Comparison

Ruin Dive vs Minefall

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

Head to head
About

Ruin Dive

Features
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Minesweeper meets roguelite risk and reward. Numbers show how many traps surround each tile, just like classic Minesweeper. But in Ruin Dive, your goal is not only to survive—you dig for hidden treasure and decide when to retreat. The deeper you push, the more you can win. Trigger a trap and you lose the treasure you're carrying. SHORT EXPEDITIONS • Choose a 3-room quick run or a 5-room deep run • Find treasure in each room, then retreat to bank your score • Take your loot with you or risk everything for one more dig TOOLS AND CHARMS • Divination Stone: detects and marks one trap • Echo Flute: reveals every weathered number • Torch: scans a 2x2 area for safe tiles and traps • Charm: protects you from one trap RUIN HAZARDS • Guardians that drop relics when surrounded • Cave-ins that turn revealed numbers into unknown tiles • Weathered clues that you must reconstruct through logic Perfect for players who enjoy Minesweeper, logic puzzles, short score runs, and roguelites with meaningful risk. Play free and offline.

About

Minefall

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Minesweeper was never this deep. Minefall is a logic roguelike where every level is an older age of the Earth. Dig from a 1984 arcade room down through plague pits, pyramid chambers and dinosaur beds, all the way to the Big Bang. FIFTY LEVELS, FIFTY AGES ◆ 50 pixel-art levels, each an older layer of time: telephone exchange, war bunker, Victorian sewer, Roman villa, Babylon vault, mammoth steppe, Jurassic marsh, magma ocean, first stars. ◆ Boards grow as you go deeper, from 6x8 to 10x13, and the mines get denser with every level. ◆ Find the portal hidden in the ground and drop to the next age. Dig cleanly and the gold flows. MINESWEEPER RULES, ROGUELIKE STAKES ◆ Numbers tell you how many mines touch a tile. Tap to dig, hold to flag. That part you know. ◆ A mine costs one of three hearts, not the run. Lose all three and the dig is over; you start again from 1984. ◆ Every board is built to be solved by logic alone. No coin flips, no 50/50s. ◆ Flag every mine and clear every safe tile for a PERFECT level bonus. MINE. FALL. REPEAT. ◆ The era grid remembers how deep you have ever been. Every age you reach stays unlocked. ◆ Reach level 50 and you have dug to the beginning of time. ◆ Retro pixel art with a CRT glow, a looping theme and a haptic tick on every dig. MADE FOR EVERY PAIR OF EYES ◆ MONO mode draws the whole game in a single phosphor colour per level, so the information is in brightness, not hue. ◆ 30 languages. Free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. No account, no sign-up, no data collected. Plays fully offline. Think you can read a minefield? Dig to the Big Bang and prove it.

Screenshots

Ruin Dive4 screens
Minefall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minefall at none against Ruin Dive's 1. Minefall also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ruin Dive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Minefall asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ruin Dive ships an update every 10 days, Minefall daily. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Ruin Dive versus Minefall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRuin DiveMinefall
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShimmoto KotaroThe Fat Cat Sp. z o.o.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ruin Dive

One-time1
  • 広告を削除$2.99
None

Minefall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ruin Dive free?
Ruin Dive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Minefall free?
Minefall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ruin Dive or Minefall have ads?
Ruin Dive shows ads; Minefall does not.
Which is updated more often, Ruin Dive or Minefall?
Ruin Dive ships an update every 10 days, and Minefall daily. Most recently, Ruin Dive was updated on November 10, 2026 and Minefall on November 6, 2026.

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