Comparison

Extended Minesweeper vs Endless MineSweeper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
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Extended Minesweeper

Features
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Minesweeper Extended is the classic mine-hunting puzzle you grew up with — rebuilt natively for iPhone, sharpened with one small but game-changing rule. THE EXTENDED RULE In classic Minesweeper, a closed cell tells you nothing until you tap it. In Minesweeper Extended, the moment any of a cell's neighbors is opened, that closed cell starts showing how many mines sit around it. Nothing is faked, nothing is leaked — the hint is just the cell's own honest adjacency count, surfaced earlier. The result is a game with the same pure logic, far less blind guessing, and a flow that feels closer to a real puzzle than a coin flip. THREE DIFFICULTIES • Easy — 8 Ɨ 8 board, 10 mines. A coffee-break game. • Medium — 16 Ɨ 16 board, 40 mines. The classic challenge. • Hard — 16 Ɨ 30 board, 99 mines. For when you want to actually think. BUILT FOR IPHONE • First tap is always safe — no instant losses, no restarts on move one. • Tap to open. Long-press to cycle flag → question mark → clear. • Crisp haptic feedback on every open, flag and explosion. • Best times saved per difficulty so you can chase your own record. • Auto-save: close the app mid-game and pick up exactly where you left off. • Clean, native SwiftUI interface — no clutter, no popups, no nonsense. NO ACCOUNTS. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. The full game is free. There are no banners, no rewarded videos, no subscriptions, no accounts, no analytics. Everything runs locally on your device — your best times never leave your phone. OPTIONAL TIP JAR If you genuinely enjoy the game and want to support an independent developer, there's a Support screen with three optional tip tiers. They unlock absolutely nothing — they're just a thank-you. The game is exactly the same whether you tip or not. Made by a solo developer who still thinks Minesweeper is the best puzzle game ever shipped. Have fun.

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Endless MineSweeper

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Minesweeper with no edges and no game over. Clear a sector and the next one is already waiting — north, south, east or west, as far as you dare. Hit a mine and only that sector freezes: solve the sectors around it to win it back. The rest of your world stays yours. Play for three minutes or three hours. Your world is saved and waits exactly where you left it — even offline. WHY YOU'LL KEEP PLAYING • A world that never runs out — every sector is a fresh 8Ɨ8 puzzle • The farther from home, the denser the mines • Chest sectors full of gems, challenge sectors with extra mines • Up to three worlds to explore as you level up • A map of everywhere you've been and everything still unsolved ONE SEAMLESS FIELD Numbers count mines across sector borders, and every sector holds a fixed number of mines. Flag every mine or open every safe cell — either one solves it. WHEN YOU WANT A CHALLENGE • Timed — five minutes on a fresh field. How many sectors can you solve? • Hardcore — one mine and the run is over. A REASON TO COME BACK Three new missions every day, a daily reward, a level track full of prizes and 15 achievements. MAKE IT YOURS Color palettes, clay and paper styles, light and dark themes. HELP ONLY WHEN YOU ASK Hints, probes, shields and a sector solver. Gems lie right on the board — you earn them by playing. • Tap to open, press and hold to flag, tap a number to open its neighbors • No Wi-Fi needed Free to play with ads. Remove them with a single one-time purchase.

Screenshots

Extended Minesweeper3 screens
Endless MineSweeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Extended Minesweeper at none against Endless MineSweeper's shown. Endless MineSweeper's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Extended Minesweeper sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Endless MineSweeper sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Extended Minesweeper versus Endless MineSweeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExtended MinesweeperEndless MineSweeper
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan ChernovAleksandr Kolesnikov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Extended Minesweeper

One-time3
  • Small tip$0.99
  • Nice tip$2.99
  • Generous tip$4.99
5 purchases

Endless MineSweeper

One-time5
  • Handful of Gems$0.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99
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  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
  • Chest of Gems$9.99

Questions

Is Extended Minesweeper free?
Extended Minesweeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Endless MineSweeper free?
Endless MineSweeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Extended Minesweeper or Endless MineSweeper have ads?
Endless MineSweeper shows ads; Extended Minesweeper does not.

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