Minesweeper vs Minesweeper Twist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minesweeper
This classic logic puzzle game offers an ad-free Minesweeper experience on modern touch devices. It features original rules, intuitive gameplay, and advanced tools like hints and smart undo to enhance the challenge.
- Ad-free classic gameplay
- Safe first tap
- Hints and Smart Undo
- Luck feature for guesses
- 3D Touch and customizable controls
- Custom difficulty levels
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No ads. No distractions. Just classic Minesweeper, rebuilt for iPhone and iPad. Minesweeper brings the classic familiar logic puzzle to modern touch screens with intuitive controls, clean graphics, advanced algorithms, and the classic rules you expect: a safe first tap, flags, question marks, chording, and the original difficulty levels. Stuck? Use Hints that prioritize simple deductions so you can learn the logic instead of blindly guessing. Hit an unavoidable 50/50? Luck helps prevent forced guess losses when you choose one of the safest mathematically available squares. Made a mistake? Smart Undo lets you rewind a loss while shuffling hidden mines so the puzzle stays interesting. Features: • Classic Minesweeper rules and difficulty levels • Custom boards • Safe first tap • Flags, question marks, and chording • Hints that teach logical deductions • Luck for unavoidable guesses • Smart Undo after a loss • Statistics by difficulty • Winning streak, win rate, best time, and median time tracking • iPhone and iPad support • Mouse, trackpad, and Apple Pencil support • No ads or in app purchases. This is my gift to you :) How to play: Reveal every safe square without tapping a mine. Numbers show how many adjacent squares contain mines. Tap to reveal, press and hold to flag, and tap a completed number to open ("chord") nearby squares. Start a new board at any time with the smiley button. Built for classic Minesweeper players, speed solvers, logic puzzle fans, and anyone who wants a clean, fast puzzle game without ads. Having trouble or have a feature request? Contact me directly from the app.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Minesweeper at none against Minesweeper Twist's shown. Minesweeper also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 5) and review sentiment (96% vs 75%). Minesweeper Twist's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). 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 — 4.9 for Minesweeper against 5.0 for Minesweeper Twist. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minesweeper has 1.2K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Minesweeper's written reviews are positive against 75% of Minesweeper Twist's.
Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, Minesweeper Twist weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minesweeper | Minesweeper Twist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | developersBliss | GUILLAUME JACQUES FRADIN |
Customer experience
Minesweeper
Minesweeper Twist
Bugs and requests
Minesweeper
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inconsistent bomb placement logic
- Game sometimes doesn't recognize cleared board
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to change background
- Leaderboard/stats tracking
- Ability to toggle flag mode
Minesweeper Twist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Minesweeper
No in-app purchases
Minesweeper Twist
No in-app purchases
Questions
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