Globesweeper
Incandescent Games · 2019 · Casual, Indie, Puzzle
PC
Very Positive90% · 352
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About Globesweeper
Globesweeper is a twist on the classic minesweeper game. Use the numbers to work out all the tiles that are safe to reveal but be careful one mistake revealing a mine will cause the whole globe to detonate and you will have to start again!
With hexagon, triangle and classic square game modes, 5 different globe sizes and 4 difficulty settings you can be playing on anything from tiny hexagonal globes made of 92 tiles to colossal triangle globes with 20,480 tiles.
Play in traditional or guaranteed solvable mode where you never have to guess.
Gain achievements to unlock all 14 themes including planet Earth, the Moon, Mars, stylish gold, ruby, emerald and sapphire.
Can you beat a colossal globe?
Each tile you reveal will have a number on it (blank means 0). This is the number of mines on adjacent tiles*. For example in hexagonal mode if you have a tile with a 3 on it and 3 of its 6 adjacent tiles have been revealed you know the other 3 are mines.
Now if you have a tile with 1 on it and one of its adjacent tiles has been marked as a mine you know the other 5 adjacent tiles are safe to be revealed as its mine is already accounted for.
Using this technique carry on until the whole globe is revealed. The same technique can be used for both the triangle and the classic square game modes.
*Adjacent tiles are any tiles that share a corner. For hexagons this is 6 tiles, squares 8 tiles and triangles 12 tiles.
With hexagon, triangle and classic square game modes, 5 different globe sizes and 4 difficulty settings you can be playing on anything from tiny hexagonal globes made of 92 tiles to colossal triangle globes with 20,480 tiles.
Play in traditional or guaranteed solvable mode where you never have to guess.
Gain achievements to unlock all 14 themes including planet Earth, the Moon, Mars, stylish gold, ruby, emerald and sapphire.
Can you beat a colossal globe?
How to Play
Each tile you reveal will have a number on it (blank means 0). This is the number of mines on adjacent tiles*. For example in hexagonal mode if you have a tile with a 3 on it and 3 of its 6 adjacent tiles have been revealed you know the other 3 are mines.
Now if you have a tile with 1 on it and one of its adjacent tiles has been marked as a mine you know the other 5 adjacent tiles are safe to be revealed as its mine is already accounted for.
Using this technique carry on until the whole globe is revealed. The same technique can be used for both the triangle and the classic square game modes.
*Adjacent tiles are any tiles that share a corner. For hexagons this is 6 tiles, squares 8 tiles and triangles 12 tiles.
Key Features
- Guaranteed solvable option
- Hexagonal, classic and triangle modes
- 5 globes sizes to choose from
- 4 difficulty levels
- 120 Global scoreboards
- 14 themes to unlock
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
If you're a player who chords (reveals off flags), the game's controls feel perfectly fine. However, if you're a player like me who only reveals tiles by clicking (and doesn't flag/right-click), the controls feel really bad. Trying to repeatedly left click quickly is impossible; the game registers that as you trying to move the board around, so you're forced to click at a slow pace if you want to reveal tiles. There's also the option to rebind controls, so I tried binding left-click to spacebar. The issue of clicks not registering if you're fast persisted, even if you couldn't move the board with the rebound control. You have been warned if you are a no-flagging player like me. The refund button exists for a reason. Still giving this game a thumbs-up because I want to support the dev :D (I have spent an ungodly amount of time on the mobile version)
After some time, you start having nightmares about missclicking.
pretty cool, sort of works on the steam deck. but controls okay. more pc than controller. but i still enjoy it
Great Minesweeper Variant. Generate "Guaranteed Solvable" function is something unique in this game.
Minesweeper. But better!
Fun Minesweeper-like game with many customization options, 9/10
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