Cavesweeper

I have been a fan of bankbank since I played Four Winds Fantasy. He is one of my favourite indie game developers. He has great ideas and an unrestrained style. You could say, that he is a big inspiration to me. Cavesweeper is one of my favourite games by bankbank, and also one of my favourite puzzle games. I am very happy to see it come to PC, originally having been released on smart phone (highly recommend grabbing it on that too for cave sweeping on the go). This 'reframed' and updated version translates well to the big screen, and being able to listen to the mesmerising original soundtrack by the man himself in FULL 4D AUDIOIC TRANSCENDENCE is a real treat. This game is a great challenge, fun and addicting, a treasure.

Cavesweeper is a weird combination logic puzzle / RPG battle game that hits this weird sweet spot in my brain. The logic puzzle is exactly the sort of Minesweeper-like constraint-solving mechanic that I can just sit and play with endlessly. But as the game progresses, the puzzle's difficulty is ratcheted up such that it can't be completely solved by logic alone, and you have to make tactical decisions about what risks you're willing to take to gain information. I don't get sucked into a lot of games, but once I start a Cavesweeper run I gotta see it through. I was pretty sad when Apple broke the iPhone version after an upgrade, so I was super excited to learn it had made its way to the PC. Hoping Bonkey Trek gets a re-release next!

Don't let the description fool you! This is all Minesweeper, requiring guess after guess (including the first square of *every* puzzle), and not a bit like the logic-driven Picross or Sudoku. Also, key interface items are never explained and the game displays in a teeny tiny window with no way to run it full-screen.

Pretty slick dungeon crawler/minesweeper nice art. Shame it's forced into a lower resolution.

Been a fan of BankBank's work from way back, some of the wildest games Ive ever played have pored out of this bountiful creative mind. Sally forth me if you wrong, but the Indie scene as we know it would basically not exist if not for BankBank... As for the game itself, I find it to be a maddeningly enticing combination of the Minesweeper template with some of the greatest storytelling endeavors of the early computer RPG scene... Wizardry 4, Ultima 4, Ultima 7 and Wizardry 6, 7 and 8 have all left their indelible marks upon this curious little sojourn. Quests Galore in this game, a day without Cavesweeper is like a year without rain. Let this game get its hooks into you. Let it put its poison into you. You will become hopelessly addicted to the kind of frenetic madcap action that only a mind like BankBank's could cook up...

Once you start, you will not be able to stop - the gameplay is addictive AF. Great artwork, scintillating music, fun decisions to make. I get a huge dopmaine rush when the coin toss event happens. If you aren't playing the PC version of Cavesweeper, you are missing out *BIG* time.

Love this game - played it a lot on my phone and now it's here for me to enjoy on my work computer! It's a great take on Minesweeper but obviously better. Must play for dungeon-crawler fans.

I played this game a TON on mobile. A minesweeper/dungeon-crawler makes for a brilliantly addictive combo. It's well worth the $3 asking price.

It's a minesweeper game that runs at a super low resolution and gets old after your first run. It looks like it took less than a week to make. It won't stay on your hard-drive longer than 30 minutes.

Things that confused me; The tutorial, as I wasn't thinking Minsweeper, even though it states in the blurb that it's part minesweeper... (you see, I'm a bit of a moron, reading's not my type of a thing apparently...) The "gold digging" giving you ten tries, I thought it meant ten "clicks" but you get to miss gold ten times, every time you strike gold it doesn't count. Me thinking about anything, that always confuses me...which has nothing to do with the game... The game, what is it? It is what it says in the blurb, basically minsweeper but with different colour mixed in to both make it harder but also easier du to knowing 0 means 4 squares around this has 0 of this colour - which makes all the surrounding being of the other colour...unless you have three colours to choose from. (unlike minesweeper this game doesn't care about diagonals, no "block" can ever show more than 4 surrounding of the same colour) You also get some items like healing potions, you encounter some gambling along the way (click heads or tails when the graphic shows the one you're clicking) and people selling you useful items. This is a very nice casual type of game, I don't have any form of a major complaint about the game, I just wish I was born with something resembling a brain... (the dev. seems like a very nice bloke as well, which always is a nice bonus)