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Minimalist
95 games in our corpus·Moderately higher review scores — this niche has a more engaged audience than our database average.
Total Estimated Market
>$243.98MMelvor Idle
000K copies
$000K
276.39h avg
44.63h med
★ 90%· 14.4K reviews
9.75 €NIMBY Rails
000K copies
$000K
105.27h avg
20.11h med
★ 89%· 2.2K reviews
19.99 €Stone Story RPG
000K copies
$000K
62.04h avg
26.42h med
★ 91%· 891 reviews
29.99 €Stuck In Time
000K copies
$000K
46.52h avg
14.43h med
★ 84%· 1K reviews
6.59 €Screeps: World
000K copies
$000K
42.62h avg
8.33h med
★ 86%· 1.9K reviews
19.50 €Factory Town Idle
000K copies
$000K
42.10h avg
17.81h med
★ 91%· 1.2K reviews
4.99 €Related Niches
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Top 10 Minimalist games by Average Playtime
| # | Game | Release Year↕ | Developer↕ | Publisher↕ | Revenue | Units Sold | Average Playtime↓ | Median Playtime↕ | Review Score↕ | Price↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2021 | Games by Malcs | Jagex Ltd | Unlock → | Unlock → | 276.4h | 44.6h | 90% | $9.75 | |
| 2 | 2021 | Weird and Wry | Weird and Wry | Unlock → | Unlock → | 105.3h | 20.1h | 89% | $19.99 | |
| 3 | 2023 | Rex Games | Rex Games | Unlock → | Unlock → | 62.0h | 26.4h | 91% | $29.99 | |
| 4 | 2021 | Housemade Inc. | Housemade Inc. | Unlock → | Unlock → | 46.5h | 14.4h | 84% | $6.59 | |
| 5 | 2016 | Screeps, LLC | Screeps, LLC | Unlock → | Unlock → | 42.6h | 8.3h | 86% | $19.50 | |
| 6 | 2024 | Erik Asmussen | Erik Asmussen | Unlock → | Unlock → | 42.1h | 17.8h | 91% | $4.99 | |
| 7 | 2021 | Vittorio Romeo | Vittorio Romeo | Unlock → | Unlock → | 34.5h | 8.2h | 96% | $3.99 | |
| 8 | 2022 | Alejandro Hernández Ferrero | Alejandro Hernández Ferrero | Unlock → | Unlock → | 31.3h | 5.8h | 87% | $9.99 | |
| 9 | 2023 | Myco | (Myco) | Unlock → | Unlock → | 23.7h | 12.8h | 95% | $5.69 | |
| 10 | 2019 | Alexey Davydov | Flazm | Unlock → | Unlock → | 23.0h | 2.8h | 89% | $12.49 |
Steam-wide market context
Based on 7,676 Minimalist games across the full Steam catalog · snapshot Jul 12, 2026 — official Steam data, beyond our tracked corpus.
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