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Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Bombe is a puzzle, casual and strategy game developed and published by Charlie Brej.
Released on June 04th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 14 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Japanese, Polish, German, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil and Ukrainian.

It has received 326 reviews of which 313 were positive and 13 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Bombe into these genres:

Puzzle Casual Strategy 2D Automation Abstract Minimalist Singleplayer Immersive Sim Top-Down Building Education Investigation Logic Programming Relaxing Science

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
MacOS
  • OS: MacOS 11+
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
Linux
  • OS: 2021 distros or later
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM

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Nov. 2025
10+/10 Epic game. If you love Minesweeper or any automation and programming puzzle, please get Bombe. It’s a truly unique and brilliantly executed concept: you build a rulebook to solve all the minesweeper puzzles for you. It's polished, the controls are smooth, the interface is intuitive, and the developer (Brejc, we love you so much❤️!) is incredibly responsive, constantly adding new features and new game modes. For this review, I will discuss the gameplay in 3 stages. Stage 1: Solver to Instructor. The first few hours are where the paradigm shift happens. You move from being a simple solver to being an instructor. You write rules telling the computer how to handle specific situations using concepts like Regions and Clues. Vanilla mode is already rich, featuring four grid types (SQUARE, HEXAGON, TRIANGLE, and INFINITE) and introducing 10 different clue types. These clue types are a fantastic "tweak" to traditional rules, making the game feel like 14 MV. The first real moment of magic hits when you figure out how to use existing regions not just to solve a square, but to recursively create a new region with a new clue, essentially employing a "divide and conquer" strategy. It really feels like you’re simulating a large-scale Mixed-Integer Linear Programming problem solver, which is super satisfying. Stage 2: Mastering Abstraction. As you progress, the game evolves further when you unlock the Variables (and there are 5 in total). This is the second magic moment: you click the 'Reset All Rules' button and start from scratch, but this time with the power of abstraction. A single variable-based rule can now do the job of dozens of number-specific ones, skyrocketing the engine’s efficiency. However, you quickly learn to fear "explosive" rules—configurations that spin out new, complex regions exponentially. This forces you to think from another perspective, focusing not just on correctness, but on algorithmic complexity and efficiency. Many of the necessary deductions are tricky, level-specific, non-intuitive, and difficult to construct from scratch. Generalizing these complex or even mysterious rules revealed by the Hint button is the biggest joy of the game. Stage 3: Resource and Priority Management. By the late game, around TRIANGLE 5000+ or INFINITE 3000+, the insidious grids break a lot of your elegant rules. The connectivity of the Triangle and recursively constructed Infinite grids becomes so complex that the game focus completely shifts to resource and priority management (while adding new rules). Your elegant 2/3/4-region rules often fail, and you need to build a massive, complex library just to simplify the board. At this point, I even wrote a separate Python program to exhaustively solve the underlying MILP problem just to discover those deep, hidden patterns in the regions. Thankfully, the developer provides excellent tools like hiding, deleting, and prioritizing rules. But at the end of the day, you still have to solve highly complex combinatorial problems under limited CPU and RAM resources. The final achievements allow for a small bit of imperfection (5500 out of 6000 levels for each grid type), but even reaching that INFINITE 5500 mark took me over 320 hours. This time was split roughly 40/60 between my problem-solving and computer work. Not long ago I joined the Discord server and I heard an implication-based mode is coming soon. Maybe I (and my CPUs) should rest for a while and come back for the new game mode later.
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June 2025
Amazing game. Instead of playing Minesweeper, you tell the game how to play it, by giving it "if you see this pattern, that cell must be empty"-style rules. The game then plays Minesweeper boards until it runs into a situation where your rules were not enough to continue. You give it an additional rule to solve that situation, and so on. Thus, the game confronts you with ever more complex situations you have to solve, creating a very satisfying series of brain teasers.
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April 2025
Pros: Great, mind-expanding puzzle game. Cons: Laggy and unresponsive UI.
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March 2025
A bit of a struggle to get past the interface but worth it. You are programming an algorithm for solving minesweeper and variants of minesweeper. It is satisfying to set a rule down and from then on the computer applies it whenever the situation comes up, As you make rules dozens of levels might fly by as one after the other are solved using the rules you have entered, only stopping when there is something new to think about.
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March 2025
a game that demands better hardware the further you get in it. a game that no one has beaten. a game that can suck me in for hours only to solve a single game of minesweeper. a game that's secretly an idle game if you know how to play it right. truly, there is nothing quite like bombe
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Bombe is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

Bombe is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

Bombe received 313 positive votes out of a total of 326 achieving a rating of 8.80.
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Bombe was developed and published by Charlie Brej.

Bombe is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Bombe is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Bombe is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Bombe is a single-player game.

Bombe does not currently offer any DLC.

Bombe does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Bombe does not support Steam Remote Play.

Bombe is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Bombe
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Charlie Brej
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Charlie Brej
Release 04 Jun 2023
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