Colt Lightning Inferno

Colt Lightning Inferno is a 5x4 slot from Play’n GO, released on 7 May 2026, running 1,024 ways at an RTP of 96.20% with high volatility and a ceiling of 50,000x the stake. Four jackpots run down the left edge, and unlike most of the ladders in this category they are expressed as multipliers rather than cash.

A Desert At Dusk

The reels hang in a frame of lashed branches against a purple evening sky, with saguaro cactus in the foreground and mountains behind. A burning red orb hovers above the jackpot plaques, pulsing.

The symbols are desert animals – eagle, lynx, iguana, wolf, horse – over card ranks, and every winning symbol is wrapped in crackling purple lightning rather than the usual glow. It is a genuinely striking effect and it makes the ways wins readable at a glance.

Four Jackpots, As Multipliers

The ladder reads GRAND X1000, MAJOR X250, MINOR X25 and MINI X10.

Writing them as multipliers rather than cash amounts is the right way round, and it is worth appreciating why. A fixed pot of, say, 20,000 is worth a thousand times a 20 stake and only twenty times a 1,000 stake; a jackpot written as X1000 is worth a thousand times the stake whatever you bet.

At the Bet of 100.00 running through these captures, the four pots are worth 100,000, 25,000, 2,500 and 1,000 – and they would scale exactly in proportion at any other stake.

Two Of A Kind Already Pays

The paytable holds a detail that changes how the whole game reads: the animals pay from two of a kind, not three.

The Colt – the palomino horse – pays 800 for five, 200 for four, 100 for three and 40 for two. Against the 100.00 stake that is 8x, 2x, 1x and 0.4x.

On a 1,024-ways layout, paying from two means an enormous number of small combinations are live on every spin. That is why the footer in the captures keeps announcing “2 WAYS WON” and “4 WAYS WON” for wins worth one or two times the stake: many tiny pieces rather than one good line.

The Colt And The Fire Colt

The neatest piece of design here is a symbol that exists in two versions.

The Colt pays 800 / 200 / 100 / 40 and, in the rules screen’s own words, “appears during base game only”. The Fire Colt – the same horse with a mane of flame – pays 1600 / 400 / 200 / 80 and “appears during FREE SPINS only”.

The top symbol is worth exactly double inside the bonus. That is a cleaner way of making free spins matter than adding a multiplier on top, because it lifts the ceiling of the round without changing how anything is calculated.

What The Ways Return

Five screenshots catch a paid base spin at the 100.00 bet: 100, 150, 300, 360 and 420. That is 1x, 1.5x, 3x, 3.6x and 4.2x the stake.

The footer breaks each one down. A 420 total is announced as “300 – 2 ways won” plus the remainder; a 300 total as “240 – 4 ways won”. Stacked eagles and iguanas filling a reel are what produce these, with the occasional WILD tile in the middle rows.

Note the shape of it: five paid spins, none above 4.2x, on a game advertising fifty thousand times the stake. The distance between those two numbers is the entire proposition.

Hold N’ Load

The bonus is announced on a lightning-framed panel headed HOLD N’ LOAD, showing three coins – one marked GRAND, one X5, one with a question mark – above the line “Random X2 MULTIPLIER boosts the prize!” and an instruction to press spin to begin.

So the round deals in three kinds of coin: jackpot coins, multiplier coins and unknowns, with a random doubling laid over the top.

The Tower

The round itself abandons the 5x4 grid for a tall narrow board with a chain-hung ladder of numbers beside it reading 5, 10, 15 and 20 from the bottom up, and a RE-SPIN indicator at the top right.

The capture shows four coins locked on the board carrying X2, X4, X4 and X2. The numbers on the chains are collection thresholds – reach five coins, then ten, then fifteen, then twenty, and the board grows or the ladder advances.

Two things follow from that. The multiplier coins stack up rather than replacing one another, and the jackpots are won by filling the board rather than by landing a single lucky symbol. A 50,000x ceiling from a paytable topping out at 16x has to be assembled, coin by coin, inside this screen.

RTP And Volatility

At 96.20% the return is a little above average, and the volatility is rated high. Play’n GO usually ships several RTP configurations of the same game to different operators, so it is worth checking the figure shown in the rules of whichever casino you play at.

The maths shape is the familiar modern one: a base game that pays constantly in fractions of the stake, and everything worth having locked inside a round you have to be dealt into.

Who It Is For

This suits players who like ways games with a lot of small movement and want a hold-and-load round with real jackpots attached. The two-of-a-kind paytable keeps the screen busy, the lightning effect is excellent, and expressing the jackpots as multipliers is fairer to small-stake players than the fixed pots most rivals use.

The reservation is the gap. Five captured spins between 1x and 4.2x, against a 50,000x headline, tells you exactly how rarely the tower screen delivers what it advertises. Enjoy the base game for what it is, and treat the GRAND as scenery.

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