Games like Lumins and Shades
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Lumins and Shades for fans of strategy, indie, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Lumins and Shades also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Lumins and Shades: Lumins and Shades is a cute puzzle game about turning on lights and making memories.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Chomp Garden
Top pick for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
A puzzle game about guiding plants with light. Venture into a garden full of strange plants, solve puzzles, and find your pup.
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Slap The Rocks
Second-strongest match for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
Slap The Rocks is a new Top-Down puzzle which will push your brain to the limit. Slap rocks, avoid bushes and flee from stumps! Can you smash your way to the final level?
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Block Buster Billy
Third-strongest match for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
An alien family had a picnic on Billy's island. They had to leave in a hurry, causing Junior to forget his cubes. Can you help Billy figure out the mind-boggling alien puzzles?
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Trails
Ranked #4 for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
TRAILS is a cozy puzzle game in which you plot routes for floating sand ships. Deliver vital cargo to remote outposts - without collisions, dead ends, or backtracking. Every move counts in the wasteland.
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The Gardener
Ranked #5 for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
Solve tile based lawn puzzles. Explore the grounds of a forgotten manor. Discover mysterious flora and figure out their rules. Cut grass and have fun!
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Trifoil
Ranked #6 for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lumins and Shades.
A puzzle game about drawing lines that cross, merge, and interact in unique ways. Uncover secrets, decipher symbols, and trace paths that satisfy every rule.
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Leaf's Odyssey
Ranked #7 for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lumins and Shades.
A turn-based puzzle game with combat and exploration
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Snaliens
Ranked #8 for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lumins and Shades.
A group of Snaliens just collapsed on an unexplored planet and now they need your help! Help them to reunite and escape by solving intricate puzzles.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lumins and Shades at current Steam store prices.
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Garry's Mod
Priced ~67% under Lumins and Shades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lumins and Shades.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
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Vampire Survivors
Priced ~67% under Lumins and Shades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lumins and Shades.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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PEAK
Priced ~47% under Lumins and Shades on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lumins and Shades.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Priced ~50% under Lumins and Shades on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lumins and Shades.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Slay the Spire
Priced ~58% under Lumins and Shades on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Inscryption
Priced ~47% under Lumins and Shades on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Cookie Clicker
Priced ~67% under Lumins and Shades on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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WEBFISHING
Priced ~67% under Lumins and Shades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lumins and Shades.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lumins and Shades.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lumins and Shades.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lumins and Shades.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lumins and Shades.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lumins and Shades.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lumins and Shades.
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.
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The Looker
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lumins and Shades.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Lumins and Shades
- Does Lumins and Shades run on Steam Deck?
- Lumins and Shades is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Lumins and Shades cost?
- Lumins and Shades is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lumins and Shades?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lumins and Shades are Chomp Garden, Slap The Rocks, Block Buster Billy.
- Who developed Lumins and Shades?
- Lumins and Shades was developed by TheOnlyOne.
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 Lumins and Shades.
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