

Some simply require the right item in your inventory, while others demand more complex logic and spatial understanding. She might have to reattach labels onto chemical bottles for developing photographs (organizing them by their pattern), or arrange lemons properly on a battery board to generate electricity. This involves tasks like finding an alternate way to power a crane to put a dome seal on a light well (which requires some diplomatic negotiation) or operating a bike to start a water wheel that’s actually one big washing machine. Since the power is out in the city and most people live in precarious locations (on the edges of cliffs, by the river, and so forth), Lumi must help them before she can proceed.

The real gameplay is the puzzles, which usually involve different mechanisms. Players point and click around the screen to move her around each section of the city, and they can interact with objects to pick them up or click on other characters to talk to them. So Lumi sets off on an adventure to find him. Someone’s broken in, and her Grandad yells for her to head to the city as he’s taken away. One day, as she’s making tea for her Grandad, she hears shouts and crashes from the floor above. Everything in Lumino City looks hand-crafted, and that design makes the city she moves through a wonder to behold. You play as Lumi, a young girl who looks like a paper doll. Lumino City is a point-and-click puzzle-adventure game where you navigate a city in search of the main character’s Grandad, who’s mysteriously disappeared.
