Minimalist Hidden Gems on Steam

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Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Jul 2020
Vectromirror 0™ Become the Test Subject and attempt to complete a challenging experiment to awaken emotional responses in your Artificial Intelligence. Jump, wall-run, and parkour your way through the free-to-play prequel to the upcoming game.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Jul 2020
A Place, Forbidden A Place, Forbidden is a first-person, lo-fi horror-puzzle game set in the Library of Ouroboros, a seemingly innocuous library that, rumor has it, contains knowledge not meant for the eyes of mortal man. We hope you enjoy your visit.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Jun 2020
Filament Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).

Price -88% 2.09€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Apr 2020
STATIONflow STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Apr 2020
CAR TUNE: Project CAR TUNE: Project is a detailed car tuning simulator where every bolt, screw, and gear matters. Build your dream machine, fine-tune every parameter, and test it on the track.

Price 18.49€
Rating 7.9
Release 20 Feb 2020
AFTERBURN Your daily dose of air combat. Super easy to pick up, minimum requirements and vibrant visuals. Setup your aircraft and jump into action!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Dec 2019
Unlock The King An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Nov 2019
Spring Falls Spring Falls is a puzzle game about water, erosion, and watching things grow. Manipulate the landscape and bring wildflowers to life on a peaceful mountainside.

Price 5.69€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2019
NABOKI Relaxing disassemble puzzle.

Price -22% 2.33€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Nov 2019
Discolored Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.

Price -94% 0.39€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Nov 2019
Voxelgram Voxelgram is a 3D nonograms game where solving puzzles feels like sculpting in three dimensions. Reveal voxel models as you complete each challenge.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Nov 2019
Mars Power Industries Deluxe Mysterious puzzle inspired by 2001:Space Odyssey. Manage resources, solve challenging puzzles and uncover what lies beneath the surface! Year after year, strange happenings plague our tiny colony, darkness devours Mars. Your job as an Electrician? Bring light where darkness reigns!

Price -91% 0.54€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Nov 2019
Wilmot's Warehouse Wilmot's Warehouse is a puzzle game about keeping a warehouse running in tip-top shape. Just remember where you put everything, because when the service hatch opens, you'll need to find the things people want quickly, in order to earn the coveted Performance Stars.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Aug 2019
Nice Jumper Ready to test your reaction?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 09 Aug 2019
Etherborn Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 6.9
Release 18 Jul 2019
Vectronom Welcome to the psychedelic world of Vectronom: experience waves of color and a pulsing geometric path that changes with the beat! All set to a hypnotic electronic soundtrack. There’s only one thing to do: turn up the volume and go with the flow.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 May 2019
China: Mao's legacy Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...

Price -65% 2.48€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 May 2019
Zup! XS Experimental minimal physical puzzle with explosions.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Apr 2019
Super Jigsaw Puzzle: Generations If you like to make puzzles, Super Jigsaw Puzzle is your game. Enjoy its comfortable and intuitive interface and its relaxing music that will allow you to concentrate on the difficult task of solving these beautiful photos that pose a real challenge for lovers of puzzles.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Apr 2019
1 Screen Platformer This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Mar 2019
King Rabbit - Puzzle Part puzzler, platformer, level builder. Navigate your fluffy rabbit through an ever-expanding universe of realms. Find the 3 portal gems in each realm to unlock the next realm. Enjoy endless community levels and create your own with the level builder!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Jan 2019
Golf Peaks A relaxing puzzle game where you climb mountains by playing golf. Pick the right cards, avoid hazards and conquer over 120 summits!

Price -90% 0.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Nov 2018
Reigns: Game of Thrones Reigns: Game of Thrones is the heir to the award-winning HBO® TV series Game of Thrones® and the smash-hit swipe ‘em up series Reigns from Nerial and Devolver Digital.

Price -67% 1.34€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Oct 2018
Zup! Zero 2 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Sep 2018
Lucah: Born of a Dream FOR THE POWER AND GLORY; NOW AND FOREVER

Price -75% 2.43€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Aug 2018
Space Between Worlds Did you ever pay attention to the importance of space? Space Between Worlds is a short puzzle game that expresses the concept of proximity and lets the player interpret the context and arc of the story.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Jul 2018
Semblance Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Jul 2018
Up Left Out A puzzle game about unlocking stuff.

Price -22% 2.33€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Jun 2018
Oik 4 Casual physics puzzle.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Jun 2018
Ding Dong XL A fast-paced, neon-infused arcade game with simple one-button controls! Addictive, easy to learn, and perfect for quick sessions. Challenge yourself to beat your high score while waiting in queue for another game!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Jun 2018
qop 3 qop 3 is a minimalistic puzzle which goal is to get the cube to finish using 4 directions in space.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Jun 2018
Scalak Fulfilling puzzle game.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 May 2018
Zen Chess: Mate in One Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Apr 2018
Nonogram - The Greatest Painter Do you deserve to be called The Greatest?

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Mar 2018
Squidlit Every day is a wonderful day for invertebrates! Come join the Squidlits of Blipston for a squishy adventure of spoopy castles, muffins, and wiggles! Made with classic handheld technology in mind, Squidlit strives to be the closest modern recreation of GameBoy game-design methods on the market.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Mar 2018

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