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Light Fingers

What do skulking thieves do after a night of procuring shady spoils? They gather at a favorite tavern and wager it away on a friendly game of Light Fingers! Played on a magical clockworks game board, this…

80 20 September 2018

Light Fingers is a card & board game developed by Numizmatic, released 20 September 2018 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Light Fingers is

Light Fingers is a card & board game game developed by Numizmatic and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

What do skulking thieves do after a night of procuring shady spoils? They gather at a favorite tavern and wager it away on a friendly game of Light Fingers! Played on a magical clockworks game board, this turn-based multiplayer game has real-time action and devious opportunities for misdirection, all in the pursuit of securing more loot than your opponents. For friends among thieves, bragging rights for the most deft are the biggest steal of all
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Light Fingers holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 66% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Light Fingers launched on 20 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Light Fingers come out?
Light Fingers was released on 20 September 2018 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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