Christine Mi

A small narrative game about mountains, emptiness, loss, and remembering what it means to be alive.

The Mountain is as It Always Was

Fall Ball Fall is an incremental game where you shrink balls using a variety of modules.

Fall Ball Fall

Maya Williams

Danielle Ralston

MoofEMP

Holly Liberatore

ROPE Team

Rope is a short (~5 minutes) linear puzzle game with no story, a minimalist artstyle, and a philip glass-inspired soundtrack.

Rope

Darenn Keller

Help a kind Hacker protect systems before they go out of control. Your Controller? A command prompt of course!

Door XP

Gameplay Trailer

Seawolf Studios

Pixel Pirate

Launch Trailer

Dev Diary

barrels

Goodbye

RollingCarey

It Goes On is a little platformer that attempts to use mechanics as metaphor to explore disability and disempowerment.

It Goes On

stillmerlin

Armor Games

Icarus Needs is a hypercomic adventure game. Icarus has fallen asleep playing videogames and became trapped inside a surreal dream world that's part videogame and part comic strip. What's worse, somehow his girlfriend Kit has got trapped inside the same dream.

Icarus Needs

A Duck Has An Adventure is an unique hypercomic adventure game that challenges you to discover all the different possible lives one duck could live. From adventures on the high seas to the halls of academia and beyond, every choice you make builds a new pathway along which to explore.

A Duck Has An Adventure

Nekogames

A minimalist RPG where all gameplay elements (enemies, stores, loot, treasure) are represented with squares on a grid.

Parameters

Jordan Magnuson

An experimental, minimalistic microgame about loneliness.

Loneliness

Semi Secret Software

Finji

Use your Parkour skills to outrun the destruction of your city with just one button!

One of the most popular and best-loved Flash games of 2010, Canabalt was created in 5 days for the Experimental Gameplay Project, and features a rad soundtrack by superstar indie composer Daniel Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy).

Canabalt

Gameplay video

Trailer

SuperVillain Studios

ThatGameCompany

Sony Computer Entertainment

flOw is a game about piloting an aquatic organism through a surreal biosphere where players consume other organisms, evolve, and dive into the abyss. With an embedded design of DDA (dynamic difficulty adjustment), players with differing skill levels can intuitively customize their game experience and enjoy the game at their own pace.

You can play as one of 5 creatures, each in a unique environment. Lose yourself in the crisp “deep blue” in full HD at 1080p and 5.1 Surround Sound. Use the SIXAXIS motion sensors on the DUALSHOCK wireless controllers for an organic experience that will allow you to glide, flit, and flOw through the universe.

Minimalism Browser Games