The Best Minimalist Games for Linux

Update : Dice Guess added at rank #23.
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Shape (2023)

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A minimalist style but inside a complex-minded With connecting word mechanism, you can make a rule for your rooms and solve the problem. Solve the puzzle and go to the door to the next room. explore new mechanism


  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • surreal
  • exploration
  • psychological
  • narration
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • 2d
  • psychedelic
  • text
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • emotional

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Ord. (2019)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

Ord is a captivating text-based adventure game with five unique stories to choose from. Choose your own adventure as you become a god and create your world or take on an evil warlock in a thrilling quest. With fast-paced narratives, your choices matter, and you'll be engaged in no time. Plus, create and share your own stories with Steam Workshop support. Available in multiple languages.

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What we like:
  • Cleverly conveys changes in atmosphere and mood with minimalistic visuals and sound effects
  • Multiple scenarios with vastly different outcomes provide high replayability
  • A fun and creative take on the text adventure genre
  • Multiple languages supported
  • Workshop support allows for user-generated content and experimentation with storytelling
What could be improved:
  • No save-states or continues, with every death resetting the player to the beginning
  • Poor controls and other quirks make the game feel more like an art project than a polished video game experience

  • text
  • minimalist
  • adventure
  • experience
  • story
  • narrative
  • perma-death
  • rpg
  • experimental
  • innovative
  • casual
  • book
  • fast-paced

3

Please Fix The Road (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Please Fix The Road is a colorful, minimalistic, laid-back and casual puzzle game in which it's probably not hard to guess... you're fixing roads! Your road repair doesn't have to be beautiful, it just needs to get the job done! Your mom will like this game too!


  • transportation
  • minimalist
  • puzzle
  • building
  • colourful
  • stylized
  • relaxing
  • top-down
  • family-friendly
  • city-building
  • inception
  • jigsaw
  • jazz
  • warm-hearted
  • difficult

4

SiNKR 2 (2019)

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SiNKR 2 is a minimalist puzzle game evolved from the award winning SiNKR. There is just you, hooks, pucks, and various contraptions. Subtle differences within level themes drive different solutions to superficially similar scenarios.

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  • minimalist
  • abstract
  • puzzle
  • touch-friendly
  • stylized
  • relaxing
  • atmospheric
  • strategy

5

SiNKR 3 (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

SiNKR 3 is the culmination of the award winning minimalist puzzler series. SiNKR 3 offers a new slant on the familiar contraptions with new diagonal layouts and billiards-style physics. BY PLAYER DEMAND: multi-step undo.

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  • minimalist
  • logic
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • abstract
  • billiards
  • strategy
  • family-friendly

6

OVIVO (2018)

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OVIVO is mesmerizing platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in the metaphoric world filled with illusions and hidden messages awaits you!

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  • abstract
  • psychedelic
  • minimalist
  • platform
  • surreal
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • physics
  • exploration
  • controller-support
  • mystery
  • ambient
  • single-player
  • adventure

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Dissembler (2018)

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Dissembler is a subtle puzzle game about unraveling playful, abstract designs one color at a time.

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  • abstract
  • puzzle
  • minimalist
  • solitaire
  • logic
  • 2.5d
  • match-three
  • tutorial
  • colourful
  • procedural
  • isometric
  • relaxing
  • stylized
  • puzzling
  • family-friendly

8

Mini Metro (2015)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Android

Dive into Mini Metro, where you craft bustling subway systems in cities around the globe! Test your strategic skills in this sleek puzzle game, balancing growth and efficiency to avoid delays. With its minimalist design and soothing sounds, you'll be hooked on optimizing transit routes in a quest for the perfect metro.


What we like:
  • Engaging strategic gameplay
  • Minimalist aesthetic with soothing audio
  • Multiple game modes including sandbox
  • Real-world city maps add variety
  • Touch and controller support enhances playability
What could be improved:
  • Potential for high-stress moments
  • Some gameplay elements need clearer explanations

  • trains
  • minimalist
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • puzzle
  • management
  • platform

9

Tetris for Two (2022)

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Minimalistic Tetris with several modes for two players

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  • minimalist
  • casual
  • arcade
  • cooperative
  • local
  • pause
  • puzzle
  • controller-support

10

Train Valley 2 - Community Edition (2019)

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Nintendo Switch l Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

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  • time-management
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • minimalist
  • stylized
  • family-friendly
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • third-person
  • trains
  • tactical
  • management
  • difficult

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