{"id":90966,"date":"2026-10-09T19:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90966"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:36:38","slug":"lets-all-be-happy-this-aaa-minesweeper-game-isnt-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90966","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s All Be Happy This AAA Minesweeper Game Isn\u2019t Real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/minesweeper\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"169176\">Minesweeper<\/a> has been around for decades and it&#8217;s probably overdue for some modern flourishes. Now there&#8217;s a Triple-A Minesweeper parody that offers a hilarious look at what a Minesweeper update might look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Triple-A Minesweeper was created by writer and programmer Mike Lacher, and it&#8217;s fully playable as <a href=\"https:\/\/minesweeper.mikelacher.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/minesweeper.mikelacher.com\/\">a browser game on his site<\/a>. Aside from the intentionally pretentious title cards touting the involvement of Unreal Engine, Nvidia, Bink Video, and Wwise, Triple A Minesweeper looks and plays almost exactly like the regular Minesweeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the best way to enjoy this parody is by simply not doing anything at all. The main character, &#8220;Sweeper,&#8221; will sit around and repeat things like, &#8220;I gotta sweep these mines,&#8221; while receiving calls from newly created characters in the game. Lacher seems to have taken his inspiration from Grand Theft Auto 5, Metal Gear Solid, and even Cyberpunk 2077.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the callers are Nora, a potential love interest for Sweeper. Additionally, an underworld figure called The Don repeatedly calls for Sweeper to head down to his club while hinting at the latter&#8217;s sinister past in Singapore. Meanwhile, the chipper DJ Dan celebrates Sweeper&#8217;s efforts on behalf of New Dawn City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another amusing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minesweeper has been around for decades and it&#8217;s probably overdue for some modern flourishes. Now there&#8217;s a Triple-A Minesweeper parody that offers a hilarious look at what a Minesweeper update might look like. The Triple-A Minesweeper was created by writer and programmer Mike Lacher, and it&#8217;s fully playable as a browser game on his site&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":90968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90969,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90966\/revisions\/90969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}