Minesweeper Classic: Retro

If you’re a fan of Minesweeper’s simple puzzle gameplay, this might be the best version of the game on the App store. This game has a wonderfully simple UI design that remains very faithful to the classic Windows Minesweeper, and has plenty of settings and customization to boot. Custom boards and accessibility settings, including guess-free boards to eliminate the main flaw of RNG in classic Minesweeper. Ads are present, not surprising for a free mobile game, but they can be removed with a one time purchase that is only a few bucks; worth it in my opinion. You can get coins, which are only used for buying optional in-game board reskins, not at all necessary to play. There’s no game-breaking powerups or any other pay-to-win nonsense you can get with coins, very refreshing and simple for a mobile game. There’s leaderboards and stats for those who care about it, and daily rewards and challenges that can reward you with a lot of coins. My ONLY very minor nitpick is that the font for the numbers doesn’t match the classic Windows version. It doesn’t bother me too much, and obviously has zero effect on gameplay, but if I change anything about the game that’s the only thing I would do. Otherwise this is a well designed and unobtrusive version of Minesweeper, nothing over-the-top but not lazily designed either. A nearly perfect mobile Minesweeper IMO!

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.

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.