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Identify which tiles have mines by the numbers displayed in neighboring tiles.
Special features:
Zooming and scrolling(both discrete and smooth) so boards are only limited in size by your computer’s memory and not by your screen’s resolution.
Multi-mine tiles. Up to seven mines can be on one tile. Hold down ‘flag’ to add flags until the numbers match.
Toroidal boards that wrap left to right and top to bottom.
Endless survival mode. Quickly clear the board as it descends. You take damage if the lowest row has unopened non-mine tiles when it falls off the board.
Hot keys for quickly opening all 4 corners.
Steam User 1
A fun little Minesweeper version with some extra modes available. Pros are that it's lightweight plus has multimine and 'clear the falling line' modes. Cons are a faulty screen rescaling, obtuse multimine flagging with mouse controls, and a lack of middle click ('smart select') The dev probably thought it wouldn't work with the multimine mode since flags are arbitrary. almost a year later I've found out chording is left+right click.
At only a buck during sales I'd say it's a nice step up over the minesweeper that used to come with your computer
Steam User 4
edit: the game got patched quite a bit, so rewrote the review and turned it into a recommendation.
minestrife is a souped-up version of the original minesweeper. figure out where the mines are based on number clues, right click to mark as dangerous or potentially dangerous, left click to reveal. there's a timer (can't hide it) and a bomb counter, as expected, plus the following quality of life improvements: rebindable controls, zoom in/out and right click to move bigger levels around, hotkeys to open the 4 corners, unlimited hints (pressing it over a square reveals its contents, bomb or nothing), and there's a compass, pointing to unrevealed and unflagged tiles, which can be handy on bigger boards.
multi-mine tiles are also a thing. you can mark them with flag hotkeys, keep the mouse button pressed to mark more than one mine per tile, or use the mouse wheel while pressing right click to select the desired number. there's also a variety of difficulty levels, endless survival mode where time is of the essence (rows keep disappearing at the bottom, you lose health if there are any unmarked bombs when it happens), and you can customize your own board as well. size, mine density, mines per tiles, health, survival or not, donut or not (these wrap around, very confusing), etc. board size can be whatever, but display is capped at 100x50 for performance reasons. zoom and pan to see the rest, arrows on the sides show if there's more level in any direction.
only music, no sound effects, the volume slider comes up by holding the audio button, and the game can be made full screen(ish) or resized to whatever size you prefer. I still don't think the price is justified for improving basic minesweeper, which is offered for free with an operating system and all over the internet, but after some extensive patching everything seems to work well, it also runs on win7, despite the win10 requirement on the store page, so might be worth checking out on sale if you're into sweeping mines.