Luma Island Steam Charts & Stats

Ok, I am thoroughly addicted to this game. Right from the start I loved how pretty this game was. There is always something new to learn and discover, but it's chill and incredibly relaxing. I started this game after a busy work week and it completely eased any stress of the day with it's no pressure, exploratory vibe. Nice to haves, would be great to see what I currently have in my inventory when I'm crafting things, and a map with a key to mark locations would be helpful... but neither of these things have stopped my enjoyment of the game.

1000/10 Oh great, another game for me to obsess over... I love it already and I've barely put 3 hours into it. Graphics are so cute, but also beautiful and work really well with the music. The game play is smooth, have ran into no bugs. Works very well with an xbox controller, almost better than keyboard and mouse. Finding a game like this that feels like the devs poured their heart and soul into it is so rare now a days. My only complaint is that it is not on switch yet. this would be PERFECT for it.

it's fun to play, progressive exploring, farming, cooking, fishing, much like Dinkum or Animal Crossing.

How can I name my animals in Luma Island? If it doesn't work yet, an update would be great.In other words, it's a brilliant game, but a few new worlds and items would be great, especially an underwater world with caves and reefs and so on. Gives it a great rating.

I spent 113 hours playing Luma Island co-op with my friend. It was fine. We mostly enjoyed our time. We spent weeks grinding the last achievement "That Took a LOT of TIME." It was a boring and monotonous grind to get all the materials to make the Mega structures. But we wanted to finish our goal of getting 100% achievements. So it was annoying enough for them to add more achievements and take away the 100%, but somewhat understandable since they are adding more content. HOWEVER, they added a new one called "That took a Lifetime" which requires you to REDO the most annoying achievement in the game, but starting from scratch in the new game mode. Nobody in the world wants to do that. I certainly don't. To be honest, this feels like an insult from the developer and makes me not want to play the new content.

Playtime: 40+ hours | Steam Deck (Handheld) | 8/10 Cozy, relaxing, and stress-free — that’s how you can describe Luma Island. This is a casual game you can easily get lost in. What starts as a quick 30-minute session can quickly turn into five hours. Once you start, it becomes addictive. Luma Island completely avoids any stress-inducing triggers, which in my opinion is the best thing about the game. No matter how long you take to do something — it doesn’t matter. No time pressure, no seasons, no energy bar. Farming in a chill way, if you will. With no sense of urgency, you can plant crops, explore the world, and pursue different professions. The game even offers main and side quests, which I personally see as entirely optional. I’ve already spent hours just farming, exploring, and collecting resources. What counts as a plus point is also somewhat of a drawback: you need to be careful it doesn’t become boring too quickly. Features repeat themselves, and the different areas eventually stop feeling fresh. If you’re looking for a game without that “special thrill,” Luma Island is a solid pick. The Lumas — from which the game gets its name — are, to me, a nice-to-have but unnecessary. The game would work just as well without collecting these creatures. Still, they’re undeniably cute. Another — and for me, bigger — downside is the lack of guidance. More often than not, I find myself googling things because the game doesn’t provide any hints. That makes it unnecessarily difficult. A better-designed map would already go a long way toward fixing this issue. So if you’re looking for a casual game with farming, cute creatures, and zero stress — Luma Island is the one!

Im reviewing Luma Island Vanilla, not the upcoming Pirate update (yet? we'll see) It's my first game within this genre, I expected like 30 maybe 40 hours of content out of this game, but I sank SO MUCH time into it, it do be crazy. The first things I noticed which is amazing, how immersive the game is, the sound design especially. little things, people don't pay attention to often. Like when you harvest a dead tree, you see how little worms crawl away, since you just killed their home. Or if it is raining and you go into the house, you still hear the rain. different sound of course, since you are inside now, but that was so mindblowing to me. many such details are in this game. really cool. The game gives you a brief guide at the start but for the most part it lets you discover the stuff yourself, which I find is pretty cool. I was not used to having to explore. I was not used to things not being marked on my minimap, but having to actually look around. this was such a unique and exciting experience for me, which I didn't have in a long time. It really helped me appreciate more of the world in other games too. After you go through the different jobs and all the cute lore in the game and are basically done with it, there is an endgame grind to get the last 2 achievements. which makes you grind A LOT of money and A LOT of materials. I thought its a very neat approach to have the game itself a rather straight forward design and then have a massive grind in the end, felt really rewarding to finish it, especially because you are very free in how you do it. doing it with planting stuff? the mine? fishing? the hole escaping traps for archeology was insanely fun to discover btw. But whatever you prefered the most. So in general: Really really good game to sink a lot of time into with quite a lot of freedom too! That being said, there are a few little critiques I have: - the camera position is very top down, this makes finding a certain point within the mine very frustrating if you dislike the mine - If you talk to towns folk, you can not screenshot the dialog, as the game registers any (!) key you press to continue with the dialoge. - you cant befriend the fox :( - the farm is very.. not flat. and for that it is very limiting very you can settle down and put your castle. (this will change in the pirates update so take it with a grain of salt) - you can build "decorative" items. these items are not all decorative. the game doesnt tell you that, but should imo. some DO have a function. - if you come out of the mine and have like 5000 stones in your bag, there is no way of adding more materials into your crafting stations. that way you sometimes sit there for like 10+ Minutes doing nothing but holding your leftclick to add items for it. there should be a way of making it faster. Thats all I have to critize, which is on a quite high lvl, I admit. So Right now I would rate Luma Island Vanilla 8/10. Doesnt need much for a 10/10 honestly. If they adress some of the issues I have then its an EASY 10/10 game. I had a lot of fun with it. Love the game <3

We loved the game but as achievement hunters who were 97% done with your achievements I'm furious at the BS ones you added for the new expansion. We logged in ready to finish it off and you added the same 2 hard achievements twice over to force people to log more hours in your game. Nothing new, nothing different, just DO IT AGAIN. Bullshit and horrible design. Do all the jobs again twice over along with beating the game twice over AND finish all the ****ing mega structure twice over? Are you high? You'll get a upvote when you change that, the expansion should only bring goals related to the expansion not forcing people to redo the same content again to inflate your numbers.

This game should have WAY more attention. It's excellent. Great with friends, progression is shared, amazing art style, super consistent generally. Great theme, mood, and soundscape. It also has a weird nostalgia tickle for me, maybe it's the FF7-ish art style or the harvest moon-ish mechanics. It has a couple minor UI/UX nitpicks - just some "I wish it could do this or that" but largely it is so great. If the devs want some of my negative thoughts: - A little more info when hovering icons (recipe requirements) would be nice - Splitting stacks for dropping items in multiplayer (and maybe not sending the items flying out in all directions) - When you click to do something, you should turn to face that direction instead of having to WASD to rotate that way. - Don't wipe progress on new updates! I hear that's an issue. Honestly otherwise? Great fun, and much bigger than it initially lets on. Cool, cool game. Pick it up.

Luma Island is very cute, and looks great. However, the gameplay loop starts to get really stale after you realize that you only have essentially one weapon that you upgrade, one real cave enemy that changes colors in new biomes, and one environmental enemy that changes per biome. I wish there was a little greater variety of tools and building options, but it’s still a cute and fun little game to play. Multiplayer works pretty well.