Dragonsweeper
A minesweeper game that requires observation.
Make sure to read the monsternomicon.
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- New Dragonsweeper Version!Feb 06, 2025
A minesweeper game that requires observation.
Make sure to read the monsternomicon.
Click download now to get access to the following files:
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This is a fun one! is it always solvable without guessing?
I've been playing logged in. I also paid and downloaded. How does one play this so it actually tracks the achievements? How do you even run the game after downloading it? There doesn't appear to be a game launcher.
Just spent 4 hours trying to win once. VERY SATISFYING TO FINALLY GET IT.
Amazing game!
All time classic
Great game!
JORGE
Genuinely a great game. I would love to see an expanded version with a price tag, you deserve it.
The problem with that idea is that this game is perfect. There is no way to expand it without forcing it. Adding anything else would just bloat it, take more than it would add. Case in point, in the year and a half since it came out there have been TONS of games 'inspired' by this game posted on itch, new features, new graphics, new gimics, and they ALL are lesser versions of the original.
I agree this masterpiece should have been monetized , even just with ads, but that ship has sailed.
I mean, my counterargument to that is that I wouldn't care if it was just put on Steam as is for $5 and the dev calls it a day.
you can hit the download button on this page right now to pay the dev what you think is fair.
Game Grumps brought me here and I'm hooked.
Me too!
This game is absolutely brilliant. Saw it featured on Game Grumps. I think you should polish it up with a menu, tutorial and difficulty modes with smaller grids. Then release it for Mobile + Steam.
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Piss off, scam/spam bot
For the last 2 days when I've played this on my phone ( in browser ) I've been able to long press and drag on a space to mark a number I think it is. Now, as soon as I touch a space it is immediately attacked, as if I had tapped on it. I was running the .18 version both times. I've tried reloading the site, closing it and reopening it, nothing has worked. What changed?
Well, and was able to make spaces again last night. And today, I can't. What the hell is going on? Is anyone else able to mark spaces?
I've been playing nonstop on mobile as well as desktop without any issues. Did your phone update? Or your web browser app?
No. It's just the weirdest thing. I've deleted the cache and it didn't help. However, if I close the page for several hours, rather than keeping it up in my Chrome mobile app, then it starts to work again. So strange.
Hey, I think there's an AI-generated game on Steam called Dungeon Sweeper that stole your game mechanics wholesale and used AI to regenerate all the images. I'd look into it? Sorry if this is upsetting news.
Looks like there's multiple, in fact. Though I don't know if they're all exact ripoffs, I am assuming they are knowingly copying this game.
Could you pretty please make a standalone version that runs offline without using a browser?
I finally won! Yes. My latest attempt took me 50 minutes to reason through lol which seems like a lot but after a previous attempt where I almost had it but mad a stupid click, I had to really go slow and make sure I wasn't going to mess up.
Never once saw an egg though, curious about that!
Glad I tried this game it's such a simple concept but genuinely so much better than normal minesweeper, which I never really figured out how to play.
hi,
You don't see the egg, it disappear if you click on is tile.
You have to "feel" where it is and avoid is case...
If you like the concept, I have done my own version of dungeon sweeper to train myself on Godot, inspired by this Daniel version :
https://tchevin.itch.io/mhas-dungeon-sweeper
Give it a try :)
It's kinda fun. I like what you did with it, not a rip off but an "Inspired by"
I've been playing this game 4-5+ times a week for, I think it's over a year but it might be 2, and it's NICE to see people inspired by this masterpice to do their own thing.
Good on you, one day I will finish your take on this game. I'm 22 plays in but havent cleared the board yet.
Good on ya
thank you for the try and the comment.
Update that I just got the rat pacifist, the next generation, and lovers survive in one playthrough! Spent way too long doing it (including uh maybe a bit too long on the clock lol) but what a great time!
I got the thing that shows the locations of all the rats early on, so I decided to go for the rat pacifist achievement. If I ever had one health left over, I would damage the bricks instead of killing a rat. In the end, if I had killed rats instead of breaking bricks, I would've had enough XP to level up, which would've given me enough health to kill the dragon.
So does that mean the only way to win as a rat pacifist is to get lucky and find a heart under one of the bricks? (The book says there's still two more on the field. I assume they would have to be under the bricks, since everywhere else is marked.) Or is there something else I'm missing?
so the rat pacifist needs some early luck, as in finiding the gold and egg as early as possible. You may have noticed that it takes more and more EXP each time to level up, so the heart-recovery is more valuable near the end rather than the begining, but it IS dooable, AND if you get truly lucky you can get all 3 mercy rewards in one round, but it taskes TRUE luck
I honestly don't have any recollection of the egg, so I guess I probably clicked it at some point without realizing what it was. How is finding it early helpful?
With the map state where it is in that screenshot, and the book saying there are still 2 more hearts somewhere on the board, that means they have to be under the bricks, right? I want to make sure there isn't anywhere else the hearts could be that I'm overlooking.
So the Egg is the next generation of the dragon, you can save it for a reward stamp, or find it for 3 xp. it's always in the 9 squares around the dragon
And as far as the hearts go........ I looked at your pic, I know where the hearts are, lots of people know where the 2 hearts are, I trust you to figure it out on your own.
No, they’re not under the bricks. They’re under Romeo and Juliet (the two P9’s).
I played this SO MUCH months ago and then the Game Grumps played it and I had to come back. Meant to go to bed before 11 last night. Meant to be productive unpacking before 11 last night. Instead stayed up past midnight trying to get a perfect run only to do an Arin and fuck it up with a really dumb move when I could have just beaten the dragon lol
I too came here from Game Grumps, and I'm really enjoying it so far. I think it's a very effective elaboration of the Minesweeper concept. My main feedback would be to have some way to mark uncertainty more specifically. Like, if there are two spaces that have exactly 6 points between them, I'd like to be able to mark them both with "6?" instead of only being able to use the 6 or the ?.
the game keeps glitching really badly and slowing down my computer. been playing for months but this has only been an issue in the past couple days
There a way to play this offline? theres no exe file in the current download
You can download sources and open .html file in your browser
it does the color bars thing and just freezes, it doesnt load correctly like the site hosted one
That’s a known bug. See https://itch.io/post/15188195 for what you can do about it.
I'm sorry but how do you run the downloaded game? It seems to be a .js file with no compiled exe, how am I meant to run it?
Run the index.html file. But note that as of version 1.1.18 (still the latest as of this writing), there’s a bug that you’ll need to work around: https://itch.io/post/15188195
It took several dozen tries, but I finally managed to clear the game while sparing all rats, the lovers, and the dragon egg. I believe that's the most achievements you can earn in a single playthrough. Though I have to say, it bothers me a lot that after the first time you get a full clear, your ending is permanently corrupted. That gimmick works great for Undertale, since that game does everything in its power to steer you away from killing all the monsters. But it's completely out of place in a game like this, where a full clear is almost certainly the first challenge run any player will try.
Grumps played and now I'm obsessed.
I was bad for like an hour this morning, then I got these completions times:
29:19 (248)
25:08 (248)
20:10 (244)
15:56 (248)
I realize there's a score, but I don't really know what that is. I assume killing every enemy? I'm more concerned with time.
It's the number of experience points you've collected. By the way, enemies are not the only source of experience available. Also, there are four special achievements to collect by beating the game certain ways. Check the second page of the bestiary.
best score I've gotten is 365 with 10 hearts left over in 9:45. The trick is fully depleting your hp before leveling or using any hearts, killing the lich as soon as you hit 10, and getting the egg early. A couple more pointers, killing the slime witch give info, finding romeo/juliet gives info, always click the squares that will reveal the most area.
So I had trouble figuring out what I was doing wrong for the full clear. Kept clearing it but with a few hits on blocks left. The key for anyone trying is to attempt to get the egg really early for xp and some treasure chest xp as well. If you can, it will let you avoid using scrolls early on so they can be used at the end when they are most valuable. It is also good to kill the Lich or Minekeeper or whatever he is called as soon as you get the 10 hearts for it for the bonus mine xp. Hope this helps anyone who was stuck like me!
very neat game! finally beated for the first time today and then went on a rampage trying to get max score, so far best I got was 345 scores
after playing on and off today I finally got max score (365)
super fun and creative game! learning the enemy / object placement rules is SO fun :)
This is addictive and fun! I love minesweeper, so the additional rules and level up system is a really fresh way to experience it!
This game is IMPOSSIBLE
Such a tuff game, especially as a fan of D&D, DCSS, Dungeon Crawlers in general, and minesweeper!
Absolutely love this game! Its great and very addicting! And the music is SO good, but I wished it looped better instead of having long gaps of silence.
Another feedback I could give its that the game doesnt seem possible to be beated in a lot of runs, unless you make a crazy hail-maker, which kinda makes it too rng based in my opinion
as long as you understand the game, then it's just maths. rng is less than 50%
Well wonder what happens to me every single game!!!