Minesweeper gets a stopwatch, a leaderboard and a coral mine with no face
Mineracer turns the old flag-and-number puzzle into something you can race a stranger at, and it costs nothing to find out if you're any good.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Minesweeper has spent thirty years as the thing you opened while a spreadsheet loaded, not a thing you competed at. Mineracer wants to change that, and it is doing it in a browser tab rather than an app store, which already tells you something about who it thinks its audience is. The pitch, as the developer lays it out, is a familiar grid rebuilt around other people watching you play it. There are live multiplayer races on identical boards, which is the obvious hook: two players clearing the same mines at the same time turns a solitary logic puzzle into something closer to a footrace. There...