Minelayer

Minelayer is the unofficial prequel to Microsoft's Minesweeper. Where in the original it was your job to discover the placement of mines with the guidance of number tiles, in Minelayer you're tasked with placing these numbers yourself given the position of the mines.

How to play

Click the smiley to start a new game, or press F2.

You'll start with an empty board of tiles. Only the tiles with mines are revealed; those cannot be interacted with. Clicking on any other tile will reveal its number. The number, from 0 to 8, represents the count of neighboring tiles containing a mine. If the tile shows a 1, one of the eight neighboring tiles contains a mine. If it shows a 2, they'll be two mines, and so on.

Your objective is to guess the number of each tile based on the mines. You can select a number with the keyboard (you can see a preview of your selected number when hovering a tile) and then click each tile; if your number equals the tile's number, your guess will've been correct and the tile is unrevealed. The second  you fail at guessing one tile's number, it's game over.

You win when you successfully reveal every tile in the board. Try to get the best times by winning games as quick as possible!

Acknowledgements

• Inspired by Microsoft Minesweeper by Robert Donner and Curt Johnson, originally released in 1990.
• All visual assets are property of Microsoft Corporation.
• Made with Godot v4.6.3.
• Source code - https://codeberg.org/sieni/minelayer
• Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0. Made by sieni.