The Lamplighters League review - lightweight strategy with a flavor all of its own
Review info Platform reviewed: PC Available on: PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One Release date: October 3, 2023 After you’ve beat up enough jackbooted thugs in an alleyway, the brilliance of The Lamplighters League reveals itself. The turn-based strategy game comes from Harebrained Schemes, better known these days for their work on stompy mech-’em-up BattleTech , but the scuffles here couldn’t be further from BattleTech’s city-leveling conflicts. Here the fighting jumps from the pages of pulp adventures, where your cast of daring scoundrels biff, pow, and blast baddies in a variety of locations: a winding alleyway, a hotel in the desert, or a snowy forest. While the stakes are the same - the end goal is to save the world from a horrible fate - the methods in which you try to seize victory often involve a poison dagger, a hand grenade, or even just a pair of revolvers. The change is a good one. Bringing the camera in close lets us see the characters, and it’s these that...