Finished — Free
Pixelsweeper
A handcrafted take on the classic. Same rules you already know, rebuilt from scratch with pixel art, springy animations and a window that lives on your desktop instead of trapping you in a box.
// trailer
Sixty seconds of it
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// the game
Same rules, everything else rebuilt
You know how this works. Left click to uncover a tile, right click to plant a flag, and try to not hit a mine. What makes this version different is everything around that core loop.
Every tile flips open with a squash-and-stretch bounce animation. Clear a large empty area and the reveal ripples outward in a wave, each cell landing a pitch higher than the last, so a big cascade turns into a little melody. Start a new game and the whole board flashes open and folds shut again, row by row, before you make your first move.
The window itself is frameless and transparent, sized exactly to the board. No title bar, no wasted chrome. Drag it anywhere on your desktop by grabbing the border, and it stays put when you switch difficulty instead of jumping back to the center.
// features
What is in it
- Four difficulties
- Base (8x8, 8 mines), Easy (8x8, 10 mines), Medium (16x16, 40 mines), Hard (24x24, 99 mines)
- Animated tile reveals
- every flip has a bounce, with overshoot and squash
- Cascading flood fill
- cleared areas open outward in a wave with rising pitch
- Frameless transparent window
- sits on your desktop, drag it wherever you like
- Auto-sizing
- the window resizes itself to fit whatever board you pick
- UI scaling
- 1x, 1.25x or 1.5x for larger displays
- Separate volume sliders
- music and sound effects controlled independently
- Full sound design
- distinct cues for flagging, unflagging, revealing and detonating
- Live mine counter and timer
- the clock starts after the intro sweep, not before
- Settings persist
- your scale and volume choices are remembered between sessions
// screenshots
On the desktop
Free, and finished
One download, no account, no launcher. It runs as a small window on your desktop and leaves nothing behind but a settings file.
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Windows
- Engine
- Unity
- Download
- Pixelsweeper.zip, 37 MB
- Published
- 26 August 2026
No generative AI was used to make this game.