This is a single-player and stand-alone puzzle game.
The objective of the game is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden "mines" without detonating any of them, with help from clues about the number of neighboring mines in each field.
As said above in the Overview, Minesweeper has different difficulty levels; an easy 9x9 grid, an intermediate 16x16 grid, and an expert 16x30 grid, and the master level 24x40.