Hidden Minimalist Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated minimalist games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Minimalist games on Steam.

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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
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 1.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Oct 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 -41% 3.53€
Rating 8.7
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 -98% 0.44€
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Sep 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 8.3
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 7.6
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 5.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Aug 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 -50% 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 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 -50% 0.99€
Rating 8.0
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 -99% 0.26€
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 7.7
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 8.7
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 -59% 4.08€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Jun 2023
Bombe Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 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 -97% 0.64€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Jun 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 -44% 17.00€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 May 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 7.1
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 APRIL FOOLS 2023ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Don't let the title fool you, this isn't a battle royale game. Maybe this isn't even a game at all... well, just download now and figure it out!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 01 Apr 2023