Every tile is stamped with the number of mines hidden in the three tiles directly ahead of it. Compare overlapping numbers to work out which step is clean, then take it — the floor behind you is collapsing and standing still is fatal.
👆 Tap left, middle or right to step ← All gamesMinefield is a walking logic puzzle rather than a dodging game. You stand on one tile of a five-wide board that stretches away from the camera, and you may only move to the tile straight ahead or the one diagonally ahead on either side. Mines are buried in the board, invisible, but every tile carries a number: the count of mines among the three tiles directly in front of it. Your own tile therefore tells you how many of your three options are armed, and because the windows of the tiles beside you overlap yours, comparing two or three numbers usually pins down exactly which option is the clean one. A zero is a free pass. A three never happens — the board is generated so at least one safe step always exists from wherever you stand.
One finger, one gesture: tap the left, middle or right part of the screen and your figure hops to that tile. The three legal tiles glow amber, so there is nothing to aim at precisely. What stops this from being a leisurely puzzle is the bar of collapsing floor sliding up behind you. It eats roughly half a row per second at the start and close to one and a half rows per second once the run is up to speed, so you are always reading numbers against a clock. Four clean steps in a row open the multiplier and it climbs to three times normal, which means the safe-but-slow player and the fast-but-lucky player both lose to the one who reads quickly.
Three shields absorb three mines. Taking a blast scorches the tile, breaks your multiplier and shoves the collapse edge forward, so a careless guess costs ground as well as armour; the fourth mine ends the run. At thirty points the blackout arrives and roughly a third of the hint numbers are replaced by purple question marks. Suddenly the deduction has holes in it, and you have to lean on the numbers that are still legible beside and behind the jammed ones, or accept a calculated gamble to stay ahead of the floor. Mine density keeps climbing on top of that, so the late board is dense enough that pure logic runs out and nerve takes over.