I love love LOVE minesweeper. Lots of it surprisingly is pattern recognition and SOMETIMES theres gambling. But, it really does help your brain with logic and the rush you feel when you speed up and enter the flowstate is unreal. Highly recommend it since you can basically play it anywhere and on your browser.
Omigod I almost forgot about Minesweeper.
Though it's not traditional Minesweeper in my case usually, instead I've got this game:
So, this is Demoncrawl, it's basically Minesweeper if it took all of the drugs at once. Sorta roguelike-y, instead of just one board a single run is more like.... 13 stages, I think, with a couple of shops here and there.
There's an inventory of items you can get, all sorts of screwball things, stages can have modifiers that make it more difficult (for instance one that makes it so exactly 3 cell values will be wrong somewhere on the board), or all sorts of other bizarre things.
This screenshot is the last stage of a run, there's a boss roaming around a different area of the board with a passive effect that just says "you get hit every 30 seconds", I think it is, among a couple of other things he does. Only in rare cases can you actually kill a boss, usually you have to just sorta play around whatever screwball thing they do, so this whole board was me wildly trying to speedsolve it, which I can in fact do, specifically because of having done this boss many times. I always forget I learned to speedsolve Minesweeper until I play this and that guy shows up.
Also some other weird stuff happening there in that screenshot, it's a pretty wild game. Bloody brutal though. It's really freaking hard, not for anyone that cant deal with defeat, because you are going to lose often. I actually managed to win that run though, did the whole giant board in 51 seconds somehow (which had like 98 monsters/mines on it, I think it was), though near the end about a 5th of the board just exploded for some reason.
I just adore this freaking game, easily one of my top 5 games ever. It also has the single greatest soundtrack I've ever heard in a game. Which is still baffling, it's like, it's freaking Minesweeper, it doesnt need to go that hard, but it does.
I love it when developers come up with stuff that's like, hey, let's take this old classic game/puzzle/whatever and totally revamp it into something new.
Demoncrawl isnt the only "let's do more with Minesweeper" game out there either. Not surprising, since Minesweeper is such a classic.
