Minesweeper X vs Minesweeper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minesweeper X
Experience the classic mine-sweeping puzzle game with a modern twist. This app offers optimized touch controls, elegant graphics, and advanced features for a seamless and challenging brain-training experience. Enjoy various difficulty levels, custom boards, and helpful hints.
- Optimized touch controls for mobile
- Elegant graphics and animations
- Auto save and load functionality
- Portrait and landscape support
- Hint system for difficult situations
- Customizable board sizes up to 72x72
- Step-by-step instructions for new players
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The best new way to play the classic Minesweeper, fully optimized for iOS! Control, Graphics & Animation simply make "Minesweeper Original Reboot" a revolutionary remake of this classic. The task is simple: mark and sweep all mines in the field. This classic game play is just that simple yet so exciting and challenging. "Minesweeper Original Reboot" is perfect for brain practicing and short time playing at any time. Play now to test your deduction skill as well as your finger speed! What make "Minesweeper Original Reboot" special: - Optimized for guaranteeing fastest game play and best control experience: Careful designed just for touch devices with super fast and easy control (TAP to open square, TAP & HOLD to drop flags, DRAG to move board around, PINCH to zoom) - Auto save and load, never lose your current game even if it is completely quit or crashed - Elegant, beautiful graphics with lots of cool sound and animation effects - Support both portrait and landscape rotations on both iPhone and iPad devices - Auto resize board to take advantage of whole screen - Auto scrolling board after every touch (optionally enabled/disable) which is convenient to navigate the board without manually dragging - 3 zoom modes for board: 1x, 2x, 3x to suit any finger sizes. Note that the scale up does not effect the image quality - Quick overview mode which allow seeing the overall board and quick jumping, extremely helpful for large board sizes - Hint to open any given square at any time: very helpful for 50/50 situations or when getting stuck - SUPER HARD level + CUSTOM level allowing the max board size up to 72 x 72 - Share your results via email or social networks - Step-by-step instructions for people who have never played Minesweeper before Other common features: - 3 traditional levels: EASY, MEDIUM, HARD - First touch guaranteed not to hit a mine and always opens a range of squares - Flagging/Digging modes - Local statistics: best time, number of wins and losses - Game Center support - Natively, beautifully run on all iOS devices Have fun and enjoy playing "Minesweeper Original Reboot"!
Minesweeper
Uncover all safe squares on a grid without detonating any mines. Use long taps or swipes to mark suspected mine locations. Experience a classic puzzle challenge.
- Uncover safe squares
- Mark mine locations
- Long tap or swipe controls
- Classic puzzle gameplay
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The goal of the game is to uncover all the squares that do not contain mines. To mark a mine use long tap or swipe! Download and enjoy :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Minesweeper at none against Minesweeper X's shown. Minesweeper also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 48%) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 164). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Minesweeper X sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Minesweeper sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Minesweeper X against 4.6 for Minesweeper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minesweeper has 1.5K ratings behind it against 164, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Minesweeper X's written reviews are positive against 83% of Minesweeper's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minesweeper X | Minesweeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (164 ratings) | 4.6 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.4% of reviews | 82.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 164 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CONG TY TNHH SKYPAW | xNeat.com |
Customer experience
Minesweeper X
Minesweeper
User reviews
Minesweeper X
From 164 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Great Minesweeper clone
- 🎨 Nice interface and graphics
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎵 Can play with own music
- 💡 Innovative features
Room to improve
- ❌ Too many ads
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 Game bugs and errors
- 📱 Autoscroll/auto-centering issues
- 💸 Annoying ad-free purchase prompts
Minesweeper
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Classic game experience
- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 🔒 Respects user privacy
- 💡 Undo/redo feature
- 👍 Minimal ads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent flag placement
- 🐛 Ads covering gameplay
- 🐛 Ads resetting board
- 🔋 Battery drain issues
Bugs and requests
Minesweeper X
Reported bugs
26 issues- App opens and closes immediately
- Crashes every time it is opened
- Too many ads
- Ads have become too obnoxious
- Speaker volume for ads cannot be set
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- Harassment for ad-free purchase
- Bugs with flag removal
- Game crashes too many times
- Lost game progress due to crashes
- Fundamental programming issue with mine placement
- Accidental mine explosion when setting flags
- Auto-centering feature causes accidental bombs
- Clearing multiple squares with first hit makes game too easy
- Auto-glide makes hitting spaces difficult
- Big errors in mine counts
- Game glitches showing incorrect mine counts
- Blinky-ad appeared
- Paid version has ads
- Confusing zoom level
- Wrong numbers or incorrect mines
- Puzzle impossible to solve due to errors
- Oversensitive touch and buggy counts
- Game would not end after finding all mines
- Numbers on cells are wrong
- Hacked global leaderboards
- Inaccurate mine counts
Requested features
10 requests- Option to turn off auto-centering
- Save game function
- Restore purchase for ad-free
- Fix bugs and inaccuracies
- Improve instructions clarity
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- Option for dark mode
- Score based on accumulated average time
- Fix issues with flagging
- Bring back double-tap functionality
- Option to disable autoscroll
Minesweeper
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashing on launch
- Recurring mine layout patterns
Requested features
4 requests- Toggle flag button
- Difficulty settings
- Landscape mode without scrolling
- Game statistics and logs
In-app purchases
Minesweeper X
- 10 Hints Pack$0.99
- 25 Hints Pack$1.99
- Remove advertisement$4.99
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- 100 Hints Pack$5.99
Minesweeper
- Minesweeper$0.99
- Minesweeper Classic$2.99
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