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# At Last, A Big Budget Minesweeper
- URL: https://aftermath.site/triple-a-minesweeper/
- Published: 2026-10-09T19:19:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-09T19:19:58.000Z
- Description: I need to sweep these mines
- Author: Riley MacLeod
- Tags: Video Games, minesweeper

Following the tradition of [old-school games getting the "Focus, M" treatment](https://aftermath.site/your-focus-m-zelda-jokes-have-become-reality/), you can now play a gritty, plot-heavy version of *Minesweeper*, the 90s game that used to come with Windows.

[*Triple-A Minesweeper*](https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/?ref=aftermath.site)is a browser game by Mike Lacher, a writer and coder notably behind McSweeney's famous "[I'm Comic Sans, Asshole](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole?ref=aftermath.site)." It's a short game, so I won't spoil it for you, but it includes all the hallmarks of a big budget game. There's lengthy beginning and end credits, a take on [yellow paint](https://aftermath.site/yellow-paint-video-game-ledge-climbing/), and tons of dialogue that hints at intrigue, side quests, and character backstory.

My favorite bit is the player character repeatedly muttering "I need to sweep these mines." I am a person who both finds it annoying when video games constantly remind me what I was doing, and who frequently forgets what I was doing and has to stand around until my own character reminds me, so I felt particularly called out by this.

I'm also willing to admit here that as a kid I never totally understood how to play *Minesweeper* and the possibility of triggering a virtual mine used to scare me so much that I tended to avoid playing it, so I found *Triple-A Minesweeper* a little cathartic. Triple-A solitaire next, please.