Minimalism
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Reviews
- 67% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Windows only.
Minimalism - platformer with a lot of levels, made in minimalist style - which is a cube protogonist. The game is a kind of labyrinth consisting of levels, to go between them you need to open the doors with collected keys.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.28, set in December 2022. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 94 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. On the same math Distant Space ($0.99, scores 58) and No Time To Explain Remastered ($14.99, scores 43) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 925 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
20% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 02:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Minimalism scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/585690/minimalismReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Oct 1.
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