LUMINES REMASTERED similar games & best alternatives

LUMINES REMASTERED

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2018

Should you play it?

The critically-acclaimed puzzle game produced by legendary creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi comes to PC.

What works

  • Addictive and engaging gameplay
  • Excellent audiovisual presentation
  • High skill ceiling and challenge
  • Multiple game modes and unlockables
  • Fair pricing and good remaster quality

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of online multiplayer
  • Some control limitations (no analog stick support)
  • Framerate issues on high refresh monitors
  • Long sessions can be exhausting
  • Limited new content beyond original game

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Lumines Arise

  • Road to Ballhalla

  • DX-Ball 2: 20th Anniversary Edition

  • Fine Sweeper

  • TETRIS® THE GRAND MASTER 4 -ABSOLUTE EYE-

  • OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood

More violent

Games that feels like LUMINES REMASTERED but with more combat and destruction

  • Space Invaders Extreme

  • The Great Rebellion

  • GunSuit Guardians

  • Titan Attacks!

  • Waves 2: Notorious

  • PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+

More fantastical

Games that feels like LUMINES REMASTERED but with more imaginative fiction

  • Demon Lord: Just a Block

  • Rogue Fable III

  • Everhood 2

  • Yoiyami Dancers: Twilight Danmaku Dancers

  • VIVIDLOPE

  • Slime-san: Superslime Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

LUMINES REMASTERED: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Competition, Status.

Last update: 04/08/2026