Mine Ops
A minesweeper strategy game against the clock: clear each field, flag mines and detonate them to blow up creeping drones, then pick an upgrade before the next, bigger field.
Mine Ops is a minesweeper puzzle with a ticking clock and an enemy. Each field is a grid of sand tiles hiding mines. Numbers tell you how many mines touch a tile, and you clear every safe tile before the countdown hits zero. A wrong step costs a life and ten seconds, so careful deduction beats frantic clicking.
The twist is the drone swarm. Drones fly in from the edge, crawl across unrevealed tiles, block cells and make your clock drain faster. Your own flags are weapons: tap a flag that sits on a real mine and it detonates, destroying every drone within its blast and chaining into neighbouring flags. Flag a safe tile and the dud costs you time. Drones also hunt flags and chew them off, so deciding when to place and when to fire is the real strategy. Sonar scans reveal a safe 3x3 area, and tapping a cleared number with all its mines flagged opens the tiles around it. After every field you choose one of three upgrades, such as wider blasts, extra sonar, more time or a drone jammer, and the next field grows larger with more mines and more drones. Flawless fields earn a score bonus, and your furthest field sets a saved rank from Recruit up to General.
It suits players who like logic puzzles with pressure and a run that gets tougher. Tip: place flags only where the numbers prove a mine, then keep one in reserve to answer the next drone.
How to play
Clear every safe tile before the clock runs out. Click or tap to reveal, right-click or long-press to flag, and tap a flag on a real mine to detonate it and destroy nearby drones. Sonar reveals a safe 3x3 area. Hitting a mine costs a life and 10 seconds; losing all lives or running out of time ends the run. After each field choose an upgrade.
Controls
- Click / tap: Reveal a tile, or detonate a flag
- Right-click / long-press: Place or remove a flag
- Arrows or WASD + Space: Move the cursor and reveal
- X: Flag the cursor tile
- E or SONAR button: Safe 3x3 scan
- F or FLAG button: Toggle flag mode (for touch)
- 1 / 2 / 3: Pick an upgrade
- P / Esc: Pause
- M: Mute
- R: Restart
Category: Strategy games
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