Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 05:52 am
Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb – Board Game Review
Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb is a Board/Puzzle/Entertainment game from Maple Media Apps, LLC, first launched in 27th March 2009.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 64,821+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb Stand Out
Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb is the sequel to the classic retro PC game, bringing the nostalgic game you know and love to your mobile phone. The game is simple: use strategy and logic to avoid the bombs to clear the minefield. Challenge yourself and use the custom board builder to create your own puzzles. Track progress and game stats to beat your own times & scores.
If you like old classic games like chess, checkers, backgammon, solitaire, freecell, and classic puzzle games like sudoku, tetris, and crossword puzzles then this game is for you.
How to Play: Start with a covered mine field of square tiles and clear the field by tapping one square at a time. Beneath each tile is is either a number to indicates how many mines are touching the tile, a blank space, or a mine that will explode when tapped. Use strategy and logic to navigate the mine map and win the game!
Features:
High Score leaderboard for each difficulty setting
Stats tracking to keep monitor your progress
Select level of difficulty: Beginner, Medium, Difficult
Customize your game for an even greater challenge
Flag Mode: Mark tiles you think are bombs
Easy to use interface, smooth gaming experience
Pinch to zoom
Portrait & Landscape mode available on both iPhone and iPad
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This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
A new version of Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb is here! Here’s what’s new:
- Game Center leaderboards and achievements, bringing a new layer of competition and community to our app!
- General optimizations & stability improvements
Thanks for using Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb! Have questions or feedback? Email us at [email protected] for fast & friendly support
Download & Availability
Minesweeper Puzzle Bomb is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
We had a corner piece with a one next to it. Its obvious that that should be the bomb because of the one has nothing else next to it except the corner piece. So we tapped the box below it and it was a bomb. That is inaccurate, which makes this game too frustrating.
Its always nice to play minesweeper to kill time, so much so that we bought the pro version when it was a one time purchase so we could avoid adds. Now, theyve made it into a yearly subscription and decided to take our features away. Not the coolest thing. They also collect a lot of data from and probably sell it so keep that in mind. Honestly just find a different app without adds.
Too many ads now for a game you didnt even make.
We cried for twelve hours every time we mined the sweep our love is minesweep when we close our eyes they explode there was a ours there one problem: despite the name, this game has no relation to ours craft. Oh well.
Dawg really wants us to pay to play minesweeper. What dystopian world are we living in.
We like how hard it is, but we dont think we could do it on the super hard level, that would be hard. We are 10 years old and playing on our dads phone. – Avery Lutz.
Its ok but when there is like a 3 or a black circle its like cant know where it is and cant win.
It is very annoying that the screen disappears instantly when we lose. We want to look at the screen and see where we went wrong.
We used to enjoy this app but the ads have taken over.
No landscape mode. Barely works. Nothing better.
Crappy that ads are now shoved down your throat. Will find another app.
Pretty much a guessing game when #s will be random and not represent the surrounding mines.
We liked this app as a fine killer every now and then. Its nostalgia for us from Back in the old windows 3.1 days. Its been a while since we played it and today we went to play and it wanted our birthday and would not continue without it. Theres no reason a stupid game like this needs to gather this info unless its to sell it.
App forces two ad pages on you everytime you open the app before you can even get to the game. Whenever you hit a ours there is a 5+ second animation where the letters of GAME OCER YOU LOSE swipe letter by letter over the screen. You cant toggle this off and its unavoidable. 2 stars because the animation was something they added in after we originally downloaded and enjoyed the game. Poor decision that had no practical benefit.
We used to spend hours playing on this apps version of the game (we currently have 27,869 games logged, 25k of which are hard) but the fact that, even on airplane mode, there are two popups between every level reset. It takes an extra five seconds to reset, which would be ok in any other game but this one. What exactly is being developed that needs funds to create. This game has been around since the 80s. Nothing has changed. Leave it as it is. The past couple updates have unfortunately made this app unplayable for us. If you dont mind a couple extra seconds (they add up!) and ads that you have to exit out of three times after every. Single. Level. Then well good on you. As for us Im done.
Way too slow between games. Also is very very easy to click on square and blow up instead of planting flag when you are trying to plant flag. If they would just speed it up between games it would be a lot better. Easily a 4 star then.
Literally anywhere you click, you get an ad. We gave it two stars because it brought on a nostalgic factor of the original minesweeper game. But for the love of all, this game is riddled with nothing but ads.
This was a great app until they started running a drug ad at the bottom of game with a running script. It freezes the play but doesnt stop the clock. Hate it now.
What is wrong with this game? Lately it keeps freezing.
Its cool but why is it 17+ like its just minesweeper.
This is our favorite Minesweeper app and the game is so addicting. We can spend hours playing when relaxing. We only have 2 suggestions for developers and pray they make these changes to help make the app perfect. First, whether we win or lose, we want the opportunity to see the play screen before it jumps to screen telling us we won/lost. Sometimes we want to look at how we messed up, or if we beat a board Im proud of, Id like to take a screen cap, but the app immediately switches screens before we hardly knew what happened. Second, we wish we were able to play with the screen zoomed out where the whole board was showing at once, and also able to zoom in further than whats currently available. Otherwise, love the app and keep up the good work.
UPDATE: it is only an issue with the Amvuttra ad. Love this version of Minesweeper, but not infrequently enough we will have issues where the screen is completely unresponsive except for the ad, meaning the app is completely unplayable. This occurs while the timer is still running. If we close out of the app and reopen it, it will sometimes fix the issue, but often it will quickly become unresponsive again. We actually went a long period of time without experiencing this issue but its acting up again. We specifically notice this with the Amvuttra ad that plays at the bottom of the screen.
Ads and a subscription for minesweeper.
We will no longer be playing this app. Backed into a 100% guess in corners (often times a 1 and a 3) way too many times. Check algorithm.
There are of course to many ads, and for some reason whenever we complete some levels, nothing happens so then we just click somewhere and a bomb goes off and it says we lose, just to reveal we were right with all our flags. So pretty annoying lol.
Takes entirely too long to start a new game after a win/loss.
You play off-line – no money or ads, at least the old version was. The new ones look like theyve thrown the kitchen sink in to a good old game.
Honestly pretty upset. We love this app and bought the premium version a couple of years back, but with a new update they have completely removed our purchase and am being required to purchase the app yet again for even more money this time. As someone who plays this game pretty frequently its frustrating to see our access demoted out of nowhere.
When you click on a title, it wont delete the other patches around it making you guess jn random places and theres titles that gave the wrong number on them.
Even after you win, sometimes the clock will keep ticking and game will not finish.
LOVED this game, but after the last update its so clunky to use. Now every time we hit a ours we have to go through 3 more screens before we can reset the board. We totally thought the subscription was worth it before, but not anymore.
Sometimes ill hit a bomb and the number is 1 and that 1 is touching 2 mines the game is great besides that but that kind of ruin the game if is not accurate it could be frustrating.
It seems like as you start you win a lot, because it shows you how to play but after what only feels like 30 minutes of playing it seems like the rules dont exist anymore. We would lose because the tile would say 1 and id figure out which one is the bomb, and select a different tile and lose and even though it would say 1 there would be 2 or 3 bombs in that tile range and it would be so aggravating being so close to winning just for this to happen alot. Went from winning back to back to it being impossible to win.
Was working fine then wanted us to confirm our birthday. It wouldnt let us post any date earlier than 1970. Messed up and makes us mad. We cancel subscription and will delete the app. Not that they care.
Why am we still getting ads after purchase??? Total scam give our money back.
Ive put several hours into this app at this point and its fair to say im addicted to minesweeper! The devs did an amazing job making this mobile port. Many functions from the classic minesweeper game we played on our old computer as a kid are replicated with near perfection. The only thing separating it from perfection being the arguably simple issues that ourselves and many others have with this great port. These issues include the first tap feature, the Devs lack of improvements on their game, and the new and interesting expansion that the Devs added to the game only to lock behind a overpriced paywall. Probably the biggest and most common issue we have seen and experienced with this port is the inability to capture an often overlooked but very important feature to the original minesweeper game. This feature being that on your first click, unlike the original game, does not always clear a zone for you to work with and will instead let you click right next to a bomb. This leaves you with one numbered square, giving you two options: click randomly til you clear more area to work with or to reset and hope that you will actually be able to play the game the right way. Not only do we suffer from this frustrating and annoying problem, but several other players have brought this important issue up in their own reviews. This brings up our next gripe we and many others have with this port. The Devs completely lack any efforts to improve the game that they have spent time creating. Despite having reviews from several years ago, the Devs have merely only commented and ignored many changes that would greatly improve the quality of life for their players within this port. Changes like that we have previously mentioned have only been ignored by the Devs of this otherwise great port. If this were not the only bearable port of this classic and arguably historic game, we would have long moved from this port. Another feature of which makes this minesweeper port the best on the current market also happens to only add to our argument against this game. When you first download this port and go to the option section for whatever reason, you are greeted by mainly two things. The classic minesweeper default Easy, Normal, and Hard options that many of us minesweeper fans are familiar with and the unfamiliar Challenge Mode. This newly included Challenge Mode gives you the first five of these Minesweeper puzzles for free. These puzzles contain fun images drawn out with bombs that you are given the task to etch out. Currently there are thirty of these puzzles leaving 25 of them locked behind an overpriced paywall of $6.99 PER YEAR made solely to take advantage of the players. This fun feature is only brought down by this grossly overpriced paywall. To put this price into perspective, after ten years of forgetting to cancel your yearly subscription, you could have bought a single board computer with a little lcd, a cheap mouse, and a cheap keyboard so you could play the original and superior minesweeper with all the money you wouldve thrown away. Personally ourselves and anyone who isnt a complete idiot would advise to not bother with this potentially fun and interesting feature. Would we recommend this game? Yes but not without warning the potential player of the current issues and the lack to fix said issues. With complete honesty, we would not touch this port especially after the countless issues that ourselves and our fellow players are forced to deal with. Our only reason for continuing to suffer playing this port is that it remains the best and arguably only option when it comes to mobile classic minesweeper. Overall, this port of the classic minesweeper that many people like ourselves love is okay at best due to its missing features, lazy Devs, and a way too expensive expansion on the original game. We can only continue to suffer alongside our fellow minesweeper fans as we sit and hope for either a better port or the changes that we have wanted for several years now. If we could personally talk with the Devs, we would only say one thing, Do better, please.
Great game when it comes to minesweeper but plays the most ads we have ever seen in any game, video, or social media platform that we have ever experienced. We dont mind a couple ads but having to watch a dozen ads just trying to get a playable start is a bit aggressive. Although if you switch your phone to airplane mode its actually enjoyable without the ads.
Right after finishing a beginner puzzle its crashed 3 times in a row. Automatically closing out the app and sending us to our Home Screen.
Ive played about 20 games so far, and 4 had errors. More than 1 mines near number 1s.
Great game, but any time we win, the game crashed and doesnt save our score. It reverts to some previous round that wasnt even the same board we were just playing. Annoying.
Our only issues with this game are the ones that people have mainly talked about like ads and the need to randomly guess in the beginning. Our main big issue is something we havent seen yet but it gets to us. The tiles around the edge of the map require you to hold them longer for you to flag them. We find it repetitive that we lose a game because the edge tiles didnt register we were holding them long enough. Please fix this.
The way the game works is youre guessing for the first few boxes until you crack the puzzle. So its inevitable youll lose a bunch of games in a row. But they bomb (excuse the pun) you with adds as soon as you lose two in a row. Annoying.
Game broke once. Where there were 2 mines in a grid when it said 1.
When we start a new game it gives no hints around it so its a 1 with 8 spots around it and nothing to go off of. Also having a small issue with having the wrong number of bombs to a number. For example Ive had a 2 and all other spaces are cleared so it had 1 bomb.
We know every game has ads now but this one is insane.
Game often freezes and crashes, especially since around the last update. Its becoming unplayable. Frequent ads popping up and constant ads at the bottom of the screen.
Every single time you refresh/restart, even if you hit a bomb on your first tap, it opens a 30 second or longer ad. Its awful. You used to get a few restarts between ads but it seems theyve changed that. Considering deleting.
Not right , touching four mines , but says three.
The game recently increased ad frequency to every 2 games, which is ludicrous playing on the higher difficulties. We spend more time waiting for scammy ads for Gardenscape and Kings a choice to load far enough we can close them than we do actually playing the puzzle. Oh course, we could make that go away if we bought the full version, except you cant BUY the unlocked version. You can only subscribe for $6.99/year. Who in their right mind would pay $7 ANNUALLY to own a game that came preinstalled on Windows 95?? Truthfully, we were fine with the ads when they were less frequent. And we would happily pay $7 to buy the game outright. But the idea that we should have to subscribe to idly play Minesweeper while binging television is pathetic, and upping the ad frequency recently was just insulting. No wonder you werent making enough money from subscriptions.
Game broke the rules first try. Row of three 1s there should have been only one ours. There were 3.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.22.3
- Size: 184.97 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Maple Media Apps, LLC
Last updated: 18th September 2025 | Genre: Board, Puzzle | Developer: Maple Media Apps, LLC