Press kit
Lamplands: Heroes of Ringhold · Three heroes. One tiny world.
Fact sheet
- Developer
- Haoguang Chen, independent developer
- Based in
- Singapore
- Release date
- To be announced
- Platform
- iPhone (iOS 26 or later)
- Price
- Free to start; one in-app purchase unlocks the full game (Family Sharing)
- Languages
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Website
- lamplandsgame.com
- Press contact
- [email protected]
In one paragraph
Lamplands: Heroes of Ringhold is a roguelike for iPhone set on a miniature planet overrun by monsters. Players lead three heroes from around the world, retake 64 cities month by month, grow each hero's signature move through their upgrades, and stop the Source Heart before it wakes.
Description
Ringhold is a miniature world of rainy harbour towns, karst river valleys, red-earth kilns and frozen fjords, and the monsters have taken it one city at a time. Each month the player chooses where to land, which city to retake and whom to recruit; the cities they retake stay theirs.
Battles put one hero on the field with two ready to switch in. Players clear nests, retake siphon towers, turrets and relays, then wake the city's boss when they are ready, break its guard, chain their heroes in slow motion and finish it with one of eighteen duo finishers. Bosses belong to their region: krakens in the ports, beetles in the paddies and forests, mechs downtown, rhinos on the mesas.
Every run is different: heroes pick one of three upgrades as they level and their signature moves evolve to a final form, over 200 items stack into sets, and each continent's beast leaves a core behind. The world is drawn by a custom Metal renderer with tilt-shift depth of field, real-time shadows, weather and towns that light up at night.
Features
- 18 heroes from seven cultures, each with their own moves, talents, awakening and home city
- 4 continents and 64 cities, each with its own climate, landmark and people
- A month-by-month campaign: bounties, encounters, beast rifts, campfires and a reserve of heroes who join the big fights
- Signature moves that evolve through three-way upgrades, over 200 items, 15 elemental reactions and 18 duo finishers
- A custom Metal renderer: tilt-shift depth of field, real-time shadows, weather and towns lit at night
- Five text sizes, colour-vision palettes, reduced flashes, direction-cued captions and an assist mode
- Game controller support, Game Center achievements and leaderboards, iCloud saves, fully offline
Trailer and images
Review copies
Press and creators can request early access through TestFlight before release, and a code for the full game after release. Please write to [email protected] with your outlet or channel.
About the developer
Lamplands is designed, developed and published by Haoguang Chen, an independent developer based in Singapore.
Questions, interviews or extra footage: [email protected].