Mineswifter (Minesweeper)
Step into the gaming world with Mineswifter (Minesweeper), one of the top $1.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Michael McFadden, this captivating Strategy game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 4+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 28th July 2020, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 14th February 2022.
Whether you have a liking for Strategy, Puzzle, games, Mineswifter (Minesweeper) is sure to keep you hooked!
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Dive into Mineswifter (Minesweeper)
Minesweeper – it’s all fun and games until that 50/50 guess. So we decided to remove the guessing.
Mineswifter uses an advanced Minesweeper AI to make sure each board is solvable before giving it to you. This lets you skip the nonsense and SWIFTLY go to the boards you actually wanted to play.
PERFECTLY NATURAL
Mineswifter is designed with a modern and beautiful user interface. Customize everything from the background colors to your play style to make the game work exactly the way you want. Works great with split-screen and a mouse on iPad!
REAL HINTS
Every board is solvable, but not every board is easy. That’s why we added a hint system that uses the power of the Minesweeper AI to show you exactly which part of the board is solvable next.
UNDO YOUR MISTAKES
Accidentally click on a mine? No problem! Since every board is solvable, there are no game overs – simply click the Undo popover and keep playing. Mistakes add 10 seconds to your time.
STAT TRACKING
The main statistic tracked in Mineswifter is the perfect game, which is a board completed without mistakes or hints. Try to beat your longest perfect streak or your average time!
DAILY CHALLENGES
Mineswifter also offers daily challenges, which can generally be completed within a few minutes. Each one is carefully curated to make sure it’s fun and rewarding for both new and experienced players. Check the stats to compare your performance to players from around the world!
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Mineswifter (Minesweeper) on 14th February 2022:
- fixed another bug with the minimum time
- fixed an issue with handling "UnknownID" Game Center identifiers
- fixed a minor uncommon memory leak
Hear from the Players – Mineswifter (Minesweeper) Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Mineswifter (Minesweeper):
Clean, simple and integrates just the right amount of gamification. Great app!
When you know theres a solution, you are forced to learn patterns you may have missed in normal minesweeper. Thus this makes you better at the game! There is a whole class of probability problems which are necessarily excluded from this game, but thats okay.
We love this app and it makes minesweeper so much more fun. But could you please please please show us the time average only for perfect games when we get one for the daily game. If we get a perfect game in seven minutes and the average is four minutes it takes away some of our satisfaction from getting the perfect game because it makes us feel slow even though we dont know how long those people would have taken if it was only perfect games.
Great app. Our only gripe is it does not have a custom difficulty setting.
Flag toggle box needs to be bigger. Constantly misclicking mines thinking we’ve toggled the flag button.
Classic game. Very addictive. But the controls are finicky sometimes. Its very frustrating to lose a string of perfect games because the app didnt decides the long-touch you did to flag a tile was actually a short tap instead. Kaboom. Except our finger is usually still right where we put it. Oh well. Fun game nevertheless. But it would be nice if it only blew us up when we deserved it.
We played the free version and it was so brilliant we felt bad not paying for it so we did. We havent even tried it yet but based on the other reviews, Im sure it will be great. The one game we played so far on the hardest mode available was solvable but not easy. We got stuck at a few points and questioned whether it was really solvable but decided to try and logic it out and figured out that we could. We found the flagging and uncovering function to be a tiny bit clunky but apparently thats customizable in the paid version so Im sure Ill manage. It was nonetheless a clever scheme and the biggest issues were the limitations of the phone rather than the app. Ill try the pinch to zoom and see how we like it. It is refreshing to be able to play minesweeper and devote your full intelligence to the puzzle instead of just clicking through a 99 ours field that will inevitably rely on guessing right at multiple points. This app is a gem.
Being able to know the game wont end in a stupid 50/50 is so relieving. We wish the game board had some padding around the outside though as sometimes we have difficulty clicking on the squares at the edge of the board.
This take on the old ours game actually improves on the original. While most of these games in the App Store are a lazy rip-off with no functionality and worse game mechanics than the original, the developer of this gem actually put some thought into it. We sense they must be a fan of the game :-) Simple yet powerful, we highly recommend Mineswifter.
Get rid of new game confirmation! Otherwise an excellent game, could be 5stars were it not for the double click process to start a new game..
We have had several circumstances where a guess needs to be made to continue the game. We used the hint feature to make sure there was not a solution but it brought us to a tile that could not be figured out without using hint. (Edit: Im an idiot it was solvable)
We have learned so much about minesweeper strategy by playing this. The interface is fantastic. Making every game solvable fixes the biggest annoyance we had with minesweeper and on top of that makes it much easier to learn strategy because you know there are no 50/50s. The hints tell you where you should be looking, each time we use it we learn something new! If you asked us to come up with one thing that could be improved, we could not. Simply fantastic.
The best implementation of Minesweeper.
Love the no guessing mode, and very well designed. Looks great, colors are all distinguishable, eveything you’d expect.
But some maps are frustrating, there will be some that have mines that are surrounded by mines that have no number attacked to them.
This is the best version of Minesweeper for iOS we can find. We cant fathom why it doesnt show up immediately on search for Minesweeper. Theres no ads, a super clean interface, and really nice statistics. We love this version and it might honestly be our favorite on all platforms.
It would be nice to have the option to visit far past challenges or more challenges. Replayability isnt as good when you completed all the latest challenges and Advanced mode isnt very fun.
Good UI, very responsive, daily maps are fun. Just wish it had a customizable board.
Nothing else to say besides this is entirely worth your time!
Play the daily boards everyday. The one thing we would like is a breakdown of where our time falls in the distribution of everyone elses time. We can see the average solve time and the fastest time, but am we in the top 60%? 80%? Thats what Id like to know :)
Too often, we reach a point where there seems to be more than one set of possible bomb positions based on the information given, and must simply click on a button at random. We’re willing to believe that we might occasionally miss some clue, but not this often. We end up clicking at random, rather than applying logic.
On one hand, its just minesweeper, what else can really be said: however this app is super clean and well designed. It makes it really easy to jump into games. It tracks your win percentage and perfect game streaks. Makes it a challenge to try and improve your board clear times. Im addicted to it just because its so easy to start up a new game and play.
We wish we could share a photo of our current session, but we’re forced to guess. We absolutely hate guessing in minesweeper, but hey algorithms aren’t perfect. This app has a lot of polish and it easy to use.
Its hard to find fault here. Minesweeper is a simple game thats been done many times, but knowing that every level can be completed without guessing has made us stop and think longer, learn new patterns, and play more often because we dont feel like the board is rooting against us. Add to it the fact the the interface is pretty much a perfectly polished app – graphics are great, pinch-to-zoom works, and the options for how to flag mines vs reveal spaces is customizable makes it hard for us to even suggest improvements.
The latest updates have been weird. One caused crashes on launch. The next one fixed the crash, but made the colors look hideous. Please fix. We use increase contrast setting on iPhone for preference. Dont change colors of the app just because. Bad move.
Game is amazing especially the daily challenges, although the hold to flag seems a bit finicky. Hope sooner or later we get an option to change the sensitivity or how long/hard we have to press to flag a tile.
Honestly the best version of Minesweeper we’ve ever seen, in presentation and gameplay (it fixes Minesweepers most annoying trait!). For the price of Free, you really cant beat it. This app made us finally learn how to play Minesweeper, and now Im pretty much addicted and the developer support is astounding. No complaints!
No-nonsense app that doesnt waste your time with end-of-game surprise failures. Slick interface with customization options. It has right click support for trackpad/mouse use on iPad. No ads. Its well worth a couple dollars. One nitpick: it would be nice if their privacy policy clarified use of analytics/trackers. Otherwise, they dont seem to collect personal info.
This version of a minesweeper game delivers exactly what you want. The controls are natural, the daily challenges are fun, and the boards are always solvable. That way, you dont get to a place where its a roll of the dice on a 50/50 chance of where a ours is. Highly recommend.
This is THE best game of Minesweeper we’ve ever played, and its super accessible on iOS. Im a stickler for UX and Mineswifter does it well. Looking at our Screen Time right now, we played this game for 11 hours 7 minutes last week; we’ve gotten more value out of this game than any AAA title we’ve played on PC or console. Even if youre familiar with Minesweeper but never loved it, give this app a try.
Well made, best minesweeper we’ve found for iPhone/iPad.
Great UI, looks nice, play is very intuitive. We love the way it guarantees that the mines are placed in a way that the entire board can be solved without any need for 50/50 guesses. Knowing that, it adds an extra challenge on harder levels to think through the possibilities and deduce at least one free or ours square that then opens up more clues. If you havent played this enough for that to make sense, try a few games and you will see what we mean. Literally hours of fun with this game.
We play this literally every day. Hands down the best version of Minesweeper since Windows XP. Lightweight, easy to use, intuitive, and works on every Apple device we have. Big fan!
Relaxing, beautiful game! Love it.
Love the game, and have been playing since close to release. Feels like something has changed in the most recent update with the length of time needed to distinguish between a clear and a flag. Im suddenly clearing many squares that we intend to flag, but didnt have this issue before.
We loved playing this and windows 95. This is a beautiful revision of that game. The only thing missing is the ability to disable undo. If we hit a ours, we would like to not be able to undo and continue playing. Please add the ability to disable undo. Still a great game though.
Great, simple app! Really fun and responsive without any lag whatsoever.
Love the game! We have two bites of feedback; 1. Separate vibration options. We like the feedback when we long press to place a flag, but not when we move around the screen. 2. Create an option for a portrait orientation advanced board. A landscape board on a portrait screen is not ideal.
This is hands-down the best version of minesweeper that we have ever played. Brilliant work.
Its exactly what we were looking for, and even though we will probably not use some features, its really nice to have them there.
Simple and clean minesweeper without ads or gimicks. Perfect for killing time!
By far the best minesweeper we’ve played. Even after just a few games we can feel how much better this is than other minesweepers! It is well designed and has a great feel. It is also easy to use and navigate. Great job, dev!
The UI is clean and minimalist, the sounds are pleasing, the tactile feedback is well designed instead of just being a vibration. This is a great implementation of minesweeper. Forget any other version, this is the app to get.
Its minesweeper done right. If youve ever liked minesweeper or just puzzle games in general its worth a download.
We like the app and that everything is solvable. We would love to see an option to change hold length to mark bombs and the way to do it in the game is a bit finicky and doesnt work all the time. At times, some squares are unresponsive and dont do anything until we move the screen. Overall good but not great for someone trying to go fast. Edit: new update makes gameplay incredibly smoother and cut our solve times in half. Added a star.
Or at least make it an option. Also, give us an option to mark some boxes as guest (as in we suspect this one is a bomb but Im not sure yet). We love this game. Im still giving it five stars as Im just making a couple requests. Thanks.
Only version of Minesweeper besides the version in Puzzles that we enjoy playing on Mac. Two things that I’d love to see: 1. Ability to turn off flagging from long clicks, 2. Custom sizes larger than 99 mines. Thanks for doing this!