Lumines Review

Posted: 6 months ago.

Overview

Lumines is a music puzzle game where you rotate and align small blocks to form squares of a single colour. As you do this, in time with the music, they are erased as the beat line passes over them. The game is lost when the blocks reach the top of the playing field.

Lumines can appear similar to Columns or Tetris. It's a block dropping game. But here you are making squares and half the enjoyment is how that interacts with the music. You can develop a range of strategies. Certain blocks with gems can create coloured squares and allow all individual adjacent blocks of the same colour to be eliminated at once. Bonuses are also awarded by reducing all remaining tiles to one single colour or for removing all non-active tiles from the screen altogether.

Lumines: Puzzle Fusion (2004) on PSP, PC.
Lumines Live! (2006) was ported to the Xbox 360
Lumines II (2006) a sequel on PSP
Lumines Plus (2007) on PlayStation 2 and PSP
Lumines Supernova (2008) including a music sequencer on PlayStation 3
Lumines: Touch Fusion (2009) on iOS
Lumines: Electronic Symphony (2012) PlayStation Vita
Lumines: Puzzle & Music (20026) on iOS, Android
Lumines Remastered (2018) PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC

Details

Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE

Release Date: 01/01/2004, updated in 2018

Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Xbox One and iOS.

Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Rhythm.

Tips

View our choice of games like Lumines. This game is good if you want to:

Interact musically

Commitment

Duration: It takes between 5 minutes and 15 minutes to play a round of this game.

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.

Costs

Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.

Lumines Remastered offers in-game purchases for 20 additional songs.

Age Ratings

This game has been rated PEGI 3+.

This game has been rated ESRB EVERYONE.

Accessibility

Accessibility for this game is as follows:

System Settings

Android has accessibility settings including ways to navigate and interact, although not all games support this. Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games. Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators. PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping). Xbox One has a system features, the excellent co-pilot share controls mode and adaptive controller support for all games. iOS has a very extensive suite of accessibility settings including ways to navigate with voice and comprehensive screen reading, though most of the features don't work with games... read more about system accessibility settings.

Games Like Lumines

The following games are like Lumines. They address a similar topic or offer a similar way to play. They are good options to play next and also good alternatives to Lumines for younger age ratings.

Collapsus

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Sequence Storm

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Tetris

Chime

Patapon

Rhythm Thief and The Emperor's Treasure

Meteos

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