Minesweeper Classic Reviews

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.

I play this game competitively for multiple hours daily exclusively on extreme mode and have for over a year on MinesweeperClassic, so I would notice this if anyone would. After the recent update over the past few months or so, we have seen more ads than usual. This is bad enough, except that I have definitely noticed an uptick in my “accidental bomb activations” where I go to flag a bomb, and it detonates it instead. Once in a while this is to be expected, but the frequency that this has increased just does not “ad” up, pun intended. Every time this occurs, an ad appears. It KNOWS you want to use your coins to continue rather than starting a new game because you were wrongfully scammed into clicking the bomb and it is obviously frustrating to anyone this happens to. So they know you won’t just quit MinesweeperClassic , open it again and start a new game to avoid viewing the ad. You wouldn’t be able to continue with coins if you did that.

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!

The controls are my favorite thing about this whole port. You can zoom in and place flags very easily, and there’s so much customization! Seriously, it’s so customizable it’s a problem I have with the game. You open the options and scroll down, scroll down, scroll down…. If the menu was a bit more organized it would be a lot easier to get around. Another important thing is the ads are not very intrusive. You’ll only ever get an ad at the end of a game (win or lose), but sometimes you won’t even get an ad, so you likely won’t get an ad for losing a 10 second game. My only minor gripe is that the ads start immediately after you win or lose—like, you won’t even be able to see the game-over/win menu, but they aren’t much of an issue besides that. I would give MinesweeperClassic an 8/10. If you want to play Minesweeper on mobile, this is a must-play.

I’ve played on this version of minesweeper for a few years now. Hands down the best one. Plenty of settings to optimize your game for how you want to play, a ton of fun themes to make your game look better (original minesweeper art style gets old after a while lol), guess free mode is also a great feature that makes the game a lot more fair. There are ads, but only after you finish a game. They don’t pop up in the middle of a game like some other minesweeper versions. Plus, to remove ads its a one time purchase of a few dollars. Devs, i appreciate what u do to make minesweeper even better :)

PS, please add guess-free extreme mode :D

Have tried to master minesweeper with probably five or six different implementations through the years and this is the first where I am actually progressing significantly.
Has added an extra dimension of understanding and expertise to the game.
As others have said, you don’t need any other minesweeper game.
The only thing I would ask of the developer is that it would be very nice if it could also be made available on my MacBook Pro.
Tips to beginning players, learn to recognize basic determined patterns such as 1-1-X, 1-2-X, and 2-1-2. (the first X is empty, the second filled) and you learn that “2” can be adjacent or with a space between.
Have progressed from easy to custom to medium levels, and while I’m not winning every last game without error, am winning most, and can see where I went wrong whereas before it was often a mystery.
Thanks to the developer for a great game that is fascinating, forgiving, and playable long term.

Update: Read dev note; Thanks for letting me know. Updated stars!!

The UI I placed well, tiles are precise and accurate. But from the small amount of time I played, I hit a lot of “the mine could be anywhere” moments and had to guess a tile or hit another random tile to open up more options. It’s like some of the other chess puzzle apps where you have multiple ways to solve a puzzle, but your forced to do the specific move they want even if you have to blunder. I like how it keeps the game simple, hate how the actual game is more a guessing game.

MinesweeperClassic is perfect! I downloded it only recently, but I haven't have a single issue with it at all. First of all, this game works offline, so you can play it wherever you are, at least from my experience. There are ads, but they don't interrupt you while you're in the middle of a game, and when they DO come up, it doesn't take long before you're able to skip them. The UI is simple, just like the original minesweeper, but the themes are also perfect for customization. Overall, if you want a way to get minesweeper on mobile, I highly suggest getting MinesweeperClassic.

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 MinesweeperClassic 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 MinesweeperClassic!

MinesweeperClassic is amazing! It tops ALL other minesweeper apps. The amount of customizability for even small things like lefty vs righty shows a lot of work is put into this game! I do have a few suggestions: Add a multiplayer mode, so that people can compete on the same board. 2. Make it so that you can make a custom game where you can choose where the mines go 3. I'm not sure if there is anyway to fix this, but the UI size for everything is a bit wack on phones, so I have to use a tablet for the UI to be
bigger and easier to use. Overall amazing app, and I can tell a lot of work has been put into it.

Hands down the best minesweeper I’ve ever played on mobile. For starters, while the game had ads, its a one-time payment of $1.99 to remove them. Most other mobile games require a weekly paying subscription to remove ads, however this one is a simple one-time payment, which is all that is necessary in mobile gaming in my opinion. Not only that, but this game allows you to customize pretty much everything, from animations playing to holding to place down bombs, it’s incredible. The freedom this game allows in it’s settings menu is something most other games lack, and its amazing. Not only that, but the game has Guess-Free mode, meaning it can generate boards that are simply based off of skill, and not literal RNG (Random Number Generator). A few other features include custom board sizes, with the freedom of choosing row count, column count, and even mine count. There’s also themes that you can purchase with in-game currency, being coins, and even a feature that allows you to double coins for a one-time payment of $1.99. There’s a statistics viewer, displaying your statistics for all difficulties and overall, including a win-loss ratio, which I think is pretty interesting. All in all, this game does everything right, and you bet I’ll be paying that two bucks just to remove ads, because it’s totally worth it.

Good app! I wanted to find an app to play minesweeper and went on the apple app store. The first app I tried had good reviews but I was not impressed. It had too many ads and I didn’t like the set up very much. I honestly think some of the good reviews must have been fake. I got fed up with it and looked for another app. I saw this one and it had amazing reviews but I was worried it would also be disappointing. Turns out, it’s fantastic! Highly recommend. The one time payment for no ads is SO nice! And I love the ability to rearrange the top menu bar. The different features are also great. Highly recommend!

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.

Update: changed review from 2 star to 5 star. There is a guess free mode that gets rid of the 50/50s. With that said, this is the best version of minesweeper that I have found.

My review was responded to with this message: “ "Thanks for the review! You can enable guess-free mode from the Settings menu. Go to Settings, scroll down a bit and you will find the "Create guess-free boards" option. Change that to yes. Now each time you start a new game the guess-free algorithm will find a solvable board for you. Hope this helps!"”

Original: This is a great version of the game, but it is incredibly frustrating for the game to come down to 50/50s. Trying something else.

This should 100% be the first result on MinesweeperClassic 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 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 MinesweeperClassic so much that I bought the ad removal anyway to support the developer. Streamlined and simple with great functionality. Love it!

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 don’t typically leave reviews, and thought the other reviews were a bit dramatic, but I take it all back. MinesweeperClassic is great. It should be the first option in MinesweeperClassic Store. It’s super customizable to whatever settings you prefer and has so few ads! Another app I tried had an ad after every single game and no starting blocks, so me constantly picking a bomb as my first choice led to an abrupt ad every 30 seconds. In this version I get an ad after 4 or so games, which makes hopping back into another game much easier. The only issue I have is I don’t understand what the different shortcuts are. I wish there was some text, but it’s really not a big deal and the fact that I can actually enjoy the games completely overrides that.

I was looking for a Minesweeper app that would offer a clean interface, a quick start up, and intuitive controls (eg. responsive flagging/quick-flagging modes), and some kind of display customization, like a dark mode.

I downloaded this thinking it might be bloated with unnecessary features but I was so, SO wrong.

It has a beautiful UI, extreme customization (found the dark mode variant—one of three—that I preferred), and all kinds of control and layout customizations.

The best parts are the daily challenges. They’re so easy to jump into; I’ve gone back almost two year’s worth snagging every gold badge that I can.

The no-guess feature is also a godsend.

The only points of criticism I can think of are:

1) cracked leaderboards. I can’t rank on them because everyone’s times are 0.00s.

2) themes need the option to enable/disable the color-coding on numerals. Half of the themes have the traditional coloring (eg. blue for 1, green for 2, etc), but the other half feature a single coloring for all numbers. And I get it… the coloring is all an aesthetic, and they’re matched really well for cutesy designs, but there are some themes that I love and simply can’t use because you lose a huge, fundamental ability to scan the board by color.

All in, a legitimate 9.5/10.

So I’m here reading reviews trying to find someone mention no guess mode cause I was sure it had to be there given how highly rated MinesweeperClassic is. Maybe I’m just dumb and oblivious, but I wasn’t aware the menu scrolled down. I thought the setting menu ended after daily rewards with the “more games” button squeezed in below it. THERE ARE SO MANY MORE OPTIONS. I just didn’t notice the scroll bar indicator. Maybe make the more games button normal sized cause it honestly made me think that was the bottom of the settings list, or just a “scroll for more”. As with all user interface gotta make it idiot proof for people like me xD