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14 Minesweeper Variants

Alith Games · Artless Games · 2022-11-14

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 14, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Minesweeper but the rules are changing.

14 Minesweeper Variants is a 2022 Casual, Indie and Strategy game priced at $6.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (97% of 1674 reviews).

105
playing now
97%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

105 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 105 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 220 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~28/week).
  • · Review velocity down 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 33k–75k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,674 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.89 at Steam (2024-11-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14814820222026Week of 2022-11-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 13 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

165622026-09-15 02:00 — 105 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 110 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 92 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 111 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 122 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 108 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 88 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 109 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 144 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 70 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 122 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 147 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 70 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 118 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 165 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 72 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 125 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 158 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 78 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 103 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 139 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 94 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 97 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 105 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
19087Nov 2022Aug 2026Nov 2022 — avg 132 · peak 212Jan 2023 — avg 190 · peak 339Mar 2023 — avg 128 · peak 227May 2023 — avg 120 · peak 228Jul 2023 — avg 118 · peak 202Sep 2023 — avg 91 · peak 159Nov 2023 — avg 98 · peak 157Jan 2024 — avg 122 · peak 210Mar 2024 — avg 124 · peak 223May 2024 — avg 138 · peak 265Jul 2024 — avg 187 · peak 330Sep 2024 — avg 142 · peak 257Nov 2024 — avg 115 · peak 247Jan 2025 — avg 166 · peak 288Mar 2025 — avg 147 · peak 253May 2025 — avg 122 · peak 217Jul 2025 — avg 114 · peak 191Sep 2025 — avg 123 · peak 216Nov 2025 — avg 113 · peak 191Jan 2026 — avg 152 · peak 260Mar 2026 — avg 123 · peak 211May 2026 — avg 115 · peak 192Jul 2026 — avg 120 · peak 194Aug 2026 — avg 107 · peak 198
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$6.99$4.892022-11-142026-07-092022-11-14 — best price $5.942022-12-22 — best price $5.942023-01-20 — best price $5.942023-03-16 — best price $5.942023-04-24 — best price $5.942023-06-30 — best price $5.942023-08-03 — best price $5.942023-11-21 — best price $5.942023-12-21 — best price $5.942024-02-12 — best price $5.942024-03-14 — best price $5.942024-05-13 — best price $5.942024-06-27 — best price $5.942024-09-22 — best price $5.942024-11-27 — best price $4.892024-12-19 — best price $4.892025-01-27 — best price $4.892025-03-13 — best price $4.892025-04-06 — best price $4.892025-05-29 — best price $4.892025-06-27 — best price $4.892025-09-29 — best price $4.892025-12-01 — best price $4.892025-12-18 — best price $4.892026-02-16 — best price $4.892026-03-19 — best price $4.892026-05-31 — best price $4.892026-06-25 — best price $4.892026-07-09 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
80.4%
earned "[V]"
9.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Dutch, Korean, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Vietnamese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,2006%66

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieLogicCasualPuzzleAbstractStrategyDifficultMinimalistExperimentalSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.