Minesweeper Twist vs ChessSweeper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minesweeper Twist
This puzzle game challenges players to locate hidden mines on an irregular grid. Use numbered clues to deduce mine locations and avoid detonation. Offers adjustable difficulty levels for a personalized experience.
- Irregular grid gameplay
- Numbered mine clues
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Customizable grid settings
- Flagging mines
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Minesweeper Twist is a variant of the classic game Minesweeper. Minesweeper is a simple puzzle game, where you need to use clues scattered on a grid to find all the mines. The clues are numbers indicating how many mines are in the neighboring tiles. Uncover incorrectly a single mine and you lose. Flag all the mines and you win. The variant: The difference is that the grid is irregular. On a regular grid, each cell has 8 neighbors, but in this case, they can have between 6 and 10. This leads to more difficult games, as you can't build the same mental tricks to solve where the mines are. Difficulty levels: The game opens on a beginner grid, which can be solved in a few minutes. You can increase the difficulty using the intermediate or expert settings, which will give you larger grids. You can also set custom settings, where you can have very large grids and also define the percentage of tiles that have a mine.
ChessSweeper
This game combines the logic of Minesweeper with the strategic pieces of chess. Navigate a board filled with chess pieces, avoiding the powerful queens, rooks, and bishops to clear the path.
- Chess piece obstacles
- Minesweeper-style logic
- Innovative gameplay twist
- Challenging puzzles
- Simple controls
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Watch out for the queens, rooks and bishops in this innovative twist on the classic game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ChessSweeper at none against Minesweeper Twist's shown. ChessSweeper also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Minesweeper Twist's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Minesweeper Twist against 5.0 for ChessSweeper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minesweeper Twist has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Minesweeper Twist ships an update weekly, ChessSweeper every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.
| Parameter | Minesweeper Twist | ChessSweeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GUILLAUME JACQUES FRADIN | Gustaf Brostrom |
In-app purchases
Minesweeper Twist
No in-app purchases
ChessSweeper
No in-app purchases
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