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Minescape – Puzzle Game Review
Minescape is a Puzzle/Entertainment/Action game from Umbrella Games LLC, first launched in 22nd June 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 28+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Minescape Stand Out
Minescape is an addicting puzzle game that requires you to think fast. Use the numbers as clues to find all the mines before they go off.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Minescape is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th July 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- More time to complete the levels
- Added Facebook like button
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Minescape is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This would be a great casual game, if there weren't so many levels with multiple answers. Some of them are because you can solve the level with either 3 or 4 spots, but they don't tell you how many mines there are. But some are because the level is so poorly designed there are 2 different answers with the same number of mines.
Get rid of timer. Horrible. Allow level continue option so you don't have to start over. Run ads to continue a level. Or, we can pay to remove ads. Then you get a 5 star rating. Without these features, there's no reason to play.
It is very fun and very challenging!! Good job.
Very good puzzle game! It's similar to Hashi, requiring the same kind of thinking, but with a twist and with a timer. Enjoying it a lot! Another winner from Umbrella.
Please allow the game to be untimed as an option, and let players go back to the last successful level when they lose the game so they don't have to start from the beginning.
Fun game and concept but we don't like the timed mode. We would prefer the same game without a timer.
The game is wonderful. However, as others have said, timer should be optional. Otherwise fantastic.
We like it, but we don't really like the timer on it. We can't keep up at times. Haha. We wish there could be an option to play with or without the timer.
Nice game, but the timer is annoying. Provide an option to remove it.
Game could be good, but it should have a no-timer option. As it is, it's impossible to learn how the game works, and how to interpret the numbers, once you get beyond level 10 or 11. Unless that's the point, that the player really isn't supposed to advance beyond those few levels. In which case this game is really unfulfilling.
Timer makes it more frustrating than fun, making you start all the way the beginning after any mistake Numbers indicate multiple possible solutions but only one is recognized by the game as being correct making much of one's success is dependent upon luck Minesweeper is a fun game, this is not.
We were expecting a cool modern update on the minesweeper concept. And this game nailed it except for the fact that you have a bout 5 seconds on the hard levels. We don't understand the point in the timer. It's hard enough as it is. Would have been a fun casual game.
… But as you go farther and levels get more complex, time to complete a level decreases making it hard to build knowledge and patterns to help you accelerate. When you lose, you start from level 1 again. It gets old fast unless you're an adrenaline-driven "we gotta win" junkie.
Fun but boring repetition and not many variety of levels.
It was fun for about three minutes. Then it just gets incredibly repetitious and dull.
You don't have time to think when you come across harder puzzles so you end up just quickly tapping. This kills what might have been a good game for us and we won't touching this one again.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.1
- Size: 76.71 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Umbrella Games LLC]()
Last updated: 6th July 2016 | Genre: Puzzle, Entertainment | Developer: Umbrella Games LLC