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Minesweeper returns equally an explosive first-person spelunker

Information technology's been a long time since Minesweeper came bundled with Windows. While the pilot testament ever cost a classic, perhaps someone felt the grid-clicker was touch sensation a little dated. Perhaps information technology's long past time someone updated Minesweeper as a first-person shooter.

Mine Shaft by Krzyhau does exactly that, replacement Minesweeper's flat grid with a Minecraft-stylus series of caverns, clogged up by those nerve-racking numbered hoar blocks. You know the exercise. Chatter a bomb, and you're out.

With that one change, Minesweeper suddenly becomes a terrifying navigational challenge. It's not enough just to avoid clicking bombs—you have to try on and carve a path through an volatile labyrinth. It also makes IT much harder to observe track of where potential traps might lie, urging a more methodical approach. Dive right in, and you'll quickly find out yourself losing cartroad of how distant the bombs power lie.

The short game was created as part of live on weekend's Ludum Dare 48 game jam. If the developer's name sounds conversant, it's because Krzyhau is also the architect arse those utterly cursed Portal vein 2 chambers. Fortunately, Mine Shaft isn't quite As unlogical every bit those broken maps.

Mine Shaft is free to play in your browser over on Itch.

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