Buy Lume

Your grandfather has gone missing and you need to solve fiendish puzzles with cryptic clues left behind by a madman. The only hope you have of seeing your grandfather again is to solve these puzzles and get the power working again. Lume is a point and click puzzle game. Each puzzle is masterfully done, adding layer upon layer. Its not just typical puzzles, but these are puzzles are off kilter. A is E, a triangle is 3, north is north east sort of off kilter. There are cryptic clues are everywhere. You'll get an inventory of parts to create a power generator and see your grandfather alive.

The truth is that you play as a child and your grandfather has gone to go investigate something. So he left clues for you to get his power up and running again. He's the madman. There is no threat, danger or game over. There is a variety of puzzles. Everything from lock combinations, to spinning wired tiles to connect all circuits. The clues for the most part will be in select pages of books and following instructions meant to get you lost with irrelevance. It is all a brain teaser's dream.

The game itself looks unique, because it looks as if someone made it with construction paper. Then filmed transitions between environments. The real downfall about the art is the resolution is stuck low so its a small screen with a giant dark frame. With such a unique art style, it should be a higher resolution to bask in its glory. There aren't many environments. Just a three interiors, two closets and an exterior consisting of two screens.

The controls are simple, just click things. Since it is a Flash game, just hover your mouse over something and the cursor will change to a pointer. Your inventory is easy to get to at the top of the screen instead of completely switching to an inventory.

At the end of the hour or two game, you find out this is just Episode 1. These were some difficult puzzles, but without the unique art style it would have gotten lost in the shuffle.

First off: this is a game about the aesthetic. The hand-made set and camera moves makes this game among the prettiest I've ever played. It's also super short, serving as a taster for the upcoming Lumino City, made in the same handcrafted way - I personally can't wait to explore a bigger world that's this beautiful.

♥♥♥♥les:
- It sucks that the resolution is so low. It takes away from the awesomeness of the visuals, which is what the game's about in the first place.
- The puzzles aren't that clever or anything. But it's a point and click, so what can one expect.

It's cheap. It's beautiful. Buy it.

Simple puzzle game.
I love solving the puzzles.

Too bad it's kinda short.
But at the end it said that this is Lume: part 1.
I'll be waiting for the next part.

A very pretty and short point and click adventure game, almost worth buying just for the graphical style.
Except that its puzzles are super unintuitive, there's no game-internal hint system and the story doesn't go anywhere.

Cute, but ultimately not worth your time.

English:

It is a game for 5 minutes. But one or two of the puzzles are absolutly NOT doable! Really. In every Walkthrough I had to watch, they also said that those puzzles are not possible! And after ( about 5 puzzles ) the game ( well. "part 1" ) is over.
Really disappointing! I really wouldn't buy it for 7€! Thank God I paid only 2€.. that is too much either .. sadly!

Deutsch:

Ein Spiel das nach gefühlten 5 Minuten zu ende ist! Dennch sin ein bis zwei Rätsel absolut nicht zu lösen! Also wirklich nicht zu lösen! Selbst die Walkthroughs ( Komplettlösungen ) die ich mir anschauen musste ( um im "Spiel" weiter zu kommen ) sagen sie selbst, das dies absolut unmöglich ist! Das Spiel beinhalten ca, 5 Rätsel danach ist das Spiel ( nunja "Part 1" ) zuende. Absolut enttäuschend und keine 7€ Wert! Zum Glück habe ich es "nur" für 2€ gekauft... Immernoch zu viel.. Schade!

Too short. I felt like I finished the introduction to a game, but not even a complete episode. It was fun and pretty while it lasted though.

A short and sweet puzzle adventure game.

I enjoyed the unique looking visuals combined with cute music and confounding puzzles.
If you like similar games it won't disappoint, but since it's very (very, very) short I'd only buy it again if it was on sale.

Way to short for 6.99..

This is a charming game, however there are a few issues that are a bit breaking and after seeing that it costs 6.99€ just makes me say DO NOT BUY IT. If you do find it in a bundle however (like I did) sure, get it.

Now it's time for an explanation. The game is cute and your character actually walks around "real" objects, as in, the scenes were filmed with a real camera and then blended into the game.

It's a point and click puzzle game and it isn't an easy one either. Which, again, in itself is fine.

The puzzles are usually either a bit easy to solve or at least to figure out what to do, but there's 1 of them that is really quite horribly difficult to even make sense out of it.

SPOILER about that "tip" for that puzzle, it's a page of a book with the "ONE" in "GRAMAPHONE" underlined, and a #9 on the corner of the page... what this supposedly means is, there's 9 numbers you need (for a locker with 3 digits, therefore 3 sets) and it starts with ONE, then you have to read the text and find either the actuall number like "fig. 2" being the "2" the second number you need, and then "three"... then there's a year, 1887, the "1" is the last number of the second set of numbers and "887" the last one.
The problem with this is, the game gives you NO CLUE what this book is related to or even what to look for, your character only says "A book grandpa's been reading, he wrote something on it" and that's it, you really need a guide or an epiphany to figure it out.

Lastly, and this is what made me say NO about buying this for 6,99€ is that the game... only lasted me a few minutes, seriously, there are like 5 different screens (not counting small camera transitions) and only a dozen of puzzles or so, it's a cute short "story" but it's not even an apetizer, sure, in the end it says "end of lume part 1", but it's a part where you pay 6,99€ to get.


TL;DR

- One of the puzzles is nearly impossible to solve on your own, and crucial to finish the game;
- Even if you get stuck a lot, you can beat the game in only a few minutes, not even 1 hour.


Would I recommend playing this game? Sure, it is a bit fun at most and challenging, you will probably need a guide for 1 or 2 puzzles though and it's an interesting new concept.

Would I recommend buying this game? No, unless you're either filthy rich, or get it with a bundle, seriously.


In terms of the overall game and enjoyability I give it a... maybe 8/10 (without my puzzle issue).
In terms of the price/quality ratio I give it a 1/10 just because it's visually pleasing and new.

Thanks for reading this (if anyone ever does).

I wasn't sure whether or not to recommend this game. In the end, I decided to recommend it. Why? Because even though it was extemely short, it was heaps of fun and quite challenging.

Pros:
- Visually pleasing - very nice art which looks like a lot of effort has been put into it.
- Unique puzzles.
- Pleasant music.
- Interesting and fun gameplay.

Cons
- Extemely short - felt more like a demo than an actual game.
- Overpriced - very expensive for what you get. Get it while it's on sale.

If you like point and click puzzle adventure games, I would recommend that you buy this. However, it is not worth it at full price, so I would say wait for it to go on sale. :)

LoL, took me 7min to figur out what to do and 30min to complete the game.
It is a nice "Demo" (no, the whole game took me 30min) but it is so short, that I would give it f2p as a Demo. It's a pitty there are people giving away money for this...

Lume is a small point-and-click adventure where your task is to restore power to your grandfather's home.

The game is light and fun. If you like games like Machinarium and Botanicula, you'll like this.

The only downfall of the game is it's length. It's incredibly short. I think I completed this game within an hour, which, for a game with no replayability and a cost of £4.99, is a little disappointing.

However, that doesn't mean the game isn't good. It is, it's enjoyable with some unique puzzling. But, I would say, if you're looking to get the game, wait til it's on sale.

-Nilesy

And incredibly adorable point and click game with a wonderful aesthetic and puzzles ranging from simple to complex.

A charming, beautiful game. It's extremely short, but while it lasts it's an excellent experience that reminds us how many unique aesthetics remain to be explored by videogames.

For $6.99 there is an absolute abysmal amount of value to be had with this game. I beat it in 52 minutes. You could rent several two-hour long movies at that price. Apparently this is part one in a series, unfortunately the developers seem to have given up after episode one. It's cute, has a great aesthetic... it's just so incomplete. Some puzzles aren't as obvious as they should be. Poor design. Don't bother if you don't want to feel let down or suffer from buyer's remorse.

It pains me to say it, but as charming as Lume is, it doesn’t offer much else to back it up.

Looking back, it probably didn’t help that I played it just after Machinarium, For one, apart from one particularly obscure solution, Lume’s puzzles are rather simple.

But I think what really ruins it is how short it is. I finished it in an hour, and that’s because I played around a bit. I can certainly tolerate short games, but Lume doesn’t really have much going for it to compensate being so short. Even weirder is that it’s supposed to be episode 1 of a series, which not only was never released, but makes you wonder why they chose to make it episodic in the first place.

Now, the game has pretty visuals, really pretty indeed, and if you want to see that yourself, wait for a sale. But really, if you’re just looking for an adventure game to play, pick another one, Lume is light on content and will probably disappoint you.

This game is just... what?
I'm happy i didn't buy it for original price.
Too much information, too little playing, they just give you key to puzzles, but makes it difficult by imprecission and i really don't like this type of puzzles.... i played much adventures, but this one is one of theese bad.
Graphics are something between 2D and 3D, making the final effect... ...weird and chaotic and the resolution is just... too small.
If you wanna spend your money, this isn't best choice

This point and click has a really nice art style to it.
It’s set in a miniature model house, which was handmade and looks wonderful. I personally really appreciate games like this that someone has put a lot of effort into and gone that extra mile to make it unique. At this moment I only know one other game that does this kind of thing, and maybe if you are a point and click adventure fan you already know of it: The Dream Machine. Which is handmade from clay. Both are wonderful and creative games, and even though this is a review for Lume, I would definitely recommend that one to.
Lume is a pretty short game, it didn’t take me long to finish but it is still nice play. The puzzles are decent and it has a great general feel to it. The only thing that I would say against it is that if you are looking to take a gander at this game, keep in mind how short it is and maybe wait until it’s on sale. Because it really won’t take you long to finish.
Personally I think that it’s a real shame how short this is, a full length game like this would be really great to see.

Too short. Definitely not worth $7.

Silly me, I assumed this was a complete game! The end credits state this was just Chapter One, but I don't anticipate we will ever see any more. In this chapter you get about half a dozen puzzles which take about an hour to solve, depending on your skill level. At $6.99 this is a complete rip-off. The music and art style are charming, but they do not justify the full price nor short play time. If you're really curious, wait to get it for cheap in a bundle.