The rest of the RPS Treehouse might be fully engrossed in Baldur’s Gate 3 at the moment, but the main thing that’s been on my mind for the last couple of weeks is stealthy strategy games. Primarily, the exceedingly excellent Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, but also Harebrained Scheme’s upcoming turn-based tactics ’em up, The Lamplighters League, a game I’ve been quietly looking forward to ever since it was announced earlier this year.
Specifically, I’ve been playing through a handful of missions from the middle of The Lamplighters League’s campaign, getting to grips with its full roster of agents and their unique set of skills. It continues to be just as stylish as the opening mission I played in May, but I’m not gonna lie. I’ve had quite a bit of whiplash coming straight from Shadow Gambit into this, but even if I’d arrived fresh and green, I don’t think even all my years of tactics playing and XCOM-liker-liking would have been enough to prepare me for just how gosh darn difficult it is.