I love playing this game on long road trips or flights, it’s incredibly satisfying to slowly uncover the gigantic maps. The controls are great, you can easily zoom to a size convenient for you, and the fast-mode lives up to the name (remember to slow down a little to catch mistakes). Reading some of the other reviews here, I’d disagree with most of the complaints. Yes it does occasionally glitch, but that is very rare in my experience. The 25 minute timer for a life recharge may seem like a lot, but with such a huge map, it’s not difficult to play safe for an hour or so if you find yourself down to one life.I haven’t spent money on this game, but I have considered doing so as a donation more than anything. The ads are practically non-existant, there’s a small banner ad on the bottom of the screen which I forget exists after 5 minutes, and rarely on start up or when you lose a life, you might get a full screen ad which can be closed very quickly. All in all, easily deserving of a 5-star review and by far the best minesweeper app I have found.

I would give this game 5 stars, but the controls are not perfect. When playing in fast-flag mode, the game will sometimes mistake swiping for unflagging or clearing, which can cost an undo. Many times I've meant to flag two consecutive tiles, but for whatever reason the game clears both, leading to a bug where undoing it does not get rid of the red bars on the side. I've even accidentally unflagged and cleared a tile at the same time while swiping. That being said, the game generally performs pretty well and you can go moderately fast. I like the undo system and the bombs/tile ratio is good. I've beat the game 3 times and have the #2 time overall. My only other gripe is that you should win once you've opened all the tiles; having to mark all the bombs at the end is too tedious. They're also too hard to find on the minimap. But these complaints are relatively minor.

While this version of the game is great, simple and with a nice mine to tile ratio (not nearly as much guessing as on standard expert difficulty) the controls are a bit annoying. I have lost all my undos fairly quickly, a couple due to my own fault (meant to flag, but held down in fast mode, so exploded) and another 3 due to swiping, to move around, and it going off, cause the game thinks I'm holding down. Please extend the max time for having it to be held down, I mean half a second is still not enough, I'd set mine (ha, mine!) to literally 3-5 seconds if I could, so as to avoid any possibility of a misclick, and those who feel differently can still have it at much shorter times. Hope you take this into consideration, I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.

So I have loved this game from way back to my first computer. I have been playing the app version of the game for some time now from another developer. When I saw that this was an extra large version of it I was geeked. I downloaded it and started playing immediately. The first game as flawless. I continued to play it many times over a 24 hour period and from the second game on it became ultra glitchy. It would set off bombs when I wasn’t even touching the screen. I play the game in fast/flag mode and I would mark a bomb and it would remove it immediately. I would mark it again and it would remove the flag and set it off. I sent the developer a message and never got a response or even acknowledged for my submission. If these things were fixed than this would be the most amazing game and would deserve 5 stars. Until they fix it I will give it a one.