Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb Reviews

by Scratchyournose

The game doesn’t accurately register press-and-hold to flag mines. 5 out of 10 games on Normal difficulty ended with attempting a firm, centered press-and-hold to flag a known mine, only for it to trigger and send the game immediately to an ad, which makes me suspect that this is intentional game design since ads are how developers profit from a free mobile game. It’s not an issue of my phone’s screen tap sensitivity as I have not had this problem with ANY other app or game, including other free Minesweeper games.

I thought the top Apple Store comment (about having to tap multiple places on the screen to open up a section) was just someone who forgot that *sometimes* original Minesweeper had that problem on the first tap, or maybe a later tap to reveal more of the gameboard. But no, this is excessive. Out of 10 games on Normal difficulty, all 10 required 4-8 taps to open up a section to actually start playing. It’s annoying, but the real problem is how much that increases the chance of triggering a mine before you’re even started. Again, this is more excessive than any other Minesweeper iPhone game I’ve played.

There are TONS of free Minesweeper ports in the Apple Store. Find another one. Don’t waste time downloading this one.

Edit: To test my theory I immediately downloaded the next 3 Minesweeper games in the Apple Store- all played smoothly with none of the design flaws this game has.

by LoLEdiarai

It's not exactly exhilarating gameplay to have to keep refreshing and not being able to play the game because the first click leads to a single "3" or something. Nothing to go off of, and all I can do is randomly tap around for the HOPE that I might have something to actually get started with but to no avail. Half the time I do get a half-decent start, it leads nowhere. And I'm talking no 121 rule, no patterns, it's just a rectangle that forces you to guess into another dead end. I'd rather go to Google minesweeper, except for the fact that I can't play it offline. It's a mediocre minesweeper port at best until they make the game playable. I enjoy minesweeper for the logical solutions and satisfaction from being able to clear it based on what I've learned. Not constantly guessing because the level generation gives you nothing to work off of. Disappointing, looked promising. Maybe it's just the advanced difficulty, but even then Google minesweeper is better in all respects.

by Wannabecowboy6

Fun game. I would normally rate 5 stars for this game but not this last download. When you start a game the time on the game gets frozen due to the adds either loading or processing. Very frustrating. Time stops. Everything freezes for a period of time. Sometimes 20 seconds, sometimes more and repeats. After it allows you to start again it freezes for another time period. It has to do with the adds at the bottom of the screen coming on or changing, in my opinion. I don’t mind the adds but not every 20 seconds and freezing my game. No way to go fast and improve your time. It didn’t use to be like this. It seems adds are more important now than the game. Hopefully someone can look into this and get it corrected with a future update.

by Felipe28g

The game works fine, but creating a minesweeper game is not really that big of a feat to begin with. Placing flags is a pain and not at all convenient the way in which the UI is set up. However, the real reason this only gets two stars from me is the 30-second ads that you get sometimes consecutively after multiple losses. As everyone know some games can be as quick as a few seconds, so getting a 30-second ad after a game is a huge pain and a real turn off.

I’ve had MinesweeperPuzzleBomb for months and I forget I even have it because I stop playing after 5 minutes of game play spammed with 3 or 4 30-second ads. For a game that used to be a default free game with every computer back in the day, this an actual hump that I can’t get over. Uninstalling.

by Sanyexarosha

There are a few problems I have with this version. The first and most glaring is that it recycles games; I frequently get stuck in loops of playing the same layout over and over again until I lose. Secondly, it doesn’t give a free first move. This means that oftentimes I will lose automatically simply because the first square I clicked on was a bomb, or a numbered square that provided no utilizable information. Thirdly and most recently, the game has been freezing up on me randomly when I am on a winning streak, forcing me to close the game and start over. This has taken all the fun out of playing.

I will say that I enjoy the simple, classic design of the game, which is why I initially selected this Minesweeper version: It does not try to be flashy or deviate unnecessarily from the original. However, it’s not worth the problems; I’ll be looking for a new Minesweeper for the future.

by Soozafone

It’s absolutely saturated with ads. That’s par for the course at this point. The problem is that there’s another full screen ad every time you lose a game. Most games are lost on the second or third tap, when you’re still poking around looking for a starting point. So it goes tap, tap, tap, hit a mine, watch 5 seconds of an ad, wait for the X to show up, tap the X, wait for the X to show up on the SECOND part of the ad, accidentally tap one pixel to the side of it, exit MinesweeperPuzzleBomb Store page it just opened, and repeat this about five times just to get a game started where I can start applying actual logic. On top of that, I’ve lost games because it randomly doesn’t register my long tap to place a flag and blows up the mine instead. And then it’s time to watch 5 more ads.

by WillJ61

It’s a good game but way too many ads. I normally only play hard mode, and when I choose my first tile it normally only reveals that one tile, so I am forced to tap blindly on the blocks surrounding that tile, hoping for the best. Due to this you will lose most games in the first few taps. After you lose an ad immediately pops up. After I finish watching that ad, I will try to start a new game, then another ad pops up. Then I finally get to start a new game, just to lose in the first few taps, and restart the whole process. However, once you finally get a good/lucky start the game is very fun. On average I will have 3-5 games that I die in the very beginning, for every 1 game that I actually make progress. So I’ll end up watching 6-10 ads for every 1 game of minesweeper, which I find unacceptable.

by White Chedda Dragon

The game itself is fun. The gameplay is smooth, ad integration is good, but there are 2 major problems. First of all when you start a new game and hit a tile, there is a good chance that it will reveal 1 number and not a larger playable space. When this happens you have to randomly tap around which makes the game somewhat impossible. I think the issue is caused by each play having a set board and your taps being random. An easy fix would be to set the board after the first tap so you get a playable space. The other issue is sometimes the numbers glitch and display the wrong number. At first I thought this was just me but I looked and saw that the number is wrong. For example there would be a 1 with 2 bombs surrounding it or a 2 with 3 bombs. These issues could be overlooked if they didn’t happen as often. If these issues could be fixed this could easily be a 5 out of 5 game.

by Jc77538

I love this game and how it has been adapted to use on an iPhone. However, there are two main issues working together: the random guessing of single tiles to start the game (as talked about by many other reviews) in tandem with the frequency and length of Ads that play after a small x amount of attempts. The problem is, I’ll take anywhere from 5-10 single taps to get a game going, but in that span of 5-10 tries I’ll get up to 3 ads! At that point I’d have spent 90% of my time watching ads instead of actually using MinesweeperPuzzleBomb . I liked the game better when the ads were less frequent. Nowadays I’ll exit MinesweeperPuzzleBomb after the second ad cuz it’s truly a waste of time. There’s nothing worse than watching a middle aged man fail easy games for 30 seconds just because you can’t randomly guess a lucky combination of tiles on the first go. at least make them good ads
:(

by Smippydoo

The ads that interrupt you with a 30 second video when you finish a game or lose aren’t good for the player. I get distracted by the ads and it throws me off my game. The best ads are the ones that you can close right after they pop up. Please show these and these only.

Normally when you start a game, you will always open to an open space with plenty of options to go. But MinesweeperPuzzleBomb makes it so you usually open to a single number and from there, it becomes a guessing game. I still have fun but sometimes this issue becomes so bad that I find myself losing 5+ times in a row because I couldn’t guess where a mine was gonna be based on a single number. All of this, just for my single attempt that got sort of far to be interrupted by a 30 second video ad when I lose. You can see how it can get really frustrating. Hope these issues can be acknowledged somehow.

by Cactus Boxing Gloves

This is a good port of the game; no complaints on that end.

But I must detract stars because I feel that I was manipulated. When an ad popping up cost me a game (by effecting the space that the game takes up and shifting it over), I tried pushing the “X” thinking it would send the ad away. Instead, an option to pay for an ad free version popped up and I was trapped in a loop of trying to exit from the payment prompt and being sent right back to it. Stupidly, I put my thumb to the home screen button to try to quit the game, but of course that just resulted in the payment going through.

Its a pain to try to get a refund for these things, and ultimately I’ve decided that it’s not worth the struggle, which I’m sure is exactly what the developers want. Don’t make the same mistake I did!

by Kuwtqw

I randomly downloaded this because I wanted to get back into minesweeper and for the most part it’s a great version of the classic game. At times tho, there are inconsistencies. In confidence, I’ll press some of the spaces that I know aren’t mines and it’ll be a mine because they put the wrong number of mines sorroundingnit. For example, ‘any times there will be a 1 and I already found the mine touching that 1 so i’ll press the other ones and there’s another mine???? It doesn’t happen every game but when it does it’s super annoying because i’m essentially wasting my time on a level where i’m set up to lose.

by Zo2s

The game is fantastic! However, I noticed that I still run into a similar issue as another reviewer had a year ago. When I start a new game, while the first spot I press may always be safe, sometimes it will only expose that one tile. It is a fantastic game, and if I open more than one usually I can win a game if I'm not dumb. However, it is frustrating when you cannot always win. Because you hit a bomb and had no openings, and even more frustrating when the game tracks your success rate. This needs to be fixed. I should not be rage quitting Minesweeper. Thank you I hope this helps!

by NaNa Whip

Overall I've had a lot of fun with MinesweeperPuzzleBomb! I used to lose a lot of games due to accidentally clicking a square instead of putting a bomb, but I got used to how the game goes and that hardly happens now. Something that is bothering me though is that sometimes when I go to start a game, I have to click multiple boxes before I get anything to work with. So the first box I click may only reveal that box, which obviously doesn't help at all. So I've lost multiple games due to that, especially the higher I go in difficulty. I'm even looking at other apps, because I'm struggling getting the more difficult games started because of it. Other than that I don't have any complaints. The adds are bearable.

by Capt. Lolzcatz

Good game that I love playing on my free time. Playing it is almost second nature to me. Sure, there can be some problems with the rng and sometimes I don’t tap sufficiently to select the Bomb on the top right. But besides all of this it make for a very clear, well run game.

Message for devs: I know you probably won’t get this, but I just want to know what’s going on. I’ve been getting this message called “you’ve gotten the fastest time on expert mode, please put in your name” or something of the sort. Sure, I’ve beaten my time multiple times, but only twice have I received this message as appose to all the previous times I’ve beaten the alleged record. If you can tell me why this message shows, that’ll be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

by ScottMcQ

Something shady going on here. when I first launched MinesweeperPuzzleBomb , I got a pop up asking for my Apple ID. It looked legit and I thought it popped up for something else. I almost wrote it too cuz I was distracted, but then stopped and realized that was odd, I never seen a game ask for Apple ID out of nowhere, especially the beginning while it’s asking you acces to your notifications. So I deleted the game, reinstalled, closed everything and it asks me again. You can just hit cancel and it goes right back and you can play.
Why would a game asked for your Apple ID password at the beginning of the game, when there no purchases or any other I can see that it’ll pop up.
Has anyone played a game before that ask for Apple ID like this? Anyone give this game their password and experienced funny things going on.
What’s the deal guys? I’m giving you guys the Benefit of the doubt, cuz it could mistake or glitch. If this comment ends up being missing somehow, I will report this game. I should’ve already.

by J.t.s.jay

This has been the only minesweeper app I have ever used. I have had it for many years now. It’s efficient and clear. I highly recommend it compared to other apps out there. There are three issues with MinesweeperPuzzleBomb however and I really wish the developers would fix them!! Firstly, the records section never really makes much sense and doesn’t record my times correctly or even in the right difficulty section. The second is that there are times where I will play a specific board and then the next time I open MinesweeperPuzzleBomb to play, the first game is the exact same board. It happened for weeks once and it was fun to see how much of the board I could memorize but it’s an overall glitch. My last issue is the most frustrating. The ads on MinesweeperPuzzleBomb stop my music from playing mid-game. I don’t mind if an ad has noise but it should silence my music when an ad is not being played. For the love of god find a way to fix that.

At this point, nothing is going to make me switch to another minesweeper app but there’s room for improvement with this one.

by Peebi24

The game is great, and nothing works poorly. It’s easy to use, has a nice personal statistics menu and 3 different modes. The only change id like to see is a much bigger flag button. There have been many times where I’m trying to go quickly for a good time, but tap half a centimeter below the button and mess up. It would make sense to me, given the game has a timer and stats based around how quickly you can solve it. But other than that, this game is great!

by Silverspace

I’ve played this game for years, and it was a great reprise of the windows classic. In the past few months, though, the developers upped the amount of ads. I only noticed recently noticed, and now I can’t stand the game. It had always had banner ads which were fine. Now, the banners seem to be more animated, distracting me from the game. Also, there now are full screen ads after some games. I play the game with the sound off, but the ads have full volume. I now can’t play the game in some places as it’d be inappropriate to have an ad start blaring because I won a game.

There is an ad free subscription, but I feel it is over-priced at $6.99 or so a month. I would do that Pe year, but not per month.

by Ken Best

I searched for minesweeper a couple of weeks ago after remembering playin this on a PC as a teenager. I loved this game. I like MinesweeperPuzzleBomb because the ads are sparse and unobtrusive, the game play is consistent, fast, and seems to work like it should. I’m glad in download, even though it negatively affects my productivity.

A couple of notes for the developer:
1) Though I play in the “Difficult” mode, the stats page records every game I play in the “Medium” mode. It actually says I’ve played zero difficult games but won 234 of those zero games. So there’s a slight glitch in the stat recording.
2) If I’m listening to a podcast or music while playing it forces the music to stop. It doesn’t always happen right away, but it eventually does. Minesweeper takes over as the active audio player even though Minesweeper has no audio. That’s annoying and always ends with me ceasing to play.

by TenaciousD986542

This is one of only a few apps that I’ve ever taken the time to review, and I greatly resent the need to do so here, but many others can and should be spared.

The game will not let you win at the max levels unless you purchase the ad-free option. It accomplishes this in a myriad of ways, but you’ll most likely find it to occur via obvious mathematical errors and “failed” square selections, and which they’ll undoubtedly blame on fat fingers. You’ll also notice that consecutive squares won’t open as they should, even despite being clearly available to do so.

Enjoy that little piece of heaven.

At best, it’s simply halfway done slip-shod and utterly terrible programming. At worst, it’s an intentional and insidious effort to force members to pay for the game via pure frustration alone....and which I can only imagine would then - and only then - make many of these issues become suddenly and magically corrected.

How anyone could screw up Minesweeper is utterly beyond me, but they have.

I don’t care one whit what the developer says, as I’ve now played this game hundreds of times and the same “mistakes” continue to unfold, time and frustrating time again. + times and there is no defense, so save the keystrokes.

You’d be better off doodling, clipping your toenails, washing your dog or literally anything other than wasting one second of your time on this utterly game, and which is so utterly rubbish as to be farcical.