Luminary

Luminary is an ARPG-lite that you can play solo or online with up to three players. As a new Luminary, you wield radiant energy to reclaim a corrupted world and defeat the Ebonarchs, tyrants who have hoarded their light and become beings of darkness.

The world and its story

Centuries ago, primal magic surged from the earth’s depths, fueling empires while corrupting the world and its inhabitants. Forests blackened, skies bled shadow and rivers turned to poison. A rarer radiant energy also emerged, appearing in pure warriors known as Luminaries, who use its light to push back the blight.

A Luminary’s gift grants immortality but threatens to corrupt the soul. Every 80 years, Luminaries must pass their light to a successor or risk eternal decay. Those who refuse and hoard their light grow into Ebonarchs. You must shatter an Ebonarch’s abyssal power source to strip away its immortality, then strike it down.

Explore and fight

The game’s hand-crafted open-zone map covers 2 square kilometres, with half of it available to explore. You can climb mountains, cross deep waters and glide to distant lands using different forms of traversal, while searching for hidden treasure. The real-time, skill-based combat lets you switch between fighting styles and weapons during a fight, with melee, ranged attacks, magic, blocking and dodging. Sword and shield, and bow, are the starting weapon types.

You fight enemies, destroy camps and bases, liberate large towers and face mini-bosses. The main boss fight that completes the game is planned for the release of the map’s back half. After defeating the map’s end boss, you unlock a higher difficulty tier, where enemies are tougher and rewards and XP are greater. You can replay the experience at harder difficulties to keep progressing.

Solo and co-op

You can play alone or join up to two other players online, with drop-in, drop-out co-op. Your character’s progression carries between your solo game and friends’ games, so you can continue developing the same character in either mode. In multiplayer, you are not tied to the host’s location and can choose how to spend your time, including mining ores to trade with friends for gold.

Characters and progression

The character creator offers six races, along with hairstyles, beards and makeup. Progression carries across solo, co-op and multiple playthroughs, and town upgrades carry into New Game +. You can also mine, fish and catch animals, and gather resources to help townspeople rebuild their town.

The Blacksmith, Armorer, Arcanist and Chef can level up, allowing them to craft and sell better equipment.