Triple-A Minesweeper

So good.

Maybe lean into some of the metal gear solid dialogue by having a long back and forth about "What's a mine?" "What do you mean 'mark a mine'?" "How do I know when I'm done?" etc.

Wow the ending credits music was actually pretty awesome

Nice but the logos are skippable, which is not realistic.

Does anyone know if the voices are AI-generated? I was a little surprised; I don't think I would have questioned it if I heard them in a real game or video but since this seems to basically be a joke, I'm doubtful real voice actors were used.

AAA Mario (1m41s video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMh_APo2Xss

There is also the classic "Minesweeper - The Movie"[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

But I didn't need to install a publisher specific launcher to run it.

I was angry at the wasted 30 seconds of opening licensed 3rd party software listings, but I stayed through to the end of the credits roll, laughing until I cried.

This is Art.

I was absolutely hoping to see production babies in the credits. Can’t win ‘em all.

I was hoping for the thing where you play through like half of the game and only then it shows you the title against a dramatic vista.

Missing:

Sidequest to sweep 10 mines.

Achievement after sweeping 5 mines

The yellow diamond is nice but what if I don't notice the diamond? I need a colored scent trail leading from my cursor to the yellow diamond, and a pinging noise when my cursor is near a mine

Mocapped mines

Jack Quaid

$70

So good. Looking forward to level 2 so we can find out what happened in Singapore.

I'm curious which TTS model was used for the "Nora" voice. I kept noticing vocal artifacts in her speech disfluencies. Which bothers me more than it probably should...

Needs:

- Checkpoints after each mine

- DLC for rounded corners

Please expand this into a full open-world minesweeping game

Was expecting Hideo Kojima in the credits.

Is there a help card? Or, how do you turn off the CC captions? They obscure the bottom of the play field on my Mactop.

so, in case if you like minesweeper and doom ... https://dreadsweeper.franzai.com/

Needs a 128GB RAM, 100GB free disk space requirement.

10/10 story. I look forward to the forthcoming motion picture adaptation from Skydance directed by Michael Bay.

Great parody - very "Focus, M"-esque. Often, it feels that we've lost sight of "If it's not fun, why bother".

Needs an 'always online' requirement

I like the part where it doesn't even matter if you hit a mine, you are on this train ride regardless of what you do.

Despite all the stuff it's parodying, this is still a lot better than Bomberman: Act Zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomberman%3A_Act_Zero

You need to add achievements/trophies! Definitely need to achieve a trophy for clicking on the very first square, finding the first mine, your first flag, etc.

What no 30 minute shaders compiling sequence?

And which half of the staff gets fired day after release?

I love the parody. Is this a treatise on modern game development? I hope so.

No lootboxes?

the non-stopping narration makes it so hard to actually sweep the mines....

icymi, we can also do this with Mario https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMh_APo2Xss

That was a great parody, but how much of those effects still worked even though you knew it was coming? The fade ins, blurring the outsides, the emotional voice talking to you... it definitely raised my interest more than just opening minesweeper!

I mean, it doesn't last very long without something else going on, but there is a reason.

Felix Varga and Johanna Kowalski (Online Services Engineers) must have done a really good job - with all the traffic from the HN front page login servers didn't go down and queue was almost instant.

We need a day-1 patch to align the mines to the center of their tile.

I need to sweep these mines.

That's hilarious. Spot on.

Ok but like... Kojima vibes. 10/10 best trippppllleee AAYYyyyyy game to come out this year lol

I need to sweep these mines!

Sweep (2026)

I need to sweep these mines!

Incredible

Where do I enter my credit card info for the Season Pass and the special operator skin?

First time I've laughed out loud at one of these sorts of things in a while...

I was expecting it to open up on some WW2 style battlefield with smoke and explosions, but this was better.

Pac-Man as a Modern AAA Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaoUVVD-hUc

This is hilarious

Not even a dlc and cosmetics?

There might be a mine here

I laughed way way way too hard

The ending needed to force you to click on a mine so you die in the cutscene lmao.

Needs Debra Wilson