Lumino City
Fair · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $2.60/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.39. That was June 2026. 35 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Age ($14.99, scores 42).
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 219 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026.
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
One Sentence Reviewer How the creator made this game is hands down extremely impressive.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Lumino City scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/205020/lumino-cityThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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