The Best Minimalist Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : NAIAD added at rank #13.
Here are our 10 Best Minimalist Games for Nintendo Switch:
1

Mini Motorways (2019)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch

Mini Motorways is a city-building game that challenges you to craft the road system of a growing city. You have limited resources to manage traffic, build roads and bridges, and create roundabouts. You must carefully plan your layout in order to encourage growth and minimize traffic jams.


What we like:
  • Challenging gameplay
  • Intuitive design
  • Beautiful visuals
  • Relaxing soundtrack
  • Color-blind mode
What could be improved:
  • Can be difficult to manage traffic on complex maps
  • Limited resources can make it hard to keep up with the demand of the city

  • minimalist
  • puzzle
  • management
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • strategy 
  • strategy
  • zen
  • pause
  • relaxing
  • fast-forward
  • grid

2

hocus 2 (2021)

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90
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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS IOS iPhone Android

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Buy

  • puzzle
  • minimalist
  • casual
  • isometric
  • relaxing
  • logic
  • escher
  • maze
  • thought-provoking
  • ok
  • minimalistic
  • single-player

3

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

4

Please Fix The Road (2022)

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Linux Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Xbox Series X/s

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
  • relaxing
  • trains
  • stylized
  • casual
  • colourful
  • city-building
  • tutorial
  • difficult
  • family-friendly
  • top-down
  • simulation

5

OVIVO (2018)

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Playstation 5 Xbox One Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Android Linux Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

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

6

Death Crown (2019)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

Death Crown is a minimalist real time strategy game in a 1bit style, where you will be play Death herself, commanding her legions of death, and punishing humanity's Kingdom for its overconfidence.

Buy

  • real-time
  • minimalist
  • strategy
  • cooperative
  • local
  • fantasy
  • hex
  • tower-defense
  • base-building
  • pixel
  • dark
  • war
  • atmospheric
  • building
  • grid

7

Kittens and Yarn (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Move the pieces of place and untangle the wool yarn for these cute kittens.

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  • cats
  • minimalist
  • touch-friendly
  • cute
  • puzzle
  • logic
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • relaxing
  • path-building
  • colourful
  • tile-swapping
  • abstract
  • stylized
  • easy-to-play

8

LOVE 3 (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Linux

LOVE 3 is a precision platformer where you control fiveEight, a lone survivor searching for others in a mechanical, apocalyptic world. Face challenging obstacles, discover hidden secrets, and try to find hope within the hopeless as you overcome each new danger.

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  • platform
  • minimalist
  • precision
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • surreal
  • linear
  • retro
  • choices

9

qomp2 (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Xbox One PC Windows

An artful reimagining of Pong. Control a Pong ball aching to break free of its life stuck between two paddles. Explore a dangerous, minimalist world, armed with simple two button controls.


  • minimalist
  • problem-solving
  • experimental
  • scroller
  • puzzle
  • boss
  • exploration

10

Pinkman (2017)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Xbox One PC Windows

Pinkman is a fast-paced, action platformer about a lost man with pink skin and an incredible skill to fart.

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  • minimalist
  • casual
  • fast-paced
  • platform
  • competitive
  • adventure
  • action

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