Lumines Now Available on Steam

Steam added yet another game to its growing catalog yesterday; this time, it was the excellent puzzle game Lumines. If you’ve never had the opportunity to play the game before, whether on PSP, PS2 or Xbox Live Arcade, think of it as a Tetris-style game where every piece is comprised of four squares, each which is one of two colors. Your goal is to match up four of the same color squares so that the timeline (a line that sweeps across the screen in tune with the music) can erase them. It’s very simple, but very addictive. And awesome.

The Lumines base pack costs $10, and includes 21 unlockable skins in Challenge Mode, skin edit mode and a sampling of the Time Attack, Puzzle and Mission modes. You can also buy the Advance Pack for $8, which includes another 21 skins, 70 puzzles in Puzzle Mode and 35 stages in Mission Mode. Or, if you’re like me and want to save money and have it all, you can buy them together for $15.

If you opt to purchase them before next Friday, April 25, you’ll get a 10% discount. The controls are a little difficult to get used to at first on a keyboard (especially when you’ve played the game for hours on a controller or PSP), but it seems like a faithful transition to PC.