Immerse your eyes, ears and mind in minimize, a beautiful game of simplification and foresight. Simply swipe to change gravity and minimize each puzzle to where no blocks remain.
- 140 colorful, handcrafted levels
- Minimalist, isometric design
- Each progressive level is built upon its predecessor
- Peaceful, captivating soundtrack
- Leaderboards and achievements
- Sync progress over iCloud
Version history
1.2.1
2018-05-29
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Just a minor maintenance update.
1.2
2017-11-17
iOS 11 and iPhone X support!
1.1.1
2017-08-23
A few minor bug fixes and performance enhancements
1.1
2017-01-25
40 beautiful new levels await...
In Minimize we don’t want to disrupt your relaxing game to ask for a review. If you have been enjoying Minimize and have a moment to rate and review the game here in the App Store, we would appreciate it more than we can say. Thank you!
1.0.1
2016-12-17
Allow landscape device rotation and fix issue with menu accessibility and leaderboards in level 100.
Also... we don’t want to disrupt your relaxing game to ask for a review so if you've been enjoying the game and have a minute to rate the game here in the App Store, we would appreciate it more than we can say. Thank you!
Good game, very relaxing, but there’s a trick to it.
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.
Bitfool,
Zenny
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.
the7trumpets,
Another classic Borderleap puzzler
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.
Redlady1963,
Excellent
My new favorite - logic puzzle, brain teaser, whatever you want to call it. Elegantly simple - perfect
Dalal_Musaed,
Interesting game but needs update
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.
PurgeToLive,
Amazing!
So I bought this because I was on the phone with my girlfriend and she said she saw an app called "minimize" that looked like fun, but it was $3, which she didn't have. So, I decided to buy it on my phone that way she can play it whenever we're together. I decided to play it a bit myself and I have to say I am loving it! It's a great fun little puzzle that really makes you use your brain. Yes, it is $3 for something that might seem pretty simple, but it's not ALL that simple and it's definitely a lot of fun. I highly recommend this game for anyone who just wants to relax and enjoy a friendly game.
RatticalGamer69,
Intriguing and captivating
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.
OlyGuacamole,
Great Puzzle - not for the color blind!
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.
inde1500,
Fun game unless you're colorblind
I was having a lot of fun playing this game until I got to level 30 where the colors are too similar for someone, who like me, is colorblind. I can't play past this level unfortunately.
It would be great if there were symbols on each tile.
amateur6,
Not bad. Needs a “smarter” reset
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)!