Games like Lumins and Shades
If Lumins and Shades is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chomp Garden, Slap The Rocks and Block Buster Billy — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Lumins and Shades 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.
Chomp Garden
WHY THIS
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.
Slap The Rocks
WHY THIS
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?
Block Buster Billy
WHY THIS
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?
UwUbUwU
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lumins and Shades.
UwUbUwU is a small cozy puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.
Trails
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 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.
The Gardener
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 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!
SokoMage
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Lumins and Shades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lumins and Shades.
SokoMage is a new Top-Down puzzle that will push your brain to the limit. Slap rocks, avoid bushes, and hit the crystal to reach the end! Can you smash your way to the final level?
Trifoil
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lumins and Shades at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
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!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
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!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
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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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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