XP Minesweeper Classic

About

Minesweeper is a logic puzzle game genre for personal computers, where players clear a grid of tiles without detonating any of the hidden mines, using number clues about neighboring mine counts. XP Minesweeper Classic is a mostly faithful recreation of Windows XP's Minesweeper, built in Lua with the LÖVE2D framework for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It supports the classic look and hotkey-driven menus, chording (left+right click to clear around numbers), and custom boards up to 99x99 with 999 mines.

How it differs from the original

It ships its own recreation of the classic look using modified textures from the open-source MS-Texture project rather than the original Windows XP assets.

Getting started

Grab a release build for your OS from the project's releases page, the Microsoft Store, or itch.io, or run the .love file directly with LÖVE2D. Hotkeys mirror the original — Alt-N for a new game, Alt-B/I/E for difficulty presets, Alt-C for a custom board, and F2 to restart.

History

The author built this as a personal project to practice Lua and the LÖVE2D framework by recreating Windows XP's Minesweeper.

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Related project

The same developer also makes Pastel Sweeper, a modernized version with updated visuals, available on the Microsoft Store.