The Lamplighters League Review (Steam)

For this The Lamplighters League Review, we recruit a team of misfits 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.

The Lamplighters League Review Pros:

• Remarkable graphics.
• 15.96GB download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Full controller support.
• Graphics settings – quality preset, fullscreen mode, and resolution, frame rate, v-sync, anti-aliasing, bloom, motion blur, depth of field, screen-space reflections, screen space ambient occlusion, lighting, shadows, volumetric lighting, texture, geometry, tessellation, and visual effects quality.
• Text size slider.
• Strategy adventure gameplay.
• Boot-up options – Paradox launcher or the game.
• Paradox account integrated.
• Three difficulties – the explorer, the adventurer, and the survivor.
• Custom game settings – introductory missions, system tutorials, agent loss, meta-game difficulty, combat difficulty, and phenomena difficulty.
• Rendered film-like cutscenes.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
• You can skip the cutscenes.
• Can rebind controls.
• Out of combat, you have real-time movement.
• Group and ungroup characters at will. When grouped everyone will follow you and not be seen by enemy radars but ungrouped will be seen.
• In out-of-combat movement characters all have unique personas like thieves can unlock locked doors and others can steal.
• Save when you want.
• Recon mode lets you explore an area freely with the camera and click on people to find out information.
• You can avoid fights by sneaking.
• Full 3D game with 360-degree camera control.
• Combat is your turn-based strategy affair like an X Com.
• You can swap characters on the fly.
• Aiming a weapon will show your chances of hitting and missing.
• Dots show on the map for Interactive points.
• Excellent soundtrack.
• Slams can be performed by a bruiser and with this you can take out multiple enemies at once. The drawback is you only get X amount of them per active mission.
• It has a really good French spy film vibe to it all.
• You can see enemy circles that once entered will make them suspicious of you.
• The turn-based button allows you to set up an ambush and then start a fight.
• Excellent animations and takedown sequences.
• Fog of war is in play so you can’t see everything at once.
• Find lore and collectibles around the world.
• Many ways to finish the mission.
• You can use items and healing in and out of combat.
• Optional areas will appear and are much harder self-contained sections but they also house better loot.
• Environmental hazards play a big part like setting oil on fire, explosive barrels, or even electrifying water.
• Tall grass can make you a harder target.
• Full cover system in play from partial to full cover.
• Scions are stronger enemies and ones that can not always be beaten so you may have to run away!
• Enemies can randomly drop loot.
• Excellent level design.
• High-up shots grant bonuses.
• Stress builds and once full that character has a stress break meaning they flee or shoot at other friendlies.
• Uses all the usual suspects like poison, bleeding, blindness, etc.
• Mortal danger is the state a character goes into on zero health. Another ally has to reach them and stabilize them within three turns or they die.
• At game over you can load the latest save, last checkpoint, give up, or load a particular save file.
• Playing the game or a section as a pacifist makes it one of the best strategy puzzle games I have played in a while.
• Del Vastos Landing is your safe haven where you go in between missions.
• The world map is where you choose missions.
• Main and optional side missions.
• Agents have four types of equipment – armor, accessories, weapon mods, and pocket items.
• Earn exp and level up to get skill points to put into a skill tree. Every agent has their own skill tree.
• The supplier menu at your safe haven is a shop to tool up.
• Before a mission, you can select your team and their equipment, all with a cool plane backdrop.
• Honestly feels like a film.
• Acolytes are crazy kamikaze style enemies.
• I love the banter and interaction between all the characters.
• Memorable characters.
• Scourge enemies are shock Troopers and use flanking maneuvers.
• You can find supplies in missions, they don’t take up inventory space or an item slot.
• Vaulting is available to everyone.
• Every encounter just feels fun to play.
• Agents attacks and abilities are all governed by action points (AP) and some attacks can earn you bonus AP.
• When it clicks it’s almost magical.
• If an enemy has the key or objective you need they get marked.
• Enforcers are the heavies of the game with automatic weapons and satchel charges.
• Pick up special items that can reset cooldowns.
• Dripping in style and atmosphere.
• Set pieces usually trigger a handy flyover of the area.
• The Undrawn Hand mechanic is where each agent has blank cards, as you find/earn experiences in a mission it creates a card and these once equipped change how they fight.
• You can discard/break down unwanted cards for ink that is used to power unit cards.
• Recruitment missions net you a new agent and they get extra skill points to catch up with the rest of the team.
• Sentinel enemies are your snipers.
• Just one more go is a strong pull here.
• Missions always take 3 agents.
• You can send additional agents out on search expeditions.
• Gets very addictive.
• The group of agents even when a new one comes in, feels like a family.
• Intel is needed to send agents out on search expeditions.
• The majority of the time you get told what the mission reward is or what you will unlock.
• Multiple choice on the mission selects for the one you don’t select disappears for a time.
• It’s the whole atmosphere and vibe the game gives off, it is intoxicating and inviting.
• I always wanted to see what’s next, what will this new member add to my game.

The Lamplighters League Review Cons:

• Either a real system hog or badly optimized on PC for my i7 RTX cannot get it running nicely.
• To share items you have to drop said item and then the character who wants it picks it up.
• The camera goes crazy in some of the action shots.
• Had the game get stuck on combat turns and had no way to fix it but quit the game and restarted.
• When using an environment like up high all the abilities and movement mess up like not registering properly.
• You never feel like you know everything you need to.
• Saving and loading isn’t as fast as you would like.
• The inventory system always feels like it’s clunky, not always ideal.
• Cannot do any management stuff like reloading guns etc.
• After fights, it’s always a case of regrouping and if you forget then you have some backtracking to do.
• You forget constantly that it doesn’t autosave so you end up replaying huge chunks of the mission.
• Skill points are shared among the agents.
• I don’t like how I’m forced to buy all skill tree unlocks so I get access to the next tier in some places.
• Enemy locations or alerts are very short.
• The difficulty regardless of setup is up and down.
• Slow starter with a lot to take in.
• It really needs a quick save and a quick load.
• No way to speed up the enemy’s turn.
• You don’t see a move order/list.
• Have been shot and shot through containers and walls.
• Never sure when it has actually been saved.

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The Lamplighters League:

Official website.

Developer: Harebrained Schemes

Publisher: Paradox Interactive

Store Links –

Steam