Asteroids Minesweeper

不晓得是玩啥的,教程关都不知道干啥~语言不通真可怕~

The idea behind this game is cool, the execution is not. The devs should have stuck to the tried and true Minesweeper methods such as flagging suspect cells. Also, the camera and its controls are annoying. Additionally, you will occasionally have to take a guess which is uncool, although admittedly, that was also a negative for the original Minesweeper. The worst thing is that it's buggy. Mine bugged out on the very first tier. On A-5 which is the final level for the tier, I got down to the last two mines and then all the cells disappeared, playing with the camera and clicking all over the place did nothing. I can forgive other drawbacks but a game breaking bug like this is inexcusable.

The game was quite fun for me and its nice to train logical thinking and 3 dimensional orientation. Especially the music was nice and "chilling". So the game itself gets a positive rating. What I rate it negative for is the forced online mode. You can only play as long as Steam is in online mode. I have seen this nowhere mentioned. I prefer to play with Steam in offline mode. And I also don't see a reason why this must be online. Thus a thumbs down for bad communication and a "useless" feature.

Camera and controls are sufficient to play the game. However, the game makes no attempt to prevent situations where you have to make a random guess. The same was true in the original, but the levels in this game take a lot longer, so there is no instant-retry like original minesweeper. That, combined with some levels having 5-8 random guesses to complete, is unacceptable.

跟我想象中的3D扫雷几乎完全一样，能玩到很开心。 然而……3D扫雷还是太难了点，比2D多了太多遍数，关卡难度很快就直线上升，到了几乎玩不了的地步，可玩性不怎么样……

楽しそうなんだけど、操作性がねぇ。

This is a flawed game so while I recommend it, let me first go through the list of negatives: [list] [*]After the tutorial, guessing will come up here and there. The levels are randomly generated so if you get a particularly bad one you can just reload the level, but you will have to take chances occasionally. Though to make it less harsh, you are given several lives before the level is failed. [*]The camera is unwieldy. Rotation works fine but panning (moving the camera's focus) requires you to either double-click the block you want to focus on or moving it around with WASD+QE for the six possible directions. It's not as bad as other comments made it out to be but it makes it rather cumbersome on larger levels. It seems this problem stems from the developer's ambition to support as many control options as possible, with all mouse buttons already serving other purposes. [*]Being 3D, you don't get to see all fields from the start, especially on the denser levels. This becomes a challange when you have to remove "clue blocks" to see/mark what's behind them but not too many or you'll forget their clues and end up having to guess. [*]Not a complaint of me personally but this is not the classic Minesweeper mode where you flag the mines and leave them. You actively clear them out so you end up with an empty field. I don't mind this variant and it sure helps with the visibility problem mentioned above but some people have strong feelings about that. [/list] So with all this, why do I still recommend this game? [list] [*]It is one of the few [b]proper[/b] 3D Minesweeper games. Most of those I've seen advertized as 3D are simply planes wrapped around spheres, cubes and other shapes. They're fun but not really 3D. This on has [b]depth[/b]! Bumping the nunber of neighbors from 8 to 26 means you will have to think a lot harder (and from more angles) to solve the level. If there were as many of these types of Minesweeper games as there are 2D ones, the cons mentioned above would make this a hard pass but since it's very slim pickings, beggars can't be choosers. [*]The levels are randomly generated! Of course on one hand that means that they are not curated and checked for quality, on the other hand it means a lot of (potential) replayability from what at first seems like a small game. [*]For the price asked, you do get your money's worth as long as you can look past the shortcomings and treat is as a rather casual puzzler. It even goes on sale for -50% off but seriously, they're asking pocket change. [*]It seems that the game is very open to modding. That exceeds my skills but if you can code and have a vision on how precisely the game could be improved - well apparently you can do so yourself comparatively easily. [/list] In short: Despite it's flaws and somewhat bare-bones design, I do recommend it to fans of Minesweeper games to experience it in true 3D - especially considering the price and the lack of alternatives.

Requesting refund because of hitting several significant problems before finishing the tutorial, and also seeing these have been reported years ago and I can't expect them to be fixed: - Doesn't work in Steam offline mode, with an empty error message. - Froze after 10 minutes of play. - Got out of sync on the second tutorial mission and I couldn't complete it.

Holy hell the camera controls ARE SO BAD. You zoom in and out with mouse wheel. You hold left mouse button to rotate. So far so good. [b]But there is no camera panning![/b] In order to actually move the camera around, you must double-click a block you'd like to center on. And jesus christ it makes playing even the first few simple levels just unbearable, as you need to constantly double-click your way around the puzzles. Horrible, just horrible. Also in my very limited experience with the game I did not establish if you are expected to do some guessing to solve puzzles, but it feels like you do, which is definitely uninstall & refund for me.

If you like Minesweeper and wanna try it in 3D, it's probably your best option. Plays really well. The camera can be confusing at times, but that is probably in the nature of the whole concept. The game also introduces new ideas over time, which is also nice and mixes it up a bit. For the low price, definitely a game to recommend!