The Lamplighters League
Harebrained Schemes · 2023 · Story Rich, Adventure, Turn-Based Combat, RPG, Strategy
PC
Mostly Positive72% · 693
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About The Lamplighters League
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Recruit a ragtag team of rogues and scoundrels to stop a sinister cult's world domination plot through a mix of real-time sneaking, turn-based tactical combat, and globe-trotting 1930s adventures. Every misfit brings unique abilities and personalities to the fight, making strategy inseparable from the character-driven story of intrigue and adventure.
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.
Harebrained Schemes, the creators of The Shadowrun Trilogy and BATTLETECH, bring you an all-new world set in an alternate 1930s, where a tyrannical cult called the Banished Court stands on the cusp of world domination. For millennia, all that stood between this sinister cabal and their plans were a band of heroic scholars known as the Lamplighters League.
Unfortunately, the best of the best are all gone, so now it's up to the best of the worst.
Recruit a team of misfits and scoundrels with unique abilities and unforgettable personalities, and chase the Banished Court to the ends of the earth in a mix of real-time infiltration, turn-based tactical combat, and a character-driven story of adventure and intrigue.
Strategy Meets Story, in Style
- Control a team of unique, dynamic characters and get to know their signature tactical abilities and roles in the team. Learn their stories and the world they inhabit by taking them on missions - every misfit brings their own style to the fight through unique moves that can turn the tide of combat.
- Explore a variety of thrilling locales and survey the battlefield before things heat up: sneak past enemies in real-time infiltration gameplay, pick off the stragglers quickly and quietly, and position your squad to get an edge for the fight.
- Use every advantage and dirty trick your agents have up their sleeves in exciting, turn-based combat. Add advanced abilities, gear, and augmentations to your agents to keep pace with the growing threat of the Banished Court!
Race Against the Countdown to Doomsday
- Chase the Banished Court through an alternate-history world of the 1930s, from dockyards and deserts to jungles both urban and wild. Manage your choices at a global level and try to prevent your enemy from advancing their twisted schemes!
- Recruit new allies from the best of the worst: scour the globe for outlaws and outcasts and bring them onto your side before the Banished Court catches them first!
- Every mission earns your team new resources and grows their abilities - but be careful, stress and injury can take their toll!
Can you prevent the Banished Court from reshaping the world to their twisted will? Find out in… The Lamplighters League and the Tower at the End of the World!
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Has been on my radar for a while, actaully got around to trying it and i have to say it's a pleasure to play. Oozing personality, a fantastic indiana jones mixed with Hellboy vibe to it. Combat is a pleasure as you have a realtime scout mode and the turn based combat mode. Voice acting and banter is very fitting. Soundtrack has some fantasticly fitting bangers The card perk system is a great way to encourage using all operatives and is another intereesting layer. Controls take a little getting used to but do persevere. The only downside so far is that you cannot sell equipment. Not a big deal as i found myself dipping into my consumable reserves pretty often but i have a few tier 1 nonconsumables just laying there now i have Tier 2.2 found this helpful
It's not a bad game. Is it great? No, but it might have been with some updates. IMPORTANT: There is a pretty crippling memory leak. I need to quit to desktop and restart it about every forty-five minutes or so. The game will start to stutter and slow down, panning the camera becomes a nightmare. Closing and restarting "fixes" it, but that's a workaround, not a solution. I'm trying to decide if I have the fortitude to keep going, or if it's time to move on.1 found this helpful
Got this game on console when released, wasnt able to finish it due to bugs and crashes. Came back YEARS later, purchased ALL the content and started fresh.... only to find i still cannot finish the game due to bugs and crashes....1 found this helpful
While the game was not commercially successful, it definitely scratched my x-com itch. Great characters and challenging gameplay. While not nearly as "deep" as X-com, it was a blast to play this game.1 found this helpful
Just finished my first quite thorough playthrough (55 hours). This game is good but it felt like it needed 6 more months in the cooker to be perfect. The aesthetics, voice acting, plot, dialogue, characters, early and very late game play are all excellent. This between-the-wars era is criminally underutilised in games and movies and the setting is very well realised here. I especially liked the undrawn hand mechanic, both cosmetically and gameplay wise. Learning the synergies between your agents is fun at first and the (very) late game power spike is great fun. What's lacking is mostly the mid-game. The maps are quite repetitive tactically, though there is a lot of love and attention to detail in each aesthetic. Your agents basically have 4 abilities each and as they level up those just get better, so your game play loop gets established early and remains the same for 25 hours or so of play time until you unlock AP-Maxxing at the end and suddenly have new strats. Similar situation with the enemies - all types pop up early and then just scale up. I would have preferred less scaling and higher level enemies to appear later and be buffer, almost like mini-bosses, with hordes of th…
I like the story and the stealth/recon before the tactical combat is interesting and challenging.
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