In The Minimum Project, play as Hiroshi, a decidedly average (and now vertically-challenged) student at Saisho Academy. A well-intentioned favor for the science club president goes disastrously wrong, shrinking you to a mere 1/100th of your size. Navigate a now-gigantic world, seek help to regain your normal stature, and survive the oblivious—or menacing—giantesses around you. Your biggest adventure is about to begin at ankle-height.
A Unique Predicament in a Gigantic World
The game plunges you into a beautifully dangerous setting where everyday locations become expansive landscapes, and former classmates turn into colossal figures.
- A Drastic Scientific Mishap: Your simple agreement to assist the science club president leads to a catastrophic lab accident, instantly transforming your school and the wider world into a treacherous, oversized environment.
- Peril from All Sides: Survival is a constant challenge. Dodge gigantic footsteps, avoid being swept away by a stray breeze, and stay clear of those who might see your tiny form as a threat or a curiosity.
- A Shifting Perspective: Experience a dramatic change in scale that redefines interaction, turning once-familiar locations like classrooms and courtyards into vast, uncharted territories filled with new dangers and secrets.
Strategic Survival and Player-Driven Choices
Gameplay revolves around clever problem-solving, exploration, and making moral decisions that shape your journey and relationships.
- Tactical Environmental Navigation: Use your small size to your advantage—scurry through ventilation shafts, hide under furniture, and use everyday objects like pencils or books as bridges or shelters.
- Branching Dialogue and Alliances: Your interactions with characters, especially the towering female students (giantesses), can lead to help, hostility, or something in between. Choose your words wisely to forge alliances or avoid drawing malicious attention.
- Resourceful Crafting: Combine tiny found items—like a paperclip and a rubber band—to create tools that aid your survival and help you traverse this magnified world.
Deep Character Interactions and Multiple Endings
The world is populated with a diverse cast, each with their own motivations and potential to aid or hinder your quest.
- Diverse Giantess Personalities: Encounter a range of characters, from the well-meaning but clumsy science club president to other students who may be unaware of your plight or harbor sinister intentions.
- A Central Moral Dilemma: A key, recurring choice challenges you to decide whether to avoid all contact and risk isolation, or to seek help and potentially face unforeseen consequences, directly influencing the story's outcome.
- Consequence-Driven Narrative: Key decisions influence whether you find a cure, forge unexpected bonds, or succumb to the dangers of a world not built for someone your size, leading to several profoundly different endings.
