- Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Sneak, steal, and shoot your way through a world of pulp adventure in The Lamplighters League! Globetrot across a variety of exciting locales around the world and outwit your enemies in strategic turn-based combat - and, if you play your cards right, you might just save the world.
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Epic, unpretentious, classical in form and resolved.
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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Thumb CultureOct 20235/5 starsI found The Lamplighters League quite challenging with when it came to managing resources and making sure my team survives. The characters are great, and I enjoyed the conversations between them after missions. The levels reuse the same layouts too much, and I don’t like the Undrawn Hand game mechanics. The enemy variety is great and always kept me on my toes. I wish the skill points weren’t shared, but instead, each character had their own. I’m glad the game gives players a way to get dead Agents back because, at the start, I lost a good few in silly ways. The audio is choppy at times when running around missions. I did find it tedious to place characters individually since when I placed one, another had a high chance of being spotted. The devs should implement a manual crouch feature since auto doesn’t always work.
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Gert Lush GamingJim SmaleSep 20239.2/10The atmosphere, the gameplay, and the awesome cast of characters really shine through this absolute gem of a strategy game. A true genre-defining entry and one of the best games this year.
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But Why Tho?Kate SanchezOct 20239/10Thrilling in all the right ways, The Lamplighters League is a love letter to the adventure genre in film. It’s a love letter to rogues and scoundrels that made those stories an essential part of our cultural history.
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EurogamerMatt WalesOct 20233/5Developer Harebrained Schemes returns with an evocative and pulpy tactical adventure, where enjoyable turn-based combat just about offsets some woeful real-time stealth.
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TheSixthAxisAran SuddiOct 20236/10The Lamplighters League doesn't quite live up to its promise and expectations. There's a fun mix of real time exploration and turn-based combat, but it's a step short of the best strategy games of the year – others like Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew have done it better. Given more time and more engaging narrative The Lamplighters League could have been great. It will have to settle for decent at best.
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About the game
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- Harebrained Schemes
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Released
- October 3, 2023
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person, Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 46 h main story
IGDB rating 7.1/10 from 8 ratings.
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