Lumines: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Lumines (2004) is a music, puzzle video game developed by Gameloft, available on PC, iOS, PSP, X360, Mobile. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 83/100 on IGDB.

What is Lumines about?

Lumines is a block-dropping game, that may seem at first to be similar to Columns and Tetris. A 2 x 2 square (an O tetromino) made of four smaller block pieces is dropped into the playing field, which may appear different as the player advances through levels or skins. The small blocks that comprise the larger blocks will be one of two different colors. The objective is to rotate and align the blocks in such a way as to create 2x2 squares of the same color, which may span multiple blocks and, indeed, share blocks. For example, if one should get a 2x3 area of matching blocks, the middle portion will "share" itself with both the left and right halves and create two 2x2 squares. After the "timeline", which is synchronized to the music, sweeps over the matching blocks, they disappear. When too many unmatched blocks pile up to the point where no more blocks may be dropped in the playing field

Key details

Lumines was released in 2004 and supports single player, multiplayer. Platforms: PC, iOS, PSP, X360, Mobile. Developer: Gameloft.

Should you play Lumines?

A solid 83/100 aggregate score makes Lumines a safe pick for fans of music, puzzle.