The Luminous Underground overview

Overview

The Luminous Underground comes from Choice of Games and is published by Choice of Games. It arrived on Steam on Dec 17, 2020, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Luminous Underground's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 03:53:46 UTC, with a tracked peak near 16. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 73% positive across 11 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Luminous Underground is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Luminous Underground has sold up to 330 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $1,651. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Luminous Underground overview details

The Luminous Underground combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Blast spirits out of a haunted subway system! Can your team defeat rival exterminators, shoddy gear, and City Hall? You've been a daemon dissipator for years, carrying a rainbow blaster and learning the ins and outs of magic to zap electromagnetic monsters into static. After following the jobs from one end of Septenland to the other, you've settled down here in Barrington: an old city. A weird city. A city boiling with spirits, specters, and daemons. It's the perfect place to start a company of your own. The Luminous Underground is a 660,000-word interactive secondary-world science fantasy novel by Phoebe Barton, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Your team is just you and McCowan, your friend and business partner, but it's hard for two people to run an operation like this. When you applied for a contract with the Barrington Transit Commission, you didn't expect anything but a flat rejection. But you got it! And now you've got to find more teammates, sharpen your skills, and put a dent in the spirit population while staying well clear of the electrified rail. But you'll find that Barrington's underground is much more than its tunnels. There's a forest down here, teeming with crystalline trees that glitter under your flashlight. There's a portal to the Vitalscape, a super-luminous alternative realm of being. You can enter it through a mural, but you'll need a crystal tuning fork to get back. There are giants, robots, daemons, and even a giant robot d…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Luminous Underground is listed as a game with $7.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 03:53:46 UTC, a tracked peak of 16, and 73% positive reviews.

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