Lamplight City
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 10.4h 14.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.44/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 879 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 640x400, 32-bit colour, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 91 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Roottrees are Dead ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats The Darkside Detective ($14.99, scores 67).
More about Lamplight City
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 366 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
52% start to 35% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Pretty good little point and click game set in a very cool setting. Very nice animation too. Just needed a little more interaction, I think to make it truly stand out.
2 more reviews
Wonderful voice acting for every single character. The story's universe is very nicely woven into scenes, images, characters, narrative direction and dialogues without it being too on the nose but just about the right amount. I like how the story tackles several social issues well embedded within the story. You have technically 5 cases to solve but they are all connected by an overarching plot, along with throwbacks...
I have played this game almost all the way through twice. It is a long game, so you get a lot of bang for your buck. The hearing the voice of your dead partner thing is actually a pretty good angle. I enjoyed Lamplight city, it is very well polished for an indie game. Gonzalez has come a long way since the Ben Jordan: Paranormal investigator games. This game will pretty much run on any system too.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Lamplight City scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/761460/lamplight-cityReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.