Mine? Sweeper

Mine? Sweeper

KMG · January 23, 2024 · Action, Arcade, Puzzle Platformer, 2D, Retro

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Mixed67% · 30 📉 Recent reviews down 50%
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Mine? Sweeper price

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About Mine? Sweeper

✦ AI summary

Mine? Sweeper inverts classic minesweeper by having you avoid mines to uncover hidden treasures across multiple stages and equipment-driven dungeons. Deduce, use items, or gamble on each tile's true identity as you work through logic puzzles where distinguishing treasure from danger is the real challenge.

Game Description



"Avoid the mines, find all the treasures, and clear the stage!"

The primary goal of traditional minesweeper is to locate all the mines on the stage.
This involves distinguishing tiles with mines from those without, and game completion is achieved upon identifying all mine locations.

However, this game's objective is not to find mines.
It's about avoiding mines to discover treasures, and the game is cleared when all treasures are found.

Even if you can discern which tiles are not empty, you cannot know whether they are treasure tiles or mine tiles.

Therefore, you can:

Use items to identify the nature of a tile, or
Deduce from the surrounding numbers of mines and treasures, or
Guess based on the current number of remaining mines and traps, or
Just take a wild guess,
to determine whether a tile is a treasure or a mine.

A large-scale tomb raiding game mode with multiple stages forming one dungeon



In each stage, finding all treasures lets you acquire one piece of equipment.
With each piece of equipment aiding in clearing stages, complete all stages to find the final treasure and clear the dungeon!

A small-scale tomb raiding game mode focusing on clearing a single stage



This game mode involves solving a single stage using deduction alone.

Controller Support


No device other than a mouse is needed to play the game! In fact, using a controller other than a mouse for minesweeper feels awkward.
(Gamepads are not supported.)

Mine? Sweeper — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Mine? Sweeper puts a dungeon exploration twist on the classic minesweeper formula, which players find conceptually charming, but the execution frustrates players across the board. The clunky controls—requiring character movement to clear tiles and disabling diagonal clearing—combined with awkward labeling mechanics and a poorly balanced treasure and trap system that forces guessing late-game, make it feel tedious rather than engaging. Players suggest the core idea has potential but needs substantial refinement to be worth playing.

Recommended Aug 21, 2024
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8 found this helpful
Not recommended Apr 6, 2025
I'm going to open with the one positive thing I can say about the game: putting a dungeon exploration skin on it is a cute and fun idea. Unfortunately, the rest of what I have to say is going to be negative. This game is extremely frustrating, especially if you are at all familiar with the original version. -You cannot simply uncover the safe tiles. Instead, you have to move the character next to the tile you want to clear and then click it again. The character cannot clear tiles in diagonal, meaning you will have to do some additional moving to clear around even a single mine and frequently, you will not be able to clear a safe tile at all. -When labeling tiles (simple right click, as the original), you first place a question mark and only on the second click you put down a trap label. The question mark is completely unnecessary and the trap labeling is integral to the game, so the order of placing them should at least be reversed. Unlike the OG, where tiles marked as mines are not clickable, you can still make your character accidentally trigger a correctly marked trap. -The numbers enumerating the traps can change -The fact that you need to move your character to clear tiles …
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 9, 2025
Mine? Sweeper is an unabashed, lazy ripoff of Minecraft (Copyright Microsoft, 1989). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. Putting aside the unethical intellectual, creative and moral bankruptcy of stealing someone else's game concept, this is also breaking that unwritten law of stealing other people's game ideas... you should at least try to do better than the game you're ripping off. Mine? Sweeper is considerably worse than Minecraft."Mine? Sweeper" ripoff What do you do in the game? It's minesweeper. The only difference is that Microsoft hasn't taken any legal action (yet), and there's a gimmick around collecting treasure, but this was not the "twist" on someone else's intellectual property that would make gamers lime up around the block to play someone's ripoff of someone else's mouse tutorial game from the 1980s. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn'…
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 14, 2025
I love minesweeper and I appreciate that the devs did their twist on the classic game. However, this one is not fun. I can get behind the clunky movement and the no 'right click to delete multiple grids', however, the 'double numbers' to indicate treasure and traps simply do not work together. You don't have enough magnifying glasses and you do end up guessing towards the end of the game, simply hoping that you have enough potions to recover. I think a mining game that places treasures randomly that you need to discover by revealing the map and avoiding traps, that could lead to levels where you have all the treasures before finding all the traps could be more entertaining.
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 23, 2024
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Not recommended May 9, 2024
the mine and treasure system is awful half the time im just running around drinking health pots and doing 50/50s

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