Minesweeper Genius

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Minesweeper Genius is a puzzle game that is not Minesweeper, the game that everyone got bundled in with Windows on their PC over the last few decades. Rather, it is a game that takes the basic concept of Minesweeper and turns it into a character-based puzzle game.

So, rather than clicking on a grid to uncover which areas are safe and which are mines, players control a man literally sweeping his way through a minefield. Much like a Pictocross game, there are numbers on the top and side denoting how many mines are in that column or row, and players must use that to deduce where the mines are to find a safe path for the sweeper to get to the exit.

To aid them in this goal, players can, much like Minesweeper, mark places with flags to indicate that those spaces are unsafe. In addition, the game introduces additional elements, such as panels that shift around the playfield or zip your sweeper over a space.

In practice, the game plays… fine. There’s nothing especially exciting or compelling about it, it doesn’t have that addictive quality you really look for in a puzzle game, but as a time-waster, it’s perfectly decent, if unspectacular.

The same can be said for the presentation – The interface here is clean and colorful, nothing especially interesting or out of the ordinary, but it works well enough for what the game is.

Honestly, the biggest issue I have with this game’s gameplay, it’s that there’s no way to simply just play a game of Minesweeper with the thing, since I remembered having a lot more fun with Minesweeper than I’m having with Minesweeper Genius. Oh, also, it’s frustrating that you can’t mark a space as safe – doing so would make solving the game’s puzzles more straightforward.

In the end, Minesweeper Genius is an okay Puzzle game that has the unfortunate problem of being named after a much better puzzle game. It’s perfectly fine, but it’s simply not as fun as the game it gets its name from.

tl;dr – Minesweeper Genius is a puzzle game that is not Minesweeper, but rather, a character-based puzzle game loosely based on Minesweeper. It’s a decent puzzle game, but it lacks the addictive quality that the original Minesweeper had.

Grade: C

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