Minesweeper X vs Minesweeper Frontier
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 Frontier
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Minesweeper without the coin flips. Every classic Minesweeper game eventually hands you a 50/50 and asks you to gamble. This one never does. Each board is built and checked so that logic always has a safe move waiting somewhere. If you are stuck, the answer is on the screen. You just have not found it yet. AN ENDLESS BOARD There are no edges and no fixed grid. Start in the middle and sweep outward in any direction, as far as you want to go. The world is generated around you as you explore, so it never runs out and never makes you wait. The further you travel from where you started, the denser the mines become. Nearby ground is gentle. Distant ground is not. SCORING THAT REWARDS REAL WORK Tapping one cell and watching half the screen open up feels great, but it should not be worth much, and here it is not. Points are weighted by how dangerous each cell actually was when you opened it. A huge cascade earns close to nothing. Picking apart a tight cluster of 3s and 4s pays properly. Your best run is kept, and the counter turns gold the moment you beat it. PLAY IT YOUR WAY Three levels of tap assist, so the busywork is optional: Quick open: tap a satisfied number to clear around it. Auto-flag: flags the mines it can prove, then opens. Auto-clear: after every move, every satisfied number opens itself and cascades onward. SEVEN THEMES, SIX ICONS Deep, Classic, Neon, Terminal, Pop, High Contrast Dark, and High Contrast Light. Each one changes the whole board: tile material, number palette, typeface, and the settings screen itself. Classic is the bevelled grey grid you remember. Terminal comes with scanlines. Pop, the newest, is all bright, raised yellow tiles. Six of the themes come with a matching app icon you can put on your home screen. BUILT TO BE PLAYED BY ANYONE Navigation arrows: move the board by tapping, for when dragging is hard. Zoom buttons: no pinching required. Reduce Motion: newly opened areas appear instantly, with no ripple. Highlight a safe cell: after five seconds without a move, a cell that is certain to be safe gets outlined. Flag mines for you: every five seconds, one provable mine is flagged automatically. Show every mine: marks all the mines around you, for players who want the exploring without the risk. Turn on as many as you like. Nothing is locked behind anything. SOUND AND FEEL Every reveal is a soft click, pitched a step higher for each ring the wave travels outward, so opening a large area plays as a run of notes instead of a rattle. Flags get a sound of their own. Haptics follow the same wave. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account, no sign-in. Works offline, always.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minesweeper Frontier at none against Minesweeper X's 4. Minesweeper Frontier also leads on ads (none vs shown). Minesweeper X's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Minesweeper X sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Minesweeper Frontier asks for nothing beyond the download.
Minesweeper X ships an update monthly, Minesweeper Frontier every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minesweeper X | Minesweeper Frontier |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (164 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 49.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CONG TY TNHH SKYPAW | Easy Reps Fitness Inc |
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 Frontier
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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 Frontier
No in-app purchases
Questions
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