You can play by stepping on land mines. In the Steam digital embroidery game “Proverbs”, as long as you know how to step on land mines, you can complete the drawing of 50,000 famous paintings.

The long-lasting gameplay of “Step on Mines” has always been a favorite casual game for PC players. Now, in addition to the online cooperative gameplay of “Let’s Step on Mines”, there is also a new type of “digital embroidery game” developed by independent games “Proverbs”, produced by the author, has prepared many levels, requiring you to complete more than 50,000 grids of mines.

“Proverbs” is a casual puzzle game created by overseas game developer Mark Ffrench. It is described as a digital embroidery game, because you need to complete a giant grid puzzle with more than 54,000 cells.

Proverbs is a HUGE minesweeper-like puzzle game where you slowly reveal a renaissance painting, and unlock dozens of achievements. Play the free demo in #SteamNextFest: https://t.co/870N7Fjcxz pic.twitter.com/EVwqTiG2OZ

— Divide The Plunder (@divide_plunder) October 16, 2024

According to the promotional presentation, players can zoom in and out of the picture until it looks like a grid, and then you will see many numbers that look like “Stepping on Mines,” and the solution to the game is “Stepping on Mines.”

The meaning of each number is the number of “bright squares”. In other words, when you see “9”, it means that the nine squares of the number are all bright squares. Otherwise, if you see “0”, the nine squares of the number are all “light squares”. “Dark grid”, as for the light grid and dark grid, you can switch between the light grid and the dark grid with the left and right mouse buttons.

Not difficult at all, right. However, the Demo version alone already has tens of thousands of grids waiting for you to process.

In other words, to complete a painting in the game, you need to patiently complete each grid. This process is indeed no different from embroidery.

It is worth mentioning that the level pictures of “Proverbs” are derived from “Netherlandish Proverbs”, which are oil paintings created by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel de Oude in 1559. The paintings depict a large number of people who were popular at that time. A popular proverb in the Netherlands, the themes in the paintings mostly depict human folly.

The independent game “Proverbs” has been recently released on Steam, with a standard price of NT$154. Players who are interested in playing an electronic landmine stepping embroidery game may consider trying it.