Minimalist Hidden Gems on Steam

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Please, Touch The Artwork A cozy puzzler with story. Recreate paintings by applying lines & colors in a specific order. Explore beautiful mazes & collect letters of a poem. Help two sweethearts find a path towards each other. Three games in one. Hints when stuck. 160+ paintings, 3~4 hours, set to a chill soundtrack.

Price -57% 4.33€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 Jan 2022
Ever Seen A Cat? A relaxing hidden object game. Find cats in several stylish environments! Every play through is different!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Jan 2022
100 hidden fish The fish hid. Try to find them all! A very large location.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Jan 2022
Crow Story Jump, dive, and platform through this minimalistic indie 3D platformer about a little crow trying to save his friends.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Dec 2021
SCARF Scarf is an atmospheric and emotional journey about what it means to be a hero. An adventure game mixing puzzles and 3D platforms. Explore beautifully crafted worlds and discover your true destiny with the help of a dragon-shaped scarf.

Price -95% 0.87€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Dec 2021
Lingo Lingo is a first person word puzzle game with a large, abstract world to explore. With its epiphany-driven gameplay and impossible geometry, Lingo provides a unique and nonlinear experience.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Dec 2021
Momotype An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 03 Dec 2021
Piratopia Set sail in the open seas and plunder solo, PvE or PvP. Trade goods for ship upgrades or equipments to hunt the Kraken, all in the same Server. Dominate by yourself or with maties. Arrrr for free!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Nov 2021
Open Hexagon Four buttons, one goal: survive. Are you ready for a real challenge? -- Become the best and climb the leaderboards in Open Hexagon, a fast-paced adrenalinic arcade game that's easy to learn but hard to master!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Nov 2021
[Chilla's Art] The Radio Station | 深夜放送 The Radio Station | 深夜放送 is a Japanese psychological horror game.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 30 Oct 2021
DUSK '82: ULTIMATE EDITION DUSK '82 is a simple but addictive action-puzzler demake of the cult shooter DUSK, inspired by classics like Chip's Challenge and Sokoban.

Price -88% 0.86€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Oct 2021
100 hidden dogs Hidden object game in the alien setting. Black and white hand-drawn graphics in a cartoon style. A large location and cute dogs.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Oct 2021
Increlution Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Oct 2021
Midnight Protocol Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Oct 2021
100 hidden birds 2 Hidden object game in the cartoon city style. Animation and puzzles. Very large location. Ultra hard! Really very difficult!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Oct 2021
Pawnbarian Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!

Price -97% 0.32€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Sep 2021
Armoured Commander II In this roguelike wargame, take command of a tank and its crew in the Second World War, joining one of over 50 campaigns across Europe, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Fight against over 1300 historically-based unit types, where each day is a struggle for survival.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Sep 2021
Beat Blast Create musical beats that kill. Beat Blast is a music maker, bullet hell, dungeon crawler, roguelite. Battle through dungeons and defeat big bosses. Collect weapons, passives and musical instruments!

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Aug 2021
100 hidden rams 100 hidden rams is a hidden object game in a village setting. Black and white hand-drawn graphics in a cartoon style. Interesting and difficult! The clouds are flying by!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Aug 2021
Simple Fish Adventure Simple Fish Adventure is an unusual short physics-based platformer. Jump like a fish, think like a fish, be a fish! Overcome obstacles and suffer. Also includes co-op for up to 4 players.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Aug 2021
Lifeslide Embark on a daring journey through life and master the skill of paper plane flight. Explore colorful worlds with unique challenges, find secrets and unlock your full potential!

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Aug 2021
100 hidden cats 2 Hidden object game in the city setting. Black and white hand-drawn graphics in a cartoon style. Ultra hard! Really very difficult!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Jul 2021
Tanks: The Crusades A top-down shooter with tanks that have various assorted abilities, with support for multiplayer and a level editor.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Jun 2021
Overboard! GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Price -89% 1.40€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Jun 2021
幽灵高校(Ghost College) An average college girl takes an elective class and everything is different. Death, spooky, enveloped her, uncovering the truth, looking for clues, making the right choice was the only way.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 28 May 2021
Roll Roll Dice. Get Dopamine. Roll is a highly replayable, deeply strategic, and ultra satisfying dicebuilding game!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 13 May 2021
Untrusted Untrusted is an online multiplayer (10 to 16 players) hacking / social deduction game: as an hacker, hack your target - as an undercover agent, disrupt the operation. Follow your objective or kill everyone - the choice is yours.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 May 2021
The Invisible Hand Want to get rich, quick? Welcome to FERIOS, where you’ll be empowered to pursue wealth and success as a mid-level stockbroker! Your wildest dreams of wealth can come true… at the cost of everything else.

Price -98% 0.37€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 May 2021
Island Farmer - Jigsaw Puzzle Arrange the farm islands and see your archipelago expand. Just swap the blocks of a 3D jigsaw puzzle.

Price -30% 1.39€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Apr 2021
Cognition Method: Initiation Free demo for Cognition Method - a story-driven, first-person puzzle game inspired by Space Odyssey 2001 and Solaris. Discover an innovative mechanics of altering gravity and dive into the surreal setting. Find your way within a mysterious artifact and unveal a non-ordinary story.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Apr 2021
Wordle Wordle is a fun word puzzle game where you guess a hidden word within a few tries. Each guess gives clues about letter placement. Enjoy daily challenges, sharpen your skills, and track your progress in this simple and engaging game.

Price -99% 0.48€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Apr 2021
100 hidden mushrooms Hidden object game in a fairytale setting. Black and white hand-drawn visual style. A very difficult game for any age!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Mar 2021
Press Ctrl A mind-bending puzzler where your avatar controls another avatar via an in-game keyboard.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Mar 2021
Inglorious Waifu VS Nazi Zombies Save France from Hitler the fuhrer, with waifu and guns.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Mar 2021
Blind Drive An audio-based black comedy action arcade game - Blind Drive is a video game you can play with your eyes closed! 1st person hyper-realistic audio adventure meets fast paced arcade gameplay, driven by an insane B-movie plot.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 10 Mar 2021
GET OUT! A 2D noir, point and click game where you uncover clues and solve puzzles in a world of espionage and international intrigue.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Mar 2021

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