Minesweeper returns as an explosive first-person spelunker

Information technology's been a yearlong sentence since Minesweeper came bundled with Windows. While the original will always comprise a classical, perchance someone felt up the grid-clicker was smel a little dated. Mayhap information technology's long past prison term someone updated Minesweeper every bit a first-person hired gun.

Mine Shaft by Krzyhau does exactly that, replacement Minesweeper's flat grid with a Minecraft-style serial of caverns, clogged astir away those nerve-wracking numbered greyish blocks. You bang the drill. Click a bomb, and you're out.

With that one change, Minesweeper suddenly becomes a terrifying navigational challenge. It's non adequate retributive to avoid clicking bombs—you have to try and carve a path through an explosive maze. It as wel makes it practically harder to keep on track of where potential traps might lie, urging a more methodical approach. Dive right in, and you'll speedily find yourself losing track of how broad the bombs might prevarication.

The short game was created atomic number 3 part of subterminal weekend's Ludum Dare 48 game jam. If the developer's name sounds familiar, it's because Krzyhau is also the architect nates those utterly cursed Portal 2 William Chambers. As luck would have it, Mine Shaft ISN't quite as absurd atomic number 3 those broken maps.

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20 years ago, Nat played Jet Set Receiving set Future for the first time—and she's not obstructed thinking about games since. Joining PC Gamer in 2020, she comes from three years of self-employed person reporting at Rock Paper Scattergun, Waypoint, VG247 and more. Embedded in the European indie scene and having herself developed critically acclaimed small games like Can Androids Beg, Nat is always looking for a new rarity to screaming some—whether it's the next outflank indie dear, or simply someone modding a Scotmid into Dishonorable Mesa. She's also played for a competitive Splatoon team, and unofficially appears in Apex Legends under the pseudonym Horizon.