Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 01:27 pm
Minesweeper Q – Entertainment Game Review
Minesweeper Q is a Entertainment/Puzzle/Board game from Yi-Lun Lin, first launched in 7th March 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 18,204+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Minesweeper Q Stand Out
Classic Minesweeper game for iOS.
Standard game rules with best, smoothest, very fast interface.
We will keep our best to improve this game, since we are also devotees of minesweeper !
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Features
◆ Easy to control (Drag scroll, Quick change mode, Quick open…etc)
◆ First tap luck
◆ Optional sound assist
◆ Highscore/Statistics data
◆ Game center support
◆ 8 appearance include classic style & shuffle
◆ 3 classic difficulty
◆ Fully configurable, board size & number of mines.
◆ Quick Overview
◆ Auto save
◆ Fast launch time
◆ Build in minesweeper help & Video tutorial
◆ iOS4 multi-tasking support
◆ Share with Twitter & Facebook
◆ Retina High resolution support
◆ 3D Touch support
How to control Minesweeper
Normal mode:
- Tap a square to clear it.
- Tap and hold to flagging.
- Tap a numbered square next to that many flags to clear the rest.(Quick open)
- Tap empty square to change control mode.(Quick change mode)
Quick Flagging mode:
- Tap a square to flagging.
- Tap and hold to clear square.
- Tap a numbered square next to that many flags to clear the rest.(Quick open)
- Tap empty square to change control mode.(Quick change mode)
Minesweeper Q Support
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Mail: [email protected]
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Minesweeper Q is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th May 2021
Recent improvements include:
◆ Support iOS 14.5
and bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Minesweeper Q is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Minesweeper Q on App Store
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:
Simple, relaxing, not complicated.
Everything works great and the only complaint we have is the font for the numbers and thats a bit nitpicky.
Tried many and this is by far the best. We ended up paying the $2 and make it ad free. Never had any issues Played probably thousands of rounds by now.
Math is food for the brain awesome app.
Great game. Love that is has an offline ability, overall a great game.
Almost no ads, literally just binging it!!! DOWNLOAD IT.
Honestly this is prime time Ive played a lot of minesweeper and on mobile this is the best bet ads are very rare and the gameplay is fun we just wish to place flags it isnt hold down its a button to switch to flag and shovel tbh ya feel us? Honestly this game has so much aura it can rizz up livvy dunne better than baby gronk! (This is a joke but the game is good).
Simple, no nonsense minesweeper game. Its got all the basic options we need, works well. Its not overly complex and not riddled with ads unlike some of the others.
Man do we love sweeping mines :) reminds us of the old days.
We have the add free version, so keep that in mind, but we think this app is great. We mispress spaces much less than we have with other, similar apps Ive tried, and the scores seem to be accurate. Keeps our simple brain occupied. 10/10.
THIS GAME CHANGED MY LIFE IT MADE ME FAIL ALL MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES 10/10.
This is one of the best minesweepers on the market.
They keep the ads at the bottom and dont force you to watch any for th e most part. Gameplay is well done, perfect little minesweeper app.
Heres a tip for if you have it set to 9×9 80 mines. Click the top left corner block and its an instant win.
The ads dont take over the entire screen, are ruin the game.
Great game..have been playing for years.
The designer understood what was needed for the game to feel fluid on touchscreen. It is very accessible. It keeps track of statistics, and stays true to the classic experience. Much better than any of the other apps Ive tried that add gimmicks or try to modernize minesweeper. Pick this one up.
This is the same Minesweeper we had on our iPad one 12 years ago , and it is pretty much perfect for what it does. We downloaded four others to try to find this one, and they were all completely annoying. Unexpected noises, goals, click here for more prizes, and the ads. We dont want any of that crap. All we want to do is play a couple games of Minesweeper and get on with our day. Thank you Spica for keeping the faith.
Ive enjoyed Minecraft since the early computers came with it. It is a brain game and addictive. Its a classic that belongs in everyones game collection.
This classic game is so good that we need to remove from our device altogether. Otherwise all our time will be spent on this while awake.
Still a fun game even after all these years.
Too addictive. We keep having to delete it off our phone to make ourselves stop. One request – could there be an undo feature, maybe for the premium? We wouldnt mind if it didnt count toward win stats, but its really frustrating when we lose because Im clumsy instead of because we made a bad choice. Id like to be able to make the choice to keep going with a given game. Just a thought, thanks.
Just like we played on our computers back in the day, a simple yet addicting game.
Minesweeper is a fun game that requires hard thinking. It is fun once you get the hang of it and we like challenging ourselves to go farther than the day before. We love this game so much and if you are debating getting it, we definitely recommend it!! Enjoy the game like we do.
Being a senior citizen and a numbers geek, we thoroughly enjoy the challenge that ours Sweep gives us. It challenges us to focus and make quick numerical decisions. Im always trying to beat our previous best time.
Either we have extreme bad luck, or whenever there is a spot where its impossible to figure out and you have to guess, could you make the game detect those spots and switch the bomb positions so that we dont choose the bomb when we have to guess.
This is by far the best minesweeper app out there. Minimal ads, easy to play, just overall good.
Best app for the minesweeper game.
Stoped going to work to play minesweeper. Let our wife and kids starve just so we can best minesweeper.
This game moves smoothly with our ability to set sensitivity and touch time. Nice work.
We have been playing a lot of Minesweeper over the past 4ish years. We have played tens of thousands of games on several different apps and platforms. This one has been our favorite so far.
No ads, runs seamlessly, not bloated with useless info graphics or anything. Its Minesweeper, plain and simple. Great for long flights or ignoring your kids.
Best game to play while pooping.
Simple and fun. Ads are not overly invasive like so many other apps. Can be played offline.
Thanks for the game! Its great! :P.
Need to make the hold durations for intermediate and advanced the same as beginner.
The game is interesting to play.
Great way to kill some time. However would be nice if there was a way to prevent the sound from coming on after ads even with sound turned off on iPhone.
This app is good, and we accept ads come with free apps, but this lost a star after having an ad blare out loud sound (and we have the sound turned OFF for the app) It was obnoxious and took many taps on skip video for it to go away. We decided to not play this today and may not go back to it for a while, maybe a long while.
Im a great admirer of this how and been playing it for years. Now this app need major updates for iOS 16 and iPhone 14 Pro / Pro Max.
We love the game! We really get to exercise our brain. They only thing that bothers us is that the game is glitchy. When Im in Quick Flagging mode, it will open the square and show a bomb/game over instead of putting a flag in the square. As far as ads go, we can somehow play for hrs without an ad interruption. And wheni do get a full as, it doesnt run as long as some other apps and we can get out of it relatively quickly without having to go thru various screens. We see constant banner of ads at the very bottom, which we like by way! It doesnt block our game, so thank you for this.
Toolbar geometry is way off. Didnt seem to be a problem on our XS Max but is on our 14 Pro. Doesnt affect gameplay but looks terrible.
This is a game that challenges your mind to help keep your mind fresh. Many other games are limited in doing that, they are just for entertainment. It would be great to have additional stats that would show how many games that someone has lost by 1 or 2 mines or even how many were lost with 1 – 5 mines left.
Decent minesweeper with minimal ads. Our biggest complaints are not having bigger boards and that you cant listen to spotify and play this.
Hi, Ive been playing your version of minesweeper for years. Could you update it to make the puzzles all solvable so the player is never put in a situation where they have to guess to win? That would make this app the best version on the App Store.
We give this game 4 stars. Its a lot of fun, maybe even a little addictive. The only reason we did not rate the game 5 stars is because its too easy to lose by accident, we.e., touching a square unintentionally. The main reason for this is, we think, because the screen is too small to display the whole board at this once. Therefore, the player has to slide the board up, down, left, and right to move to a new area to play. In doing so, it is too easy to accidentally touch a square and open it inadvertently. Otherwise, this game is an awesome mental exercise and lots of fun to play.
We have enjoyed playing for many years on many different phones. Recently, ios 26 became available and we downloaded and installed it. Minesweeper q doesnt work with it! We have tried contacting the creator, and get a vague were working on it, we do miss being able to play minesweeper.
If this is user error or our phone Ill change our rating we love this version of the game but it is on the Spica screen ALL THE TIME. It just freezes there and we dont know what for. Like we open the app and it doesnt change. It wont load the game.
We lose 90% or more of the 50/50 guesses. Id say 75% of the games Ive lost come down to a 50/50 on the last move and we lose almost every single one. Random? We dont see how. We cant te you how many times Ive had a 1 in 4, 1 in 5, even 1 in 6 or 7 guess and we still lose the vast majority at those odds. Extremely frustrating.
We try to make good time but the flags eat up whole seconds :( and then a question mark, oy.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.46
- Size: 43.56 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Yi-Lun Lin
Last updated: 30th May 2021 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: Yi-Lun Lin