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Lumines Arise 2025
Lumines Arise is a 2025 puzzle video game developed by Enhance Games and Monstars Inc. and published by Enhance Games for PlayStation 5 and Windows. Players control falling 2x2 blocks that descend toward the bottom of the screen, with matching colored squares forming larger clusters when aligned. These clusters clear from left to right in rhythm with the music's BPM. Each level uses distinct block colors, textures, backgrounds, visual effects, sound cues, and original tracks.
The game draws inspiration from Enhance Games's earlier work, Tetris Effect, and includes a main single-player mode named Journey that contains over 35 stages referred to as "skins". Additional features include a live 1v1 competitive mode called Burst Battle, 60 training missions, and 25 unique game modes within the Missions hub. The title also supports VR with spatial audio for headphones.
Lumines Arise launched on November 11, 2025, marking the first new entry in the series since 2018's Lumines Remastered and the first since 2012's Lumines: Electronic Symphony. Critics responded positively, especially praising the Journey mode, visual design, graphics, gameplay, music, and added modes. A few reviewers noted that certain skin animations could be visually overwhelming or distracting, though others were unaffected by this aspect.
Crew
- Director
- Takashi Ishihara
- Producer
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Mark McDonald
- Music
- Hydelic, Takako Ishida
Details
- Developer
- Enhance Games, Monstars Inc.
- Publisher
- Enhance Games
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5, Windows
- Modes
- Single-player, multiplayer
- Engine
- Unity
- Series
- Lumines
