Lushfoil Photography Sim review Developer: Matt Newell Matt Newell Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Annapurna Interactive Release: April 15th, 2025 April 15th, 2025 On: Windows Windows From: Steam, Epic Games Store Steam, Epic Games Store Price: $15 / £TBC $15 / £TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core 19-10900K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090, Windows 10; Steam Deck Primarily, Lushfoil Photography Sim is – spoilers – a photography sim. Then it's a walking sim. Then it's a photography sim again.
Then more walking. Then it's a photography teacher, and a very calm and cool one at that; the kind that would lay down in liquid mud to shoot a daffodil at just the right angle, then get back up and say "Ahhh, that's lovely" in a gentle New Zealand accent. This specific quality accounted for much of my initial interest, being someone who owns a DSLR yet has no clue what half the buttons are for.
Lushfoil Photography Sim is a pretty effective instructor, though by choosing a series of stonkingly gorgeous natural beauty spots as its classrooms, it's even more effective at provoking a general wanderlust that has – repeatedly but quite happily – derailed my studies. You're free to explore and snap at your own pace, each location dropping you in and setting you loose upon its picturebook-pretty sights. There's a global mix of locales to work through, starting with a glistening Italian lake and moving onto Japanese Shinto shrines, eerie Icelandic volcanoes, leafy English parkland, and sky-.
