Fine Sweeper

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Fine Sweeper is a single player casual puzzle game. It was developed by Pixel Prophecy and was released on May 25, 2015. It received positive reviews from players.

Fine Sweeper is a Minesweeper variant with additional features such as a campaign mode, “classic mode”, item drops, leader-boards, and achievements.

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87%

Audience ScoreBased on 239 reviews

gameplay7 positive mentions

grinding8 negative mentions

Faithful and polished remake of classic Minesweeper with modern improvements such as multiple lives, progressive difficulty, campaign mode, and achievements.
The life/heart system reduces frustration by allowing multiple mistakes and adds a new strategic element to gameplay.
Clean and appealing visuals, smooth UI, catchy soundtrack, and developer responsiveness enhance the overall experience.

The inherent Minesweeper problem of unavoidable guessing remains, often resulting in frustrating 50/50 situations.
Lack of key features such as saving campaign progress, restart level option, detailed statistics, and better customization limits replayability.
Some grindy and tedious achievements and occasional UI quirks, like confusing bomb explosion number updates and limited custom board sizes.

gameplay
34 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
21%
70%
9%
The gameplay remains faithful to the classic Minesweeper formula, retaining its addictive core while introducing new mechanics like a life system, scoring, and a campaign mode that enhance replayability and reduce frustration. Although these additions add strategic depth and forgiveness, some players feel they don't significantly innovate beyond the original experience. Overall, it offers a polished, customizable Minesweeper with subtle improvements appealing to both purists and newcomers.
- “Overall, this version keeps the core addictive gameplay of the original while adding much needed improvements.”
- “A decent expansion of the gameplay of Windows Minesweeper with a smoother difficulty curve, a scoring system to reward playing quickly and accurately, and a campaign mode where you can accumulate lives and progress through many levels without losing too often. The purist can still play in classic mode for the original gameplay experience.”
- “Outstanding Minesweeper clone with new challenging mechanics added to increase replayability.”
- “It is minesweeper, the client is decent. There is some general progression, but the new mechanics this game adds aren't all that impactful or fun.”
- “Somehow, the developer managed to miss this crucial game mechanic, that quite frankly makes the game infuriating and unplayable without.”
- “It's not blowing the doors off in any way. Nice visuals do help the game, but in the end, it's not breaking any walls in terms of gameplay.”
graphics
26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
35%
53%
12%
The graphics offer a clean, polished, and visually appealing retro-inspired style with smooth animations and thoughtful color variations that maintain player interest. While some note minor softness in scaled-up elements, overall the visuals enhance the classic Minesweeper experience without being overly flashy or distracting. The presentation strikes a good balance between nostalgia and modern refinement, contributing positively to the game's atmosphere.
- “Pixel-perfect presentation – retro-style graphics with slick animations and just the right amount of nostalgia.”
- “Very nice design of the levels, colorful, with changing color palettes to keep it fresh, and various settings.”
- “Visually appealing graphics with increasing difficulty, a life system, and an actually included right click number mechanic.”
- “The smaller tile graphics from later levels are used in these early levels and scaled up. This makes the graphics look soft. Separate, larger tiles should have been created for these early levels so the graphics could look just as sharp as they look in later levels.”
- “Also I don't like the game's graphic style.”
- “If only the developer could have put as much effort into making the game unique and work properly as they put into the graphics!”
music
26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
31%
57%
12%
The game's soundtrack is generally praised for being catchy, jazzy, and fitting the mood, though some find it repetitive or unmemorable. Users appreciate the option to adjust music volume independently and often choose to turn it off in favor of their own tunes. Overall, the music is seen as a positive but not standout aspect of the game.
- “The soundtrack goes hard – far better than the "you exploded, silence now" treatment of the original.”
- “It's quite good, and it has a nice jazzy soundtrack to get you in a minesweeping mood.”
- “The custom mode allows you to set the size of the field and the number of mines, so that's pretty standard, and it has the basic options for sound and music (yes, we have music at last, and it's pretty good).”
- “If I have one issue with this game, it's the repetitive music.”
- “Personally, I found the soundtrack really annoying, so I turned it off.”
- “The music is sub-par.”
grinding
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Grinding in the game is generally easy but can be tedious and repetitive, especially for certain achievements that require extensive time-consuming tasks like stepping on bombs or setting flags. While some achievements are enjoyable, others feel pointless and overly grindy, leading to frustration among players.
- “Some of the achievements are good while others are pointless grindy achievements (takes about 2-3 hours to step on mines and farm flagged bombs).”
- “The thing I hate in this game is that there are 2 achievements that are very grindy.”
- “Most grinding was to step on 5k bombs and set 50k flags.”
story
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
17%
33%
50%
The game includes an unexpected story mode, which is a novel addition for a minesweeper title, though it may not satisfy those seeking a strong narrative follow-up to the original. Overall, the story aspect is minimal or not a central focus.
- “There's even a story mode.”
- “A story mode, in Minesweeper.”
- “But my quest for a true follow up to the original continues.”
- “Story - n/a”
monetization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users appreciate this game's monetization for being less intrusive compared to Microsoft's Minesweeper, which features frequent, disruptive ads with loud audio. The lack of aggressive advertising is seen as a significant improvement.
- “Better than Microsoft's Minesweeper you can get from the Windows Store that blasts your eardrums out with ads every few games.”
- “Screw you to whoever at Microsoft incorporated blaring ads for slot games nobody cares about, rendering your ears useless.”
replayability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game offers excellent replayability by introducing new challenging mechanics to the classic minesweeper formula, keeping the experience fresh and engaging.
- “Outstanding Minesweeper clone with new challenging mechanics added to increase the replayability.”
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players report that the game provides a rewarding emotional experience by enhancing cognitive skills like deduction and mental sharpness, especially after extended playtime. This intellectual stimulation fosters a sense of personal growth and satisfaction.
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game demonstrates strong stability, with users reporting no bugs, glitches, or UI issues during their experience.
humor
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor in the game is subtle and situational, relying on players' familiarity with challenging Minesweeper variants to evoke a sense of ironic frustration. It playfully references the absurdity of overly difficult custom setups, adding a layer of relatable, dry humor.