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Relax and simplify

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Puzzle

Languages

English

Minimize is a thoughtfully designed mobile game that blends accessible mechanics with steadily increasing challenge. Players place and manipulate objects to influence in-game elements, solve levels, and progress through curated stages. The experience favors experimentation and polish, with simple controls and satisfying feedback.

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Ratings & Reviews
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Good game, very relaxing, but there’s a trick to it.
Mon Feb 19 2018 relaxing! find the trick!

This was a very fun, relaxing game. My favorite kind of games are untimed puzzles and this totally delivers. I strongly recommend it. Note to players, and the game designers if they read this: about halfway through the game, I figured out “the trick” and almost all levels were trivial after that. Not saying what it is. Also, I completed level 140 and the game just ended. No fireworks, no extra levels, no Luigi, just back to the home screen. Kind of weird.

Zenny
Sun Sep 03 2017 Bitfool

Nice, thoughtful. A bit frustrating to get stuck and not be able to advance to try another level. And I don't see a map to skip to a level instead of tap tap tapping one by one. But otherwise very very nice design and playability.

Another classic Borderleap puzzler
Sat Sep 09 2017 the7trumpets

This one is easier to just swipe with less strategy than some of their other games. Whether that's a plus or minus depends on your style.

Excellent
Sat Sep 23 2017 Redlady1963

My new favorite - logic puzzle, brain teaser, whatever you want to call it. Elegantly simple - perfect

Interesting game but needs update
Mon May 18 2020 Dalal_Musaed

I love this game and find it very relaxing and provoking at the same time. But it really needs updating, the developers need to keep introducing new levels, otherwise its really not worth the cost.

Intriguing and captivating
Sat Aug 26 2017 RatticalGamer69

This is a seemingly simple game at first. You move the colored tiles around the highlighted playing field, in order to match the tiles of the same color to remove them. However, the big difference is using strategy to predict where the tiles will move to. That's because they ALL move at the same time to the edge of playing area, provided the way is clear. Almost like Tetris meets Chess! I wasn't going to download at first when I saw this in the app store. Glad I decided to take a chance on this quick time killer. It's not too deeply involved that you can't take a break, but it surprisingly draws you in and makes you want to complete the level. It will also help your brain by making you think ahead to visualize your move and where the tiles will land. You can reset the tiles if you made a mistake but you can't cheat. (Other than maybe Googling a walkthrough.) I like the soothing synthesized piano music which can be toggled off. The only issues I've found so far in the short time it took to level 20; The reset button area is sometimes difficult using. I've had to touch it repeatedly to work although it does play the recognized clicking sound. I totally agree with others that there should be a way to change tile colors for those players who are color-blind, like me. (At least I got it on a day it was free.) As hard as some puzzles may seem when you can't figure them out, you soon find yourself frustrated that the solution was so simple in the first place. Hopefully you will enjoy this as I have. I'll gladly update this review if the color option is addressed.

Great Puzzle - not for the color blind!
Sat Aug 05 2017 OlyGuacamole

I love this kind of sequential thinking puzzle - kind of reminds me of a higher fidelity version of a game I had on my first LG flip phone back in the day... My only knocks on it would be that the difficulty ramps up inconsistently, and holy moly, some of these levels with like 23 shades of pink! Definitely adds to to the challenge, but seems unnecessarily difficult at times. If you have any degree of color blindness, I think you're out of luck.

Not bad. Needs a “smarter” reset
Tue Dec 20 2016 amateur6

Minimalist art, chill music, sliding block puzzles... Nice, but nothing ground-breaking here. A decent time-waster. $3 seems pretty steep, though. Three things that bothered me: 1) UX -- smarter reset: if you accidentally get down to one block, regardless of how many other colors there are, you should be shown the reset button. Don’t make the player have to click to get it to show and then click again to reset. That gets old really fast. 2) UX -- some of the later puzzles are REALLY easy compared to early ones. As in, two (obvious) moves. 3) UI -- The start menu is a click-type interface (although it shows arrow-type markings) and that’s completely counter to the spirit of a sliding-type game. Just slide to start ( or allow both, for goodness’ sake)!


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