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Grindstone

Capy Games
Dec 15, 2020 - Nintendo Switch
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OpenCritic Rating

86

Top Critic Average

94%

Critics Recommend

Metro GameCentral
9 / 10
TheSixthAxis
9 / 10
IGN Italy
8 / 10
God is a Geek
9 / 10
PlayStation Universe
9 / 10
Screen Rant
4 / 5
Nintendo Life
8 / 10
NintendoWorldReport
9 / 10
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Critic Reviews for Grindstone

Metro GameCentral

GameCentral
9 / 10
Metro GameCentral

One of the best puzzle games of the last decade, with its mix of tactical puzzle-solving, extreme violence, and charming visuals.

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Grindstone is a puzzle classic, and Capybara Games have ensured that its transition to PS5 is flawless.

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Another hit puzzle game from Capybara Games. Not on par with their Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, yet a very fine experience.

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A puzzling masterpiece, Grindstone is easy to learn but hard to master. With a ridiculous amount of content and varied gameplay, Grindstone is the total package.

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Grindstone is one of the most addictive games I have played this year. A beautiful presentation melded with a rewarding, visceral gameplay loop makes you not want to put it down. Grindstone is a bright, Saturday morning cartoon where you can meet weird people, and chop up endles amount of cute characters, what's not to like? I cannot recommend it enough, Grindstone is brilliant.

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The Apple Arcade showpiece arrives on Nintendo's portable.

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Nintendo Life

Stuart Gipp
8 / 10
Nintendo Life

Compelling to a fault, with a hypnotic and exhilarating central conceit, Grindstone is a tiny bit special. Hopefully, it won't be dismissed by players for being a mobile port, or being mistaken for a "match-three" game akin to Candy Crush – it's not. A full-featured, elegantly designed experience, Capybara's action-puzzle-tactics game is a tiny marvel and we'd strongly recommend it to any and all Switch owners. Ever-so-slight resource exhaustion is the only thing letting it down, but it's easily forgiven when smashing seven shades of shawarma out of creeps is so flipping fun. We say it's time to reverse that well-worn idiom and put your yes to the Grindstone.

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Grindstone is an example of a game which hits all the right notes and keeps up a quality in gameplay throughout that many struggle to maintain. The divine gameplay mechanics give a wonderful sense of control in spite of the randomness of how enemies fall, and the inputs of buying equipment or using currency to give temporary boosts gives ample opportunity for improvisation if things don't go quite your way. I only wish there were more to play.

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