Bombe is an Action, Adventure, and Casual game for PC published by Charlie Brej in 2023. A fresh twist on the classic Minesweeper game!
Bombe PC Game 2023 review:
Experience with a unique challenge that will test your logic and strategic thinking. In this version, you are presented with a grid filled with hidden mines, and your objective is to uncover all the safe squares without triggering any explosions.
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once. Really satisfying execution of a great idea: programming a Minesweeper bot to solve puzzles automatically. Start with simple Minesweeper logic (if a ‘3’ has 3 free spaces around it, they’re all mines) and build up to stuff so complex you can’t really parse it as a human anymore. It evolves from a logic puzzle into more of a Zachtronics-like engineering problem; you start to struggle against the constraints of the simple tools you’re given in trying to express complex ideas.
The premise is super simple: Write rules to solve Minesweeper, and the game uses those rules for you automatically. The puzzles are sorted by complexity, so you start by adding the easy rules and it grows from there. And it again and again has frustrating moments: You see the solution, but it’s too complex to be formed into a rule that fits the grid scheme used in Bombe.
Pros of Bombe:
- Regions (number bubbles connected by lines) generated from clues on the board
- Rules act on regions to mark bombs, clear squares or create new regions
- A checker tells you if your rule is formally correct
- Rules are auto applied forever after, resolving the situations you have solved before
- Only the hard situations remain.
- A hint system can mark the determinable squares and remove all unnecessary regions from the board.
- Regions can be hidden or discarded using rules
- Thousands of levels to play, all solvable without guessing.
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Basic System Requirements:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
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