New Steam Free Game Brings Back A PC Classic From Your Childhood

Steam users can now pick up a brand new free game which revives a PC classic you remember playing from your childhood.

In gaming nowadays, remasters and remakes of long-lost games you played when you were younger have become all the more common.

When you’ve got revivals of games as recent as The Last of Us or as ancient as Missile Command, it seems like there’s nothing off-bounds now for a new modern remake.

Fans of retro gaming may want to set their sights on Better Minesweeper, a new revival of the classic PC game that everyone and their dad would have played on the family computer way back when.

Minesweeper is a game that goes as far back as the personal computer itself, presenting you with a large grid of clickable tiles that you need to clear without detonating any mines.

If you had a Windows PC growing up, you more than likely would have tried to ‘beat’ Minesweeper while waiting for your copy of Doom or Ultima to finish installing.

Better Minesweeper does exactly as it says on the tin, bringing a modern take on Minesweeper with huge quality of life improvements, deeper customisation, and more options in how you want to play.

On the surface, it looks like the Minesweeper that we all know and love, but looking a bit closer at some of the new additions added by developer Pyrite Standard, it’s clear that the new improvements make it a worthy addition to your PC library.

The new features added with Better Minesweeper include over 30 options to customise the game to fit your playstyle. Some of these options include being able to tweak how reveal on press works, how flags are painted, and much more.

You also get custom stats and leaderboards added with this version of the game, tracking over a hundred variables across your daily and all-time stats.

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Better Minesweeper Offers You A Tremendous New Challenge

For those who are into challenges, Better Minesweeper also includes sharable seeds and daily runs, giving you a reason to jump on each day and attempt to get a high score on each new run against your friends and other people from around the world.

One quality of life change that feels absolutely massive is the ability to draw straight on the board, meaning you no longer need to use the print screen function and copy it into Microsoft Paint anymore to figure out which tiles have bombs in them. It all works in-game now.

Better Minesweeper also includes other bonus features such as the ability to import and share custom skins, which allow you to change the colour of numbers via a colour picker, and replays which you can share via a link and an in-browser player.

It essentially adds to the communal aspect of Minesweeper, making a singleplayer game feel like it has more of a group feeling.

Finally, you can also access different game modes, which have their own set of rules. Custom 3BV, Aim Trainer, and Worse Minesweeper are three such modes which Pyrite Standard has cited as possible alternatives to the standard way of playing.

You can grab Better Minesweeper from Steam now.

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