14 Minesweeper Variants
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($4.89)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Minesweeper but the rules are changing.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.89. That was November 2024. 29 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, LYNE ($2.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Patrick's Parabox ($19.99, scores 74).
None of the 341 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 138 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
108 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 02:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
14 Minesweeper Variants scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1865060/14-minesweeper-variantsReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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