Evolution has announced the launch of Lightning Storm, its most ambitious online live game show to date.

Lightning Storm leverages a host of innovations introduced by Evolution’s live game show category and features a DigiWheel-based main game and five bonus games.

“Lightning Storm is by far our biggest, most ambitious and technologically advanced game yet,” said Evolution chief product officer Todd Haushalter. “This is our fifth generation of big wheel game shows and it incorporates learnings from all our prior game shows.

“Our DigiWheel hardware platform is a big part of the Lightning Storm fun, not to mention the unique blend of live action, RNG and augmented reality.”

Evolution debuted its live game show category with the launch of its Dream Catcher money wheel game back in 2017. This was followed by Evolution’s Lightning Roulette and Lightning family of games, the first online game shows to blend live and RNG gameplay, as well as other successful game shows such as Crazy Time and Funky Time.

The supplier’s latest release, Lightning Storm, unleashes a unique mix of instant payouts, initial multipliers, and bonus games packed with powered-up multipliers.

Amidst a dark, mad-scientist laboratory-style setting, players are immersed in weird and wonderful experiments and challenges as they chase supercharged, multiplied winnings.

The action begins with the live host spinning a 39-segment DigiWheel for the chance of instant cash wins or access to one of five bonus games – Hot Spot, Monster Mash, Battery Charger, Fireball, and Lighting Storm – each with guaranteed multipliers.

In these bonus games players can guess the hottest spot on a giant interactive multiplier wall, create a Frankenstein-inspired monster from body parts that carry multipliers, supercharge their multipliers via a conveyor belt of batteries, or launch a Fireball onto a multiplier grid to ramp up the excitement still further.

Ultimately, players can see their winnings potentially jolt to up to 20,000x their bet in the striking finale that is the Lightning Storm bonus game.

Haushalter added: “And, wow, those five unbelievably varied and entertaining bonus games! Each of those alone is like building an entire game by itself. I’m in awe of this game and all the work and talent that have gone into creating it – game development, technical and math know-how, machine shop skills for the creation of the unique, retro-futuristic lab-style settings and mad machines… It all comes together so well and I feel that players are going to be blown away by Lightning Storm!”

Shares in Evolution AB (STO:EVO) were trading 0.24 per cent higher at SEK1,034.50 per share in Stockholm Wednesday morning.