BroomSweeper

This game is really fun. All the characters are charming with their bios and whatnot. Each character provides different experiences/ways to play minesweeper. If you're into roguelikes, like pixel art, and like a chill game to exercise your brain once in a while, pick this one up when you can!

Very addictive and lots of fun. Don't be intimidated by those negative comments saying this is not a true mine sweeper; to them Balatro would not be a good poker game either.

I'd like to give it a sideways thumb, but it is fun enough to lean towards positive. - I bought at a sale price and find it enjoyable. Gameplay/ powers fall a little thin upon long sessions, but is definitely fun in short bursts. The largest downside for me is, it continues to fail to open on my secondary machine, which is a macbook m1 pro. I don't know if it's a bug, or it (regardless of categorization) it's not actually compatible with macOS.

Broomsweeper is a breath of fresh air in the roguelike market. Most roguelikes seem to follow the design philosophy of being the last game you'll ever need to play, offering completion times of over 1000 hours as their main selling point. While I can see the appeal of these games, Broomsweeper has a much more manageable scale (at least at this point in development.) As a minesweeper fan, Broomsweeper manages to capture what makes the classic great, while bringing in just enough roguelike elements to draw me back in. The satirical 90's corporate aesthetic is nicely presented, with lots of little details that really show the love put in to the game. The difficulty scales nicely without locking any content (besides 1 achievement) behind higher difficulties, and even on higher difficulties it's possible to get the ball rolling fast enough to still have overpowered runs. The only issues I really had with Broomsweeper is firstly, that I found the characters felt a little unbalanced, especially on higher difficulties. Slight tweaks to health or mine placement were quickly overshadowed by having the 'cross-stitch' cells along the sides. Secondly there was some slight instability at times, and a few bugs, which I can see are both actively being worked on. All in all, I think Broomsweeper is a success. P.S. a lot of the hazards that seem to force you to guess can be worked around with some lateral thinking. By the end of the game I didn't have much trouble identifying and working around megabunnies, lies, and multibunnies, even without many items to help. And when you do still have to guess, thats what the HP is for.

I do not find the forced clippy tutorial character or the fact a fake option to disable them in setting endearing. Was able to get game running on Linux with a proton patch.

I wouldn't have guessed that Minesweeper could be improved. This game managed to do it.

The game is pretty fun but as others have pointed out the balance is horrible and the asking price is insane for what the game is. I'd say get it on sale if you enjoy the demo

Yeah, I kinda love it. I'm known for jumping between games frequently and this hasn't stopped that but I've come back to this in multiple short burst runs and I don't plan on stopping any time soon.

Great if you love minesweeper. I like the variety and the challenge.

Really solid Minesweeper roguelike. Funny items and powerful synergies, overall very charming. Some good twists on the minesweeper formula, like multiple 'mines' in the same square, really change how the logic works. Satisfying!