You might be able to do a mission fully in stealth mode or weave in and out of stealth and turn-based combat instead though, and this level of freedom makes Lamplighters League a truly dynamic experience. You can set up traps, pick off enemies, and put each character in their perfect position before going loud and entering turn-based combat. How Lamplighters League seamlessly lets you move your agents and scope out an area before a fight in real-time is brilliant. That’s not to say Lamplighters League isn’t original, it’s actually incredibly unique and sure to be a Game Pass marvel, but if you’ve played XCOM before you’re sure to feel right at home straight away, that’s for certain. If I’m being deliberately reductive, Lamplighters League immediately made me think of the Firaxis XCOM reboot: the UI and visual language were instantly familiar, and a few mechanics from throughout the series, especially XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, appear in this rip-roaring 1930s pulpy adventure. Both were probably as hungry as I was while waiting for lunch, but it didn’t stop us from getting down to brass tacks with the recently revealed Lamplighters League. On top of getting an hour of hands-on time with Lamplighters League myself, I also sat down for an interview and hands-off showcase with both Gitelman (left) and game director Chris Rogers (right), who took me through a mid-game mission and showed off the in-game systems. I later found out that Gitelman and the rest of Harebrained Schemes cheered behind me as they watched this happening, because I’d just unwittingly proved something the team had been worried about when showing off their newest game for the first time Lamplighters League absolutely rules.
When I figured out you could wait safely in long grass for a patrol to walk past explosive crates surrounded by oil – with all the enemies, interactables, and items placed randomly in each level – and took out four guards at once, I laughed. Looking up at a screen at the Xbox loft in San Francisco during GDC 2023, I was engrossed by the blend of real-time stealth and XCOM-like turn-based combat, and I was grinning from ear to ear the whole time. I just uninstalled it again after turning that off, so we'll see if that works, but in the meantime, I've come here for outside help.According to Harebrained Schemes co-founder Mitch Gitelman, I was the first non-playtester and developer to play the Shadowrun Trilogy team’s newest strategy game, the pulpy 1930s Lamplighters League. The issue persists even after fully uninstalling and reinstalling XCOM 2 through Steam and uninstalling all other mods, though that may have been because I forgot to turn off Steam cloud sync before reinstallation. Now every time I launch the game, it crashes before opening and a window pops up reading "appDebugMessagef: Error detected attempting load of package: PeekGotchaVisualizer". The trouble is, I can't play at all after uninstalling Gotcha. I want to be able to complete my favorite game, so even though I knew a campaign without Gotcha would be uncomfortable, it would be better than not being able to play at all. The game would crash every time I opened the first door of the compound, so I could not kill that Chosen and was eventually captured. I had to uninstall Gotcha Again due to a campaign-ending glitch it was causing in the Hunter's stronghold.
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