Minesweeper was a game you could play on Windows back in the 90s when the tasks got to be too much, if your boss wasn’t looking. It was as boring as the OS, but had a certain addictive quality with the ability to start game after game fast. Now, in the age of total surveillance with user action logs, hidden-camera-light video and LIDAR by your “friendly” global IT department, here it is again, in all its boring glory. The gameplay is about the same as the WIN95 version (down to the pixely numbers in WinOS font), but the ads don’t respect your sound settings and a lot of the board in landscape mode is too big - it gets hidden offscreen and needs to be scrolled-to. As dull as you remember, plus horrible third-party ads that include sexual situations, and destroy all sense of the rapid chaining that made the original so adddictive. The game itself might be be worth keeping for the nostalgic kick, but definitely don’t play this at work, ever, unless you like broadcasting random LOUD ads for 3rd-rate games. I wish there were more elegant, ad-free versions of older games.