The Luminous Underground is a role playing app developed by Choice of Games LLC.
How many times has The Luminous Underground been downloaded?
The Luminous Underground has been downloaded 4.3 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 12 times.
What is the rating of The Luminous Underground?
The Luminous Underground is rated 4.22 out of 5 stars, based on 83 ratings.
Is The Luminous Underground free?
The Luminous Underground is free to download. The APK download size is 8.28 MB. The latest version available is 1.1.11. The last update was on January 5, 2026.
What are the requirements for The Luminous Underground?
The Luminous Underground requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play December 2020.
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 daemon.
Of course, corruption and mismanagement festers down here. Is this all part of your competitors’ attempts to secure the subway contract for their own? Is City Hall's stingy maintenance budget to blame? How much can you get paid not to fix this problem?
Are you ready to patrol your patch of subway, or will you stand by and let it crumble?
• Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, aromantic, or asexual. • Descend into a magic-drenched subway and face down spirits beneath the streets! • Help time travelers integrate into the incredible world of today. • Dig up megacorporate corruption while you dust off vacuum tubes. • Investigate mysterious disappearances down in the underground. • Cooperate with other outfits in town, or act on your own • Lead the mayor to safety through a gauntlet of terrors! • Save the lives of a missing crew under an impossible sky. • Calm down a giant woman who's got you in the palm of her hand.
Strange things are crawling out of the subway. Someone better call you.
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★★★★★
So of course there are incels complaining about this game, never mind those people, this game is honestly a gem, it's dope asf
★★★★★
I really liked the writing and the premise. I thought our "ghost-busting" (technically, "daemon-dissipating") crew was delightful, a time travelling girl is in particular very delightful. I liked all the adventures we went on. The romance was lacking, and I think it's best to just give it a skip. The world building can also get a bit confusing initially, but stick with it! It's lovely. That, plus the sheer size of the book, should be enough to satisfy most fans.
★★★★★
All those whining about the pronouns are doing themselves a disservice by giving up on this story. For starters, it's practically novel length; so you're definitely getting your money's worth. But mostly it's the characters and world building that draws you in. The writer has created a rich lore, and you find yourself nurturing more than one character. The story reveals itself slowly, but there are plenties of mini "episodes" to tide you over.
★★☆☆☆
JUST ANOTHER FEMINISTS BOOK.....ALSO THIS IS ANOTHER GAME Where I'M GIVIN A DECISION THAT BARELY MATTERS....ALSO THERE IS ONLY 2 GENDERS AND 2 PRONOUN🤬 WHAT THE H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS, IS UP WITH THOSE OTHER MADE UP TRASH.....AND ONE LAST THING, MOST OF THESE BOOKS THAT SAY SUGGESTIVE THEMES BUT ARE NOT EVEN SEXUAL LIKE TF MAN😐....ALSO WHY NOT JUST SAY "GODS", WHY ADD THE "GODDESS" PART TOO.... I'M PRETTY SURE THAT LGBT🤮🤢AND FEMINIST COMMUNITY OWNS THE "CHOICE OF GAMES" AND "HOSTED GAMES"
★★☆☆☆
I couldn't finish it. Gave me too much headache. All those weird pronouns just confuse me: is that a guy or a girl? Or neither? Zy? Zer? 'Mx'? I wish there's an option early on to disable all the weird pronouns. Too much for me, sorry if I can't pretend to be smart.
★★☆☆☆
MY FRIEND TOLD ME HE LEFT A COMMENT.....BUT IT'S NOT SHOWING🤬😠 I THINK THEY ARE NOT SHOWING CERTAIN COMMENTS THAT THEY DON'T AGREE WITH......HE JUST SHOWED ME HIS PHONE AND IT'S CLEAR THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN VIEW HIS MESSAGE.......THESE PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC 😠 THEY DON'T AGREE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS AGAINST THE LGBT COMMUNITY, SO THEY BLOCK HIS MESSAGE 😡🤬.....HOW MANY PEOPLE MESSAGES HAVE THEY DID THIS TOO AND PEOPLE WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW UNLESS SOMEONE TRIED TO SEE THAT PERONS MESSAGE ON THEIR PHONE
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