https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1230166715

Minesweeper, but the clues are chess pieces. Each piece shows how many mines it can see, and it sees the squares it could move to. You can also move a piece to count from a better square. 

Free, browser, no sign-in, about twenty minutes.

https://droblin.itch.io/5-mines-left 

Every board is built and checked by a solver, so no board needs a guess. If you ever feel forced to guess, that is a bug and I want to hear about it.

What I want is narrow: the video has no text in it on purpose. Did the rule land before you read this post, or did you need the words? Four players in a row told me they could not tell what they were looking at to begin with, and that is the thing I am trying to fix.

Smaller second question: where did you first not know what to do?

"Not for me" is useful too.

Hey, as a fan of minesweeper and occasional enjoyer of chess, this was really interesting! And from that player perspective, for me, at least, the rules were immediately clear. What I didnt know at first was, that you could move the chess pieces. Usually minesweeper clues can't really move, so I only realized they were movable during my third stage.

If some players get confused in the beginning though, maybe adding a quick tutorial pop-up during start-up could be a good idea?

Thanks for the feedback! Good point about moving the pieces - if that wasn’t obvious at first, the game definitely needs to communicate it better.

I’ll take another pass at the tutorial/instructions and  make that clearer from the start.