Lumino City

Don’t get me wrong, this game’s designs that are handcrafted are beautiful. The problems lie in the puzzles and controls. The controls feel very clunky and you can’t reverse mid-movement when you’ve already set the character to move, which is annoying. The depth perception feels off, which is kind of the point but felt awkward to move. The puzzles range from relatively simple to frustrating. I could not get further than the diner section before giving up and deleting the game. I had to basically either tap everything until the puzzle was complete, or use online guides to help because some puzzles gave me no clue where to even start, let alone how to do it. I’m usually good at puzzles but I need a place to start and unfortunately most of the puzzles I played here lack that. Once again, beautiful game design but frustrating puzzles make it hard to want to finish the game.

Liked this game because it’s inspired by handcraft tools and paper crafts, Won a BAFTA game award in 2015 for Artistic Achievement, would recommend to others finding a game inspired by handcraft materials

The puzzles are fun and very satisfying to solve. A delight from beginning to end.