Minesweeper Classic: Retro Wiki

Seriously for Real this is the best minesweeper app. Theres always debate about which controls are best, which gui options, themes, and bells and whistles. Traditional players may yell “i just want NORMAL minesweeper, heck all these extra things >:(“ guess what. You have the option to TURN ALMOST ANY OPTION OFF. This is the Pique minesweeper experience with custom boards, traditional boards, retrying level, turning off retrying levels, cool themes, classic theme, hold to flag, quick flagging, hints, auto zoom, no zoom, reset zoom, starting the game blank, starting the game with a path and so so so much more. If for a SECOND you have a complaint about a feature, just check the settings and you can change it. The ads are not intrusive, only between games. (I dont like that there is an ad DIRECTLY after the win, i wanna celebrate for a second, maybe move it to the start of the game please devs?) If they are annoying you or you just want to support the wonderful devs, removing ads is only 2$ and is the only paid feature in the game (except coins but those are just for themes and you can earn that yourself). This is the BEST, most comprehensive, most classic, and most new minesweeper experience. Do not waste your time with any other minesweeper iphone copies.

I have a great fondness for the classic Minesweeper game and finally went looking for an app. I found this one and am so glad I did! The free version is great, the ads aren’t intrusive or obnoxious, and the gameplay was spot on. I did eventually pay to remove the ads for simplicity and the cost was reasonable and the process easy. I like the addition of earning coins for playing that can be used to get game board themes or to continue playing a game that you otherwise would lose (after setting off a bomb). I love the options! My only wish would be for written instructions for gameplay. It took me too long to figure out how to mark a ? on a square instead of a flag because I had to use trial and error. A petty problem, so 5 stars it is!

I was super impressed with this minesweeper app. Most minesweeper apps don’t have great iPhone implementation, but this one almost makes it seem like minesweeper was made for iPhones. It has zoom, but a quick way to get back to full screen. Difficulty, dimension, and menu customization (not to mention more advanced customization) and different themes. I also love the coin system, they are not too hard to get but it saves you in the rare event you meant to flag a tile but tapped it instead. The ads aren’t intrusive like other minesweeper apps and they didn’t bother me too much, but even so, I liked this app so much that I bought the ad removal anyway to support the developer. Streamlined and simple with great functionality. Love it!

This should 100% be the first result on the app store, the ones listed above it are basically what I expect: heartless reproductions of minesweeper with little effort just to get ad revenue. This game is completely different, it's blatantly apparent that real effort and heart was put into making the game as flawless as possible. The themes are above and beyond, dark mode minesweeper is probably my favorite thing that I never knew I needed. With how much I play I earn coins at a very fair rate, and as long as I play well I only have to click out of a short ad every 5 or so minutes, which is very reasonable! I have one complaint, and it isn't even that much of a problem. When I play I typically tap the numbers more often than I tap clear spaces, so I wish I could try out an "inverted" control mode where a short tap was a flag and a bit longer would clear a single space. Edit: Thanks to the amazingly helpful developers, I found the thing that was right in front of my nose! I feel silly for not finding it on my own, but that just goes to show how much customizability there is! Truly above and beyond.

I’ve always loved minesweeper but had to stop playing for a while because I got too addicted to it haha. When the pandemic started and I had more free time I decided I was ready for minesweeper again, and decided to find an app to download. I tried a couple of the top suggested apps but they didn’t do it for me, something was just off. Then I downloaded this app and it’s great! It’s simple and not visually clunky like some of the other games, and the amount of ads isn’t too bad or annoying. It feels cozy just like I’m in my childhood room on my Windows 98 computer again! If you’re looking to play classic minesweeper, then go with this app!

Overall, this game behaves and looks like the original minesweeper game that I used to play on my old windows computer along with good difficulty customization, but I believe that sometimes it is hard to press the tiles on harder stages with smaller/more tiles. To fix this, I think that adding a d-pad control system along with a dig button + selection indicator to show which tile you are on would be much appreciated. Thanks for not including too many ads like most other apps do.

I was disappointed to find out that Microsoft got rid of all their classic games like this minesweeper. But I am happy with this version! It plays just like the original, except there are some perks you can watch ads to get. There are some pop up ads, but they don’t show up at all mid game. Once the game ends then they show up, so it’s really not overwhelming with ads. You can also pay $2 to get rid of those ads which seems like a very fair price to me.

When I searched for minesweeper the first app (not this one) that came up in the store turned out to be super buggy and full of ads. I then searched again and found this one and it’s perfect! It works and looks the same as the old computer game but has some customizable features I haven’t tried. All my minesweeper skills I had forgotten came back to me. There is one ad once in a while but definitely worth it for this free game.

It's insane to me that this isn't the first result when you search 'Minesweeper' in the App Store. LEAGUES above all the other cheap heartless cash-grabbing replications you'll find. A neat supply of new themes and for those just want Good Ol' Fashioned Minesweeper, pretty much every new feature is toggleable in the Settings. You can even turn off the annoying screen in most games that asks you to pay to continue. It's just straight up Minesweeper. Nearly Perfect.

I tried 3-4 different minesweeper apps and this one is the one you want. Simple design with all the features you want, it does not burn through your battery and the adds only appear between games or as an option to continue a game where you clicked a mine. If you are trying to decide which minesweeper game to get put pf the 12 or more on the app store, this is the one you want.

I personally think the game is great! It brings back the times when we only had computers! And this was my favorite game on it. It brings back the true essence of the game. But I would like to note that it is a little glitchy sometimes I’m playing and I put just a little ounce of pressure and it touches a box that I don’t want it to touch and sometimes it touches a mine, making me lose. Also I would be nice if they had a tutorial. When I was trying to show this game to my friend who never had a computer I had to teach them how to play the game. They constantly kept on losing, so it be great if there was a tutorial. But otherwise this game is great!

It's a great app all in all and I absolutely love minesweeper. I've been playing it for a year and I've gotten really good. I got this app just today and I noticed some glitches. 1) Some of the numbers aren't right. For instance, there was a 2 where there should be nothing, or a 3 where there should be a 4. It was easily solvable with surrounding numbers but it confused me. 2) Zooming in and trying to pan to a different section is sort of difficult. Again, it's a great app, especially if you're a beginner at minesweeper, but those are the only two things I would fix. Without the bugs, a solid 5/5

Game is great, it’s great you can continue if you want. Improvements needed: the the new iPhones , the edges aren’t sensitive or too sensitive so it is difficult to select squares on the outer edges. It gets annoying. Secondly there needs to be some kind of upgrade to make this adfree. The ads are just tolerable, but sometimes they are..intolerable. Would love a version to upgrade to get rid of them. Bottom line this is the best minesweeper app that I have found but please do some updates.

I was wondering if the maps always ensured that there was a logical a way to progress by being certain of what is and isn’t a bomb, and if it would notify you if you reached a point in the map where there was no possible logical figuring that could be done (using the numbers touching the mines.) I kept on getting stuck and it was very frustrating- I just assumed that I wasn’t able to find the deductions to determine the bomb placement. I just cleared a board down to two squares in the corner. According to the layout of the board, the bomb could be in either square. Proves that the game will not alert you of a lack of information available to solve. Bad game design; I had been feeling stupid for being unable to determine mine placement in previous maps after getting stuck- it’s likely that there were just no logical steps left to take.