Zen Sweeper (Minesweeper)

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About this game

Zen Sweeper: Arrange the stones with Feng Shui

The rules of the game resemble Minesweeper in Zen style.
Your task is to open all empty cells and put the stones to the cells with Yin-Yang symbol (You should put a stone before open the cell). However, unlike Minesweeper, the game does not end on the first mistake, but you will get penalty. Wrongly placed stones can't be removed, you also will get penalty for them.
The number of dots indicates how many Yin-Yang places on neighboring cells.
Lotus safely can be placed on any closed cell and opens all cells around, automatically placing stones.
Also Lotus can be used to fix mistakes. Unused Lotuses added to final score.

Features:
- Minesweeper based game in Zen Stone Garden
- Hexagonal cells
- Huge game field up to 120x100 cells
- Perimeter is already opened, so you will not get stuck in the corners
- Meditative gameplay
- Mistake is not the end, the win is not the goal
- Relaxing sounds and animations
- Zoom and smooth scrolling

Ratings and reviews

I would love to give 5 stars for this game because of its beautiful and simplistic design. Unfortunately there are a couple of major flaws. First of all almost always I end up making mistakes because there is a lack of precision in the touch interface and it will jump around or freeze. Secondly, there is a huge oversight of not providing the number of stones left. That makes it very aggravating to play harder puzzles.

It's hexagonal minesweeper with a much more chill vibe and doesn't end on a mistake. Ads are unobtrusive and rare, unlike most games. Being a hex rather than square grid means you have to guess more on denser fields, but since the game doesn't end on a mistake you can just guess and keep going even if you guess wrong. It's a simple puzzle game that doesn't try to be anything else and fixes all my annoyances with normal minesweeper.

Controls could be improved, and at the highest difficulty you always end up in situations without a clear solution, relying purely on luck. Since there is no counter of how many stones are left to be placed, it makes it even harder (not possible to calculate probabilities when a few cells are left, possibly isolated). The hex map might look like a good idea, but it just reduces the possible patterns. There is no intellectual challenge, it's just "click on the obvious spot or toss a coin".

What’s new

- Adapted for recent OS and GDPR