Tametsi

such expertly constructed puzzles, there's always a way forwards but it's always challenging to find. every time i finish it i'm sad because i have to wait a year or two before i forget enough to play it again.

picross/nonograms are great when you wanna relax and all but sometimes you want something a little more :sickos:, y'know?

GOAT Puzzle game

good

minesweeper but good

I thought this was a puzzle game, not a horror game!! The anticipation of "is my logic right" and then getting jumpscared by the bomb NEVER fails to get me. Thx to my friends for recommending it, great passtime and I've already spent a month on it. Being able to open a puzzle where you left off is super nice & the drawing feature is very useful!!

The skill ramp doesn't seem as smooth as hexcells, and I wish it was less stark contrast, and that the graphics were clearer for the marked bombs. And it'd be nice to have some relaxing music.

But the puzzles so far are great (the first 20 or so), and I fully expect them to continue to be excellent. Besides the slightly reduced polish, it feels exactly like a hexcells sequel I wish existed.

I found this on the Cracking the Cryptic channel, and I'm very glad I did!

Absolutely worth the price.

Excellent difficult and fair minesweeper style puzzles. Some really wonderful mosaic tessellations leading to surprising consequences. Be sure to check all the UI settings, some puzzles are quite maddening if you have to keep counting things out!

The best minesweeper-type puzzle game hands down, some levels are extremely tricky but eveything can be solved by logic and not guesswork. The only thing missing for me is a 14 minesweeper-esque hard mode where if you make a guess that isn't determinable 100% from the boardstate, you loose. Otherwise there's only willpower to stop one using knoldege gained from mistakes to "trick" the system and do a perfect run of a level or if you make a mistake just make a screenshot of the progress and fill it in to get to where you were before.

Extremely well crafted and challenging Minesweeper puzzles (all solvable without guessing). The levels introduce a few simple mechanics and use a fun mix of shapes - traditional squares, hexagons, diamonds, and some levels that use multiple shapes at once. While the levels are challenging you are given the option to continue after a mistake, which lets you play at a difficulty of your choice. The level select does track levels you've completed without error though to provide an incentive to challenge yourself. There's a very large number of levels - 160 in total - and while my playtime is inflated by playing late at night or while distracted by something else there's easily dozens of hours of content. One of the best Minesweeper puzzles games, and an easy recommendation, especially if you've enjoyed the Hexcells series.

Really excellent minesweeper/nonogram mashup, definitely top-tier out of the games in this sort of genre that I have played on Steam. The variety of level designs is impressive and helps to keep the game from feeling repetitive.

This is basically a no-brainer recommendation, especially for the very cheap asking price.

The final boss of puzzle games. Fantastico.

this game is dead silent so that you can hear your own blood boiling

Every puzzle was well-crafted. Especially in the last half of the bonus levels, there is a kind of flow that you follow, bouncing to the end and start of logic chains. It's particularly fun when you find the thread and unweave 25% of the puzzle, at which point it morphs into the next phase: a smaller, leaner puzzle inside. Sometimes you'll make a particularly tricky deduction, and your reward is a single blank ? cell, which always makes me laugh: "you're very clever, but this is not the path to the solution."

One of the best puzzle games / minesweeper variant ever

easily one of the best in the genre. visually appealing and the difficulty curve tolerates inexperienced players (i completed all levels no undo in a little under 100 hours without prior minesweeper experience). the gameplay isn't overly repetitive even between levels with the same rules. i highly recommend to anyone interested though it could be unchallenging if you have a lot of puzzle experience.

contrary to what some reviews are claiming, you will not ever have to trial and error excessively; the vast majority of steps are solvable through counting or other immediate logic if you actually understand the logic.

Excellent game/puzzles and progression. Some of the color schemes messed with my head a bit. I often found leaving a puzzle and coming back to it with fresh eyes helped progression in tougher spots.

A great puzzle game that will keep you thinkin'

Greatest minesweeper/picross combo game I've ever played.

Easily over 100 hours of content if you are willing to attempt the brutal bonus puzzles.

Great step up from Minesweeper with the perfect amount of additional mechanics without feeling overwhelmed

Lovely handcrafted levels

The 197 hours I have at the time of writing aren't all "playtime", but it reflects how much I got up and took a break leaving it running, or simply stared at a puzzle idly hoping that some idea might strike me.

I've completed 140 of the 161 puzzles that this game seems to offer. I don't know if I'd unlock more after completing them all, but I think I've had my fill and enjoyed my time with it. It's quite satisfying and feels pretty special, even compared to similar games like hexcells (which I also recommend).

However, as I mentioned I wasn't able to complete it while aiming to clear each puzzle without mistakes (making a mistake in this game basically means you didn't understand the puzzle unless it was a misclick, and you get extra info from it that I see as cheating).

I don't know if I'm still missing some kind of logical method to figure the puzzles out even after getting through 140, but at some points it became a matter of using the pencil tool to theorize every possible arrangement and trying to find one that didn't work so I could rule something out. Once the amount of tiles I'm supposed to theorize about reaches above 16 or so, that becomes difficult and time-consuming enough that I'd lose track of what I'd tested even if I tried. And in almost every case when I hit a wall like that, I was missing something simpler. So either those handful of puzzles I couldn't figure out require that level of analysis or I'm still not noticing the simpler solutions after hours of staring at them.

After coming back to the puzzles over and over, making no progress for weeks, then taking a break for months and still not getting it when I came back, I'm throwing in the towel. It's still a good game though.

Amazing puzzle game. Well worth the price.

A brilliant variation on the sudoku style puzzles. The fact that you never have to guess is both comforting but also stressful when you are stuck and know you can advance if you just see it right. Makes for excellent aha moments and legitimate rushes when things fall into place.

Minesweeper-like puzzle game with very good variety and volume
Penciling (as in sudoku) is a bit of a pain and wish there were some other QoL features but given the price and volume can't complain too much

I love mine sweeper style games like Hexcells and Delete, but this one actually have puzzles with the wrong solution.

As explained by the game, when it uses square tiles, all the squares around the first are considered neighbor squares, even on diagonal, but on the puzzle number 12 "uneven grid", there's square tiles indicating 1 mine when there's 3 around it, and there's a 2 tile with 3 mines around it. I checked and re-checked the titles to be sure they were indeed mines, but the tiles with numbers indicated the wrong number of mines.

You can't do that. Every single puzzle needs to be correct.

can't possibly recommend enough

There will be clues and logical deductions that will take a moment before you realize they're available, and after you ponder and scrape enough of these tiny bits together, and use some boolean logic, the entire thing falls together in a very rewarding fashion.

You do get an undo button, but you also get a specific indicator on your profile to indicate that you passed a level with zero mistakes. There's also enough going on that you're extremely unlikely to memorize the solutions.

4/5.

If you enjoy Hexcells, you should enjoy this.

A couple things I personally dislike that keep it from being a 5/5:

- Having to mentally context switch between different puzzle types. Specifically, both orthogonal puzzle layouts that either have diagonals either allowed or disallowed. I get used to one or the other on a puzzle, and then another puzzle switches this up. The vast majority of my mistakes on puzzles are due to simply not remembering this and clicking the wrong mouse button than I meant to, which requires restarting the puzzle from the beginning to get a perfect clear. I think this could be improved if all puzzles of each specific layout type were separated into their own category, allowing the user to solve an entire category type before context switching to something else.

- Some puzzles cannot be solved completely "by eye" as you would on a Hexcells, Sudoku, or Minesweeper puzzle. You'll notice a drawing feature in this game, which initially seems like a nice addition for those who may need it. However, this drawing feature becomes an occasional requirement for specific solves. You must sometimes explore 10+ steps forward using the drawing tool before you'll be able to logically discover the solution.

One of the best puzzle games I've ever played

love puzzles. this has puzzles

This game is pure logical joy. It is a thrilling rush of "eureka" moments. This is so much more than minesweeper. It is what minesweeper dreams of becoming one day.

Great game if you love minesweeper or hexcells. Works perfectly on Steam Deck. Not sure why it isn't verified.

Should probably have payed attention to the "unsupported on steam deck" label but yeah. 5 hours played, 40 puzzles done and my save file gets randomly wiped. Not sure what happened but this is a first for me on the deck.

As a massive Hexcells fan, this game is just what I needed. I've played less than half an hour so far, but I can already tell that it's beautifully crafted and builds up the challenge nicely. An absolute bargain!

A superb take on Minesweeper with handcrafted puzzles. One of the best—if not the best—on the market so far.

the puzzles are good

LOVE this game. If you like stuff like sudoku & minesweeper and hate guessing, u'll love this too

My personal gold standard for these kinds of puzzles, and tough as nails. A game I keep revisiting every now and again and it's always a joy.

A truly excellent waste of time.

there's so so so many mines to sweep. in this big beautiful world

Love these types of Puzzle games, and there's plenty of tough (and easy) puzzles on here to enjoy. The price tag is just right (although I got it on sale... can't justify new full priced games with the huge backlog I have here on steam lol). The puzzles never require guessing, but some do have some beastly logic to work through (which I love, but some might not). Still working my way through this, and I find it a nice chill game to play when I just kinda want to relax (I find deep focus on a fun/difficult activity very relaxing).

The platonic ideal of a logic game.

this game is like the math nerd puzzle version of haiku writing. in this game, because you never have to guess
EVER, you can investigate any single part of the puzzle and discover information that is somehow relevant to your overall progress. it feels truly incremental in a way no other puzzle game really has for me, that ANY progress is GOOD progress. oh, and it's minesweeper. this shit FUCKS. HARD.

If you like minesweeper-esque puzzles, this is the game for you! It features lots of beautiful logic and is gentle in how it presents it--it introduces you to logic in its basic form in the early levels before making you apply it in a more difficult manner later. Keep in mind, that does not mean the puzzles are easy (in fact, a couple friends have reported that it's too hard for them), but that the puzzle design and progression is very well done.

Perhaps my favorite part is how well the clues come together: there was almost no point where I felt unsure of where to look because the puzzles are constructed in such a way that areas of interest stick out, creating a fluid solving experience. And even when you know where to look, the logic on many puzzles keeps you thinking, which is something many other puzzles I've played lack. It makes the puzzles that much more satisfying to solve, since you have to work for your finish.

Some things to note are that the UI you choose is all set up during the launch of the game. I know I overlooked this at first. Additionally, the hints in the extra cube levels weren't entirely intuitive to me--they were fair, but confused me a number of times. Aside from that, I have almost no complaints, and would very much recommend this game if you're looking for a good mental exercise!

A purely logic based (and just more fun) version of Minesweeper that doesn't leave you with those annoying 50/50 situations. It also does well at being challenging, but not so challenging that it's not fun to play anymore. You may get stuck for a bit, but if you take your time you will eventually find the solution.

Excellent innovations off of Minesweeper

I can't go back to regular Minesweeper after playing this... It's SO GOOD. Awesome to take a puzzle at a time when you need a break etc.

As others have already pointed out: one of the best if not the best minesweeper type of game around. The design of the puzzles is superb.

hand-crafted minesweeper puzzles that always have a nice twist and are very good on the go.

A richly varied, extensive collection of hand-crafted Minesweeper variant puzzles.