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Lumino City2014
Lumino City
2014 State of Play Games74Good
Playtime
ShortTypically 5 hours
Playable on
- Steam DeckPlayable
- Steam MachinePlayable
Available on
- $11.99
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- December 2, 2014
- Developer
- State of Play Games
- Publisher
- State of Play Games
- Themes
- -
Overview
Sequel to the award-winning game Lume, Lumino City begins where that game left off. Begin by exploring the city, and using your ingenuity piece together all sorts of puzzling mechanisms to help the people who live in its unique world. Discover gardens in the sky, towers marooned high on an immense waterwheel, and houses dug precariously into cliffs. To create the environment, a ten foot high model city was built by hand and by laser cutter, with each motor and light wired up individually, bringing the scenes to luminous life.
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Reception
Press70
Players86
GoodGreat- Metacritic70from 16 reviews
- OpenCritic71from 8 reviews
Issues with the sound design aside, Lumino City is truly wonderful. The writing sparkles, puzzles are well put together and fun while requiring you to work for the solution just the right amount, and the visuals really do feel special. With a length that comes in somewhere in the eight to ten hour range, depending largely on how good you are at solving...
Beautiful to look at but the story and gameplay prove far less fascinating than the real world model-making skills of the developer.
The strange characters you meet never become more than a whimsical cut-outs with a few lines of dialogue. Shortly after you meet them you're off to the next surreal setpiece. It gives the sense that the city simply looks lovely but the team haven't put similar thought into the people who live in the place. In games like Broken Age, which is far weaker...
Lumino City is a gorgeous enough to grab anyone's attention, but stays within the boundaries of its genre conventions