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The Artisan of Glimmith
Developer Lunarch Studios
The Artisan of Glimmith is a 2026 puzzle video game. Players solve logic puzzles based on dividing and coloring two-dimensional grids to restore stained glass windows. Developed by Lunarch Studios, the game was published by 983 Interactive and released in March 2026 for Windows. Critics praised the game's general concept, puzzle design, visual style, and atmosphere, while some noted concerns with the method and… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
321 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
97
LovedLoved
258 positive · 9 negative
95% range 94–98%
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| Steam reviews | 258 | 9 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
54 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
2,624 of 2,685 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 321 · most liked firstI'm more invested in this game than in my teenage crush history. Puzzle fans, just pick it up. Trust me. Thank you to Lunarch Studios for the curator copy. This is nonetheless an impartial review. First things first: I almost never review a game before reaching 100%. But this time I simply couldn’t wait. I. Am. In. Love. After about 3h30 on stream, roughly 3½ zones explored and 10/57 achievements unlocked, I’ve already seen enough to shout about this beautiful puzzle gem. Consider this an…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can be easily recommended to all grid-based puzzle fans just for its content value alone. See that hours played figure up there? Only like a dozen of those hours were idle time, the rest were active brainwork. Over 1200 puzzles, and they get hard! I couldn't solve all of them despite all the hours played. And that's not counting all the workshop puzzles -- I tried a couple random ones, and they were just as good, if not better, than the ones from the main game. But I've got a few criticisms.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Daily Purp 650- Glass Window puzzle game fun (Yes, I've been obsessed with the Artisan of Glimmith for the last couple of days) #OCArt #OC #Art #DailyPurp
unlabelledView post →A very chill puzzler that will provide many hours of entertainment. The Artisan of Glimmith is a pure puzzler. No story, no dialog, and no drama. Just a beautiful landscape to examine and a plethora of visual puzzles to solve. I have played almost 9 hours and have barely scratched the surface. I've solved around 150 puzzles and am still working in the opening area, focused on the easier exercises. Puzzles are ranked 1 through 7, with 1 being the easiest and 7 being the hardest. I am currently…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun puzzle game. Apparently polyomino logic puzzles. Never heard of these things before. The trailer is somewhat misleading tho, there's no pretty landscape to wander through, just an isometric view to pick the next puzzle from.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A truly obscene amount of content for the price, really great puzzles, lots of mechanics and a nice difficulty curve
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm approaching this as an expansion for Islands of Insight. It has perhaps the same weakness which is that there are trivially simple puzzles everywhere as far as the eye can see. In Islands of Insight, you quickly learned to skip those and head straight to...(it's been a while)...5-star and higher puzzles. Here, you're a bit more tied to doing all of them because of the way new areas unlock. But harder puzzles are around, although as yet I haven't seen any anything like the difficulty of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A handcrafted game about a handcraft in a time of automatisation and AI, is a true relief.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a LOT here. If you enjoy the demo you will almost certainly get your money's worth from the full game. Only complaint is the game is shockingly gpu heavy for what it is, I probably shouldn't need to cap my fps to prevent 90%+ gpu usage on my setup. The vast majority of the time you will be staring at the close up of the puzzle and yet the game is using a ton of resources somehow? While I can appreciate the idea that all the puzzles happen in the physical 3d space of the overworld I'm…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm behind on game reviews. Here's a bunch: - The Séance of Blake Manor - Intelligence - The Artisan of Glimmith - Blippo+ - Kevin's Playing in Berlin - Planet of Lana 2 - Legacy of Kain: Ascendance blog.zarfhome.com/2026/04/game...
unlabelledView post →Great to just launch for a short session when you don't know what to play. So relaxing and fun! Music is great and puzzles are handmade, not randomly generated. And there's lots of them, with different rules and different combinations of rules! Each puzzle feels fresh.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a nice cozy puzzle game. Easy to get in a flow state and solve them until you get tired. The ambience is pleasant, the sound design addictive, the difficulty scale well-balanced at the lower end. I enjoyed playing it and I 100%ed it in a couple of weeks and 127 hours of play, so I would recommend it. But there are a lot of unpolished sides too. First off, and most annoying for a puzzle game, the puzzles. The game asks you to never guess, but it doesn't give you decent tools to mark…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: I think this game is a masterpiece and you should play it if you're a puzzle fiend. In my opinion, a truly great puzzle game takes a few easily described and intuitive rules and builds its puzzles out of them in clever and creative ways. Artisan of Glimmith delivers on that promise in enormous abundance. It's easy to get into, with rules that are easy to explain and understand, but its later puzzles challenge you to build a deep intuition for those rules, how they interact, and what…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I fully completed the game. Overall, I think it's a pretty good game based on logic puzzles. The logic puzzles by themselves are of impeccable quality, all 1,200+ of them. The rest of the game drags it down a little, but I think it's still worth it. The logic puzzles are all region division puzzles, but with different rules that can be mixed and matched, similar to their previous game Islands of Insight. I know the puzzle authors are well-known names in the logic puzzle community, so I have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't review games, so I might have trouble getting my point across, but this game is honestly beautiful. The constant new rules that are introduced, the comfort of getting familiar with them and seeing your logic develop, the eureka moments given by the hardest puzzles, the soothing music - I can't stop playing. It's surprising how much content there is, because after 30 hours, I still have lots of stuff to do in the endgame. Buy this and play it, it's the safest recommendation I could…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just 100%ed this, good puzzle game, with a good mix of easier levels and hard levels. One of the better puzzle games I've played, where hard levels have actually difficult logic they're testing you on / want you to discover, rather than just having the level be larger than normal (like Hexcells and some other similar games have liked to do). The inclusion of the "check progress" button is a nice way to have harder puzzles without the worry that you may have messed up some logic at the very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wonderful pen and paper puzzles. My only real complaint is that it's too long. I do think the game would be stronger overall if it were shorter. Also, the player should be allowed to cross out the difficulty ratings when they disagree! The Loopy chapter, for instance, clearly should be all sevens. My recommendation is to play in short bursts over a long period, but the extremely addicting nature of these puzzles makes that easier said than done.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically think "The Witness light" with on big asterisk. I don't mean to say anything bad about the game with that, but that is essentially what it is. Instead of focussing on the borders between squares you focus on the squares themselves. The rest follows the same procedure of continuous layering of mechanics onto the puzzles. The sheer amount of puzzles make the base price (12.79€ here) okay, at 30%+ off though definitely a good deal. Now for the big asterisk. The trailer is a big fat LIE…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A couple of years ago, some developers made a very interesting puzzle game called Islands of Insight. It was very good, the only problem was that they tried to tie it to MMO mechanics, and, well… puzzle games and multiplayer… there is a reason there are not many of those. It did not do well the servers closed, but they did manage to patch it so you can play it as a single-player offline game, and it is a very good puzzle game (probably one of the largest ever made). Anyway, they learned from…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very nice game for people who like solving puzzles. There are 28 different mechanics that are interesting and original, which offers a variety of different kinds of levels. I usually launch the game for a short session when I don't really know what to play, or sometimes keep playing for over an hour because solving each level can be very addictive! I have played 5 hours so far and solved more than 150 puzzles, and I’m still nowhere near the end (I think there are over 1225 puzzles in total),…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommending The Artisan of Glimmith again, as it's become one of my favourite puzzle games. The graphics, sound, and general atmosphere are so chill and beautiful, it's like half your brain is doing zen meditation while the other half is running the CPU at max store.steampowered.com/app/4160210/...
unlabelledView post →If you like puzzles, you will like this game. At some point the game will give you the tool to see the few levels you have missed, so do not stress about finding all the levels looking for them in every nook and cranny and just enjoy solving as many puzzles as you would want in one sitting.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Artisan of Glimmith is out now, from the developers of Islands of Insight!! I had a blast doing some playtesting, the puzzles are super excellently crafted! Looking forward to digging into the full game! :) store.steampowered.com/app/4160210/...
unlabelledView post →Excellently designed puzzles, good controls, no time or move number restraints tacked on to a arbitrary rating system, extra-curricular tough as nails challenges, and a freaking level editor. What more do you want? The platonic ideal thinky-puzzle-game. And for less than £10, this is a steal. Absolute 10/10 game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a puzzle game about dividing puzzles in regions, these regions must have one of the shapes in the shape bank (on the right) or derived from rules. The first puzzles are an introduction to this kind of puzzles that's why they are easy but gradually building on difficulty and (later) complexity. New rules are introduced as you progresses, rules once introduced can be combined. There are some really clever puzzles here. The music and the environment are nice. The environment can not be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Artisan of Glimmith is a great and beautiful pure puzzle game by Lunarch Studios of [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2071500/Islands_of_Insight/]Islands of Insight. I liked it a lot. To me it's not quite on the level of all-time puzzle game classics like [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1295320/Can_of_Wormholes/]Can of Wormholes or [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/Patricks_Parabox/]Patrick's Parabox, since it's ultimately still more like a collection of great…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here I thought people were joking about the number of puzzles, but dear lord is the game packed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game that has quickly shot up my favorites list from this year is The Artisan of Glimmith. (We'll have a short video up on it soon) But if you like chill grid puzzles and a really banging soundtrack, I highly recommend it! Good vibes, great art style, very layered ruleset puzzles!
unlabelledView post →sick little puzzle game, would buy at any price. its The Witness minus the pretentiousness lol
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Posting a Meursault from #LimbusCompany until Canto 10, Day 69 Meursault Window from @cantoxcountdown.bsky.social (game is The Artisan of Glimmith, check it out!)
unlabelledView post →Been playing a bunch of The Artisan of Glimmith - about 20 hours in the past week. The premise is simple (pen-and-paper region division puzzles) but what really sells the game is the quality of the puzzle design, which is consistently very high. The pricing on this is kind of an insane deal, too.
unlabelledView post →I'm really enjoying this game! 700 puzzles in and still not done learning new mechanics. They just keep coming! The concept of the game is quite simple -- grid based puzzles with a variety of different rules. There's a fairly simple overworld that's mostly there to allow you to select puzzles, although sometimes puzzles are hidden in a way that requires careful camera manipulation to find. The overall aesthetic is very pretty too; staring at the puzzle solving screen with the serene music…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely fantastic! I'm a long-time solver of pencil puzzles, from online competitions, websites like puzzlink and PuzSq, and physical magazines like Nikoli and Toketa. The quality of these puzzles is fantastic, so many clever ideas! Compared to other puzzle collections, I particularly appreciated the frequent use of non-rectangular grids to highlight core ideas in puzzles. The other aspects of the game (overworld, art and music, UI) are generally good; particularly I think the overworld…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An absolutely amazing puzzle game. I used to play a ton of minesweeper, and this game feels like it uses the same types of logic but turned up to 11 (or turned up to 7 iykyk lol). Some of these puzzles are absolute masterpieces. The very last puzzle I did required me to write up a mathematical proof to solve it. Just please play this game you will not regret it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hate to give "Not recommended" review, but I don't like a direction of this game. No, really, it is a very good puzzle game. Reminds me a lot about "Witness" in both mechanics and visuals. Various rules, often combined, increase diversity very much. But there is too much of it. While many players seem to appreciate it, I do not. There are literally hundreds of somewhat different puzzles: some are easy and some are not, but it makes no difference, because there is also a button that checks…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The puzzles are fun (I've been playing along with a friend on their screen) but the game appears to be very poorly optimized. Even with the graphics on low, with the screen resolution down, the game run extremely hot for me and the discussions indicate that it's not just me. It runs much hotter than other games which you would expect to be more demanding. This is quite surprising as it is at the core of it just a 2D puzzle game. The game also crashes for me after a while, which is probably…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great puzzle game. I have only 3 minor complaints. 1. The mirrors don't become gilded after completing all the puzzles designated to them, they can become gilded and then any additional display as +1 or +2 depending on how many extras there were in the area. I would prefer if the mirrors only fully completed after I cleared all the puzzles so I wouldn't be fruitlessly scanning for unsolved puzzles, I thought that was kind of their point. Not that it is necessary, but it doesn't sit right for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A genuinely relaxing game. I play with a couple of different play styles - bingeing the easiest 1-4* puzzles and bashing out lots of them, or jumping in and trying one or two really difficult puzzles. The wide variety as well as the combined rule sets make for a really deep pool of clearly hand crafted puzzles creating numerous "you got me" moments. Thoroughly enjoyable!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quantity over quality, again. This time I'm sure it's for others, but it's not for me. I would much prefer if every puzzle that didn't ask me to actually expand my understanding of *something* was cut. It's all very well made, well supported, great quality of life, and no obvious "problems" - but it's so unbelievably homogenous, and that hurts the fun value. I feel this way about a lot of these paper-puzzle types, but it's just so blatant here. There are to my knowledge over 1000 boards in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't write reviews often, especially for those game where I have not played much, but this game deserves a review. The puzzles in this game can range from very easy, to oh sh*t and every one of the puzzles I have tried so far have been very enjoyable to figure out. The game features a "hint" type system in which it will let you know if what you have done is correct or not, then it also gives you an extra option if you would like to know where you went wrong (only showing 1 error at a time…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Computer Game Show 518: Fresh Cream Arrays Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Orbitals, Star Wars: Zero Company, The Artisan of Glimmith, Xbox Cloud Gaming limits, State of Play, pudding resources + more. 📺 Watch: youtu.be/yzm1o-7tBB0 🎧 Listen: plinkhq.com/i/1100170036... 🤝 Patreon: patreon.com/tcgs
unlabelledView post →Sometimes you just want to do puzzles for hours, without story or excuse, and this is the *perfect* game for it. The puzzles are clever and elegant, very simple to grasp and potentially complex to solve. Every new area reveals a new mechanic with a few simple "tutorial" puzzles that is then added to the arsenal of mechanics the game can throw at you, and it all gels together seamlessly. The graphics, sound, and general atmosphere are so chill and beautiful, it's like half your brain is doing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game frequently causes a full system crash (blue screen of death). The discussion post from the developer blames this on Unreal Engine or "existing problems" with my system, but not a single other program (in Unreal Engine or otherwise) causes such system crashes. The game's level menu is a resource-intense 3D world with far too many uneccessary particle effects. There is no way to disable this 3D menu or its particles. Even the levels themselves, which are ostensibly a 2D puzzle, seem to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i normally only like to write reviews for games i've completed, but it's safe to say at this point that i enjoy it and recommend it. this is a fantastic puzzle game that teaches you its design language then challenges you on your understanding of it. there's a lot of content, but it doesn't feel repetitive or boring, as something is always building upon something else. will be keeping an eye on what these folks produce in the future...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a neverending bucket of puzzles. The mechanics and regions and windows just never stop (well, they do, but they definitely feel as if they don't, and that's wonderful). Just by sheer content, the game at this price point is an easy purchase. But more than that, the progression is rather natural, and the small meta "find the puzzle boxes to solve the puzzles" are cute in their own way. There is not much more to the game, up to where I progressed, no story, no extraneous gameplay, than…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Artisan of Glimmith by Lunarch Studios, a stained glass puzzle game [PC] The kingdom above the clouds has fallen into disrepair, and you've been hired to fix the stained glass. Follow each puzzle's rules and restore Glimmith to its former glory. #indiegame
unlabelledView post →Great puzzle game, very satisfying solves. I like the mix of difficulties and mechanics throughout to stop it feeling too difficult all the time. Graphically, filling in the puzzles feels very satisfying and looks really good, and it's fun choosing different colour schemes for puzzles. It plays well on steamdeck using the touchpads, I enabled back buttons. I would say it does go through battery very quickly and it gets very hot, but I tend to only play on the steamdeck in short bursts so I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Day 32: The Artisan of Glimmith by Lunarch Studios store.steampowered.com/app/4160210/...
unlabelledView post →Really enjoyable logic puzzle. Simple rules, with some clever maps.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have been waiting for this game since I played the demo, back then I just entered my paper puzzle phase after playing the DEG demo. The Artisan of Glimmith is a logic game with region division puzzles in the style of logic paper puzzles with handmade puzzles. It is by Lunarch Studios who also made Islands of Insight, which was a pretty good game with good handmade logic puzzles, but bogged down a bit with a multiplayer aspect that never really found its purpose in that game. This game cuts…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New cozy, relaxing puzzle game release day. V. excited to be streaming (8pm UK) The Artisan of Glimmith from Lunarch Studios, who made the much adored (by me) Islands of Insight, so I can't wait. twitch.tv/therealdyer #PuzzleGame #LogicPuzzle #IndieGame
unlabelledView post →I really like Shikaku games! One thing I'd like to see added is an option for when click and drag into another already colour space, to cut through/override just that square, instead of coloring the entire area. Just an option for people's preference. Sometimes I just want to cut through another section without changing that section to this color.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very well made. Visuals are calming and present the puzzle in a good and enjoyable way. Difficulty is gradual with time to learn basics. There are multiple game areas, each with different rules to follow. This makes it fun to progress and avoids monotony in puzzle composition. Overall excellent game and great experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The good: puzzles are decent; they start out slow and very easy, but difficulty ramps up and there are some quite interesting mechanics at play here. The "meh": while the visuals aren't bad, the "overworld" level selection is quite demanding on the GPU for what it actually is (i.e. a very pretty level selector). Whilst this is "just" an indie puzzle game it might struggle to run on older hardware purely because of this "overworld".
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Japanese pencil puzzles are some of the most addictive and rewarding yet invented. This game has huge great heaping dollops of them, and includes old classics alongside new inventions and many variations thereof. If this is your jam, then you've just stumbled upon the motherlode. Make no mistake, these are high-quality puzzles; handcrafted rather than computer-generated, with a clear and logical path to each solution that lends you deeper and deeper insights into the intricacies of each…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An incredible panel filling puzzle game, successor to Islands of Insight with all lessons learned! You navigate the puzzles in a top-down isometric view, but that doesn't make the environments any less beautiful. I just learned that this is the same dev of Prismata and that makes me really confused. Prismata is an abandoned 2018 F2P game still selling a DLC missing half of the campaign chapters it promises. They were really ambitious with Islands of Insight, but navigated it masterfully…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Isand of insight is a great puzzle game that try to plays like a AAA game but failed. The Artisan of Glimmith is a great puzzle game feel like it knows exactly what itself is and excel in every way.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →amazing game. A lot of fun. Only a couple of small crticisms: 1- hidden puzzles are cool and all, but it would be nice if we could at least know how many puzzles there are in total so that I can know if I missed one somewhere or not. edit: I was informed this will be unlocked later which is great. 2- The hint system seems to be really easy to abuse. I would rather it didn't exist at all or was at least disable-able in the settings.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who really loved Islands of Insight, I was super excited to hear the studio was releasing a new game. After playing a few hours, Glimmith feels like a worthy successor that has streamlined a lot of the positives from Islands of Insight - namely, the puzzle design. Lunarch are so good at using puzzles to teach the player and you'll pick up insights (hah) organically with how they've laid out the various challenges. There is also a good variety of difficulty, ranging from pretty…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Must have for any puzzle game fan. It slowly introduces puzzling mechanics and slowly ramps up the difficulty to the point where even experienced puzzlers will scratch their head thinking of where to start a solve. I especially like that once it gets to the point where the difficulty of the mechanic can only be increased by increasing the size of the puzzle it starts combining the mechanics you have learned. With 1200+ puzzles and 70hrs of playtime it's full price feels like you're already…
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