Minesweeper Classic

Ive been using this app for over 10 years. It succeeded as a quick 10 minute time kill once and a while especially when offline (air travel, poor connection, etc.). The recent updates force you to watch a long losing animation every time you hit a mine. And mind you, this is not the kind of Microsoft-style minesweeper where the first click is a guaranteed space with 0 mines adjacent to it. Meaning you often have to watch the animation a lot before you get a decent run going + click through UI. The controls are intuitive and pretty clean, though there is an exploit where you can test whether a mine is present by clicking between tiles in just the right way. I only recently found this and it is a bit risky since if there is a mine and your click is off you risk losing. But yeah I will explore my options now and find a new cheap minesweeper game that doesnt ask for a premium subscription (this one does now!). if there isn’t such a thing I will literally just vibecode a Minesweeper-like game into existence and distribute it for free because this is stupid

New update is just an ad for $9.99/mo subscription service even though this was already a paid app. Unbelievable how unethical Maple Media is ~~ It’s been nearly a year since this game was handed to a new developer and ruined. Appreciate that the developer has been responsive to feedback, but still in all that time, hasn’t been able to fix the basics— -new stats page still doesn’t work. Expert games play are counted in intermediate but expert games won are counted in expert -average time does not calculate correctly (currently looks like an average of my top three scores since the update) -flag button in the top right is still too hard to press -border around game often shows up incorrectly (have to open settings or switch to landscape to fix) -ads still occasionally appear on startup and are present in settings page ~~ Added ads to a PAID AD-FREE game. Still surprises me how this developer can find another way to ruin a classic PS Landscape mode doesn’t work now; as far as I can tell the update did not improve anything but added ads and removed functionality. Unbelievable and yet believable

Easy to learn and for some to master. Inexpensive, low tech game. I love Minesweeper! When I need a little stress breaker, I play Minesweeper. When I need to cool down,I play Minesweeper. When I feel I just need to exercise my brain, I play Minesweeper. Competing with myself, I try to break my time record every time I play. Oh heck, I just like playing Minesweeper. Hope you will, too.