Ruinsweep: Deduction Roguelike

Ruinsweep — Kazı in Turkish — is a single-player deduction and strategy roguelike built on minesweeper logic. You play an archaeologist digging through an imaginary underground city inspired by Anatolia.

What is Ruinsweep?

Ruinsweep is a deduction roguelike that anyone who knows minesweeper can pick up at once. Every number on an opened tile is the total danger of the traps in the eight tiles around it. The player reads the numbers, digs safe tiles, spends health and tools strategically, collects treasure and descends floor by floor to the bottom of the ruins.

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How do you play Ruinsweep?

The player digs tiles, flags certain traps and weighs the risk when unsure. Stepping on a trap costs as much health as the trap’s danger. When the stairs are found, the player can descend or stay on the floor for treasure. Every correctly flagged trap earns extra gold.

• Numbers. A tile’s number is the total danger of the traps in its eight neighbours.
• Gold. Clean Dig: +1 gold per correctly flagged trap. Clearing a floor without damage gives +2, completing a floor another +2.
• Special tiles. Fog tiles hide their number. Liar tiles show a number 1 higher or 1 lower than the truth. An altar reveals the traps around it for 2 health.
• Fair generation. On every floor the stairs can be reached by logic alone, never by luck.

What is in the Expedition?

The Expedition is the main mode: a journey through 4 regions and 12 floors. The maximum trap danger rises region by region, and the third floor of every region is a Sealed Chamber with rule-bending seals. An expedition takes 25–35 minutes; a floor takes 2–3 minutes.

• Sealed Chamber. One of six seal rules applies: Misty Hall, Lying Walls, Heavy Traps, Blind Counter, Narrow Entry, Costly Light. Floor 12 has two at once.
• 8 tools. Lantern, Probe, Sturdy Pick, Map Fragment, Salve, Detector, Rope and Ward.
• 25 relics. Common, rare and legendary — for example Compass, Nazar, Phoenix Feather and King’s Seal. You carry up to 5 at once.
• Camp. Between floors you buy and sell relics and tools and restore health.
• Revive. Once per expedition.

Which explorers are there?

There are three explorers, each with a different play style. The Explorer is available from the start; the Veteran and the Scholar unlock through play. They differ in health and in the tool or relic they start the expedition with.

What is Classic mode?

Classic is no-guess minesweeper. Every board is generated so that it can be solved without a single guess, and the first dig is always safe. Chording, flags, hints, restart and zoom are supported; records are kept both as best time and as best time without hints.

How do the daily modes work?

There are two daily modes, and in both everyone plays the same board each day. In the Daily Dig the region rotates with the day of the week, with a Sealed Chamber on Sundays. The Daily Classic gives everyone the same Medium board. You get one attempt per day, and 730 days of content ship inside the app.

• Day streak. Every day you play extends the streak; a grace day protects it if you miss one.
• Sharing. Your result is shared as text with a row of squares.

Which accessibility options are there?

Ruinsweep has a colour-blind mode, three text sizes (100%, 115%, 130%) and reduced motion. The game supports the TalkBack and VoiceOver screen readers. There are sound effects and vibration, and no music. It is designed for portrait play, one-handed, in short sessions.

Is Ruinsweep free?

The first region of Ruinsweep is free. The rest of the expedition (Regions 2–4) and all explorers unlock with a one-time Full Game purchase. There are no subscriptions, no loot boxes and no currency for sale; gold is earned only by playing.

• Interstitial ads. After the first 5 games, at most once every 3 games and at least 90 seconds apart. In an expedition they appear only when the expedition ends, never mid-floor.
• Rewarded ads. Optional: watched for a hint or a revive.
• Banner ads. None.
• Full Game. Regions 2–4, all explorers, no interstitial ads and ad-free revives. The purchase screen appears after the first region’s Sealed Chamber.
• No Ads. Removes interstitial ads between games; optional ads for hints and revives remain.

What data does Ruinsweep use?

Ruinsweep has no accounts, sign-in or cloud saves; progress is stored only on the device. Ads are served by Google AdMob, which uses the advertising ID, IP address, device information and ad interactions. Full Game and No Ads purchases are verified with RevenueCat using an anonymous ID.

Full details: Ruinsweep Privacy Policy.

Frequently asked questions

Can I play Ruinsweep offline?

Yes. Floors and boards are generated on the device and 730 days of daily content ship inside the app, so no connection is needed to play. The internet is used only to load ads and to verify purchases.

Does my progress move to a new phone?

Ruinsweep has no account or cloud save. If Android’s automatic backup is on, progress is backed up to your Google account and restored on a new device set up with the same account. Purchases come back through “Restore purchases” with the same Google Play account.

Support and contact

Bug reports, suggestions and privacy requests go to kefukar@gmail.com. Including the game name (Ruinsweep), your device model and Android version helps find the problem faster. For a purchase record deletion request, please also include your store order number.

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Last updated: September 24, 2026