Meansweeper

Competitive multiplayer minesweeper that requires well-trained pattern recognition and muscle memory. Players control Sweepers on a shared board filled with mine and number tiles. They walk into tiles to uncover them and are able to push each other around. Someone walked right into a bomb tile? Well BOOM, that player's a ghost now that gets to chase and push (or even help) other Sweepers!

WASD/Arrow Keys to move.
Mobile: Tap to move

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This game was made by the amazing GD-Aleson with design support by me. Alesonand decided to make a multiplayer version of this classic after getting really into minesweeper puzzles. He implemented the minesweeper gameplay loop in under 3 hours, then we playtested a bunch and figured out how to turn this into a fun multiplayer experience.

WASD movement and unit collision resulted in players being pushed into mines. Aleson doubled down on this by allowing dead players to push as well. He also added a timer which increased the sense of urgency, then we came up with a scoring system to allow for competition.

Because the resulting game is quite fast-paced (and because dead players reveal a mine each), we decided flags were simply a hassle. We do have some ideas regarding the timer⌛ and a certain smiley face 🙃 that might get added soon who knows!?

We hope you have as much fun playing as we did making it.