Luminids wants you to build a village and then just sit in the grass with it
A solo-developed colony sim that swaps the top-down grid for a first-person walk through your own settlement, currently in open playtest on Steam.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The first thing Luminids shows you is a face, not a tool bar. One still has the camera pressed right up against a small orange creature called Astra, blue eyes, a smile drawn in a single curved line, a UI prompt underneath offering to let you ask about a temple or hold a key to Care. Most colony sims open with a resource counter. This one opens with a pet. Luminids Studios, which is one person working under the name Nick Jacob, has been building what the Steam listing calls a cosy colony-building sandbox you can step inside. The pitch is the usual two-layer promise of the genre, shape the l...