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Lamplight City cover art

Lamplight City

Grundislav Games · Application Systems Heidelberg · 2018-09-13

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 27, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 13, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 13, 2018 (Linux), Sep 13, 2018 (Mac)

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?

4
playing now
90%
positive of 868 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Lamplight City is a point-and-click adventure game developed by American studio Grundislav Games and released in 2018 by Application Systems Heidelberg. The game takes place in an alternate history version of 19th century America that incorporates steampunk elements, in which players take control of a private detective who tackles a series of cases while trying to uncover the identity of a criminal who caused their partner's death. Players can decide how to acquire information and how a case is solved, with the game's overall ending affected by the choices made.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 32% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 22k–52k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 868 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$8.99-40%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.99-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.49 at MacGameStore (2022-04-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 38 of 64 observed days · $1.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-07 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$7.492018-09-132026-08-302018-09-13 — best price $14.992018-12-01 — best price $14.992019-02-18 — best price $11.992019-05-24 — best price $11.992019-07-23 — best price $14.992019-11-04 — best price $10.492020-01-13 — best price $14.992020-03-02 — best price $14.992020-06-25 — best price $10.042020-09-23 — best price $10.042021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-04-26 — best price $14.992021-07-08 — best price $14.992021-11-15 — best price $14.992022-01-27 — best price $8.992022-04-30 — best price $7.492022-07-25 — best price $8.992022-10-24 — best price $8.992023-01-03 — best price $14.992023-04-07 — best price $14.992023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-10-25 — best price $8.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-03-07 — best price $8.992024-05-10 — best price $14.992024-08-26 — best price $8.992024-11-11 — best price $14.992025-02-01 — best price $14.992025-05-01 — best price $14.992025-07-20 — best price $14.992025-10-09 — best price $8.992026-01-18 — best price $14.992026-04-09 — best price $14.992026-07-17 — best price $8.992026-08-30 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3632026-05-30 — 10 pageviews2026-06-02 — 11 pageviews2026-06-05 — 10 pageviews2026-06-08 — 11 pageviews2026-06-11 — 12 pageviews2026-06-14 — 16 pageviews2026-06-17 — 7 pageviews2026-06-20 — 8 pageviews2026-06-23 — 13 pageviews2026-06-26 — 11 pageviews2026-06-29 — 13 pageviews2026-07-02 — 15 pageviews2026-07-05 — 16 pageviews2026-07-08 — 14 pageviews2026-07-11 — 15 pageviews2026-07-14 — 16 pageviews2026-07-17 — 11 pageviews2026-07-20 — 12 pageviews2026-07-23 — 15 pageviews2026-07-26 — 20 pageviews2026-07-29 — 13 pageviews2026-08-01 — 9 pageviews2026-08-04 — 9 pageviews2026-08-07 — 9 pageviews2026-08-10 — 10 pageviews2026-08-13 — 13 pageviews2026-08-16 — 9 pageviews2026-08-19 — 18 pageviews2026-08-22 — 18 pageviews2026-08-25 — 18 pageviews2026-08-27 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

41
achievements tracked
51.9%
earned "Don't Quit Your Day Job"
15.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo SoundSteam CloudCommentary availableFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)62510%41
Switch (Nintendo)60%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DNoirIndieRetroMysteryAdventureDetectiveHand-drawnStory RichSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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