are some hills and a few white clouds in the blue sky. The six reels in the middle of the screen have a golden frame, and the game’s logo sits on top of them. To the right is a woman soaring in the air, holding a rod with a heart on its top in her right hand. To make a win, you need to land 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on the grid. The game is available on mobile phones, tablets, and desktop computers.
The lower-paying symbols in Hearts of Venus are green, purple, gray, blue, and red gemstones. They pay between 1.5x and 5x the bet for wins of 12 or more symbols. The higher-paying symbols are harps, helmets, pearls, and golden apples. They will give you between 6.25x and 50x the bet for winning combinations of at least 12 symbols. The Wild Symbol substitutes all symbols except the Scatter Symbol.
Special Features & Slot Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Hearts of Venus?
You can win up to 25,000x the bet.
What features are available in the slot Hearts of Venus?
The features are Tumble Feature, Multiplier Spots Feature, Free Spins, Special Bets, and Feature Buy.
Tumble Feature
The symbols that have formed a winning combination vanish after the payment has been made, and other symbols drop down into the empty spaces while new ones fall into place from above. The process goes on until further winning combinations are made. When no more wins are seen, the tumbling process stops, and all the winnings from that spin are then added together and paid.
Multiplier Spots Feature
A multiplier may at any time be randomly assigned to any position on the grid during a spin or a tumble. When a winning symbol blows up at a position that has a multiplier, the multiplier is increased by its original amount. For instance, a x4 multiplier becomes x8, and a x16 multiplier becomes x32.
When a winning combination includes more than one multiplier, their values are summed. The random multipliers can have any of the following values: x2, x4, x8, x16, x32, x64, x128, x256, x512, or x1024.
In the base game, the multipliers that are active remain on the grid until the present tumbling sequence has ended, after which they are removed before the next spin starts.
Free Spins
You trigger the Free Spins feature by landing 3 or more Scatter Symbols anywhere on the grid. You start with 6 spins and a multiplier of x2, x4, x8, or x16, depending on whether you triggered the feature with 3, 4, 5, or 6 Scatter Symbols.
The multipliers stay on the grid for the whole bonus round rather than resetting after each tumble as in the base game. For every three scatter symbols that are collected, the multiplier boost is advanced to the next level in the following sequence: x2, x4, x8, x16, x32, x64, x128, x256, x512, and finally x1024. Each time the multiplier is upgraded, 2 additional free spins are awarded. However, when the multiplier boost reaches x1024, you get 10 extra free spins, and the boost can no longer increase.
The Free Spins round will end when you run out of spins or right away if your total winnings reach the max win of 25,000x the bet.
Special Bets
The Ante Bet costs you 3x the base bet and increases the chances of triggering the Free Spins 10 times. It doesn’t change the payouts on the paytable. The Super Spin 1, 2, and 3 cost 20x, 250x, and 1,000x the bet, respectively. The first one will give you a random multiplier on the grid, while the second and third will give you a multiplier of 32x, respectively 128x.
Feature Buy
You can go straight to the Free Spins for 100x the bet. You can also pay 250x the bet to trigger the Free Spins with 3 or more Scatter Symbols, or 400x the bet for the Free Spins feature starting with an 8x multiplier.
Final Thoughts on Hearts of Venus
Hearts of Venus has borrowed not just a few ideas from Gates of Olympus, and anybody who has played that big hit will certainly feel right at home in this game. The way the wins tumble, the multipliers stick during the bonus round, and the continually increasing multiplier amounts all adhere to a well-known formula. Although Venus has replaced thunderbolts with hearts, the way the game is played remains very much the same.
The game offers several ways to place bets. If you go for the Ante Bet in order to increase your chances of obtaining the bonus or if you select one of the costly Super Spins for immediate action, there are indeed plenty of shortcuts available to you if patience isn't your thing. Just keep in mind that the more excitement you buy, the smaller your wallet will become unless you hit a big win.
The medium volatility surprises us since the previous games in the series are highly volatile. It becomes even more surprising, given the 25,000x max win, which is higher than in other titles. But the max win is very hard to come by, since it only triggers once in 40 million spins, on average.
Hearts of Venus by Pragmatic Play is a well-polished slot that builds on the mechanics of previous games such as Gates of Hades and Gates of Valhalla.
