Minesweeper Retro Classic vs 花格 Bloomgrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minesweeper Retro Classic
Experience classic Minesweeper with a retro aesthetic and modern features. Enjoy multiple difficulty levels, a no-guessing mode, and personalized records. Play offline and resume games anytime.
- Retro visual theme
- Six difficulty levels
- No Guessing mode
- Personalized game records
- Offline play
- Resume games anytime
- Customizable settings
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The minesweeper you remember from old computers. Grey buttons, a blue title bar, red LED counters — the look and the bleeps are the way they were. ■ How to play Tap a square to open it. A number tells you how many mines touch that square. Hold a square to plant a flag. Open every square that is not a mine and you win. ■ Six difficulties • Novice 8×8 8 mines • Beginner 9×9 10 mines • Intermediate 16×16 40 mines • Expert 30×16 99 mines • Master 30×20 130–150 mines • Custom choose your own rows, columns and mines ■ No Guessing mode In ordinary minesweeper you sometimes reach a point where two squares look exactly the same and you simply have to guess. This mode only builds boards where that never happens. Every board can be finished by logic alone. ■ Your own records For each difficulty the game keeps your games played, wins, win rate and best time. Normal mode and No Guessing mode are recorded separately. ■ One more chance Step on a mine and you can watch a short video to carry on: the mine you hit is flagged and the game continues. A game where you used a continue is not added to your records or the ranking. Watching is always your choice. ■ Stop any time Close the app in the middle of a game and you can pick it up where you left off. ■ Settings you can change • Sound effects on or off • Vibration on or off • Hold time for planting a flag (0.20–1.00 seconds) • Swap tap and hold • Use ? marks • Language: 45 languages, or follow your phone ■ Your records stay on your phone Your records are stored on your device only. They are never sent to our servers, and there is no account to create. The app only goes online to show ads and for the ranking, so the game itself is fully playable with no signal at all. ■ Ranking Sign in to Game Center to compare your best times with other players, for each difficulty. You can play everything without signing in.
花格 Bloomgrid
A relaxing hex flower puzzle game designed for short play sessions. Progress through themed gardens, collect flower facts, and enjoy daily challenges. Offers optional purchases for enhanced gameplay and customization.
- Hexagonal garden puzzle gameplay
- 10 Japanese garden regions with 240 levels
- Collect flower cards with facts and meanings
- Daily Puzzle challenges
- Replay assistance with last moves shown
- Optional energy refills and cosmetic purchases
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Bloomgrid is a hex flower puzzle made for your commute. A level takes about 3 minutes, plays with one hand, and stops whenever your train does — next time you pick up right where you left off. HOW TO PLAY • Place seedlings in a hexagonal garden • Five touching flowers of one colour bloom • Fill a whole line from edge to edge to harvest it • After a clear, the outer flowers slide toward the centre and set off chains FEATURES • A journey through Japan's gardens: 10 regions from Hokkaido to Okinawa, 240 levels. Every region has six local flowers, and each level you clear adds a flower card to your book — flower facts, flower meanings, where to see them, and their place in Japanese culture. Weeds spread, stone tiles need breaking, and every chapter ends with a boss • Daily Puzzle: one board a day. All 3 seedlings are face up and you get just 3 moves — can you match the best solution? Send a challenge code and friends can play the same board in their browser, no download needed • Last time's you: when you replay a puzzle, faint dotted lines show where you put each move last time • When you lose, you see how close you came; fail the same level three times and a helping hand steps in • No forced interstitial ads, and levels are always free PURCHASES • Energy refills 1 point every 20 minutes; you can buy an instant refill or 1 hour of unlimited energy • Bloom PASS (monthly): get ad rewards without watching the ad, no home banner, 1 free tool every day • Bloom Pro (monthly / 3 months / yearly): energy cap 10 with twice-as-fast refills, a free refill and a free Last Chance every day, and an archive of every Daily Puzzle since you started • Archive+ (Bloom Pro add-on, one-time purchase): play the Daily Puzzles from before you started, all the way back to launch day; needs an active Bloom Pro • Garden Atelier sets (one-time purchases): scenes, seedlings, frames and effects to mix and match — looks only, gameplay is unchanged • PASS and Pro are separate auto-renewing subscriptions — get one or both. They renew and are charged to your Apple Account within 24 hours before the period ends unless cancelled; cancel any time in iPhone Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions • No random loot boxes and no virtual currency Terms of Service: https://bloomgrid-83374.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://bloomgrid-83374.web.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minesweeper Retro Classic at none against 花格 Bloomgrid's 10. 花格 Bloomgrid's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. 花格 Bloomgrid sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Minesweeper Retro Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Minesweeper Retro Classic against 5.0 for 花格 Bloomgrid. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Minesweeper Retro Classic ships an update every 11 days, 花格 Bloomgrid every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minesweeper Retro Classic | 花格 Bloomgrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | akio kobayashi | Chao Hsuan Cheng |
Customer experience
Minesweeper Retro Classic
花格 Bloomgrid
In-app purchases
Minesweeper Retro Classic
No in-app purchases
花格 Bloomgrid
- 生死一瞬$0.99
- 今日殘局解答$0.99
- 破局工具組$0.99
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- 無限工具 10 分鐘$0.99
- 無限行動力 1 小時$1.99
- Garden Atelier: Kumamoto$5.99
- Garden Atelier: Fukuoka$5.99
- Garden Atelier: Kyoto$5.99
- Garden Atelier: Tokyo$5.99
- Garden Atelier: Golden Night$5.99
Questions
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