The Turn Based Lovers checked out The Lamplighters League:

THE LAMPLIGHTERS LEAGUE – REVIEW

Today many gamers complain about the industry being filled with mostly remakes, remasters, sequels, and various spin-offs of long-established franchises. For the AAA sector it’s indeed true – creating new IPs doesn’t happen often in large and well-known studios lately.

However, recently The Lamplighters League and the Tower at the End of the World was released, and… nothing. Not much hype, not much critical praise, and sales (according to the publisher) are underwhelming. So, are original properties not really in demand? Or there is something else going on?

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All in all, I would recommend this game but only when it’s on sale. If you like movies about Indiana Jones and Mummy, if you’ve already beaten all the aliens in XCOM and Nazis in Commandos, playing this game will scratch your itch in all those types of experiences. It’s just too bad that The Lamplighters League doesn’t master each of those experiences the way certain games do that focus on just one area.

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Patch 1.2 for The Lamplighters League has been released - the patch includes several bugfixes, some AI changes and also interface improvements, among these the main feature off this patch: The Archive, which you can access to look up all the story bits you found througout your playthrough, as well as buff-effects and other mechanics:

The Archives have arrived!

Patch 1.2 - QoL, Performance, and Bug Fixes

Hello, Lamplighters!
The folks here on the HBS team have been hard at work fixing bugs and investigating issues the community has reported! Our top priority is making the experience more stable for players currently experiencing crashes and lost saves. Today’s update includes our progress on that, plus a neat feature, and as many other fixes as we could wrangle. Read more about this after the patch notes!

[DetailedPatch Notes]

Now, the Archives!

There’s a ton of information in this game, from beautifully written missives the Agents can intercept to a variety of powerful buffs and challenging status effects…and it sure would be nice if there was a place to read all of this information outside the tension of combat. Watching amazing gameplay videos in our downtime, we especially felt the need for a glossary of tactical modifiers. So, we needed to build an Archive.

Access the Archives from the World Map menu – check the information menu in the top right of the screen for the new option at the bottom of the list. The default key is C.

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Game Developer reports that The Lamplighters League is being considered as a commercial failure:

Paradox writes off The Lamplighters League as a commercial failure

A week after coming out, Harebrained Schemes' newest strategy title The Lamplighters League is being considered a "big disappointment" in terms of its commercial performance.

The Lamplighters League has only been out for over a week, and Paradox Interactive already considers it a financial loss. On the company's website, the publisher said it would 

In a statement, Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester noted sales for the new title from Harebrained Schemes "has been too weak, which is frankly a big disappointment. Game projects are by their nature always risky, but at the end of the day we haven’t performed at the level we should."

Wester noted that Lamplighters was a "fun game with many strengths," and that it was doing "positively player numbers" thanks to launching on Xbox Game Pass. The strategy game is currently available for Xbox Series X|S and PC. 

"It is painful," concluded Wester, "but makes us more eager to roll up our sleeves and do better."

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Mortismal Gaming checked out The Lamplighters League:

The Lamplighters League - Review After 100%

The Lamplighters League will be released today - Mortismal Gaming checked it out:

The Lamplighters League - First Impressions

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ACG reviewed The Lamplighters League:

Lamplighters League Review - The Worst Enemy is the Game Itself

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IGN checked out The Lamplighters League:

The Lamplighters League Review

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The devs play an assassination mission:

The Lamplighters League - Devs Play | Assassination | Gameplay (Purnima, Lateef, Celestine)

Join Harebrained Schemes Studio Operations Manager Brian Poel and Senior Narrative Designer Andrew McIntosh take on an assassination mission on The Lamplighters League with agents Purnima, Lateef, and Celestine!

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Couchpotato spotted some previews for The Lamplighters League:

Rock Paper Shotgun: The Lamplighters League might be about to rip up the XCOM rulebook

TSA: The Lamplighters League is a desperate turn-based race to save the world

PC Gamer: The Lamplighters League takes a shot at approachable turn-based tactics that won't bury you in percentage symbols

The Lamplighters League will be released on October 3:

The Lamplighters League - Release Date Reveal Trailer

Out October 3rd! 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.

TSA checked out The Lamplighters League:

The Lamplighters League Preview – Can scoundrels and rogues save the world?

One of the first things that stands out about The Lamplighters League is its pulpy movie serial tone and style. On the one hand you have the 1930s setting, with all the film noir inspirations and character designs that this brings with it, but on the other, you have characters with special supernatural abilities, feeling a little reminiscent of The Minutemen from Watchmen. It’s an intriguing blend that immediately drew me in with the camera cuts and angles found in the opening cutscene.

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Couchpotato spotted dev diary #7 for The Lamplighters League:

Dev Diary #7: Upgrades and Customizing your Campaign

Hello again! By now I hope you’re starting to get a sense of what The Lamplighters League is all about… You’ve heard about some of the Agents you’ll recruit and send on missions. You’ve learned about Real-time infiltration and takedowns. You’ve read about the Banished Court and their otherworldly monsters, as well as the tools and mechanics you’ll use to fight them.

This is all part of the core experience, and your choices about what Agents you recruit and which ones you choose to upgrade are at the core of how you grow and shape your campaign with your time and investment.

However, all this is just a baseline, the first coat of paint on a set of miniatures you’re building for your adventure. Yet to come are the fine details, the metallic paint and drybrushing… additional choices and systems that make your campaign different each time. These options let you focus on the different strengths of your agent and help you build your own playstyle… And maybe, just maybe you’ll give your agents new capabilities you never expected.

Hi, I’m Patrick Lipo, Lead Designer on The Lamplighters League and with me again is Senior Designer and combat master Campbell Tran. We’re here to talk about the advancement arcs you’ll experience over the course of your search for The Tower at the End of the World.

The Undrawn Hand, or This is Not a Card Game

So to recap, every one of your characters has their own suite of abilities and their own upgrade path. You can also unlock perks and equip gear and consumables from your allies and Captain Nicky. Now, beyond all that you have The Undrawn Hand, your ace in the hole for fine-tuning how you’ll take on the Court.

The Undrawn Hand is a deck of cards that has the uncanny ability to change a person’s fate. It is the signature relic of the Lamplighters, filled with cards that look blank when drawn but show themselves for Lamplighters that tempt fate in service of the fight against evil. With it, you will create builds unique to your friends playing Lamplighters, with opportunities to unlock the most potent of combinations.

If it needed to be said, this is still a classic turn-based tactical game with movement and combat mechanics in the style that you are familiar with. Here’s how the Undrawn Hand comes into play:

When you complete a mission, you will return with new blank cards: some are acquired in the field, and some are granted as perks from the Cartomancer’s upgrades. These cards will reveal their contents to you once they are drawn, after which it’s up to you to choose how to play them on the Tableaus of the Agents who were present in the mission.

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GamerHubTV checked out The Lamplighters League:

Lamplighters League - A Turn Based Occult RPG Where Indiana Jones Meets The Mummy

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Couchpotato spotted dev diary #5 for The Lamplighters League:

Dev Diary #5: Turn-Based Combat

Hello everyone! I’m Brad Kraeling, a Senior Gameplay Engineer for The Lamplighters League. I’m super honored to be able to take you on a tour of a few of the systems that make our Turn-Based combat full of exciting choices, challenges, and strategies.

Time to Go Loud!
In our last dev diary we talked about Real-Time Infiltration and how you can shape the conditions of the fight through stealth and trickery. Now let's take a look at what happens when it's time to "go loud:" where the guns come out and the fight begins!

Your Agents, Your Tactics
Action Points: During Turn-Based Combat, you take control of the Lamplighter Agents and their unique abilities. Every player turn each Agent on the team starts with two Action Points (AP) These points are used to do a variety of different things in any order you’d like!

Examples:

• You could use one point to advance towards the enemy and then another point to shoot at an enemy!
• You could use one point to retreat into cover and another to reload.
• You can use a special ability and follow it up with Signature ability!

Turn Order: Full Flexibility
Each Agent doesn’t have to use all their AP in a fixed order one after the other. You can switch between Agents whenever you’d like and you’re given full flexibility with how you’d like to execute your Turn Order strategy. So if you’d like Ingrid to run to cover within melee range of a group of goons, and then have Eddie shoot them, and then have Ana Sofia retreat into cover and buff her allies before switching back to Ingrid to use her Signature on the goons before finally switching back to Eddie to reload in preparation for the next turn, you can! The freedom to decide the exact order you’d like things to happen really allows for interesting strategies to emerge and it can also really help change the tide of a battle that isn’t quite going according to plan.

Unique Special Abilities
Each Agent has unique special abilities that act as different tools in Combat. We’ve talked about some of the great abilities player Agents have in some past diaries. It’s been great to see all the theories / potential combo ideas folks have. (Seriously big shout out to the YouTubers that have paused at basically every shot of the announcement trailer and Gameplay First Look in search for more info – y’all are awesome ). I won’t be focusing too much on specific abilities in this diary but I will say that each Agent being so different gives tons of opportunities to set up really cool plays and lots of combat variety depending on your playstyle. In future diaries we’ll be diving into more details on Agent abilities and how different characters can synergize with one another to create effective combinations.

Ideal Conditions
Agents have different Range distances and conditions where they are most effective. For example, the sniper Purnima will have a much greater Hit Chance to successfully shoot a target that is farther away from her than one that is super close. Additionally, her passive, Dead Eye, gives her a bonus Crit Chance to deal bonus damage if she is positioned above her targets. In contrast, Agents like Ingrid are melee units, and where they do the most damage is right up close and personal. Learning each Agent’s most ideal fighting conditions is key for unlocking their full battle potential – and it is really fun managing different individual Agent strategies while also combining their strategies to work as a team.

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Mortismal Gaming checked out The Lamplighters League:

The Lamplighter's League - Initial Gameplay Details

The Lamplighters League has been announced:

The Lamplighters League - Official Announcement Trailer

Check out the announcement trailer for The Lamplighters League, an upcoming game featuring a mix of real-time infiltration, turn-based tactical combat, and a character-driven story of adventure and intrigue. Sneak, steal, and shoot your way through a world of pulp adventure.
The Lamplighters League is 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.