Games like Luminest
If Luminest is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Master's Pupil, Chants of Sennaar and Ynglet — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Luminest: Luminest is a hand-drawn 2D puzzle-platformer. As Lumi the light spirit, you traverse mutated woods gathering crystal shards. Solve light-themed puzzles with light, color and rhythm. Uncover hidden lore amid exploration to reignite the tiny world, featuring whimsical and soothing aesthetics.
Players who liked Luminest also play
Steam players who put hours into Luminest also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Master's Pupil
WHY THIS
Top pick for Luminest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
The Master’s Pupil is a hand painted puzzle adventure game set inside Claude Monet's eyeball
Chants of Sennaar
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Luminest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
Ynglet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Luminest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.
Amnesia: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Luminest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Luminest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Adapted from the bestselling children’s book series Pierre The Maze Detective, play as Pierre in this adventure/puzzle game and recover the stolen Maze Stone. Journey through breathtakingly hand-drawn illustrations, meet eccentric characters, and solve puzzles to save Opera City!
Munin
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Luminest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.
Heavenly Bodies
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Luminest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
Donut County
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Luminest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Luminest.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Luminest.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Master's Pupil
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
The Master’s Pupil is a hand painted puzzle adventure game set inside Claude Monet's eyeball
Chants of Sennaar
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
Ynglet
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.
Amnesia: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Adapted from the bestselling children’s book series Pierre The Maze Detective, play as Pierre in this adventure/puzzle game and recover the stolen Maze Stone. Journey through breathtakingly hand-drawn illustrations, meet eccentric characters, and solve puzzles to save Opera City!
Munin
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.
Heavenly Bodies
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
Donut County
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminest.
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
Frequently asked about Luminest
- What games are most similar to Luminest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Luminest are The Master's Pupil, Chants of Sennaar, Ynglet.
- Who developed Luminest?
- Luminest was developed by Yahna Game.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Luminest.
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