Dragonsweeper
A minesweeper game that requires observation.
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- New Dragonsweeper Version!Feb 06, 2025
A minesweeper game that requires observation.
Make sure to read the monsternomicon.
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This game is a masterpiece. Good job; loved trying to figure out how things were built and positioned.
I found it very fun to slowly learn the rules for how everything is positioned and placed in this game, but after playing this every so often for months now, I realized there was one I missed, which inspired me to do a writeup on all the little enemy patterns and hidden things in the game here. Decode any of the entries with ROT-13 if you're struggling (or just curious to learn more):
1) Rats - Gur qverpgvba gurl ner snpvat nyjnlf cbvagf gbjneqf gur pbyhza va juvpu gur ENG XVAT erfvqrf. Vs gurl ner va gur fnzr pbyhza nf gurve aboyr zbanepu, gurl jvyy fgnaq ng nggragvba.
2) Bat - Ab cnggrea gung V nz njner bs.
3) Skeleton - Ab cnggrea gung V nz pheeragyl njner bs ba guvf bar rvgure.
4) Gargoyle - Gurfr barf nyjnlf nccrne va cnvef. Vs lbh'ir sbhaq bar, gurer'yy or nabgure bar nqwnprag gb vg begubtbanyyl (abg qvntabanyyl).
5) Green Slimes - Ab xabja cnggrea bs juvpu V nz njner. Gurve ybpngvba pna or erirnyrq vs lbh qrsrng gur FYVZR JVGPU naq hfr gur fpebyy bs ERIRNY FYVZR gung fur qebcf.
6) Minotaur - Gurfr uhyxvat ornfgf jvyy nyjnlf thneq n gernfher purfg, juvpu gurl ner snpvat njnl sebz, fb lbh pna fbzrgvzrf hfr cebprff bs ryvzvangvba gb ybbg gur purfg jvgubhg svtugvat gurz. Or sberjnearq ubjrire, nf vg vf pbzcyrgryl cbffvoyr sbe GUR ZVZVP gb trarengr arne bar ol punapr.
7) Sentinel - Cnl nggragvba gb gur fuvryqf gung gurfr ryvgr thneqf orne. Juvyr gurl ner fgebat, gurer vf bayl bar cre dhnqenag bs gur obneq, fb vs lbh'ir vqragvsvrq be qrsrngrq gur fragvary bs n dhnqenag lbh pna or fher gurer nera'g nal bguref yhexvat jvguva gur obhaqf bs gung pbeare.
8) Purple Slimes - Gurfr fyvzrf ner gur yblny thneq bs gur FYVZR JVGPU, jub nyjnlf fcnjaf ba gur rqtr bs gur svryq, fheebhaqrq ol svir bs gurz. Vs lbh'er abg fgebat rabhtu gb gnxr gurz ba qverpgyl, vqragvslvat gurve sbezngvba jvyy nyybj lbh gb fgevxr ng gur FYVZR JVGPU qverpgyl, jub vf culfvpnyyl dhvgr jrnx.
9) The Lovers - Ebzrb naq Whyvrg rnpu fcnja ba gur yrsg naq evtug fvqr bs gur obneq, va gur fnzr ebj. Gurl jvyy zveebe rnpu bgure, nccrnevat gur fnzr qvfgnapr sebz gur zvqqyr (be fvqrf). Fb vs lbh'ir cbfvgviryl vqragvsvrq bar, lbh pna znex gur bgure bar nf jryy.
10) Mine King - Nyjnlf fcnjaf va bar bs gur sbhe pbearef bs gur svryq, naq qebcf gur inyhnoyr FPEBYY BS QVFNEZVAT. Vs lbh'ir nyernql vqragvsvrq guerr bs gur pbearef, lbh pna fgevxr ng gur sbhegu (cebivqrq lbh unir gur urnygu) fher gung gur xvat vf yhexvat gurer.
11) Rat King - Frr gur ragel ba ENGF sbe shegure qrgnvyf. Vg fubhyq or abgrq, ubjrire gung vs lbh'ir nyernql qrsrngrq gur FYVZR JVGPU naq pynvzrq ure gernfher, gura gur eng xvat jvyy or gur bayl havqragvsvrq rarzl bs fgeratgu 5 ba gur obneq (tvira gung TNMREF pna or vqragvsvrq ol gurve PBASHFVAT NHEN). Qebcf n fpebyy bs YBPNGR IREZVA ba qrngu juvpu erirnyf nyy gur engf ba gur obneq. Qrguebavat gur eng xvat rneyl vf rffragvny vs lbh jvfu gb pbzcyrgr n eha nf n ☼ENG CNPVSVFG☼
12) Gazers - Jvgu gurve qvnzbaq-funcrq PBASHFVAT NHEN, gurfr qrivbhf sbrf pna or punyyratvat rira vs lbh pna culfvpnyyl orfg gurz, qhr gb gur unmneqf gung fghzoyvat oyvaqyl vagb n zvar cbfrf.
13) Slime Witch - Frr gur ragel sbe CHECYR FYVZRF
14) The Mimic - Gur fcnja pbaqvgvbaf sbe gur qernqrq zvzvp ner pbzcyrgryl enaqbz. Guvf qbrf zrna, ubjrire, gung vg vf abg obhaq ol gur fnzr ehyrf gung purfgf ner fhowrpg gb jura fcnjavat. Va bgure jbeqf, vs gurer vf n purfg yrsg hathneqrq ol nal ZVABGNHE, orjner!
15) Mine - Abg zhpu gb qvfphff urer. Gurve qnatre orvat bar uhaqerq vf pbairavrag orpnhfr lbh pna qrqhpr gurve ybpngvba rira jvgu nyy fbegf bs arvtuobevat rarzvrf.
16) Chests - Trarengr oruvaq n ZVABGNHE, jub vf thneqvat gur pbagragf vafvqr. Purfgf rvgure pbagnva n FPEBYY BS URNYVAT (2), be svir tbyq (3). Cevbevgvmr svaqvat gurfr. Lbh jvyy abg tb sne vs lbh snvy gb.
17) Gnome - Gur tabzr jvyy nccrne ba n fnsr fcnpr naq gryrcbeg njnl jura hapbirerq. Guvf cebprff ercrngf hagvy gur svany fnsr fcnpr (nyjnlf pbagnvavat gur tabzr) vf hapbirerq, ng juvpu cbvag lbh jvyy or njneqrq avar tbyq.
18) Healing Scroll - Gurer ner avar urnyvat fpebyyf gbgny. Guerr erfvqr va purfgf. Svir ynl fpnggrerq ba gur svryq. Gur ynfg gjb, bs pbhefr, ner uryq ol gur ybiref. V nz hanjner bs nal cnggrea gurfr sbyybj sbe trarengvat orlbaq gung.
19) Scroll of Revealing - Trarengrf ba gur tebhaq. V nz ntnva hanjner bs nal cnggrea guvf sbyybjf sbe trarengvba.
20) Scroll of Disarming - Qvfnezf nyy zvarf, gheavat gurz vagb gernfherf jbegu guerr tbyq. Irel zhpu jbegu vg vs lbh unir gur 10 urnygu arrqrq gb qrsrng gur zvar xvat.
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Love it! Great mix of minesweeper with Magic Tower, and leaving the player to infer the rules of the game is the cherry on top!
Found a bug. In the top-left area there's a gargoyle facing right, but there's a slime directly next to it where its pair should be. Looking at the source code, the algorithm that places each entity uses a "happiness" method, which has a very high chance of respecting the pattern but doesn't actually enforce it, which can lead to unexpected scenarios like this one.
Cool
Awesomesauce game! Managed to beat the dragon for the first time after a solid few days of coming back to the game lol.
New Best Time : 1min30 !
New Best : 1min17 !!!
awesome game !
Great game!
Found a clone of your game
https://cnava.itch.io/dungeonsweeper
report it and get it removed? they also published to steam
ai rip-off
Dear developers, I love your game very much, please make an Android version, it's a great time-killer ❤️
I got all stamps!!! Great game!! I love minesweeper!!!
great game
Brilliant game bro i love it!
Thanks GameGrumps for getting me out of the whiteout survival time wasting simulator by sliding me this game.
After so many tries I finally did it!! :)
Loved it! I had to stop watching the GameGrumps' video on it halfway through in order to come play it myself, and then I didn't stop until I got a perfect round. Great game, I'll probably come back to do the other achievements soon.
This took forever to do and I do not recommend it :)
I only just realized that meant you did all three of those in the same run and now I've gotta try it
Update: You're right. that hat trick was ROUGH.
Same, needed a strategy reset from making max score runs to trifecta-runs.
hey everyone! great game and fun to play, but any tips? I kinda suck and I learn a bit but I keep having to gamble to die because i lost all my hearts and trying to get a heart.
Honestly, I'd say just experiment, and try and look for the patterns in how the monsters show up - many of the monsters have specific behaviors and spawn in certain ways. It's not 100% guaranteed, but it means that if you see a certain pattern on the board, you can guess if there's a decent chance a certain monster will be nearby. I've figured out patterns for the following monsters:
egg, gargoyle, beholder, minotaur, purple slime, slime wizard, romeo & juliet, mine king, gnome
All of the above monsters show up in specific ways, if you can discover how. Once you learn their patterns, you can make educated decisions about what the monsters do and what squares they're likely to be in!
(if anyone else figures out any patterns for rats, bats, skeletons, green slimes, or gladiator ,let me know - these ones still seem random to me)
@GameplayerMcGee I assume by "gladiator" you mean the level 7 monster with the shield. There's definitely a pattern, you just need a ton of games to see it. There's always 4 of them, one per quadrant of the board. The grid is 13x10 so each quadrant ends up being roughly 6x5, excluding the dragon's column. After observing countless runs (you can just click the dragon early to die instantly and see the whole grid), I've never seen one spawn on the dragon's row either. So they basically avoid the central column and the dragon's row entirely.
One detail that's really subtle on the devs' part: each gladiator's shield marks which quadrant they belong to. The center of the shield has a 2x2 yellow square, and one of those four pixels is red. The position of the red pixel inside the 2x2 maps to the quadrant. So the top-right gladiator has the red pixel in the top-right corner of its 2x2, and so on.
About rats, they're not totally random either. Their sprite tells you where the rat king is relative to them. If a rat is facing right, the king is somewhere in a column to its right. If it's facing left, king is to its left. If it's standing upright facing forward, it means the rat is in the same column as the king. And once the rat king dies, all rats switch to that standing pose.
Bats, skeletons and green slimes I haven't been able to figure out either, they just seem to be filler. Their role seems to just be contributing their level to the danger numbers around them. If anyone else spots a pattern there, let me know.
* Each time you die, look at the board, see if you spot a hint or pattern. There are plenty.
* You can count the time until you need a heart scroll by comparing xp row to heart row.
* Save the scrolls as long as possible. A late game scroll is worth a lot more than an early game scroll.
* Bashing walls is an absolute last resort
* Look at squares, do simple math, check the book to see what monsters are still around.
Yippee :D
what does the gnome even do??
its there for funnies
When you uncover the gnome, it teleports to a random unrevealed empty tile if one exists. Otherwise, you kill it and it drops 9 gold.
Effectively, the gnome represents a 9 gold bonus for revealing every empty tile in the dungeon.
So close to max score... I thought I did it perfect, not sure what I missed but I had two walls left to break. I was at 0 health and 17 xp short of the level up to get the full 16 hearts
the walls are 3 hits, worth 1 point each
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JUST FYI- for the version on dragonsweeper.com: (version 1.0)
the highest score you can achieve on new mode is 357 points, as of this post.
I'm just now realizing other people are playing a different version from me, so I'm not sure about that version. BUT, for the dragonsweeper.com version -
The game spawns with a max of 362 points (that is, experience points), which includes 6 wall units (1 point each - they drop a golden ring) and 356 points worth of monsters. This value includes the dragon. There are only enough hearts and experience point level-ups to destroy more than all the monsters, plus one box, for 357 points. Thus, if you play a perfect game, only leveling up when you have completely depleted your heart meter and wasting no hearts, and if you kill the dragon when you have 13 hearts and then finish up killing the remaining monsters plus 1 wall unit, you will have exactly 357 points.
The number of monsters spawned is random so you often will not be able to score this high even if you play a perfect game -- there will often be some rats leftover. But the highest possible score seems to be all monsters, plus 1 wall. It might--MIGHT--be possible to score 1 point higher and destroy TWO wall segments, but I haven't seen this happen after much MUCH play time.
HOLY SHIT!!!! it's version 1. I usta play the SHIT outa it when it first droped, and I've been playing the update almost every day since it droped in feb '25, but NICE ONE, I've been trying to reember what ver 1 was like for SOOOOO long. tripple thums up man!
ah, well, i guess everyone else figured out the max score is attainable in the new versions 'cause of egg. Oh well.
Everything about this game is incredible... except for the epileptic hazard in the first two seconds as the game loads.
This shares a lot of similarities to a recently released roguelike on Steam named Grix. Is there any developer connection to this game?
I did it! After more than two hours of trying, but I did it! TToTT
got the lovers survive stamp!
Has anyone been able to acheive the "3 stamp 325 point" run yet?
@gronken got 319 according to his previous comment, and @KomoMeteor showed us 325 is possible possible.
325 for all three is insane, i hate that freaking egg now
Took a fair few attempts but finally got every achievement
(The egg one I kinda cheesed, getting lucky with a magic orb)
Very very cool game, I really like how it rewards patterns recognition for what spawns near what/in what positions/etc!
My best time : 2min32
New Best : 2min19
New Best 2min14
New Best : 2min09
New Best : 1min58 !!!
What's your best with a full board clear? (minus whatever wall segments are left, naturally)
After many months I still enjoy to play this! Today I got six gargoyles from the first orb.
I often try to do the challenge to clear everything with 13 hearts remaining. Does somebody have other challenge suggestions?
Speedrun ?
I've played this almost every day since it came out about a year and a half ago, so relaxing, so adicive, such a good game. These days it's mostly clear screen as fast as possible, but some of the personal chalanges I've done in the past are: finish without collecting the mine king scroll. Never use the crystal ball. Play VERY drunk. Save all slimes.
1. Speedrun the dragon as quickly as possible (helloyyy has done it in a blisteringly fast 1 minute 44 seconds)
2. Speedrun a perfect game/full board clear (i.e. only level up or grab a heart when you completely run out of hearts, so that you get as high a score as possible) (My best time in version 1.0 was 3:20, haven't tried in new version).
3. Beat the game with any of the 4 achievement stamps (click "next page" on the instruction booklet for an achievement breakdown).
4. Beat the game with 3 of the 4 stamps in a single run.
5. High score or speedrun with 3 of the 4 stamps.
6. Beat the all time high score with 3 of the 4 stamps (judging from the comments, it's _319(!!!!)_ points, without ever touching a rat, egg, or the lovers. But apparently 325 would be the all-time high score for the whole community).
I downloaded the zip and extracted all, but I keep getting an syntax error code when I try to launch it. Any suggestions?
Finally! Took an embarrassing amount of tries and time....
Go for the egg by the dragon first, prioritize the mine creature in the corner, and then once you get to the end go: Dragon -> Mimic -> 8 Slime 5 Slime x 5 -> the rest if you're lucky...
what---why is my version different? I'm playing on dragonsweeper.com. is this not accurate?????
This is a fun one! is it always solvable without guessing?
Not really. It might happen randomly, but you normally need to take atleast a few wild shots. Either way luck is needed.
If you get lucky with the map gen, yeah.
This comment will spoil some things that you could discover on your own, read at ya own risk.
There's a lot of predictable stuff that's neat:
* Guardians cannot spawn directly on the dragon's axes (as in plural axis) (Guardians are the 7-power guys)
* Only one Guardian spawns per quadrant (Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast), and every quadrant contains one Guardian
* Rats will face in the direction of the Rat King (until the Rat King is slain).
* Beholders will obscure tiles, but the more obscured tiles you have, the easier it is to know where the Beholder is hiding (as it's just two tiles away in all cardinal directions, one tile directly diagonal; it blocks 12 tiles while it's active).
* Gargoyles (4-power guys) always spawn in pairs, directly facing each other. Every time you can be certain about marking a 4, there is always at least one other 4 adjacent to it. You can see their facing direction in their sprite, which will show upon either something like the vision orb revealing them, or them being revealed by you killing them.
* There is always a Minotaur (6-power guy) in one of the eight tiles surrounding a chest. There is always a chest in one of the eight tiles around the Minotaur, too. You also can see the Minotaur react to you opening its chest, and, in the event two chests spawn within the radius of one Minotaur, you can actually use that to know that there is a second chest to begin with, and by extension a second Minotaur.
* The Gnome seems to, from my experience, be uncatchable until you have revealed every empty tile. If something should reveal the tile the Gnome inhabits, the Gnome stands on top until you manually reveal the tile.
* The Mine Lord (10 power guy) always spawns in a corner. No exceptions. This actually means that if you can be certain that the Mine Lord is not in 3 of the 4 corners, you guarantee he's in the 4th, which means you don't need to spend time finding your way over to that corner and can instead just click the corner square on its own.
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!