Illuminaria

Selva Interactive

About this game

Mine resources, manage and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to drive out the darkness and bring back the light.

■ Control a swarm of robots using simple interactions

Choose where to build, what resources to gather, and then watch the robots do the heavy lifting. They'll gather the resources, build, load weapons, fight, and respond to the world around them.

■ Defend your bases from incoming attacks

Vicious enemies of darkness will attack your base, attempting to destroy your reactors and steal your resources. Build turrets and load them up with ammunition to repel the attacks.

■ Build multiple bases and manage them all at the same time

Instead of having a sandbox world, you'll need to build several smaller bases with finite space. Be on the lookout as all the bases keep functioning at all times and can be attacked by the enemies.

■ Venture into dungeon-like expeditions to battle and find precious relics

Adventure and explore to find hidden treasures, and fight enemies in auto-battles. This way, you'll get rare resources to use to your advantage.

■ Research new technologies in different regions

The game will have five regions, each with new resources and technologies to discover.

■ Liberate the world by lighting beacons and crafting your own army

The world of Illuminaria was taken over by darkness. Unravel the story about what happened on the planet as you clean and liberate the five regions by lighting beacons and sending your armies of golems to attack.

Ratings and reviews

It's an interesting game. I don't usually play tower defense types. I played through on normal and it was pretty easy, but don't plan to replay on hard. It takes a while and you're doing the same basic thing over and over. Especially in the last cave, getting the advanced research resources takes forever even doubling up on the prereqs and increasing the speed. You don't have enough runes to defend everything at once and you need to be upgrading them, so I juggled them whenever I was attacked.

Fantastic game. I didn't pay much attention to the story, but I went back and it was a good one (I just don't like to read anymore). Was left wanting more, but with zero interest in playing hard mode which I assume just made expeditions harder via +health and +damage enemies and what, disasters more frequent? Worth every penny of the play pass. A hidden gem that I want more of.

This is an idle sim by way of tower defense: Your minions gather resources of your choosing and you have to balance between defending territory, crafting items/upgrades and foraging missions. Engaging dynamic that gives you multiple ways to win. Creative artwork, soothing music and intriguing (minimal) backstory. Only complaint is that the game forces you to upgrade to pass levels; it would be more engaging of you had the option to pick and choose. Still, very much worth the download.

What's new

- Fixed issue with achievements in Google Play Services
- Improved scrolling in research, and other windows