Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly just Minesweeper, and also known as Flower Field) is a minesweeper-type video game created by Curt Johnson, originally for IBM's OS/2, that was ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time. The goal of Minesweeper is to uncover all the squares on a grid that do not contain mines without being "blown up" by clicking on a square with a mine underneath. The location of most mines is discovered through a logical process, but some require guessing, usually with a 50-50 chance of being correct.
Puzzleachievementsfreewareabstractpixel artexplosiondigital distributionsingle-player onlytouch controlsxbox livedifficulty levelPC (Microsoft Windows)
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Character
Spare, plot-driven, earnest and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Publisher
- Microsoft
- Released
- October 8, 1990
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Time to beat
- 1 h rushed · 1 h main story · 1 h completionist
IGDB rating 6.9/10 from 101 ratings.
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