Infinity Sweeper news & patch notes

Hello everyone!

It has been a bit quiet round these parts, but that's because we've been working on a bunch of bug fixes and reworks for Infinity Sweeper! Do let us know your thoughts and feedback on this update:)

Without any further ado, read on to find out what's new!

💀 New: Boss Challenges

The boss timer is gone! Every boss stage now comes with a random Boss Challenge that changes the rules for that stage. You won't see the same challenge twice in a row, and you can hover over the boss level tile to re-read what the active challenge does.

• Blackout - every so often, a few revealed tiles get blurred and briefly hide their numbers

• Tunnel Vision - you can only click tiles next to ones you've already opened

• Split Decision - the right half of the board stays locked until you fully clear the left half

• No Defusing - Trap Fixers don't work this stage

• Double Strike - enemies deal one extra heart of damage

• Exposing Ban - exposing doesn't work this stage

• Shifting Locks - random tiles get locked, and the locks keep moving around

• Scarred - every heart you lose to an enemy adds a random trap to your collection

• Short Circuit - half of your permanent upgrades stop working this stage

• Silencer - half of the good tile types on the board stop working this stage

🛠️ Achievement Fixes

• Fixed Can't Stop achievement not unlocking

• Fixed Just One More achievement not unlocking

• Fixed Mouse Burner achievement not unlocking

• Fixed Off The Charts (100k score) achievement never unlocking

• Fixed Ninja achievement not unlocking

• Fixed Hazard Pay achievement not unlocking

• Fixed How Did We Get Here achievement not unlocking

• Fixed Luxury Build achievement - now correctly unlocks at 8 tier-3 tiles

• Fixed Fancy achievement - now correctly unlocks at 4 tier-3 tiles

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Blurry Vision trap's blur effect sticking around after the tile is destroyed or defused

• Fixed Trap Fixers not working on the Blurry Vision trap

• Fixed Waste Collector stacking bug

• Fixed Kamizkaze stacking bug

• Fixed Perfectionist Tile stacking bug

• Fixed Mystery Tile always becoming tier 3 when copying another tile - it now copies that tile's actual tier

• Fixed unlocked items sometimes still showing as locked in the collection

• Fixed a crash on the post-boss reward screen that could happen once you'd collected most or all 30 traps

• Fixed Evolve card synergies with certain tiles

• Not So Basic Tile now has a board limit of 10

• Fixed tier upgrades that jump multiple tiers at once (e.g. Shiny Object going from tier 1 straight to 3) not updating board limits correctly

• Fixed Purple Fever only sealing good tiles on reveal - now also seals trap tiles

• Fixed Attention Seeker + "No Peace" leaving tiles permanently locked - "No Peace" can now properly unlock and mark a locked tile

• Fixed Dead Zone dealing unavoidable damage when an enemy tile sat in its blast radius - those tiles are now removed harmlessly

• Fixed CRT filter setting not being remembered between sessions

• Fixed the Daily Run screen requiring Escape to go back - the back button now works properly

• Fixed getting stuck on the Game Over screen during the tutorial

👾 Gameplay Changes

• A level now completes once all enemy tiles are exposed or destroyed, even if good tiles remain unrevealed. (Just flagging them isn't enough - they have to be exposed or destroyed.) When this happens, remaining unrevealed good tiles are auto-revealed, and remaining trap tiles are removed without triggering their effects.

• Destroying a tile marked with a purple seal now grants +5 Trap Fixers; destroying a tile marked with a red seal now grants +10 coins. A tile with both seals gives both rewards, and this stacks with the Redder/Purpler permanents.

• Added a tile tier upgrade option in the shop: spend coins to upgrade an eligible tile's tier directly (cost scales with tier and price). Traps and tier-3 tiles can't be upgraded.

• Removed Wristwatch, Be Safe, Chill, and the Boss Rush trap - they only affected the boss timer, which no longer exists. Old saves that contain them will still load just fine.

⚖️ Balance Changes

• Toned down: Resonance, Halving Tile, Dice Tile, Look Here, Insider Tip, Pricy, Why Flag?, Stunt Double, The Unforgiving, Flag Disruption, All Mine, Cross Section (also removed from Daily Runs), and Trap Enthusiast now appear less often, and some can have fewer copies on the board at once.

• Buffed: Card Counting, Is It Possible, Health Insurance, Ultrainstinct, Radar, Untrapped, Engineer's Award, Glitch, Inspector, Hieroglyph I, and Blossom now appear more often, and some can have more copies on the board at once.

Hello sweepers!

Hope you've all got a lovely bank holiday weekend ahead!

For this week's edition of Beyond the Grid, we asked the devs: Are there any Easter eggs or references in the game?

Yes, absolutely! There are a bunch of references to other games, as well as general pop culture and memes references!

The oldest one probably was the name of the permanent upgrade: “This ain’t Balatro” (since the genre has been coined Balatro-like), which disables you from using cards.

“Didn’t say Uno” grants you two more cards when you’re down to your last one.

“Kid named Finger” is a reference to a very specific but popular “meme”... And there’s a ton more!

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Were you able to catch any of the other references in the game? Do let us know! And ICYMI there was an update to the game last week

• Fixed Mime Tile/Basic Tile interaction

• Fixed Starter Kit Permanent

• Fixed Mine Count panel while the Glitch trap was active

• Fixed false numbers on certain basic tiles

• Balanced chances of certain upgrades appearing in shop

This is just the start and the team is working on further updates taking your feedback and reviews into account!

Have a fab weekend folks and we'll see you next week:)

Hey everyone, wanted to give a quick update on our plans for the future of the game. Firstly, thank you so much to everyone who has been submitting feedback and bug reports - please do keep them coming! We're taking into account this feedback and will be working on some things to come in our future updates, here's a sneak peek at a few of them. We'll be looking into

• Fixing all known bugs

• Improving trap variety in a run

• QOL improvements for seals, general gameplay & the shop

• Exploring new boss specific traps

We're obviously working on these as fast as we can so stay tuned for the updates! In the meanwhile, feel free to join the Discord and share your runs or other content:)

Join the Discord!

Welcome sweepers to our first post launch edition of Beyond the Grid!

It's been amazing seeing so many of you pick up a copy and leave us really nice reviews. It really helps motivate all of us here! Oh, and we've hit 50 reviews which means the first giveaway is open over in the Discord!

We're also sitting at Mostly Positive, so thank you all so much! As mentioned before, it really helps us with the Steam algorithm, so if you haven't already, please do leave us a review <3

This week on Beyond the Grid, we asked the devs about their inspirations for the game!

The game at first was intended to be a never-ending expanding board of Minesweeper, the idea for which came from watching a friend play minesweeper levels on his phone. Then after tinkering and testing a bit, we found a loop of clear a grid -> upgrade -> clear a harder grid much more intuitive and fun!

It started off as a little side project and you can peep some early days stuff in this post from 2 years ago - https://x.com/gameslongshot/status/1824344568629805319

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Let us know your highscores here or in the Discord! We've got a dedicated highscores channel to share your records in:)

And I'll just leave this screenshot here from community member Bio, no words needed

Happy sweeping folks! Don't forget to leave a review and tell your friends about the game <3 Catch you next week!

Greetings sweepers, old and new!

It's time to get your flags and cards ready because the full version of Infinity Sweeper is now available! 🥳

And to celebrate this launch, you can snag your early bird launch discount of 20%, good savings!

And a brand new shiny trailer here!

Bundles + More Savings!

Guess what, you can save a bit more by picking up one of our bundles! Bundles are a great way to work with and support indie devs <3

• 🦀 Everything Is Crab (coming tomorrow when they launch!)

• 🃏 Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers

• ⚔️ Turnbound

Don't forget to leave a review!

Lastly, go out there and try your hand at Infinity Sweeper! Let us know how far you get and if you enjoy the game, please do leave a review! This is one of the best ways to support us as it lets the Steam algorithm know it's a game worth pushing in front of as many people as possible. This is especially critical on launch day and the days following <3

There are also giveaways planned for the Discord community for review milestones, more details can be found in the announcement in the Discord server!

Hello sweepers!

Wait no.. it's the first of the month.. Let's try that again.

And you know what that means! It's SIX DAYS until Infinity Sweeper launch day!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨

And to celebrate the week until launch, the lovely creators of The Yogscast will be 1v1ing challenge mode every day as a part of - drum roll please - CAMP YOG! 12pm BST, every day from Saturday 2nd May till launch day, so be sure to cheer on your favourite creators!

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And on to the Beyond the Grid segment of today's post -

This week, we asked the devs - What is something you have been finding more challenging?

We had to rework the saving system of the game! We would have never found it ourselves, but thanks to one person from the discord community, who managed to get around stage 100, we realized the saving system had a flaw. Because the grids were so huge at those stages, the save files would exceed hundreds of MB of storage… So we had to re-do the entire system.

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To the Discord community member who made it to stage 100.. I salute you. You are an Infinity Sweeper pro. That is beyond impressive.

And that's all our juicy, exciting news for today! Catch you next week on Beyond the Grid - the next one will be on the other side of launch!

Hello hello and welcome to this week's Beyond the Grid! We're all gearing up over here for launch in just under 2 weeks!

And so, this week, we asked the devs: What's been going well recently?

We’re getting pretty close to release, so most of the work has been small improvements rather than big new features. One thing that made a big difference was improving the readability of exposed enemy tiles! We’ve had complaints about fast-paced gameplay being challenging due to unintuitive colouring of the tiles, so just by tweaking their colours a bit, we made the game look way clearer.

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We've also had people share their highscores in the Discord, and as someone who is terrible at Minesweeper, I am always in awe. Check out this one by Discord user Kate -

(credits: Kate :3)

See you next week!

Hello sweepers, welcome back to another week of Beyond the Grid! We've also concluded challenge week, how many of you were able to make it through every day?

This week, we asked the devs to tell us about a feature in the game, here's what they had to say:

The Siblings of course - a trap that makes enemy tiles hold multiple enemies. It’s my favourite trap so far. It changes the logic behind the minesweeper puzzles just enough while remaining solvable (just in a different way)

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Oh how the Siblings have been confounding us! It's no surprise it's the dev's favourite, but wow did it have me looking at my screen baffled at many points. Check out some of the massive numbers below thanks to the Siblings -

And this 15 on the Yogscast Stream, probably easily the biggest number we've seen so far!

https://www.twitch.tv/yogscast/clip/OddSullenFishGivePLZ-WLitL51dNtxP-YHg

And this meme by Discord user Markownik really encapsulates one of this week's daily runs where we encountered both the 3 trap and the Siblings trap 😬

credits: Discord user Markownik

Did you have a favourite (or hated) trap during the challenge week? Do let us know!

Hello Sweepers!

How are you getting on with Challenge Week? Does it tickle your brain?

We're bringing you a new weekly series called Beyond the Grid where we ask the developers of Infinity Sweeper some questions about the game and share them with you! We hope you enjoy these little titbits of information:)

For our very first edition of Beyond the Grid, we asked the devs: What is something that came together easier than you expected?

Daily challenge mode came together pretty nicely! We had no idea how it was gonna turn out and how much we’d have to manipulate the parameters for it to generate a playable and synergic build, but after not much testing the builds it started creating came together really fun! It even made some extremely fun builds we would never have thought of ourselves!

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That's a great on-topic response for out first Beyond the Grid don't you think? As someone who is terrible at Minesweeper, the challenge mode has been proving, well, challenging but still so much fun to attempt! What's the furthest stage you've made it in today's challenge or have you been smart enough to clear it? I made it to 14 and tapped out (I am determined to complete it)

Hello everyone (again)!

We finally have a release date for Infinity Sweeper! No more wondering when you can finally play the full version of the game, now you can actually count the days down

Infinity Sweeper will launch on Thursday 7th May - just under a month away!

It's almost time to take what you've learnt from the demo so far and put your skills to the test in the full game. Minesweeper's gone rogue and you guys must try to defeat the constantly evolving grid!

And ICYMI from the previous announcement, we're also bringing you a big update to the demo, introducing the Daily Run mode! This gives you a fixed set of tiles, permanents, cards, and traps to start your run with. Alongside this, there is a weeklong Challenge Mode running from 9th - 15th April, you can read all about it here!

We've also got a shiny new trailer to celebrate the release date announcement, peep the trailer down below!

Hello everyone!

We hope you're all doing well because it's time to gear up for a week full of challenges for you to try your hands at!

Every day, face a new challenge in our shiny updated demo! introducing the Daily Run mode - this gives you a fixed set of tiles, permanents, cards, and traps to start your run with - can you rise to the occasion with the toolkit you've been given?

To celebrate this new way to play, we've teamed up with Fanatical to run a Challenge Week! Beat a daily run between 9th and 15th April and you'll be able to enter for a chance to win a Fanatical voucher - with 10 winners every day!

Fanatical is a gaming store front featuring over 16,000 officially licensed digital games from over 1,800+ publishers. Vouchers are for £10 GBP (or equivalent in USD, AUD, CAD, or EUR), and must be redeemed by the end of April.

The Yogscast Creators will also be taking part in their own challenges, four creators will be going to head-to-head to see who can win the Yogscast Infinity Sweeper Challenge! Kirsty will be kicking off the week with her attempts at the challenges today at 5PM BST on Twitch so be sure to check that out!

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and to celebrate, we're running a competition over in our Discord! The winner will receive a free Steam key for Infinity Sweeper when the game releases next year 🎁

How to enter:

• On the main menu, click "Stats" to see your previous runs

• Screenshot the board from the last stage you got to, on the run where you got the furthest (see example below)

• Submit it in ⁠the #🏆high-scores channel of our Discord!

For every stage you've beaten, you'll receive 1 entry into a prize draw, up to a maximum of 30 entries.

You're welcome to submit multiple screenshots if you like, but only your best run stage-wise will count!

⌛ DEADLINE: Monday, 5th January 2026 at 9:00 (9am) GMT.

Check our Discord announcement for the full Terms & Conditions.

Have a very merry Christmas to all those who celebrate, and happy holidays! 🎄 ⛄

Hey everyone!

If you've been in the Discord, you may have heard talk a few months ago that Infinity Sweeper has a publisher - and we're really pleased to be able to announce that it's Yogscast Games!

We're super excited to be working together with the devs to launch Infinity Sweeper next year. In the meantime, we'll be helping to make the game the best it can possibly be! And if you're in the Discord, our community manager will be planning some fun extras for the community!

Be sure to check out the demo and let us know your feedback! We're keen to hear what you think of the game, and what you think could be improved - so if you've had a chance to play, let us know your thoughts.

We also have a ✨brand new, shiny trailer✨ for you guys, which you can check out below!

If you like what you see, don't forget to wishlist the game and tell your friends about it! Every little bit helps us leading up to launch:)