Pacific Minesweeper

Pacific Minesweeper is a billiards game set on the Pacific seabed. You aim and shoot a remotely guided probe as the cue ball, using it to pot six numbered sea mines. Clear all six to finish a level and move on to a new table.

Aim and score

A guide line shows the probe’s path, which mine it will hit and where that mine will roll. Hold the button to charge the power bar, then release to shoot. You can aim with a mouse, keyboard or controller.

Each of the six pockets has a score multiplier from x1 to x6. The multipliers move to the next pocket at each level, and a mine’s score is calculated as level x mine number x pocket multiplier x 10.

Shots and lives

You have six shots per level on levels 1–3, five on levels 4–6, four on levels 7–14 and three from level 15 onward. A shot that pots no mine costs one shot; potting a mine restores all your shots. You start with four lives. Potting the probe, missing every mine or running out of shots costs a life, and the game ends when you have none left.

Choose a captain

Each captain has different rules and a distinct play style. Your choice is fixed for the duration of that game.

• Cpt. Valeria Moreau – Tactical (Salvager): Potting a mine salvages the shots you had left before that shot, adding them to the level’s shots. Salvaged shots carry over between levels, up to a total of nine. Losing a life removes them. Valeria starts with four lives and cannot earn more.
• Cpt. Douglas Blackwood – Aggressive (Sea Legs): Clear a level using full power for every shot and lose no lives to earn one life. A weaker shot or a lost life ends the chance to earn one for that level. Douglas starts with four lives and has no limit on lives earned.
• Cpt. Kinetic AI – Mathematical (Harpooner): Clear a level by potting at least one mine with every strike, without losing a life, to earn one life. A strike that pots no mine or a lost life ends the chance to earn one for that level. Kinetic AI starts with four lives and has no limit on lives earned.

Tables and cushions

The game has 14 tables, each with a different shape, including stadium, hexagon, cross, hourglass and island layouts. Realistic 3D ball physics govern rolling, bounces and collisions, while the moving pocket multipliers add a changing scoring challenge. The glass cushions crack in three stages when hit too hard, reducing the balls’ bounce a little with each stage; they start each level intact.

Records and achievements

Your best score can be entered in the worldwide Hall of Fame on Steam, which displays the top 15. Achievements reward clearing the first six levels. Games played with modified game files do not count toward the Hall of Fame.