Paylines
30 paylines (player-selectable 1-30)
Spartians is a slot that commits hard to a single, very weird idea. Green Martian aliens in red-plumed Corinthian helmets. Spears. Shields stamped with Greek letters. All of this on the rusty surface of Mars, with a NASA Curiosity rover trundling past and a 1950s flying saucer drifting in the background. Genii (still wearing the old Saucify badge under the hood) didn't blink. The “300 meets Mars Attacks” mashup goes all the way down to the card royals, which arrive as italic green chrome letters with little star-spark accents instead of plain A/K/Q/J/10.
Mechanically it's a 5×3 grid with 30 fixed-shape paylines, adjustable down to 1 if you want to fiddle. RTP sits at the typical Genii default of 96%, volatility lands somewhere in the medium-to-high range, and bets run from a cent up to $37.50. So the absolute cap is modest, you won't accidentally vaporize a bankroll here.
The Spartian Army Wild is where it earns its keep. In the base game it's stacked two tall and slaps a flat x2 multiplier on any win it joins. Substitutes anything except the scatter. Then comes the genuinely interesting bit, the part you don't see in many older Genii titles: the Wild rearranges itself for Free Spins. On reels 1, 3 and 5 it stays two tall. On reels 2 and 4 it grows to three tall, which on a 3-row grid means the entire reel is Wild. You're basically guaranteed Wild participation on most line wins, and that x2 multiplier never goes away.
Free Spins themselves are simple. Three scatters anywhere gets you 9 spins, four gets 15, five gets 18. Bet is locked, and the round cannot retrigger, which is the one place I'd push back on the design. A retrigger option would've made the asymmetric Wild trick really sing.
Top line pay is 1,000 coins on the Mars Banner, which doubles to 2,000 with a Wild in the mix. The drop-off from five-of-a-kind down to three-of-a-kind on that top symbol is genuinely steep, so most of your damage comes from longer combos sliced through those fat even-reel Wilds.
No buy-bonus, no jackpots, no gamble. Just an honest, cheerful, slightly absurd slot with one clever twist.