Harebrained Schemes are the developer behind titles like Battletech and Necropolis, and they’ve announced their new period strategy game set in an alternate 1930s.
Check out the announcement trailer for The Lamplighters League and the Tower at the End of the World:
The Lamplighters League is set in an alternate 1930s, where a tyrannical cult called the Banished Court stands on the cusp of world domination. For millennia, all that stood between this sinister cabal and their plans were a band of heroic scholars known as the Lamplighters League.
Unfortunately, the best of the best are all gone, so now it’s up to the best of the worst.
Harebrained has also released a First Look video that gives a closer look at gameplay:
What’s interesting is that the game blends elements from both strategy and real-time stealth. Players infiltrate an area in real time, and if they decide to make things dicey, the strategy part comes in.
The game offers a roster of special characters, each with unique abilities. The developers emphasize that the choices of characters in the game come from a gallery of rogues, meaning they’re not the heroic type that we should expect from the usual games. Then again, I always have fun with morally ambiguous characters, and it will be interesting to see how they play out in the game.
Hopefully, we get some more reveals soon.
The Lamplighters League has no specific release date yet, but it’s expected to launch for PC and Xbox later this year.
