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Lumino City
Developer State of Play
Lumino City is a puzzle adventure video game developed and published by State of Play Games. The game was released for OS X and Windows in December 2014, for iOS in October 2015., and Android for 12 April 2017. It is a sequel to Lume. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
202 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 22, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
80
LovedLoved
152 positive · 38 negative
95% range 74–85%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 152 | 38 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
729 of 851 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
80% recommend · 153 yes, 39 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 192 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,214 of 1,401 positive).
Players praise the game's handcrafted art style and visual design. [1][2][3][4] Some reviewers find the puzzles frustrating due to unclear interactables and obtuse solutions. [5][6][7][8] Several players note bugs and UI issues that hinder the experience. [9][8][10]
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Representative posts
- [9]
The game is absolutely beautiful, but sadly I've encountered too many instances of bugs and puzzles that require precise timing with insane reset times if you miss the window. The fact that the developers' official response to one such bug is literally to cheat the save file to a point after the puzzle rather than fixing the puzzle itself is unacceptable. Uninstalled at that point and will not ever return. Sad …
- [1]
Still worth playing in 2025. Perfect handmade design. Played before on other device but I have to say that it's better on PC.
- [3]
Oh my... what an amazing and unique piece of art. The rather short game itself is pleasantly entertaining and the puzzles are all quite solvable without any frustrating moments. But in my eyes, the real masterpiece is the art behind the game. Everything you can see on the screen has been handcrafted using paper, cardboard, motors and miniature lights. The entire city was made as one large, connected model. The …
- [2]
This game is absolutely stunning, it feels like you're walking through an arts and crafts project. The puzzles were nice, but in true point and click fashion, it's sometimes really hard to see where you needed to click to find the clue to continue. And the character moves sometimes very slow. I did like the puzzles, there was a good variety and they were challenging!
- [4]
Quel intéressant petit point & click. Le point fort de ce jeu est définitivement le côté visuel; j'ai appris que tous les décors sont réels et ont été faits à partir de photos de maquettes construites à partir d'objets du quotidien. Ce dut être un travail épique qui se traduit par un rendu de très grande qualité. Comme tous les jeux point & click typiques, certains casses-têtes sont tortueux à souhait, et certains …
Summarised from 34 of the 204 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
80% of the 192 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Lumino City. The complaint that keeps coming up: unclear what is interactable in scenes. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
At the 2015 Independent Games Festival, Lumino City was nominated for "Excellence in Visual Art". During the 18th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Lumino City for "Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction". At the 11th British Academy Games Awards, Lumino City won in the "Artistic Achievement" category; it was also nominated in the categories of "British Game" and "Game Innovation". The game received a nomination in the "Most Innovative" category at the 2016 Games for Change Awards.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 202 · most liked firstThe game is absolutely beautiful, but sadly I've encountered too many instances of bugs and puzzles that require precise timing with insane reset times if you miss the window. The fact that the developers' official response to one such bug is literally to cheat the save file to a point after the puzzle rather than fixing the puzzle itself is unacceptable. Uninstalled at that point and will not ever return. Sad really, because this game has amazing potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great art, music and environment but lackluster puzzles. A few of them devolve into just trying many different things. It's made worse by a poor UI. Has the animation ended yet? Can I click now? Sometimes something I've clicked won't activate but when I click the exact same thing a few seconds later, Lumi proceeds towards it. There is lack of feedback in the UI and hotspots are not correct as well. Sometimes clicking on something activates a hotspot next to it. And then an animation starts…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still worth playing in 2025. Perfect handmade design. Played before on other device but I have to say that it's better on PC.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautifully designed look, terribly designed puzzles. Plenty that focus on simply futzing around until you get the result, rely on reflexes out of the blue, or force you to start from scratch for each mistake. Watch a let's play or just look at screenshots to get a sense of the whimsical and fascinating aesthetic.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really hate to give this a not recommended because it's really a beautiful game. The hand-crafted art style is incredible and clearly a lot of work went into making it. If I could recommend it on that alone, 10/10, no notes. Buuut, it's a game and the gameplay is where this fails for me. The puzzles are decent and clever from what I've seen but one problem I've seen is that the items you need to pick up aren't differentiated from the background at all. You have to click around and experiment…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →so creative game and i like the details as art and puzzles and almost everything you can even use a lemon for power ! if you want to save your grandpa , go for it !!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would I recommend this game... As an artistic piece? Yes For actual gameplay? No The visuals stand out on their own and the simple story is a nice break from the usual fare, despite the disappointing (for some) ending, which doesn't really answer a lot of questions about the game universe. The problem is this game suffers from the same fate as other artsy games like Broken Age. The point and click puzzle style of gameplay is just outdated in my opinion and where this story could have been…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very pretty game, interesting puzzles, however devs have been "looking into" bugs since 2015. No patch has been released since 2014.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Exceptional game, superb developers I have had this game in my library for years, and I have that many games (over 1800 at the time time of review) and somehow this has fallen through the cracks. As a massive lover of point and click style games, such as old school Monkey Island, and as someone who would rather spend years stuck on a puzzle, than to use a walkthrough or guide, I appreciate Lumino City and how State of Play have developed this game. I am 4 and half hours into this game at the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lumino City is a beautiful point and click type game that I'm really enjoying. Paid. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.noodlecake.luminocity
positive · AI labelView post →Over a decade I have played parts of this game on several devices but I never finished it, however I never forgot it. Today I finally finished the full playthrough, it is an absolutely beautiful game. I finally finished what I started a decade ago. Thank you so much for this spectacular experience =)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hours:Price not worth it as I got <6 hours. I did use the hint book on a couple puzzles, but I think I also sat there dumbfounded for an equal amount of time. The graphics are really cool. The game crashes a lot and depending where it crashes you'll have to repeat puzzles, and I don't think there's a manual save option. Some of the time I spent not knowing what to do was because I clicked on something that I needed but it didn't register so I thought it wasn't usable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great mechanics and puzzles. Absolutely recommend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The puzzles are mostly either blatantly obvious or convoluted. In general, the solution to a problem is a non sequitur, meaning clicking randomly usually works, or you need to look up the solution. The mediocre music and boring dialogue detracts from an otherwise beautiful presentation. The slow, railroaded movement hurts pacing significantly. A stronger writer, and the ability to stop moving towards a zone if you change your mind, would be good changes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I stopped playing when the timing puzzles dropped in. Gosh how I hate these.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lumino City is a beautiful game to look at but suffers a little with its execution as a puzzle game, so overall I was left feeling more glad to have finished it rather than enjoying the experience of it. I felt that some clickable areas are obvious, but it can be difficult to spot others and you can just end up clicking on everything in the hope you can interact with it. Other areas are highlighted when they need to be clicked at a certain time. Some puzzles suggest they require you find…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolutely stunning, it feels like you're walking through an arts and crafts project. The puzzles were nice, but in true point and click fashion, it's sometimes really hard to see where you needed to click to find the clue to continue. And the character moves sometimes very slow. I did like the puzzles, there was a good variety and they were challenging!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall good puzzle game, however: - It's not always obvious what's interactable. - Some puzzles do not make any sense and require trying random things or using guide.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lumino City is an oddly cute puzzle point-and-click adventure game that follows a girl called Lumi in search of her grandfather, who... largely seems to be abducted first thing in the game, sort of. It turns out her grandfather is known locally as the Handyman, but, unlike regular handymen, he's a bit of a mad superintelligent engineer who can design stuff like houses that rotate upside down... yeah. Anyway, Lumi has to traverse a place called Lumino City in search of her grandpa, but to do…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh my... what an amazing and unique piece of art. The rather short game itself is pleasantly entertaining and the puzzles are all quite solvable without any frustrating moments. But in my eyes, the real masterpiece is the art behind the game. Everything you can see on the screen has been handcrafted using paper, cardboard, motors and miniature lights. The entire city was made as one large, connected model. The gameplay was captured with cameras using stop-motion technology and great use of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just spent hours playing Lumino City. The art is so beautiful, especially how it was made with paper, miniature lights, motors, etc. And the puzzles aren't that difficult, especially when there's a literal puzzle guide in-game. Love me some AAA, but indie games are a different breed.
positive · AI labelView post →I do like the look of that. In the vein of Lume and Lumino City, bringing elements from the real world into game design
neutral · AI labelView post →It's called Lumino City. It's a puzzle game. I actually don't love it but my kids play it on my phone.
negative · AI labelView post →Really fun and nostalgic puzzle game! I wish there was a sound option button and slightly less slow movement but overall would play another game like this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The graphic are original and nice. They took picture of objects to make the city look real. It's really nice to watch. The puzzle are ok, sometimes, the game forget to tell you where you need to go or what is the problem than you need to solve. For the talking, lot of blablabla for nothing, the npcs don't go straight to the point, it's hard to follow them.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A childhood game. My dad got it on our family laptop back in 2014-2015. It was and still is such a fantastic game to play. The visuals are fantastic, the creativity and effort put into this game is outstanding for a small company back in 2014. If you're looking for puzzle games that are relaxing, make you think and want to follow a storyline while doing so. Lumino city is one of the best at it. (I don't tend to play puzzle games but this just hits me with nostalgia. Don't mean to have a biased…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One Sentence Reviewer How the creator made this game is hands down extremely impressive.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please add a Chinese translation to this interesting game！
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lumino City is a cute game with a smattering of all the usual failings of point-and-click adventures with a clever built-in hint system But also the credits stuttered constantly scrolling up my screen and holy hell if I didn't already have a headache I sure would now (I did, now it's worse)
neutral · AI labelView post →Am somewhat reminded (positively) of the Lumino City point-and-click game.
neutral · AI labelView post →I played Lumino City in a few years back and really enjoyed it! Beautiful game!
positive · AI labelView post →Cute little adventure-puzzle game that finds its strength in a splendid hand-made art-style and musical score But that lacks to build a world more interesting than what it looks like. I had fun with most of the puzzles: very head-scratching but nothing that you've probably never seen before. I just wish this game had cared more about having a proper cohesive narrative because ultimately it just feels like an excuse to show off some paper-made buildings. 2/5
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this many years ago and couldn't finish it then as it was a bit hard, I recently saw it in my library and thought to finish it, 80% of it is a treat and a great audio visual little story, but figuring out what to click on and how many of x thing was in a scene to count to get the correct page number was a bit annoying. I had to resort to a guide a couple times just cause I couldn't figure out for the life of me what i was missing, turns out it was a coat hanger on a radio.... The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great experience, mediocre game. I highly recommend playing it, though. its gameplay takes a backseat to the vibes. Which is fine! The vibes are here in droves.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pleasant little point-n-click game. It's getting on a bit in years, but holds it's own still. Visually striking, paper-cutout look, with bright, saturated colours and gorgeous silhouetted tableaus. The puzzles are good, not terribly difficult, thankfully, sometimes a little obtuse, but better than many PnC's and no terrible moon logic 'try every item on everything' - thanks for that! Note that there's a lot of text and the typeface and speech bubbles are really small - this may be a problem…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is too precious. I don't mean that in a good way. I mean it in the worst-precious-tendencies-of-the-National-Film-Board-of-Canada kind of way. The precious little hand-crafted sets, à la Gumby. The precious little pastel-shaded geometric characters. Personally, I couldn't take more than a few minutes of this. However, if saccharine Norman McLaren is your cup of tea, then go for it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A rather charming point-and-click puzzle adventure game with some pretty cool animations, interesting art style, and good music. Even though most of the puzzles aren't too hard, all of them are very unique and maintain consistent variety throughout the game's play time. It's not very long, so you may want to wait for a sale, but overall it's a mostly fun and satisfying experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My mother got this game when I was very young, for years I had small glimpses of it in the back of my brain, gears, cogs, old computer screens, weird mail puzzles, eventually as I grew older I remembered its existence. I bought it and played it for the first time in 8 years, it is as beautiful as I remember. It was a nostalgic experience and every new scene had me enjoying the puzzles at hand. It was sad to see minor bugs, or the two puzzles in the game I had to look up a walkthrough for.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awful, awful 'puzzles'. Avoid like the plague.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A disaster of a game. While this team has a good sense of aesthetics, they are totally clueless when it comes to user interface. Starting with visibility. Not a single line of text is legible, all is minuscule, each sentence ridiculously wasting 70% of the space of its bubble. Texts also disappear faster than you can say Oi! Objects themselves are tiny, not contrasted, and don't react to hovering, leading to some of the worst pixel hunting I've seen in decades. On top of having no idea what…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice little puzzle game, with no frustrating parts because it gives you a handy guide with all the solutions in it - IF you can solve the math problem to find the right page in the guide! Easy to complete in a couple of hours.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awesome! I am loving all the puzzles and it's such a beautifully designed game environment. My only qualm is that some of the items you need to pick up are very hard to see in some of the scenes and makes for a bit of confusion. I had to consult youtube a few times to help me figure out what I was missing. Overall I say PLAY THIS GAME! :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't feel like I got my time's worth out of the game. It was not fun and felt like it was going out of it's way to waste my time. The movement speed is quite slow, many puzzles I got stuck on only because I didn't realise a background object was interact-able, and point & click to move doesn't exactly work when it's not clear which 1-2% of the screen it works on. The game also occasionally froze and I had to restart it. There was one moment where I laughed on the inside at the dialogue, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely dreadful
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ultimately, I didn't like it. The graphic style is fine, but the puzzles are largely annoying, rather than interesting and fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't critisize the piece of art graphics of Lumino City, but I can say that the game has strangest puzzles I've ever seen in a game! Lots of them are unbelievably hard to figure out. I've urged myself to play the game until the episode which you have to memorize and repeat a few guitar tunes. That wasn't a puzzle, that was kind of a torture or something else. I've quited the game, unistalled it and said a huge "phew!". ^_^
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I doubt that any human Being has ever completed this entire game without using a guide
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Charming with some challenges. Was a joyful experience going through the world even if it was quite linear (which can be ok).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i bought this game because it looked pretty and i love hand-crafted models. while it doesn't disappoint in the prettiness, i am not happy with the lack of texture. most things seem to be made of card, but it's not always clear, which leads to monotony. music is nothing of note. it's a puzzle game and the story is less than secondary. for me, the uninteresting, almost non-existent story, and the lack of strong connection between the puzzles and the story, negatively affected the enjoyment of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredibly beautiful, well animated, nice music. If you like the first game and then looking for more then grab this. However I can't recommend this game. As it would crash on me throughout the game play or MC would get stuck. Random frame drops when moving place to place. Then the entire end credits the frames dropped hard. The puzzles can be somewhat obtuse at times. If you are not paying attention you'll may miss information on what you need to do.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A flawed gem, but unique in its effortful design. This quirky point-and-click adventure game followed in a Steam bundle I bought. You control Lumi, who quickly sets out to find her Grandad, who got mysteriously taken away from their home. The adventure would be set to navigate through a vertiginous town, solving practical problems along the way. And I only realized in the late game that the hand manual in the inventory contains clues for the puzzles, if you solved the little puzzles in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game looks amazing! It takes a certain kind of crazy to choose to make a game like this and insane talent to actually pull it off! It's so incredibly impressive what these guys were able to pull off! The sets look great and are full of so much creativity! I can't believe just how much work went into this! The actual puzzles are pretty tricky throughout so bring a big brain along with you!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lumino City is great! It's beautiful and charming in a way that can be hard to find nowadays, and many games that bill themselves as handcrafted or artistic unfortunately just do not play well. Lumino City does not have that problem, at least not any more so than other point-and-click and adventure games, which in my experience always have a little bit of jank. Apparently its predecessor Lume isn't as good, but the good news is that you absolutely do not have to play that one for the full…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a bit short for its price, but the story is good, the art is fantastic, and the puzzles are overall pretty solid. There are a few puzzles that were just unnecessarily obtuse, and I wish the hint system wasn't all-or-nothing, and you could get something less than a complete solution. I received this game as a gift from my friend 11 years ago, so I guess I have to check the 'received for free' box.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Form over Function. Pretty? Yes. Fun? No.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh wow!! Just in the beginning of a game, but already huge fun of it! Art is great, puzzies are interesting, mechanic works perfect, story is exciting. Big job made with huge love, thats obvious! Full joy for point-and-click lovers! Thank you guy for creating such a masterpiece.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a whimsical point n' click with an amazing story, what more do I have to say? Shame it's a bit buggy right now (at least on Linux), but I still highly recommend it if you like the genre.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow! What a gorgeous achievement of a game. Or is it a game? It's more like interactive art that challenges you in a literal manner, as apposed to an interpretive, creative one - like a painting in a museum... that just sits there and screams "LOOK AT ME, I'M IMPORTANT!" But nothing more. I've just begun my journey and I'm having a great time working through the well thought out, intriguing puzzles in my path and meeting some cool, interesting characters (almost forgot about gramps). So far,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lumino City is a puzzle adventure developed and published by State of Play that stands out through an extraordinary blend of artistic craftsmanship and thoughtful gameplay. Instead of relying solely on digitally created environments, the developers built an entire miniature city by hand using paper, cardboard, wood, lights, and mechanical components before transforming it into an interactive digital world. This remarkable production method gives every street, building, and machine a level of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's alright but I wanted more.
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