Variation of the Self-Imposed Challenge. The goal is to complete the game while collecting as few extraneous items as possible. Often overlaps with a straight Speed Run, but not always. Sometimes it's quicker for a Speedrunner to do some judicious Level Grinding or go out of his way to pick up a Game Breaker -- sacrifice a little efficiency in the short-term to pick up a lot of time later. A player on a Minimalist Run will never do that. If he doesn't need it, in the strictest sense of the word, he skips it.