About the Luminary Wiki

Welcome to luminary.wiki — an unofficial fan-made guide site for Luminary, the OpenZone ARPG-lite from Refractive Entertainment launching on Steam Early Access August 11, 2026 at $19.99. This page indexes every major hub so you can jump to mechanics, hardware reviews, town economy, map geography, or browser tools without hunting the navigation bar. We are not affiliated with Refractive Entertainment; for official purchase and patch notes, use the Steam store page and official Discord.

Luminary supports solo play and three-player online drop-in/drop-out co-op with shared progression, real-time weapon swap combat across Sword and Shield, Bow, and Magic Glove, hub town vendors, mining and fishing gathering, Tower liberation, Life Tree rescue, camp destruction, and Tier difficulty after the campaign end boss. Early Access day one ships roughly half of the planned two-kilometer-square map with ongoing updates toward 1.0.

Guides — learn the core loop

The Guides Hub is the default starting point for new players. It links walkthroughs including Getting Started, How to Play Luminary, Demo Walkthrough, Combat Basics, Liberate Towers, Level Up and Town Vendors, and Hall of Heroes and Endgame. Read Guides when you need step-by-step mechanics and session flow rather than hardware buying advice.

Guides overlap conceptually with Town and Map hubs but stay quest- and combat-oriented. Town and Map pages go deeper on economy and geography without replacing Liberate Towers combat phases.

Controls — input and traversal

The Controls Hub documents keyboard and mouse, controller, Steam Deck, and locomotion bindings for climbing, gliding, and swimming. Start here before long exploration sessions or co-op nights where friends use mixed input devices. Controls content pairs with Builds Hub when optimizing swap keys for melee, ranged, or magic focus.

Builds — weapons and proficiency

The Builds Hub covers Weapons Overview, Proficiency, Weapon Tier List, and specialized Melee Build, Ranged Build, and Magic Build pages. Use Builds when investing proficiency time or planning party composition — not when checking GPU requirements.

Co-op — online three-player play

The Co-op Hub explains How Co-op Works, Shared Progression, and Roles and Party Tips. Couch co-op is planned later; Early Access ships online co-op only. Co-op guides assume you already understand town and map objectives from other hubs.

Town — vendors and gathering

The Town Hub expands hub layout, Vendors and Crafting, Mining, and Fishing with animal catching notes. Town is where ore, fish, and loot become power through Blacksmith, Armorer, Arcanist, and Chef services. Visit Town hubs when economic bottlenecks block map progress.

Map — OpenZone geography

The Map Hub covers World Overview, Towers and Life Trees, and Camps and Treasures. Map pages emphasize landmark structure, camp order, and exploration pacing across the day-one half map. Pair Map content with Guides Liberate Towers for interior combat detail.

Review — demo, specs, roadmap

The Review Hub hosts Demo Review for Very Positive demo sentiment, System Requirements for minimum i7-8700K and GTX 1080 6 GB versus recommended Ryzen 9 3900X and RTX 2080 8 GB tiers, and Early Access Roadmap for launch scope and update expectations. Review hub answers “should I buy” and “will my PC run it” — not “how do I dodge this boss.”

Tools — checklist and build notes

The Tools Hub introduces browser helpers: Launch Checklist with interactive checkboxes saved locally, and Build Notes pad for drafting loadouts and vendor plans. Tools do not sync to Steam cloud saves — they track personal prep on this wiki only.

How wiki content is maintained

Articles generate from JSON source files in maintainer workflows — players read finished pages here. English is the root locale; French, German, and Spanish ship as translated layers configured in site metadata. SEO titles and descriptions follow length budgets with monthly update stamps at build time.

Cross-page facts — Early Access date, co-op mode, platform — centralize in facts verification so Liberate Towers, Demo Review, and Co-op hubs stay aligned. When Refractive patches Luminary, wiki maintainers update JSON sources and regenerate pages rather than editing MDX by hand.

Suggested paths by player type

Brand-new, demo installed

1. Review Demo Review
2. Guides Getting Started
3. Tools Launch Checklist

Launch night co-op host

1. Review System Requirements
2. Co-op How Co-op Works
3. Tools Build Notes

Map completion focused

1. Map World Overview
2. Map Towers and Life Trees
3. Guides Hall of Heroes

Legal and community

Luminary and related marks belong to Refractive Entertainment LLC. This wiki is fan-made for education and community coordination. Report factual errors via Discord discussion threads; official bug reports belong on Steam.

Hall of Heroes signup existed pre-launch for legacy recognition — distinct from in-game Hall progression documented in endgame guides. Bookmark this index when new hubs or tools arrive during Early Access milestones.