BroomSweeper

As an OG Minesweeper player I absolutely love the added layer of roguelike progression in BroomSweeper. You can sort of customise your runs based on difficulty and modifiers. Strong contender for GOTY.

Minesweeper with mechanics! Minesweeper has always been there for me when I'm on a computer or my phone without the internet. I never imagined it could be more though, until now. My love is re-ignited and I am devoted to reaching at least the 10th floor, and I think if you have even a passing interest, this game could give you the bug, too.

Boring

I like this game but I hate the lying modifier that comes up what fells like all the time and feels impossible to counter play with. Maybe I am just dumb but I lose every time that modifier comes up.

Dyscalculia rep and a super fun take on minesweeper!

It's an interesting premise: what if Minesweeper, but fancy? So you get a journey over three stages each run, each consisting of several maps on which you sweep your mines and culminating with a boss fight. However, having to win roughly 20 maps with no mistake seems a bit too harsh. In order to compensate for that, the authors decided to give you HP. You can now make a couple mistakes before losing the game and even regenerate some of the lost points along the way. However, being able to make up to 20 mistakes while maps only have around 10 mines each seems a bit too easy. In order to compensate for that, the authors decided to increase the challenge by adding special effects: - some mines are detected not just by their direct neighbours, but also by tiles around them - there could be more than one mine per tile - the numbers on the tiles can give you false numbers However, having to solve a Minesweeper puzzle while the only clues you use for that can and will be distorted seems a bit too pointlessly punishing. In order to compensate for that, the authors decided to give you various power-ups that you can buy inbetween maps for points you score. The problem I have with the game is this: the power-ups are powerful yet cheap and they synergize into nearly infinite positive feedback loops, meaning that by the half of a run you don't even do anything, you just click on any field and the map is solved. It happens so quickly you don't even have a chance to use any of your active skills. Even the special riddles you encounter can be affected by some of the special abilities, which I find baffling. You end up clicking around blindly just to get to the end only to realize that higher difficulties are locked behind a grind: you need to beat the full run of one difficulty to unlock another. There's about a dozen of them. I reached the third one and the progression does not feel fast enough to make up for the game turning into mindless skipping accompanied by congratulations as though you actually achieved anything. A game that forces me to play in a suboptimal way to feel any sort of challenge is itself not worth recommending, but the grinding elements are an overkill.