Platforms
- PCOct 03, 20237.2playscore7.49 Critics6.6356 Players
- Xbox Series X|SOct 03, 2023NAplayscoreNA0 Critics5.2538 Players
15 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- The Lamplighters League's approach to mixing real-time and turn-based tactical gameplay is enjoyable, and its charming misfits make banter a delight. If it can fix its technical issues, it has a chance to be a hit.
Alyssa Rochelle Payne · Oct 13, 2023 Reviewed on PCRead full review - The 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.
Aran Suddi · Oct 02, 2023 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - The game has so many aspects that you don’t see in many turn-based combat games, with the chance to play your turn in any order you like and without fear that attacking an enemy will end your turn was a literal game changer for me because it allowed me to get the most out of each character on my team.
Chelsea Beardsmore · Oct 02, 2023 Reviewed onRead full review - The Lamplighters League is a stylish and smart turn-based adventure from a team that absolutely knows its way around this sort of tactical action affair. There's plenty to like about this game's melding of XCOM-styled combat with a tarot card system that gives you lots of variables to play with as you build out your team of misfits and rogues.
PJ O’Reilly · Sep 30, 2023 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - I am not normally a fan of this genre, but there is something about the story and tone of The Lamplighters League that has pulled me in – and it will do you too. Get used to the gameplay, the possibilities and the strategies at play and this is a game that becomes highly addictive.
Gareth Brierley · Sep 30, 2023 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - The Lamplighters League attempts to deviate from tradition, promoting creativity over power, but ultimately falls short. However, its simplicity puts it into the more approachable realms of turn-based tactical games and is a great choice for anyone looking to try the genre for the first time.
Paul Kelly · Sep 28, 2023 Reviewed on PCRead full review - The only other flaw to the combat of The Lamplighters League is the limited camera control. Strategic combat requires a good overview of the battlefield, and with the lack of any camera zoom or control over the viewing angle, you are stuck with a static isometric view of the fighting. You can rotate and scroll the map, but keeping track of a large map without any extra controls is cumbersome. It’s not enough to turn me away from recommending The Lamplighters League to any avid turn-based combat fan, but it is definitely a big miss.
Mitch Gassner · Sep 28, 2023 Reviewed on PCRead full review - That's a shame because Lamplighters mostly manages its turn-based and real-time dichotomy quite neatly. Its problems aren’t in the core concept, but in placing breadth over depth, content over refinement, which leaves both turn-based and real-time elements lacking the staying power of their more dedicated inspirations. In trying to offer something for everyone, The Lamplighters League might not fully satisfy anyone at all.
Jon Bailes · Sep 28, 2023 Reviewed on PCRead full review - As adventures go, The Lamplighters League really works, but prepare yourself for a steep challenge going in. The characters are fun and the set-up is charming if unoriginal, but I got so hung up on the difficulty that it was hard to fully enjoy it and I had to really force myself to keep going at a few points. And even though the difficulty is purely by design, I couldn’t help but get stressed out while playing.
Mick Fraser · Sep 28, 2023 Reviewed onRead full review - At launch, I cannot recommend The Lamplighters League on Xbox. It runs terribly, while looking ugly, and is a broken and buggy mess. Once this game is patched up and fixed though, it’s a gem. Great gameplay, a deep meta-game, intriguing story, and one of the best videogame soundtracks I’ve ever heard will be there waiting for you (and hopefully still in Game Pass).
Jesse Norris · Sep 28, 2023 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review
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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 was 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.
Developer: Harebrained Schemes