Minesweeper X vs Minesweeper King
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 King
Experience classic Minesweeper with a modern twist. Challenge yourself through hundreds of levels or compete against players worldwide in real-time multiplayer matches. Enjoy daily rewards and track your progress on global leaderboards.
- 1000+ Stage mode levels
- Hardcore Master mode
- Online 1:1 multiplayer matches
- Daily hints and attendance rewards
- Global leaderboards and achievements
- Tablet device support
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Easy difficulty for everyone and can paly getting difficult by next stage. You can compete with gamers around the world multiplayer. Enjoy anytime the best minesweeper in the world. [Features] - Stage mode have 1000 Levels - Master mode have hardcore Stage offers - Mission for have to find 600 bomb in Master mode - Multiplayer: Online 1:1 Minesweeper match - Special system of opening the map when press number - Hints items daily attendance compensation - leaderboards, achievements support - Tablet devices support - fun game, free game, no wifi, no internet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mobirixplayen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mobirix1
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Minesweeper X at monthly against Minesweeper King's every 3 months. Minesweeper X also leads on ratings volume (164 vs 21) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Minesweeper King's advantage is review sentiment (58% vs 49%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Minesweeper King sells 3 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 4.5 for Minesweeper King. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minesweeper X has 164 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of Minesweeper X's written reviews are positive against 58% of Minesweeper King's.
Minesweeper X ships an update monthly, Minesweeper King every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Minesweeper X | Minesweeper King |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (164 ratings) | 4.5 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.5% of reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| 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 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CONG TY TNHH SKYPAW | MOBIRIX |
Customer experience
Minesweeper X
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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 King
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 King
- Continue Item$1.99
- 5 hint items$2.99
- 60 hint items$29.99
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