World of Mines‪!‬ 4+

I like this game, as it is just a unique minesweeper. If you’re looking for much else you’re not going to find it. It’s pretty good when it comes to sweeper it works well Otherwise, I wish you could do more with collected mines beyond buying -some- of the colors. Like using them for one or two skins and maybe consumable power-ups or something would make them feel more involved.
Finally, I feel like you guys should really do a United States map, I seems kind of built for this treatment, or alternatively I would like Japan due to its prefectures unique shapes.

I love playing Minesweeper on a world map. It’s a really neat concept. But if you’ve played very much normal Minesweeper you’ll know that a lot of games come down to a 50/50 guess. This can be really annoying and is the worst part of Minesweeper. Sometimes it’s not about puzzle solving and just comes down to pure luck. Less space on the board with more mines makes the guesses more prevalent. The more guesses in a game, the more likely it is that you won’t win.

There are some countries that have so many islands that require a guess to start each one. They also have a lot of narrow places that don’t clear out well and just come down to another guess. If they wanted to make these stages fair they would have the lowest mine counts. But instead, they have the highest mine counts meaning an impossibly high amount of guesses on those stages. You only have one life right away that can be replaced twice more for free if you watch a very long commercial. This is in addition to the ads you have to watch just playing the game. After those three “free” lives you will be encouraged to pay $.99 for a single additional life or else lose all of your progress on that board. I believe you can beat most countries without paying anything but a few countries like Canada and Indonesia are impossible without spending money.

If you’re a competionist that doesn’t want to spend money on this app, then this will not be for you.

This game is great if you want a challenge, but sometimes it can get a bit annoying with their take on the game.

Mainly, my problem with the game is when there are multiple islands in a level. Half of the time you spend on one level is tapping each island to get a space that you can actually work on. This gets really tedious because you are constantly tapping on an island, losing, and trying again. After finally getting a space on each island, you get three lives but you have to watch an ad for each of them. After that you need to pay money for another life.

A tip I have for the developers of this game, is just to make it so that the mines generate once you tap on each island, or at least let us get a space on each island that we can actually work with. Besides that, this game is really fun to play!