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Mini Words - minimalist puzzle cover art

Mini Words - minimalist puzzle

Mens Sana Interactive · 2019-10-24

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 27, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Aug 27, 2025 (Xbox One), Oct 24, 2019 (Mac), Oct 24, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

721 words. That is enough to cover 90% of conversations in English. Unscramble those words in Mini Words - a unique mix of puzzle, word search and hangman.

Mini Words - minimalist puzzle is a 2019 Casual and Indie game priced at $1.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 183 reviews) and an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 183 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 29,066 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.6k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 183 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2019-10-24) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620192026Week of 2019-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.592019-10-242021-09-072019-10-24 — best price $0.592019-11-01 — best price $0.992019-11-26 — best price $0.592019-12-03 — best price $0.992019-12-13 — best price $0.692019-12-18 — best price $0.992019-12-19 — best price $0.692020-01-02 — best price $0.992020-01-23 — best price $0.692020-01-27 — best price $0.992020-02-03 — best price $0.692020-02-10 — best price $0.992020-02-28 — best price $1.992020-03-30 — best price $0.792020-04-06 — best price $1.992020-05-18 — best price $1.192020-05-25 — best price $1.992020-06-25 — best price $1.392020-07-09 — best price $1.992020-07-20 — best price $1.392020-07-27 — best price $1.992020-09-07 — best price $1.392020-09-14 — best price $1.992020-10-26 — best price $1.392020-11-02 — best price $1.992020-11-25 — best price $1.392020-12-01 — best price $1.992020-12-14 — best price $1.392020-12-21 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $1.392021-01-05 — best price $1.992021-02-01 — best price $1.392021-02-08 — best price $1.992021-02-11 — best price $1.392021-02-15 — best price $1.992021-09-07 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
76.1%
earned "do"
30.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

LogicCasualPuzzleTriviaTypingAbstractRelaxingSpellingWord GameBoard Game

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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