1080p esports gaming for places towers don't fit.

Mini is ideal for student halls, compact bedrooms, campervans, motorhomes, truck cabins, boats, living rooms, LAN parties, small desks and portable or temporary setups.

Its compact, cool-running design makes it especially useful where space, heat and noise matter.

• 1080p esports and lighter competitive games
• Indie games and emulation
• Older AAA games
• Modern titles with appropriate settings
• Steam Big Picture configured for controller-friendly use

The Mini is at its best with esports, indie and lighter games where 1080p is very achievable with sensible settings. Titles such as Valorant, League of Legends, Rocket League and similar games suit the system particularly well.

For demanding AAA games, settings and resolution need to be reduced. In our testing, Cyberpunk 2077 achieved approximately 33 FPS average at 720p using FSR 2.1 Performance.

Mini is designed around a different priority from Ridge: use as little space and power as practical while remaining a full Windows PC. The Ryzen 7 5700G combines eight CPU cores with integrated Radeon graphics, so the system does not need a separate graphics card.

That makes Mini particularly attractive for student rooms, campervans, motorhomes, compact living rooms, small desks and temporary setups where a conventional tower would be awkward.

The trade-off is graphics performance. Mini is not intended to replace a high-end dedicated-GPU gaming PC. It is best suited to esports, indie games, emulation, older AAA titles and modern games that can run well with sensible resolution and quality settings.

If demanding 1440p gaming is the priority, see the Console Forge Ridge.

Mini runs Windows 11, so it can be used for Steam, Game Pass, web browsing, productivity software, media and normal PC applications as well as gaming. Steam Big Picture can be used for a more controller-friendly experience when the system is connected to a television.

Unlike a conventional console, storage and memory remain standard PC components and the machine can be serviced as a PC. The compact InWin enclosure does place limits on expansion, which is part of the reason Mini stays so small.

Our published performance figures come from the finished machine rather than an open test bench. For demanding games, the limitations are stated rather than hidden: our Cyberpunk 2077 test averaged about 33 FPS at 720p using FSR 2.1 Performance.

For mobile and limited-space installation considerations, read our gaming PC for campervans and motorhomes guide.

For lighter games, Mini can sit beside a television and behave much more like a small console than a traditional desktop tower. A controller-led Steam interface keeps routine Windows interaction to a minimum, while the full desktop remains available when needed.

See our living-room gaming PC guide for practical TV setup considerations, or compare Mini and Ridge on the Console Forge compact PC range.