Minesweeper X vs Thoroughly 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"!
Thoroughly MineSweeper
An advanced take on the classic puzzle game, this app offers an optimized touch interface for extended play. It includes a detailed manual for new players and is suitable for those familiar with the original.
- Advanced gameplay mechanics
- Optimized touch interface
- Detailed game manual
- Extended play design
- Classic puzzle experience
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Do you know MineSweeper? in the latter part of the 20th century, the people played this game on and on for a long time. Thoroughly MineSweeper is the advanced MineSweeper. The game design lets the player play more long time. The interface is optimized for touch panel interface. Even if you don't know the classic minesweeper (If you are 21st century people), don't worry! We prepare the detail game manual for you in the app. If you know classic minesweeper, of course there is no matter to play this game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thoroughly MineSweeper at none against Minesweeper X's 4. Thoroughly MineSweeper also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (83% vs 48%). Minesweeper X's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (164 vs 3). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Thoroughly MineSweeper asks for nothing beyond the download.
Minesweeper X holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minesweeper X has 164 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of Minesweeper X's written reviews are positive against 83% of Thoroughly MineSweeper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Minesweeper X ships an update monthly, Thoroughly MineSweeper every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minesweeper X | Thoroughly MineSweeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (164 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.4% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CONG TY TNHH SKYPAW | Yuki Fujimoto |
Customer experience
Minesweeper X
Thoroughly MineSweeper
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
Thoroughly MineSweeper
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
Thoroughly MineSweeper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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