LumineNight
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $9.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Nov 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 8.3h 13.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 596 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.46 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 760 or equivalent, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Blacksad: Under the Skin ($19.99, scores 53).
More about LumineNight
Of the 361 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
87% start to 49% 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
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 18:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Interesting story, and I like the art style. Characters are okay, although not really out of the ordinary. Gameplay is also okay for the most part. Even the visual novel style dialogue doesn't bother me as much as it usually does. However, there are some severe missteps that drag the game down (for me at least). One is the part where you sneak into the police station. Not because it's bad per se, but because of how...
2 more reviews
Developed and published by Spickasoft, LumineNight is a narrative-driven detective adventure that combines mystery, puzzle-solving, stealth, and visual novel storytelling into a suspenseful investigation set in the fictional city of Summerset during the 1950s. Rather than relying on combat or fast-paced gameplay, it emphasizes careful observation and logical thinking as players follow Detective Kelvin Foster and his...
I'm not giving this a thumbs down because I do think a lot of passion and energy went into this game by its creators. It's not a bad game by any means. But...This is definitely not the best detective game I've played. Honestly, it's more puzzle game than detective game. Yes, there are deductions to be made, evidence to be linked together...but none of it is really difficult. It's all pretty straightforward. So, then...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
LumineNight scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2544570/luminenightReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.