Hue and Seek vs Minimum Effort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Hue and Seek
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You start as a small, blank white cartoon figure in a world full of color. Somewhere nearby, a hunter is counting down. What happens next is up to your eye and your nerve. Hue & Seek is a multiplayer hide-and-seek game where you don't hide behind things โ you hide in plain sight. Stand still and the scene behind you is projected onto your body. Sample any color with the eyedropper, paint over the seams, pick a pose that breaks your human silhouette, and hold absolutely still. Do it well and the hunter walks right past you. Do it badly and you are the one odd shape in the room. PLAY RIGHT NOW, ALONE OR WITH FRIENDS Tap PLAY and a full match starts against bots โ no waiting for other players, no connection needed. Three difficulty levels. When you want real opponents, Quick Play drops you into an open room, or share a six-character code with friends. HOW IT PLAYS โข PREP โ Camouflagers hide. Stand still where you want to hide and the background behind you โ wall and floor, as the hunter will see it โ appears on your body. Or aim the camera where the hunter will come from and tap CAMO. Retouch the seams with the brush and eyedropper, or tap COPY to take a color in one go. Pick one of 12 poses, hug a wall, or jump up onto a table, a car or a crate โ then tap Ready. When everyone is ready the hunt starts early. โข SEARCH โ Hunters are released and sweep the area, looking for the one texture that doesn't belong: a seam that breaks, a shape that's too human, a color that's almost right. Touch a camouflager to catch them, or light them up with the toy Color Flashlight. Hiders can Look Around with the camera to see where the hunters are. โข RESULT โ Survive the clock and the camouflagers win. Find them all and the hunters do. Then "Where were they?" lights up every hiding spot. A LIVE STEALTH SCORE While you prepare, the game tells you how well you're actually blending. Your color match, your pose and your hiding spot combine into a stealth score from 0 to 100, updated as you work โ so you learn what real camouflage looks like instead of guessing. FOUR MODES โข Classic โ hide, seek, survive the timer. โข Infection โ get caught and you join the hunters. The pack grows. โข Double Side โ both teams take a turn hiding; the better hunting run wins. โข Reverse Guess โ no touching. Hunters get a limited number of guesses and must point at what they believe is a painted player. FOUR ARENAS A whole City block โ big enough that the hunt needs a longer clock โ a House full of rooms and furniture, a Supermarket with aisle after aisle of shelves, and a Toy Garden among giant toys. Every one is packed with props and color variety, because a room with only one shade is a room with nowhere to hide. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Create a room, share the six-character code with one tap, and play from anywhere โ you don't need to be on the same network. 2 to 12 players. ALSO IN THE BOX โข Whistle at the hunter to taunt them โ brave, or very stupid. Hiders also whistle by themselves every 45 seconds (the host can change it). โข Free-flight spectator camera after you're caught. โข Undo on your brush strokes, so one bad stroke doesn't cost you the round. โข My Records: rounds, wins, win streak and best camouflage, saved on your device. Plus two Game Center leaderboards: Total Wins and Best Camouflage. โข Optional clip capture: save the last 15 seconds and share the moment the hunter walked straight past you. Off by default, never leaves your device unless you share it. โข English, Turkish and Azerbaijani. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account to create. No chat.
Minimum Effort
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You have a job. You do not want to do it. Minimum Effort is a satirical workplace strategy game. Every workday runs from 09:00 to 17:00, and everything you can do with those 480 minutes trades three things against each other: the time it saves you, the output it actually produces, and how conspicuous it makes you. The goal is not to be good at your job. It is to find the least amount of work that survives. HOW A DAY WORKS โข Do the work, fake the work, or avoid it entirely. Looking busy covers part of a shortfall when the boss checks the deliverables. It never files the report. โข The boss patrols the floor. When he walks past in the middle of something you get a couple of seconds to look busy . and less time the hotter you already are. โข Repeat an act and it gets riskier every time. The fourth bathroom break is not the first bathroom break. โข Colleagues talk. Each one has their own trust in you and their own doubts, and a rumour that crosses the floor twice reaches the boss's office from a direction you were not watching. THE PEOPLE Your accomplice will cover for you. The overachiever notices an unearned win. The snitch keeps a note of when people leave their desk. The gossip has already told two other people. You can chat, delegate your work, ask somebody to cover, genuinely help them . or put your name on their work, which they never forget. PROMOTIONS ARE A TRAP Every rung on the ladder pays more and expects more. Getting promoted is easy. Staying just competent enough not to be fired, one rung higher, with a bigger quota and the same amount of effort . that is the game. FIVE CAREERS - Corporate. Easy. Meetings, decks and a quarterly review nobody reads. - Startup. Chaotic. Twelve people, no structure, and everybody notices everything. - Consulting. Medium. Frameworks, workstreams, and never being the one with the answer. - Investment banking. Extreme. Enormous money, enormous work, and an associate who never leaves. - Home office. Nobody can see you and everything is measured. The green dot is your new boss and it cannot be charmed. Corporate and Startup are included. Consulting and Investment Banking are unlocked together by the Career Pack. Home Office is its own pack. Both are one purchase each, not a subscription, nothing recurring, and either one removes the advertising. THE ONLY SCORE THAT MATTERS Total money earned, divided by hours you actually worked. Retire at the top of a ladder having been paid for years and worked for weeks, and the number on your record board will say so. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account and no sign-in. Your careers are saved on your device and nothing about them leaves it. It does show advertising, which Google's ad kit loads over the network, and either pack removes it. Minimum Effort is a work of satire. The offices, the colleagues and the careers are invented, and nothing in it is advice about a real job. Recommendations for our other apps load online. Their views and taps are counted as daily totals, without personal profiles or user/device identifiers. See our privacy policy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hue and Seek at none against Minimum Effort's 2. Hue and Seek also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Minimum Effort sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Hue and Seek asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hue and Seek ships an update daily, Minimum Effort every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hue and Seek | Minimum Effort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily โ better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Samofy Limited | Levin David Schwab |
In-app purchases
Hue and Seek
No in-app purchases
Minimum Effort
- Home Office Pack$3.99
- Career Pack$3.99
Questions
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