You need to get a lot of gold and other "points for no hp", as early as possible - that means each Heart gives you more total HP. Getting the mine king as soon as you have 10hp is an important one, then hitting all the mines you can find, but there's still some luck.
The best I've gotten is 13 hearts left. I think this may be the highest possible. In order to do it you have to get ALL the gold treasure chests and the gnome (and the Dragon Egg) before using a single heart. It's not so easy, but I once got super lucky and I was in the groove, and managed to finish with 13 hearts left in only 36 seconds. Usually I take a LOT longer with a lot of really awkward mental logic and still taking some risks.
The main "trick" to getting 13 is just knowing it's possible in the first place. For the longest time I thought maybe 10 was the best possible, and I only rarely got it. I would sometimes get 8, sometimes even 9, but 10 was very rare. My mind was blown the first time I got 13. But since then, I've gotten 13 sometimes simply because I knew it was possible.
What an awesome game! Really addictive, I stayed up all night playing until I won. Excellent use of the Oryx assets too, I love the little interactions different monsters have, like the giants getting heart broken and the minotaur getting surprised when you steal their gold. I will suggest mentioning somewhere that you can right-click to add flags to cells like in Minesweeper. I only realised it because I play regular Minesweeper myself and know how important those are.
That's gotta be pretty close to the maximum I think you could get (assuming we're not counting 800, surrounded by mines). If the top left was a corner, you could get 10+7+7 in the top row, both 9s in the next row, then 8+8+11 in the bottom row, for a total of 69 in the middle. I can't think of a way to top that without breaking some level-gen rule, and it would take incredible luck to get there. Getting three 8s would require giving up the 10, and that loses you more points overall.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can have only one 9 near a corner, because Romeo and Juliet always mirror each other's positions horizontally. I only noticed that like last week, after a VERY long time just thinking they were on the same row.
So I think the max would be a total of 67.
That's 8+8+8, 7+7, 9+11+9, either middle of 3rd row or 3rd from bottom row.
Or near a corner, 10+11+7, 9+7, 8+8+7. Either way, total of 67.
This game displays fantastic game design. I took some inspiration from Dragonsweeper in https://martinsvanberg.itch.io/zeitrider. Hope to see many more spinoffs :)
This is very fun! It was very challenging at first, and it took me a while to understand some mechanics, but maybe that's part of the appeal also. But I ended up getting the hang of it and finally beat a round after playing a couple of hours yesterday and then a good nights sleep.
I have all the stamps so I know the QoL isn't Necessary but it would be cool if the numbers markings could come in multiple colors.
I mark "maximums" for cells but I sometimes I will forget if a cell is for Certain a specific number (this allows for deeper logic to be applied if I remember the marking is such).
Here's another achievement suggestion: Catch the gnome without consuming any hearts. Or, alternatively (as finding the gnome might be a fluke), defeat the mimic without consuming any hearts.
This game is AMAZING, I'm depressed now though as I've got the 4 badges :( Will there ever be more badges to collect? I need more of this, one of the best games I have ever played!
It's not a badge, but a fun bonus challenge is to sweep the board with 13 health points left. If that's too difficult, start off with trying to sweep the board with 10 health points left.
Either way, the key is to try to get all the gold treasures and hopefully the gnome before using a heart. This makes the game more exciting because there's is a big pressure to try and maximize exploration and take risks, rather than take a heart before getting all the treasure (10 hearts) and the gnome (13 hearts).
5 estrellas, le falta descripción e imágenes del gameplay, entré por la imagen previa, y me puse a probarlo por eso, pero es intuitivo, incluso sin ganas de leer porque esté en inglés, un busca minas, que me puse por instinto, por la flojera de las matemáticas, a adivinar si en diagonal estaba vacío y sí acerté, pero después una rata de 1 me atacó, perdí uno de vida, tenía como algo de oro, le doy click y me da algo, luego voy a otro que saca 1, y a otro que saca 2, subí de nivel y me curó, una curación la desperdicié porque quería ver si expandía la vida máxima estando full, y ya con eso estoy suficiente para las 5 estrellas, descargarlo y jugar sin el navegador, siempre quise un juego de buscaminas que sea nuevo y original, un rpg lo que sea, y este es un sueño hecho realidad. 10 de 10. Te falta marketing, ofrecerlo, se vende solo.
I've been playing this on and off for a few days and the soundtrack really grows on me. It's a great game as it is already. It was frustrating at first, but the more I played, the more everything design-wise makes sense.
Absolutely adore this game. Happy to see other people in the comments have done crazy self-imposed runs, like avoiding the blue orbs and such. :P
Hope more is done with this, or something similar etc. I have put an utterly unreasonable amount of time into this game. It's just something fun and attention-grasping when I can't think of what I want to play, really it's bordering on avoidant behavior. Started making a little tally every time I did a full-clear (it's more fun than just beating it) and embarrassingly it's in the hundreds.
Love this game! My sister asked, if there is a mobile version and I saw that it works in a mobile browser, so technically yes lol. Maybe you should reach out to Netflix or so, so that you can publish your game in their mobile "store", hehe. I honestly think that you hit a nice nerdy niche with this and just need to push marketing and maybe add more fancy stuff.
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How do i get a perfect score, the best score i can achieve is 364 (I think 365 is the max)
I haven't wasted a single point of health, I'm wondering what's making my runs different when i never waste health.
You need to get a lot of gold and other "points for no hp", as early as possible - that means each Heart gives you more total HP. Getting the mine king as soon as you have 10hp is an important one, then hitting all the mines you can find, but there's still some luck.
I've been playing for months, LITERALY months, so adictive.... My best 100% had 8 hearts left.... anyone else do beter? Is it possible to get 9?
The best I've gotten is 13 hearts left. I think this may be the highest possible. In order to do it you have to get ALL the gold treasure chests and the gnome (and the Dragon Egg) before using a single heart. It's not so easy, but I once got super lucky and I was in the groove, and managed to finish with 13 hearts left in only 36 seconds. Usually I take a LOT longer with a lot of really awkward mental logic and still taking some risks.
The main "trick" to getting 13 is just knowing it's possible in the first place. For the longest time I thought maybe 10 was the best possible, and I only rarely got it. I would sometimes get 8, sometimes even 9, but 10 was very rare. My mind was blown the first time I got 13. But since then, I've gotten 13 sometimes simply because I knew it was possible.
very addictive
really good and addictive.
good job !
edit : will you create a enhance/steam version of it ?
What an awesome game! Really addictive, I stayed up all night playing until I won. Excellent use of the Oryx assets too, I love the little interactions different monsters have, like the giants getting heart broken and the minotaur getting surprised when you steal their gold.
I will suggest mentioning somewhere that you can right-click to add flags to cells like in Minesweeper. I only realised it because I play regular Minesweeper myself and know how important those are.
very good game, but too hard for me
I made a slightly easier version, come check it out :)
https://cnava.itch.io/dungeonsweeper
very nice game
Tremendo
Astonishingly good gameplay loop, bravo.
That's gotta be pretty close to the maximum I think you could get (assuming we're not counting 800, surrounded by mines). If the top left was a corner, you could get 10+7+7 in the top row, both 9s in the next row, then 8+8+11 in the bottom row, for a total of 69 in the middle. I can't think of a way to top that without breaking some level-gen rule, and it would take incredible luck to get there. Getting three 8s would require giving up the 10, and that loses you more points overall.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can have only one 9 near a corner, because Romeo and Juliet always mirror each other's positions horizontally. I only noticed that like last week, after a VERY long time just thinking they were on the same row.
So I think the max would be a total of 67.
That's 8+8+8, 7+7, 9+11+9, either middle of 3rd row or 3rd from bottom row.
Or near a corner, 10+11+7, 9+7, 8+8+7. Either way, total of 67.
Ah, TIL how the lovers really work. That should help my speedrun attempts.
What are the requirements for Rat Pacifist? Avoid killing rats only? Or avoid killing rats + rat king?
rats only. the strategy i used was starting a new run over and over until i had a seed with the rat king in the initial vision group.
I got my first badge this way too... seems lame to depend on the RNG but it's too hard not to accidentally hit a rat :\
This game displays fantastic game design. I took some inspiration from Dragonsweeper in https://martinsvanberg.itch.io/zeitrider. Hope to see many more spinoffs :)
There's dozens of us spinoffs! dozens!... okay maybe just a handful
https://cnava.itch.io/dungeonsweeper
Music and Sounds are deafening.
I have to put it on 2% volume to make it normal.
This is very fun! It was very challenging at first, and it took me a while to understand some mechanics, but maybe that's part of the appeal also. But I ended up getting the hang of it and finally beat a round after playing a couple of hours yesterday and then a good nights sleep.
awesome. really hard game played for like 3 hours and didn't beat it but still had a lot of fun
i'd totally play a more fleshed out version of this
beat it finally after 2 more god damn hours :D
I have all the stamps so I know the QoL isn't Necessary
but it would be cool if the numbers markings could come in multiple colors.
I mark "maximums" for cells but I sometimes I will forget if a cell is for Certain a specific number (this allows for deeper logic to be applied if I remember the marking is such).
Incredible game, played for like, four hours until I beat it
Great game, love it!
Here's another achievement suggestion: Catch the gnome without consuming any hearts. Or, alternatively (as finding the gnome might be a fluke), defeat the mimic without consuming any hearts.
I love this game. I've been playing for months, this in my new default game to pass time!
pls import to phone its anazing
yeeeesssssss please this game deserves to be played anytime anywhere
This game is AMAZING, I'm depressed now though as I've got the 4 badges :(
Will there ever be more badges to collect? I need more of this, one of the best games I have ever played!
It's not as amazing but I've been making a game inspired by this one. Check it out if you are wanting more in the same vein
https://cnava.itch.io/dungeonsweeper
It's not a badge, but a fun bonus challenge is to sweep the board with 13 health points left. If that's too difficult, start off with trying to sweep the board with 10 health points left.
Either way, the key is to try to get all the gold treasures and hopefully the gnome before using a heart. This makes the game more exciting because there's is a big pressure to try and maximize exploration and take risks, rather than take a heart before getting all the treasure (10 hearts) and the gnome (13 hearts).
5 estrellas, le falta descripción e imágenes del gameplay, entré por la imagen previa, y me puse a probarlo por eso, pero es intuitivo, incluso sin ganas de leer porque esté en inglés, un busca minas, que me puse por instinto, por la flojera de las matemáticas, a adivinar si en diagonal estaba vacío y sí acerté, pero después una rata de 1 me atacó, perdí uno de vida, tenía como algo de oro, le doy click y me da algo, luego voy a otro que saca 1, y a otro que saca 2, subí de nivel y me curó, una curación la desperdicié porque quería ver si expandía la vida máxima estando full, y ya con eso estoy suficiente para las 5 estrellas, descargarlo y jugar sin el navegador, siempre quise un juego de buscaminas que sea nuevo y original, un rpg lo que sea, y este es un sueño hecho realidad. 10 de 10. Te falta marketing, ofrecerlo, se vende solo.
this is so fun! at first i was playing with sound off but then i read people's comments and turned it on - the sfx are great!
I've been playing this on and off for a few days and the soundtrack really grows on me. It's a great game as it is already. It was frustrating at first, but the more I played, the more everything design-wise makes sense.
Would you consider releasing the OST? It's a really nice background listen. Thanks for the fun game :)
all of the raw audio files are in the download!
Absolutely adore this game. Happy to see other people in the comments have done crazy self-imposed runs, like avoiding the blue orbs and such. :P
Hope more is done with this, or something similar etc. I have put an utterly unreasonable amount of time into this game. It's just something fun and attention-grasping when I can't think of what I want to play, really it's bordering on avoidant behavior. Started making a little tally every time I did a full-clear (it's more fun than just beating it) and embarrassingly it's in the hundreds.
Keep it up!!!
It's not as amazing but I've been making a game inspired by this one. Check it out if you are wanting more in the same vein
https://cnava.itch.io/dungeonsweeper
Love this game!
My sister asked, if there is a mobile version and I saw that it works in a mobile browser, so technically yes lol.
Maybe you should reach out to Netflix or so, so that you can publish your game in their mobile "store", hehe. I honestly think that you hit a nice nerdy niche with this and just need to push marketing and maybe add more fancy stuff.
LOL I found an Easter Egg and found playing the game to be pretty hilarious! I haven't played in awhile so it was a very funny one to run across!
Nice productive WE :
2 orbs and nothing left
and
2 orbs 3 stamps a rat king and an angry chest spared
music is so good
Never seen this before. One of the purple slimes went for a little walk!
I think I’ve encountered a bug. See the gargoyles at (11, 3) and (12, 6):
The starting vision was at (10, 3).
please release the OST this is such a banger
Help I can't stop playing it and I'm not even remotely good at monesweeper :(
moansweeper
I won't even fix it.
Very cool!
new record
Nicely done.
somebody please port this game to DS , 3DS , portmaster
I saw a challenge in the comments and decided to try it for myself, the no orb challenge was pretty hard, but I wanted it to be harder.
Behold, the no orb 3-stamp run