Review - There is something about the story and tone of The Lamplighters League that has pulled me in - and it will do you too.
"Help the Lamplighters League, as they try stop three notorious organisations from destroying the world. Can our band of unlikely hero's win?" Kyle @ Thumb Culture
I saw an article about how this game was a massive disappointment in terms of sales. I’d never heard of it so thought I’ll give it a quick go and probably delete it. Can’t stop playing, it’s actually excellent in my opinion. Like xcom but without the boring research and base building bits and with the real time movement sections between battles that really makes a nice change from xcom. Love it and agree 9/10-10/10 from me
I wasn’t gonna play this after the horrible reviews but maybe I’ll give it a try
A recently-released day one Xbox Game Pass game is unfortunately labeled a 'big disappointment' by its own publisher.
This article is a bit hard to understand so here are the original sources:
https://www.paradoxinteract...
Basically, the game called The Lamplighters League was released on 03/10 for $50 and it's considerably a commercial failure by Paradox. The game did optimistic numbers on Gamepass but did not move enough units to justify its cost, generating a 22M write-down for them.
From what I see about it, the issue was likely a lack of planning as the amount of money they got for releasing on GP was not enough to offset the full cost of development and this is something that you probably want if your game will be only available on platforms that have access to GP (PC and Xbox) and is going to be released in a very busy time.
All I can say is that it's a niche game genre. It's not that easy to pick up the controller and start playing. You have to understand the mechanics and that takes time. Fewer people are interested.
It's a niche Indie game that didn't really get any marketing push & if anyone did watch any trailers about this game more than likely most had no interest in buying including myself.