Cavesweeper Reviews

Love this game - played it a lot on my phone and now it's here for me to enjoy on my work computer! It's a great take on Minesweeper but obviously better. Must play for dungeon-crawler fans.

Don't let the description fool you! This is all Minesweeper, requiring guess after guess (including the first square of *every* puzzle), and not a bit like the logic-driven Picross or Sudoku. Also, key interface items are never explained and the game displays in a teeny tiny window with no way to run it full-screen.

I have been a fan of bankbank since I played Four Winds Fantasy. He is one of my favourite indie game developers. He has great ideas and an unrestrained style. You could say, that he is a big inspiration to me. Cavesweeper is one of my favourite games by bankbank, and also one of my favourite puzzle games. I am very happy to see it come to PC, originally having been released on smart phone (highly recommend grabbing it on that too for cave sweeping on the go). This 'reframed' and updated version translates well to the big screen, and being able to listen to the mesmerising original soundtrack by the man himself in FULL 4D AUDIOIC TRANSCENDENCE is a real treat. This game is a great challenge, fun and addicting, a treasure.

I played this game a TON on mobile. A minesweeper/dungeon-crawler makes for a brilliantly addictive combo. It's well worth the $3 asking price.

Once you start, you will not be able to stop - the gameplay is addictive AF. Great artwork, scintillating music, fun decisions to make. I get a huge dopmaine rush when the coin toss event happens. If you aren't playing the PC version of Cavesweeper, you are missing out *BIG* time.

Pretty slick dungeon crawler/minesweeper nice art. Shame it's forced into a lower resolution.

I've played the mobile version of this game before and this version is every bit as good! The game itself is a twist on the minesweeper concept. The number and color of a tile on the grid gives you an indication of the color of the adjacent tiles and it is your job to figure them out correctly. This basic game mechanic is wrapped in a dungeon crawler aesthetic, where every board you must solve is actually a battle you're having with some kind of enemy. Mistakes you make are interpreted as the damage you're taking in the battle. This gives a surprising amount of motivation to keep on playing and progressing to see what new things the game has in store.

stylistically very cool but the actual gameplay is too reliant on RNG. the brief moments where you can actually apply logic are lovely and you can very clearly see something special here that would eventually be evolved in tess elated and jubilane. would love to see a sequel to this that fixes up the RNG stuff tbh

It's a minesweeper game that runs at a super low resolution and gets old after your first run. It looks like it took less than a week to make. It won't stay on your hard-drive longer than 30 minutes.

Cavesweeper is a weird combination logic puzzle / RPG battle game that hits this weird sweet spot in my brain. The logic puzzle is exactly the sort of Minesweeper-like constraint-solving mechanic that I can just sit and play with endlessly. But as the game progresses, the puzzle's difficulty is ratcheted up such that it can't be completely solved by logic alone, and you have to make tactical decisions about what risks you're willing to take to gain information. I don't get sucked into a lot of games, but once I start a Cavesweeper run I gotta see it through. I was pretty sad when Apple broke the iPhone version after an upgrade, so I was super excited to learn it had made its way to the PC. Hoping Bonkey Trek gets a re-release next!