Luma Island
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 32h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 (10,000 PassMark points or more), 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $11.99, set in September 2026. 15 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $11.99 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, My Time at Portia ($29.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Little Witch in the Woods ($19.99, scores 62).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 703 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
32 hours to finish it, 71 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
100% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
About 487 players at once, as of Sep 14.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Premise: Luma Island is one of the coziest farming and crafting games around, with an exceptional sound design! You'll start your farm on the city outskirts and casually move your way up through four different regions, each offering a wider variety of enemies and resources to acquire. As a newcomer to the island, you act as a bit of an Indiana Jones, uncovering the secrets of the land as you progress to collect...
very very Relaxing so much to do treasure hunting, farming growing crops, fishing building, Love this game!
Not Worth the 22-Hour Headache The Verdict: Not Recommended ❌ Playtime: 22 hours (Now Uninstalled) I really wanted to love Luma Island. It sounded fresh, cozy, and fun, but after sinking over 20 frustrating hours into it, I finally hit my breaking point and uninstalled it for good. Save your time and your sanity-stay away. Here is everything wrong with this game: Zero Guidance or Tutorials: The game leaves you...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Luma Island scores 67/100 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/2408820/luma-islandReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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