Hacksweeper is a tight cyberpunk twist on Minesweeper. 

Reveal the grid, read adjacency totals to spot ICE, fight for XP and score, use a small inventory of hacks, and survive long enough to take down the REAPER. Optional mutators crank the risk and your score multiplier.





Features:

  • Cyberpunk Minesweeper combat: numbers show the sum of adjacent ICE tiers (higher tier = more damage).
  • Tight run structure: fight ICE for XP, level up to fully heal, and survive to defeat the REAPER.
  • Loot driven decisions: items like Patch, Exploit, RootKey, and Zip change your route and risk profile.
  • Procedural audio soundscape: gritty, generative SFX and ambient bed built in Web Audio.
  • Mutators for hardcore play: stack optional modifiers to warp the rules and boost score multipliers.


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Development log

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Nice new feature on the unrevealed tile.

Although.. the worst case scenario seems to be wildly incorrect.. 
For example. This scenario here is clearly a 4

and I'm not sure I'm supposed to be able to tell how many ice are adjacent before I reveal..?


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Thanks for pointing it out. I’m going to refine it overall, and I may update it to display only the possible damage. I really appreciate your help.

Interesting but almost impossible to see the revealed nodes..

After a few attempts
> Rootkey map is a trap. It removed anything revealed from being able to be picked up and just kills your run.

> You can fight up to +5 higher than your current HP if it allows a level up. not sure if this is intended. 

> Starter tile gives literally no bonuses to starting off outside of seeming slightly lower spawns but it didn't seem like it's any easier from the other corner

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If testing goes well, there will be an update tomorrow morning

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Thank you for your feedback. I’ll work on improving it overall.