So good.

Maybe lean into some of the metal gear solid dialogue by having a long back and forth about "What's a mine?" "What do you mean 'mark a mine'?" "How do I know when I'm done?" etc.

Nice but the logos are skippable, which is not realistic.

AAA Mario (1m41s video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMh_APo2Xss

There is also the classic "Minesweeper - The Movie"[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

Does anyone know if the voices are AI-generated? I was a little surprised; I don't think I would have questioned it if I heard them in a real game or video but since this seems to basically be a joke, I'm doubtful real voice actors were used.

But I didn't need to install a publisher specific launcher to run it.

I was angry at the wasted 30 seconds of opening licensed 3rd party software listings, but I stayed through to the end of the credits roll, laughing until I cried.

This is Art.

I was absolutely hoping to see production babies in the credits. Can’t win ‘em all.

I was hoping for the thing where you play through like half of the game and only then it shows you the title against a dramatic vista.

Missing:

Sidequest to sweep 10 mines.

Achievement after sweeping 5 mines

The yellow diamond is nice but what if I don't notice the diamond? I need a colored scent trail leading from my cursor to the yellow diamond, and a pinging noise when my cursor is near a mine

Mocapped mines

Jack Quaid

$70

So good. Looking forward to level 2 so we can find out what happened in Singapore.

Needs:

- Checkpoints after each mine

- DLC for rounded corners

Wow the ending credits music was actually pretty awesome

Please expand this into a full open-world minesweeping game

I'm curious which TTS model was used for the "Nora" voice. I kept noticing vocal artifacts in her speech disfluencies. Which bothers me more than it probably should...

so, in case if you like minesweeper and doom ... https://dreadsweeper.franzai.com/

Is there a help card? Or, how do you turn off the CC captions? They obscure the bottom of the play field on my Mactop.

10/10 story. I look forward to the forthcoming motion picture adaptation from Skydance directed by Michael Bay.

I like the part where it doesn't even matter if you hit a mine, you are on this train ride regardless of what you do.

Great parody - very "Focus, M"-esque. Often, it feels that we've lost sight of "If it's not fun, why bother".

Despite all the stuff it's parodying, this is still a lot better than Bomberman: Act Zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomberman%3A_Act_Zero

Needs an 'always online' requirement

What no 30 minute shaders compiling sequence?

the non-stopping narration makes it so hard to actually sweep the mines....

Was expecting Hideo Kojima in the credits.

You need to add achievements/trophies! Definitely need to achieve a trophy for clicking on the very first square, finding the first mine, your first flag, etc.

Needs a 128GB RAM, 100GB free disk space requirement.

And which half of the staff gets fired day after release?

No lootboxes?

I love the parody. Is this a treatise on modern game development? I hope so.

That was a great parody, but how much of those effects still worked even though you knew it was coming? The fade ins, blurring the outsides, the emotional voice talking to you... it definitely raised my interest more than just opening minesweeper!

I mean, it doesn't last very long without something else going on, but there is a reason.

icymi, we can also do this with Mario https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMh_APo2Xss

Felix Varga and Johanna Kowalski (Online Services Engineers) must have done a really good job - with all the traffic from the HN front page login servers didn't go down and queue was almost instant.

We need a day-1 patch to align the mines to the center of their tile.

I need to sweep these mines.

That's hilarious. Spot on.

I need to sweep these mines!

Ok but like... Kojima vibes. 10/10 best trippppllleee AAYYyyyyy game to come out this year lol

Sweep (2026)

I need to sweep these mines!

Where do I enter my credit card info for the Season Pass and the special operator skin?

Incredible

First time I've laughed out loud at one of these sorts of things in a while...

I was expecting it to open up on some WW2 style battlefield with smoke and explosions, but this was better.

Pac-Man as a Modern AAA Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaoUVVD-hUc

The ending needed to force you to click on a mine so you die in the cutscene lmao.

This is hilarious

Not even a dlc and cosmetics?

There might be a mine here

I laughed way way way too hard

Needs Debra Wilson

That was awesome

The part where the subtitles hide the mines is the best for me. Also talk with Ubisoft - they make AAAA games.

Damn I didn't even have to Press Start to begin

omg this is brilliant i was IMMEDIATELY tilting my face off

now add a kernel level rootkit and a monthly subscription which guarantees a set amount of loot-boxes a month.

Art

This is fun.

Lmao

lol perfect execution. I cracked up with the smiley face lip sync.

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