JILI GAMES Starlight Princess vs Gates of Olympus: Same Engine?

Starlight Princess and Gates of Olympus were both released by Pragmatic Play in 2021, and the studio’s published figures for them are the same on every line. That answers the question in the title, with one qualification: the sheets describe the maths, and the art is the part that changes. It is one of six pairs on the slot comparison on studio sheets page.

Starlight Princess vs Gates of Olympus side by side

Grid and pay structure

Both games use a 6x5 grid and pay by count. Eight or more matching symbols anywhere pay, the winners are removed, and the grid refills until nothing pays. There are no paylines and no ways count in either, so the pay rule you learn on one transfers to the other without change.

Feature mechanics and multipliers

Both let independent multiplier symbols up to 500x land and combine over a tumble sequence. Free spins trigger on four or more scatters in each. Pragmatic Play’s listings show no feature on either sheet that the other lacks.

The practical result is that a cascade can resolve at several hundred times the stake in one game and the identical cascade can pay almost nothing in the same game. That behaviour belongs to the engine, and the engine is shared.

Published maximum

Both list 5,000x. As arithmetic only, on a ₱100 stake that ceiling is ₱500,000. The volatility label is the same too, which leaves nothing in the published figures to rank one above the other.

RTP and what Pragmatic Play says about it

Pragmatic Play publishes a single 96.50% figure for each. Third-party records document three operator-selectable configurations for Gates of Olympus, 96.50%, 95.51% and 94.50%, and for Starlight Princess as well, with 96.50% the top of that set. The info screen inside the casino you sign up with shows which configuration applies to the game you open.

Where the sheets show a difference

1. Grid: 6x5 in both, so no difference.
2. RTP: 96.50% in both, so no difference.
3. Maximum win: 5,000x in both, so no difference.

The only differences are on the surface: the theme, the symbols and the art, while all nine rows of the table above match. For a pair where the sheets do separate, read Gates of Olympus versus its 1000 edition, which changes the multiplier ceiling, the maximum and the volatility label. A pair from another studio, Money Coming against Crazy 777, shows the opposite case, where a shared grid still produces different ceilings.

Who each one suits

1. Choose by theme. With every published figure equal, the sheets give no reason to prefer one.
2. Budget the same way for both: a high label means longer gaps and results concentrated in rarer cascades, so set the session limit before the first spin.
3. Treat having both open as one game with two skins, not as a way to spread risk.

Open the Starlight Princess slot page or the Gates of Olympus figures sheet for each title’s own figures.