I had to get the treasure early. I don't think it's possible to get the gnome early - when I've seen it revealed with an orb it moved to another free space after I clicked it. The difficulty basically came from needing to corner the gnome without as many fights.
I love the non-vocal story telling that's never explained to you, like how the big purple slimes surround the warlock, or how the Lich is always in a corner, or how the Rat king has at least four rats around him, or even how the gargoyles come in pairs and even have their models face the other one
Also, I noticed the gnome won't give you the 10 if you discover it by orb, but then I seemed to find another one later. I guess the lore would be he gives you ten gold if you find his hiding place, and the orb is "cheating" so he doesn't give it to you and hides somewhere else
Actually, I'm pretty sure the gnome will always run to a random undiscovered tile if there are any left. Sometimes when you reveal an empty tile, you hear a higher pitched noise than usual. I noticed that the noise also always plays if you click a gnome revealed by an orb. I've also noticed that the gnome always seems to be the last empty tile I reveal. I think it's a reward for clearing pretty much the entire board.
1 heal left, no enemies, sadly I was short of clearing the last brick. I had like 6 or 7 coins. I was basically resetting until I got lucky with 2 chests and got 10 additional coins which allowed me to level up 3 times in a row at the start without having to waste heals and was able to get more hearts that way. I wanted to go for the gnome originally, but I think he appears on the last empty tile?
God that was great. I love minesweeper and after playing this I can finally rest. On my last lvl up I only had I life scroll thingy left and the feeling of calculating out how much do I needed and what monsters were still alive and realizing ”wait, i can win this” was awesome.
Really, really good. And I haven't seen the music being given too much credit yet. I've been having it on for hours at this point, while I'm on and off the game!
Brilliant game, such a smart way to rethink Minesweeper. Minor UX issues on mobile, and right-clicking is a pain as noted in other comments -- but THIS. IS. SO. SMART!
Found a bug! When the browser window is less than full screen width (~1000 pixels), the play area of the game is cut off and you can't see part of the screen. Made it very confusing in the comments seeing screenshots of a purple book that I couldn't see on my page!!
Would be lovely to have an X mark be the first, not last option for hints. I tend to mark mines more often than numbers and having to make 11 clicks is annoying as hell.
That said, I really loved the game! Clever and fun to play!
Great lil game! I love little games like this. I've played a ton of regular minesweeper so it was tough and fun to wrap my mind around how to look at the numbers and make determinations. Wanted to clear the whole board but couldn't quite! Got a 269.
I see people talking about the right clicking being aggravating, I can understand that. What about using the scroll wheel? Scroll wheel up to increase the number, down to decrease it? Still a great game! Great job and thank you!
Yes, agreed. I'd love to be able to have a key command to mark, either a modifier key to mark when clicked, or a keystroke that places a mark with the next click after typing it, or some other mechanism that doesn't rely on right click or a scroll wheel or anything like that. Because right now, I have to play without marks because it's so likely that I'll mistakenly click the cell instead of mark the cell. That, in turn, makes it really slow going because I keep having to recompute values.
In fact, it would be really nice to be able to play entirely with the keyboard, using the arrow keys to highlight tiles and key bindings to click or mark the tile currently highlighted.
Yep thats about the furthest you can go without loosing :D Yields a score of 278. got pretty unlucky to kill the bombs just in the super late game and therefore had to spent heals earlier.
Suggestion: Also allow shift-clicking as well as right-clicking to mark tiles. It's easy to accidentally click when trying to right-click on some trackpads or on one-button mice. I've died several times when trying to mark, and being able to hold down a modifier key to safely mark a tile would have been really helpful.
303! Incredible puzzle. Love the narrative progression of solving the dungeon via monster patterns. Very satisfying to keep clearing until max score. Would love to play an entire series of patterns in a larger game with a progression.
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It took several tries to get here. It turns out this is possible, too!
How hard was this? Just getting lucky and getting the free 10 pt gnome at the very beginning, or do you need even more early treasure?
I had to get the treasure early. I don't think it's possible to get the gnome early - when I've seen it revealed with an orb it moved to another free space after I clicked it.
The difficulty basically came from needing to corner the gnome without as many fights.
I love the non-vocal story telling that's never explained to you, like how the big purple slimes surround the warlock, or how the Lich is always in a corner, or how the Rat king has at least four rats around him, or even how the gargoyles come in pairs and even have their models face the other one
Great catch. I never would of noticed the gargoyle. I see that the rats also point towards the kings column.
Also, I noticed the gnome won't give you the 10 if you discover it by orb, but then I seemed to find another one later. I guess the lore would be he gives you ten gold if you find his hiding place, and the orb is "cheating" so he doesn't give it to you and hides somewhere else
Actually, I'm pretty sure the gnome will always run to a random undiscovered tile if there are any left. Sometimes when you reveal an empty tile, you hear a higher pitched noise than usual. I noticed that the noise also always plays if you click a gnome revealed by an orb. I've also noticed that the gnome always seems to be the last empty tile I reveal. I think it's a reward for clearing pretty much the entire board.
Nice game - my score was 193
302! OMG when am I going to get 303?
You may want to wait a couple weeks for the update... there is a case where the generator produces 1 less xp
Ah thx.
:(
That's a painful move which we all did...
1 heal left, no enemies, sadly I was short of clearing the last brick. I had like 6 or 7 coins. I was basically resetting until I got lucky with 2 chests and got 10 additional coins which allowed me to level up 3 times in a row at the start without having to waste heals and was able to get more hearts that way. I wanted to go for the gnome originally, but I think he appears on the last empty tile?
well, you could've used heal and cleared the brick. isn't it random hit count from 1 to 4?
Yes, but I was trying to have a heal left at the end.
The gnome appearing on the last tile might be a reference to Fidel: dungeon rescue, where the gnome has a similar behaviour
Picking a corner after 11 hp was the best way for me to win the game!
So fun after you figure it out!!! I beat it finally, final score of 275
Very good game. Donated.
Would like to see a working version on my smartphone. It doesn't fit right now.
JAMAS pude terminar de entender como jugar el buscaminas jaja pero el arte y el lore son geniales en esta version!
ahhhh le voy agarrando la mano... es adictivo! XD
gane con 185 puntos, no sera mucho pero toi feliz jaja
God that was great. I love minesweeper and after playing this I can finally rest. On my last lvl up I only had I life scroll thingy left and the feeling of calculating out how much do I needed and what monsters were still alive and realizing ”wait, i can win this” was awesome.
A mine has been revealed by a new blue orb spawn
Really, really good. And I haven't seen the music being given too much credit yet. I've been having it on for hours at this point, while I'm on and off the game!
I forgot to double click
certified banger. really clever little game.
This is really fun, creative, and addictive!
Cool
Brilliant game, such a smart way to rethink Minesweeper. Minor UX issues on mobile, and right-clicking is a pain as noted in other comments -- but THIS. IS. SO. SMART!
good game
i got 253
I didn't realize there was other rules for how things get placed
Found a bug! When the browser window is less than full screen width (~1000 pixels), the play area of the game is cut off and you can't see part of the screen. Made it very confusing in the comments seeing screenshots of a purple book that I couldn't see on my page!!
I feel like that's a bug on itch's side
That's fair; I don't play lots of itch games, so this took me a while to sus out
Would be lovely to have an X mark be the first, not last option for hints. I tend to mark mines more often than numbers and having to make 11 clicks is annoying as hell.
That said, I really loved the game! Clever and fun to play!
+1 this. I stopped playing on laptop because eleven two-finger taps in a row is something I apparently mess up about 15% of the time.
Great lil game! I love little games like this. I've played a ton of regular minesweeper so it was tough and fun to wrap my mind around how to look at the numbers and make determinations. Wanted to clear the whole board but couldn't quite! Got a 269.
I see people talking about the right clicking being aggravating, I can understand that. What about using the scroll wheel? Scroll wheel up to increase the number, down to decrease it? Still a great game! Great job and thank you!
right-click spam to mark can result in mistakes & a loss with touchpad
could use a keybind
yes please
Yes, agreed. I'd love to be able to have a key command to mark, either a modifier key to mark when clicked, or a keystroke that places a mark with the next click after typing it, or some other mechanism that doesn't rely on right click or a scroll wheel or anything like that. Because right now, I have to play without marks because it's so likely that I'll mistakenly click the cell instead of mark the cell. That, in turn, makes it really slow going because I keep having to recompute values.
In fact, it would be really nice to be able to play entirely with the keyboard, using the arrow keys to highlight tiles and key bindings to click or mark the tile currently highlighted.
Possibly a record for dumbest fail:
It's a fun, slightly addictive game. I enjoy playing it.
Yep thats about the furthest you can go without loosing :D Yields a score of 278. got pretty unlucky to kill the bombs just in the super late game and therefore had to spent heals earlier.
Amazing game and really addictive ! Took me a lot of retry but I finally won !
Great game.
Suggestion: Also allow shift-clicking as well as right-clicking to mark tiles. It's easy to accidentally click when trying to right-click on some trackpads or on one-button mice. I've died several times when trying to mark, and being able to hold down a modifier key to safely mark a tile would have been really helpful.
At first I almost gave up, but then I understood how the game worked and couldn't stop playing until I beat it.
Too dense, how do I solve anything...OH, I'm SUPPOSED To fight the monsters. lol, AMAZING as soon as that clicked.
great game, but could you add another way of placing warnings, like using the numb-pad, I dont like to spam my right click.
Very interesting, just wish there was a better way to mark squares using left click. like a mini menu
Excellent game. Took me a while to figure it out, but once you get it, it's pretty engrossing. Well done.
Great game!
Wonderful game, took me a few tries to clear everythin
303! Incredible puzzle. Love the narrative progression of solving the dungeon via monster patterns. Very satisfying to keep clearing until max score. Would love to play an entire series of patterns in a larger game with a progression.
omg i got addicted to this game and after 3 days i finally won lol XD
awesome little game!