
Grindstone is a puzzle game where epic adventures are just your 9-to-5. It’s your job to mine grindstones from the Creeps that lurk on the mountain in over 600 levels of intricate puzzles and hazards, all in the hopes of saving up enough grindstones to take your family on a much needed vacation.
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Grindstone Mountain is overrun with vicious Creeps! Part color-matching, part monster-slaying ridiculousness, in Grindstone it’s your job to mine grindstones from the Creeps that lurk on the mountain. Slay your way up the treacherous peak by completing over 600 levels of intricate puzzles and hazards, besting bosses and exploring a variety of weird and wonderful locations along the way.
As your tackle the challenges of Grindstone Mountain, you'll also discover long-lost blueprints to craft powerful new gear, unlock a challenging boss-rush mode, try your luck at the wheel of fortune in a creepy carnival, and have the chance to prove your prowess on the leaderboards of three daily modes.
Your musical maestro throughout Grindstone is Sam Webster, composer of the game's widely-acclaimed original soundtrack.
Grindstone is a game of sword-slashing puzzle battles from the award-winning creators of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Super Time Force Ultra, BELOW, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Critter Crunch!

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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese +2 more
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Fantastic Game! Love the animations and art style and the gameplay is very addicting. Simple to learn, difficult to master. I also picked it up for the Switch!
This game was the first game to have me so engaged in the context of videogaming. I don't think any other game can reach that for me. Although the game is designed very well and overall appealing, it is def too vivid in terms of colours and other stimuli. Overall, very enjoyable!
Hey. I fell in love with this game on Apple Arcade. In my opinion, it’s one of the best casual games out there. I’m really glad they released it on Steam, because I was basically paying for Apple Arcade just to play this game. That said, the interface and gameplay still feel very “mobile-first.” I’m not sure I’d be ready to pay the full Steam price if I didn’t already have previous experience with it.
对上脑电波,玩的特别爽,量大管饱。 一笔画的消消乐游戏,策略性拉满
Grindstone is a very good puzzle game with an excellent hook, plenty of items to unlock, unique graphical style, works perfectly with a mouse and your progress is saved mid run. However, like many games that started life on Apple Arcade, it stretches the content it has very thin with the intention of keeping you subscribed, something that is no longer needed with a one time purchase on steam. I lost count how many worlds/puzzles there are but the store mentions more than 250 puzzles. That might sound like a standard number for many puzzle games but here, each puzzle can take a long time, especially if you’re trying to get all the chests and crowns. This is best illustrated with the final boss for each world. There is one that is recycled and used so many times, a lot of the game is recycling old content to create ‘new puzzles’. There are some new gimmicks once in a while, but they don’t feel enough. Really though, that’s the only issue I have with the game. I still put 44 hours in it, got all the achievements and got 100% on most worlds. I did end up skipping the caves after the third one, you get a cave with each world, a cave has 10 puzzles that give more loot for crafting. The achievements are generally okay, you just need to know of them ahead of time so you can work your way towards them. A lot comes naturally. The normal price of around €17 is debatable, you certainly get the hours if you complete all or most puzzles but a lot of it is recycled. I’m happy with having paid around €3 for it on steam. I still recommend the game when you play it in short bursts and when it’s on sale. I started playing the game in March and am finally done with it in November.
First played this when it was on apple arcade and it hooked me. Eventually I stopped using apple arcade, but when I found this game on steam I knew I had to get it. It's basically candy crush puzzle brain rot. But I like the art style and the puzzle method. It's a good puzzle game to do when you don't want to think or want to half pay attention to a movie. It's a good time.
I played a ton of this on the Svitch and just recently grabbed it for the Deck. It is a perfect puzzle game- extremely accessible but with a great deal of depth as it is constantly layering on new mechanics to manipulate, lots of variety in modes (a fun sort of story mode contextualizing the slaying around a manual labor occupation, endless modes, challenges, dailies, weeklies, etc.), customization via abilities and cosmetics that also have various uses and stats tied to them, as well as a town that gradually opens up more and more functionality and characters. The art is super charming and the music is pleasant. Really can't praise this enough. Do it for little Harry.
One of my favourite games on Switch. Had to buy it for Steam as well :)
La única pega que le puedo poner es que no se termina.
非常吃时间的一款休闲游戏,很上头,玩了就想一直玩,从这个角度来说不适合摸鱼。 美术和关卡设计实在是没什么可挑剔的,理论上不贪就不会卡关,感觉喜欢扫雷连连看这类益智游戏的会特别喜欢。
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