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Cozy colony-building sandbox

Build a colony from above. Then step inside it.

Shape one living island, help a growing colony of small luminous creatures make it home, then step into first person and walk the world you built together.

No combat. No fail states. Your Luminids grow through what they experience, the bonds they form and the places they learn to call home.

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Shape the land
Nine realms
1–4 player co-op
No combat

Featured Videos

A quick way to see how Luminids looks, feels, and plays.

Trailer

Luminids Gameplay Trailer

The current trailer: calm colony building, creature moments, and the island seen up close.

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World

Desert Tornado

Weather turning violent over the Desert Badlands, with the terrain reacting as it passes.

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Physics

Kicking a Ball With Jolt

Jolt physics in Godot, and what a colony of small creatures does when it finds a football.

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Short

A Nostalgia Flight

A short night flight over the island, and a nod to a Christmas film you probably know.

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Gameplay

Camera and Tool Testing

A hands-on view of switching perspective and testing tool and block-swinging interactions.

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VFX

Rain and Ripple VFX

A look at weather polish, particle rain, ripple effects, and terrain shader work inside the Luminids world.

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Latest Screenshots

Real captures from the current build: colony life, the creatures, the story, and the old places waiting across the island.

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A group of pale green Luminids gathered around a campfire in a sunny meadow beside a lake, with a player character standing at the fire — Colony
Colony Campfire

A Luminid named Astra floating close to the camera in a green meadow with mountains behind — Creatures
Meet Astra

At night, a blue Luminid with a moon and star crest floats close to the camera while a row of differently shaped Luminids waits in the grass behind it — Creatures
Night Gathering

A hazy golden sunrise over a still lake with fireflies drifting above the grass — Atmosphere
First Light

Astra and Tansy, two floating Luminids, in a golden stone temple hall lit with warm light — Creatures
Astra and Tansy

A blue desert pool ringed by palm trees, dunes, and distant sandstone structures — World
Desert Oasis

Inside a green stone temple, Astra speaks in a dialogue box about the Star Rudder, a relic at the far end of the hall — Story
The Star Rudder

A volcanic hillside pouring lava into a turquoise pool above a distant green coastline — World
Ember Coast

A wide terraced meadow of grass and trees with tall mountains and clouds beyond — World
Plains Meadow

A flower-covered green Luminid and a glowing orange Luminid float side by side in a torch-lit green temple corridor — Creatures
Temple Companions

Astra and a small animal in a wide grass plain with a chest, trees, and distant peaks — Colony
Open Plains

A leafy green Luminid with a mushroom cap and a small orange Luminid float above a misty, flooded temple hall — Discovery
The Flooded Hall

Looking out through an open wooden door at a stone windmill under a stormy evening sky, with fireflies drifting over the meadow — Colony
Windmill at Dusk

A barred iron gate in a teal stone temple, with a wheel-shaped relic glowing faintly in the chamber beyond — Discovery
The Sealed Gate

A still blue pond in a mountain valley seen from behind tall reeds at dawn — World
Mountain Pond

A first-person walk through tall grass in the Plains Meadow, with animals grazing under broad trees and waterfalls on the cliffs beyond — World
Meadow Walk

A Luminid standing beside a towering wall of falling lava inside a dark canyon — Discovery
The Lavafall

A sunlit shoreline of orange sand and clear sea seen from a rocky cliff path — Discovery
Coastal Ridge

You shape the world. They decide how to live in it.

You're a landscaper and a neighbour, not a manager. Shape the land, create the conditions, lend a hand when you want to, then watch the colony make the place its own.

Build a place, not a grid

Raise, lower and carve the land. Place structures and paths around the terrain, then step into first person and experience the place at ground level.

Every Luminid becomes someone

Luminids earn quirks through what they do, form bonds over time and carry important experiences forward.

One island worth knowing

Nine distinct realms share one continuous island, with landmarks, caves, ruins, beaches and places you learn to recognise.

No combat. No fail states. Still plenty to care about.

Luminids cannot die or be permanently lost. Their needs create reasons to care without turning the game into survival pressure.

Farm, fish, mine, cook and craft

Give the colony real work to do. As it grows, the Luminids gradually take more of life into their own hands.

Build together

Share an island cooperatively and explore the same world together.

Make somewhere worth belonging to.

Luminids is about the feeling that a place can become home. You shape the land, the Luminids live in it, and over time both the island and its people carry the history of what happened there.

Every Luminid becomes someone. Every place becomes somewhere.

Creature-led colony Luminids with memory Gentle world-building At your own pace

A world that keeps changing

Weather, day and night, and the passage of time leave visible marks on the world around your colony.

Creatures shaped by what they experience

Their routines, bonds, and little stories grow from where they've been and what they've lived through.

Guide gently, or simply watch

Help when you want to, step back when you don't, and let the world unfold at its own pace.

"What you build becomes part of how they live."

Luminids key art: glowing Luminids in a moonlit meadow beside a lake, under the Milky Way — A living world shaped by light

Luminids key art: glowing Luminids in a moonlit meadow

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Concept Artwork

Concept art for the opening of Luminids: where the Luminids came from, and how they reached the island.

Concept art of Luminara: a neighbourhood of pale stone homes beside a canal, with Luminids gathering under a huge ringed planet

Luminara

On Luminara, they made room for each other.

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Details, updates, and ways to connect, all in one place.

What is Luminids?

The plain explanation: what you do, how it plays, and when it lands.

No Combat, No Fail States

Why you can't lose, and what we use for tension instead.

A Cozy Colony Sim

Where Luminids sits in the genre, and who it honestly isn't for.

One Island, Nine Realms

Why we threw away an infinite world and built somewhere instead.

Logos, screenshots, descriptions, and press-ready assets.

Updates, experiments, and behind-the-scenes development.

Quick answers about the game, development, and plans.

For publishing, collaborations, and business conversations.