Best Minimalist games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our minimalist game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify minimalist games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best minimalist games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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A guard walks into a tavern

You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family. But remember, when various factions come to you, you will have to make choices!

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Nov 2023

Cats and Seek: Osaka

Hey, do you have 5 minutes to spare? Let's play hide and seek with 100 cats in Osaka! 😻 Can you find them all?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Nov 2023

An Arcade Full of Cats

Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 16 Nov 2023

Cats Hidden in Maple Hollow 🍂

Find 100 cats hiding in the cozy autumnal town of Maple Hollow in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Nov 2023

Cursorblade

Cursorblade is a bullet hell game where you play as the cursor, fighting your way through waves of enemies. Combine weapons and items to become more powerful with your own unique builds. Slash, dodge, upgrade, and repeat!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Nov 2023

Cube Chaos

Cube Chaos is a complex strategy rogue-lite about placing units to create giant armies, factories, combos, or self replicating murder crabs, overwhelming and outsmarting your opponents. Build and adapt new strategies each run using a ludicrous variety of units, perks and more.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Oct 2023

Hellboy Web of Wyrd

Hellboy Web of Wyrd is a roguelike action brawler with an original story created in partnership with Dark Horse Comics and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. When an agent of the B.P.R.D. goes missing, Hellboy is sent to investigate; pulling him into the depths of the Wyrd.

Price -61% 9.65€
Rating 7.0
Release 18 Oct 2023

Mosa Lina

a hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Oct 2023

Draw

Welcome to the world of Draw, a 2D sidescroller and visual novel! Armed with nothing but a pencil, play as “Stickman” as you explore a brand-new world. Solve puzzles by drawing into the game, meet new friends while dodging scribble monsters, and make memories that’ll never be erased!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Oct 2023

My Little Universe

Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!

Price -93% 1.00€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Oct 2023

网瘾少年2005 Internet addicted youth 2005

"Internet Addicted Youth 2005" is a narrative-driven role-playing game. If you also yearn to revisit that era and relive the bittersweet experiences of an internet-addicted teenager, then perhaps, here, you'll find the answers you seek...

Price -30% 1.39€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Oct 2023

Station to Station

‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!

Price -50% 8.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Oct 2023

Cats Hidden in Bali

Find 100 cats hiding in Bali in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 24 Sep 2023

URBO

URBO is a relaxing and meditative city-building puzzle game. Begin with an empty grid of landscape, choose an architectural style and build. Watch the population grow and the city flourish.

Price -12% 5.18€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Sep 2023

ABRISS - build to destroy

ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game.Build structures from parts to let them crash into your targets. Unlock new parts, destroy more, witness entropy at its worst in digital-brutalist cityscapes. Build to destroy.

Price -88% 1.74€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Sep 2023

Don Duality

Don Duality is a Chaos Manager game with card mechanics. Send your gangsters to the heist and launder money in your restaurant. Hire staff and upgrade your establishment, but remember that life like a roulette wheel and not everything can be fully controlled in Don's journey.

Price -63% 5.48€
Rating 6.4
Release 25 Aug 2023

Just Hit The Button

Hit the button to win. The simplest game ever.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Aug 2023

Project Hardline

Project Hardline is a party first person shooter game where two teams fight to capture an uplink station. This uplink station contains vital intel and must not fall into the wrong hands. With every round a team faces, they will come back with better gear. This game is perfect for a party of friends.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Aug 2023

5050

Each time you press the button, it will either double or lose all the points you’ve put in. How much will you risk?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Aug 2023

Vectorio

A minimalistic base-building tower-defense game. Collect and automate resources, research new technologies, setup supply chains, and fight back against the ever growing onslaught of enemy forces with a variety of powerful defenses.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Aug 2023

Lawgivers II

Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game that features multiple electoral systems, approve/reject bills and govern a country. Start out your career from the very bottom, and perhaps one day, lead your nation to become the most influential in the world.

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 18 Aug 2023

Canvas of Kings

Canvas of Kings is a minimalistic mapmaking tool that focuses on randomness and auto-generated elements on user-definable and interactive paths, plots and rooms.

Price 18.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Aug 2023

Word Factori

Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

Price -45% 3.23€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Aug 2023

Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!

Price -38% 7.39€
Rating 9.2
Release 02 Aug 2023

Cats Hidden in Italy

Find and discover 100 cute cats hidden across Italy in this hand-drawn hidden object game. Can you find them all?

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 30 Jul 2023

Stone Story RPG

An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Jul 2023

Disfigure

Disfigure is a top-down shooter rogue-like in which you fight countless grotesque creatures shrouded in darkness. Choose from a variety of weapons and over a hundred upgrades to create unique builds each run and survive.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Jul 2023

Cats Hidden in Paris

Find 100 cats hiding in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game

Price Free to play
Rating 9.6
Release 16 Jul 2023

Geometry Arena 2

Geometry Arena 2 is a free-form arena-shooter Roguelite game, dedicated to creating an exciting battle experience. Freely customize weapons, bodies, modules, upgrades and challenges to create your own unique gaming experience!

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Jul 2023

Nodes Escape

The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination. The level design is subtle and challenging, allowing players to challenge their intelligence and logic skills in solving puzzles.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Jul 2023

EarthX

EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Jul 2023

Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game

Vacuum Warrior is a Free to Play incremental idle game. Listen to the crisp crackle of dust and debris entering your vacuum as you vacuum ridiculous amounts of dust. Upgrade your vacuums, idle gains, and robot vacuums, earn achievements, and explore numerous locations in the Vacuum Warrior universe!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Jun 2023

That Which Gave Chase

A first-person dog sledding thriller. Play as a sled dog musher hired to transport a scientist deep into the unforgiving wastes of the arctic.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Jun 2023

Feed All Monsters

Feed All Monsters is a cute and cozy Line Puzzle game. Assist a team of delivery workers in their quest to bring tasty food to all the little monsters. Find the optimal path for each worker in order to get all the monsters fed.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Jun 2023

Bleak Sword DX

Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.

Price -58% 4.08€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Jun 2023

Bombe

Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Jun 2023

Pile Up!

"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 02 Jun 2023

Homebody

An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy)

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Jun 2023

Party Quiz

Play a local Quiz game with your friends. Create your own Quiz using the Party Quiz Constructor or use the Steam Workshop to download one of the Quizzes made by the community. A fun way to test your knowledge!

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.3
Release 31 May 2023

Fly Corp

Develop your own transport network in different regions and cities: open new routes, buy and upgrade new planes, and increase airport capacity!

Price -84% 2.37€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2023

HUMANITY

A unique blend of puzzle-solving and action-platforming. Play a lone Shiba Inu charged with commanding massive, marching crowds to the goal in Story Mode, or browse a wide array of user-made levels crafted via the in-game Stage Creator!

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 May 2023

Pan'orama

Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!

Price -73% 3.70€
Rating 8.4
Release 09 May 2023

Moonleap

Explore a world full of mysteries that transform with each jump! Moonleap is a game about a moon boy on his journey to recover shooting stars. Change day to night with your jump and catch all the stars in this challenging puzzle-platformer!

Price 8.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Apr 2023

Idle Clans

Idle Clans is a multiplayer idle game that combines the classic MMORPG experience with simplified gameplay and less time commitment. Features include a player-driven economy, PvE, trading, quests, crafting and opportunities to play, socialize and collaborate with other players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 07 Apr 2023

Jigsaw Puzzles Infinite

Sit back, relax and build puzzles to your heart's content. Assemble one of the many included puzzles, or add your own images. Customize size and shape of the pieces for any puzzle. Enjoy Classic mode or try out Zen mode for a new type of puzzle experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Apr 2023

POOSTALL Royale

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Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 01 Apr 2023

Misericorde: Volume One

Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.

Price 7.39€
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Mar 2023

Magic Research

Magic Research is a text-based incremental game about Magic. You are the headmaster of a newly-created institution of Magic. Will you be able to lead your school to win the prestigious Tournament of Magic?

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Mar 2023