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What are the best Minimalist games on Steam?

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Best Minimalist games on Steam	Price	Steam Rating	Genre
-- Antichamber	-	Very Positive	Very Positive
-- Super Hexagon	$2.99	–	Action / Arcade
-- Superhot	$24.99	Very Positive	Very Positive
-- Thomas Was Alone	$9.99	Very Positive	Puzzle, Platformer
-- Mini Metro	$9.99	Very Positive	Very Positive

Antichamber

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Lateral thinking

Top Con

Focuses less on its main selling point near middlegame

Near the middle of the game, you get a thing that a lot of the puzzles start to focus on, and the mind-bending puzzles and tricks to the player take more of a backseat as this mechanic changes the game to more of a traditional style of puzzle game. There are still elements of it, but much less of it. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Brilliant Puzzles

The primary theme to puzzles in Antichamber is that things aren't how they appear. If you walk down a hallway and turn around, you might be in a totally different area. This leads to some incredibly interesting and difficult puzzles, forcing you to think about the world around you in a totally new way. See More

Top Con

Short for its price

The time to beat the game is well around 7 hours for an average player, and there's not much extra content left after that. In that time the game doesn't exactly go deep in its innovations on the "mind-bending" idea (no gravity flips, just teleportations). See More

Top Pro

Unique minimalist visuals

Using stark white halls with glowing colors there is a minimal beauty to Antichamber. One room houses great abstract art which changes depending on which way you are looking at it. See More

Top Con

Lack of story leaves the player wanting

There is not much of a story to be found in the game and what there is is pretty convoluted and has the player asking what even happened by the end of the game. See More

Top Pro

Good for speed running

A great game to put your speed skills to the test! Great for those who love any percent speedruns! See More

Superhot

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Lets you roleplay matrix-like battles

The coolest thing about this mechanic is it essentially lets you role play matrix-like battles with you dodging bullets, slicing bullets out of mid-air with a katana and an assortment of other badass things to do. See More

Top Con

Short story mode

Although there are plenty of other modes with a lot of variety, the story mode can typically be beaten in around 2 hours. See More

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Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Minimalistic yet beneficial art style

The art style in the game is very cool and minimalistic while actually serving to make the game easier to understand and play. The gameplay in Superhot relies on you being able to react properly to your environment, and the art choices make it really easy to understand what is going on around you. See More

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Awesome time-based mechanic

In Superhot time only goes forward when you move. This turns the gameplay into something closer to a puzzle game as you need to be very calculated with every move you make. See More

Thomas Was Alone

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Great story

For what is a pretty simplistic looking game, Thomas Was Alone offers a truly great story that actually gets the player to care about what are basically squares and rectangles. See More

Top Con

Short

The gameplay only lasts about 3 or 4 hours. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:Puzzle, Platformer

Platforms:PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Android, Xbox One, Wii U, iOS, macOS, Linux

Top Pro

Enjoyable professional narration

What really drives the well crafted story home is the wonderful narration done by British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television, Danny Wallace. Not many indie small budget games receive the polish this game has in their voice acting, which really adds to the experience when playing the game. See More

Top Con

Some puzzles can be difficult

Here an there are a few really tough puzzles in the game which can be frustrating, luckily they are few and far between as the gameplay does not tend to repeat itself too often. See More

Top Pro

Polished ethereal soundtrack

Haunting guitar strums mixed with beautiful piano chords and bits of chiptune creates a very fitting soundtrack that allows for an experience of polish not often found. See More

Mini Metro

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Very minimal puzzle sim aspects

Very basic and abstract in design and gameplay the user uses limited resources in order to create the most effective routes for a transportation system. See More

Top Con

Takes a while to get the hang of

Learning the game may take some time, though the mechanics are not too difficult to grasp, the gameplay itself can be frustrating. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Soothing gameplay

Minimalist design and relaxing music makes this a very different experience from the bustle of some others. A minimal zen like game that allows one to relax while playing. While gameplay may get hectic there are modes of play that do not allow for loosing meaning that you can relax and just play without worry. See More

Top Con

Casual gameplay

There is less depth than in many of the games listed which may not be quite what is required here See More

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