In Gates of Heaven, winnings are settled according to the Cluster Pays principle we outlined above, and we’ll reiterate, do not necessarily have to appear on adjacent reels starting from left to right as in so many other crypto slot games. Instead here, there will be a payout even if there are gaps. That is, there only has to be the required number of matches on screen from eight identical symbols upwards to win a cash prize.
So really what we’ve got here is the ability of symbols scattered on screen to form winning combinations. And then the scatter symbol itself of the game, Zeus, which fulfills the traditional role of such a card, being activating the bonus round with as few as four appearing anywhere on the reels (as well as paying out winning combinations).
In other words, most symbols in this game don’t really act like scatters in terms of function, but they do in terms of counting towards a win. This functionality may well be why this game doesn’t have a wild symbol. Since the wild symbol’s job is to close gaps in winning chains, it’s simply not needed with this Cluster Pay setup.