I love minesweeper & this is such an interesting twist to it! This also reminds me of Balatro lol. I really liked this game. I also really liked the cards and the programming theme.
Also, just wanted to say:
1- Not sure if it’s intentional but the settings you choose in the menu does not apply in the actual game. For example, I turned off CRT and glow in the menu, but when I clicked start, the settings reverted. I think they’re separate. This happened to me too before, I think its a quick fix if you look into it but idk much about how to code in Unity.
2- It’s not game breaking but you might want to know: in the web for itch.io in general, pressing esc forces the game to exit full screen mode before what you code it to do. Pressing esc to open the settings will be ignored by itch.io unless it exited full screen mode which may break immersion for the player. I would suggest to have an alternative way to open the settings (when I made this feedback for another game they changed the esc to tab). Its up to you though! It’s not that big of a deal, but you may prefer the game not to be that way.
3- I really appreciate the click/space to make the intro faster, a lot of people don’t do that.
4- I would also suggest sliders for the CRT and glow effect instead of just a tick box to remove them if possible. I like them so I’d like them to be able to make them less strong instead of just removing them. It’s up to you though! Having a functional options menu is already great (I need to stop procrastinating adding them to my own games).
Great work on the game! It’s very cool.