Minesweeper-like games

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Minesweeper is a puzzle game where the player has to find all the cells (usually 2-dimensional) with mines by clicking all the cells without mines to get the numbers of mines in the nearby cells, but never clicking the cells with mines.


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Find the mines, don't step on them!

List of Minesweeper-like games[edit]

This is a list of free/libre minesweeper-like games:



Game Screenshot Last Release Genres Description
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection Simon-Tatham.png 2023-10-25 Puzzle games collection
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
Simon-Tatham.png
GenrePuzzle games collection
Latest release20231025[1]  (Announcement)
Release dateOctober 25th, 2023
DeveloperSimon Tatham and others
Code licenseExpat
Media licenseExpat
P. languageC
LibraryGTK
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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of multi-platform single-player puzzle games written mostly by Simon Tatham and licensed under the Expat license. Portions of the collection are by Richard Boulton, James Harvey, Mike Pinna, Jonas Kölker, Dariusz Olszewski, Michael Schierl, Lambros Lambrou, Bernd Schmidt, Steffen Bauer, Lennard Sprong and Rogier Goossens.[2]

It is built on top of a special environment, which makes it easy to make new games, like 3D Maze by Edward Macnaghten[3], and port them to new platforms by creating new front-ends.[4] The games have been ported to Java with NestedVM and to JavaScript with asm.js, so they are available as web games on the collection's homepage. They are also available on Android[5] and iThings[6].

KMines KMines 3.0.png 2022-01-06 Minesweeper
KMines
KMines 3.0.png
KMines
GenreMinesweeper
Latest release4.0.21121  (Announcement)
Release dateJanuary 6th, 2022
DeveloperNicolas Hadacek, Mikhail Kourinny, Mauricio Piacentini, Dmitry Suzdalev; Mike McBride (documentation update for KDE 2.0); Philip Rodrigues (some changes for KDE 3.2)[7]
Code licenseGPL[7]
Media licenseGPL (program); GFDL (documentation)[7]
P. languageC++
LibraryKDE, Qt
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KMines is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

KMines is a mostly classical minesweeper puzzle game from the KDEGames division of the KDE Project. There are three preset levels and a custom one. The last one allows the player to adjust width and height of the playing field, and the number of mines.



EmMines EmMines 0.71.0 with control view.png 2022-12-22 3D minesweeper puzzle
emMines
EmMines 0.71.0 with control view.png
emMines, both control and content views
Genre3D minesweeper puzzle
Latest releaseEagle Mode 0.96.0  (Announcement)
Release dateDecember 22nd, 2022
DeveloperOliver Hamann
Code licenseGPLv3
P. languageC++
LibraryEagle Mode
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emMines is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

emMines is a 3D minesweeper game that is included in the Eagle Mode environment. Written by Oliver Hamann in C++, it is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.

GNOME Games Please add the Gameinfo template to the article

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GNOME Games or GNOME Games Collection was a collection of sixteen small games in a variety of styles and genres for the GNOME desktop (similar to KDE Games and Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection). As of GNOME 3.8 the games were separated into individual packages and the collection doesn't exist anymore.[8]

KDE Games Please add the Gameinfo template to the article KDE Games is a division of the KDE project, creating a collection of quality games for KDE desktop.[9] It is similar to GNOME Games and Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Most games are distributed under GPLv2.[10]
LuckySweeper LuckySweeper.png 2021-12-27 Minesweeper-like
LuckySweeper
LuckySweeper.png
GenreMinesweeper-like
Latest release0.6  (Announcement)
Release dateDecember 27th, 2021
DeveloperXenon
Code licenseLGPLv2.1
Media licenseCC-BY-SAv4.0
EngineMinetest
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LuckySweeper is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

LuckySweeper is a minesweeper clone in Minetest.[11]

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Xbomb XBomb.jpg 2014-08-15 Minesweeper
XBomb
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XBomb V2.2b playing on a square grid
GenreMinesweeper
Latest releaseV2.2b  (Announcement)
Release dateAugust 15th, 2014
DeveloperAndrew M. Bishop
Code licenseGPL[12]
Media licenseGPL[12]
P. languageC
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XBomb is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

XBomb is a version of the minesweeper game for X Windows. It offers three grid types: triangular, square, and hexagonal.



  1. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles.tar.gz (the file name shows the version on download)
  2. The "Licence" section of the collection's homepage
  3. Edward Macnaghten. A somewhat pleasant experience (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1463 The page is not longer available, please check the archived version in Internet Archive Wayback Machine.) A somewhat pleasant experience (2006-01-13, accessed on 2014-01-13)
  4. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
  5. http://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/
  6. http://hewgill.com/puzzles/
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 KMines Handbook on the KDE website
  8. https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:GNOME_Games
  9. The KDE Games Center (accessed on 2019-01-03)
  10. https://www.kde.org/applications/games/
  11. Minetest Content DB page
  12. 12.0 12.1 Tarball of the latest source code