LUMINES REMASTERED vs The Lava Squirrel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LUMINES REMASTERED
Experience an addictive audio-visual puzzle game with block-dropping action and a vibrant soundtrack. Try free modes before unlocking the full experience with a single purchase.
- Audio-visual puzzle gameplay
- Multiple game modes
- House, trance, and techno soundtrack
- Intuitive touch controls or gamepad support
- Online leaderboards
- Cloud saves
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[TRY BEFORE YOU BUY] Try the first 15 levels in Challenge Mode and the full 60-second Time Attack Mode for free, then unlock the full game with a single in-app purchase. LUMINES REMASTERED brings the ultimate audio-visual puzzle phenomenon straight to your fingertips, beautifully marrying sound, light, and puzzle-action into one addictive yet simple game. Immerse yourself at the center of high-energy, block-dropping action while you groove to awesome house, trance, and techno beats. LUMINES REMASTERED is engineered perfectly for mobile. Take control by choosing from multiple intuitive touch layouts or connecting a gamepad for old-school precision. Take Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s critically acclaimed masterpiece with you everywhere and lose yourself in the music. Key Features: - Feel the vibes: 40 stages and a legendary soundtrack of house, trance, and techno beats—from chill to upbeat. Shuffle stages like a music playlist in Skin Edit mode. - Feel the challenge: From the non-stop puzzle fun of Challenge mode to the Time Attack, Puzzle, Mission, VS CPU and a 2P Battle (local only) modes, there's more than enough to sink your teeth into. - Feel the fun: Unlock all the music, stages, and avatars, and climb the ranks to the top of the online leaderboards. Cloud saves keep your progression going. - Feel the music: Grab your favorite pair of headphones and turn on vibration (if offered) on your device to immerse yourself in the experience.
The Lava Squirrel
Navigate a perilous ascent of 1000 stairs as a space squirrel. Master precise tapping and holding to jump and leap your way to freedom and a waiting rescue rocket.
- Tap to jump
- Hold to leap
- Ascend 1000 stairs
- Escape hostile environment
- Rescue rocket objective
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You're a tiny space squirrel in a fishbowl helmet. Your escape pod landed you in a hostile environment and the only way out is up! One thousand stairs stand between you and the rescue rocket. Tap to jump. Hold to leap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Lava Squirrel at none against LUMINES REMASTERED's 2. The Lava Squirrel also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). LUMINES REMASTERED's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (58 vs 2). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. LUMINES REMASTERED sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. The Lava Squirrel asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Lava Squirrel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LUMINES REMASTERED has 58 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LUMINES REMASTERED | The Lava Squirrel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (58 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 596 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sound Games | In Theory Digital, LLC |
Customer experience
LUMINES REMASTERED
The Lava Squirrel
In-app purchases
LUMINES REMASTERED
- Unlock Full Game$7.99
- Unlock Full Game$9.99
The Lava Squirrel
No in-app purchases
Questions
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