What the hell is this game. Haven't been sucked into addiction like this in ages. Sometimes when I have to force myself to quit this game to finally find some sleep (which Grindstone is great at ruining as all the endorphines being spread when chaining your endless combo-splatter-chains)
this really did catch me off guard when I was just following a recommendation after activating that 3-month trial of the Apple Arcade. I do believe that theres nothing on AA coming even close. Like Last Campfire is an absolutely beautiful piece of game but I just lost interest after a while as I felt I played too many games like this before. Grindstone might also use similar triggers as some other of these block-rocking games, but it expands this principle through almost RPGlike fighting mechanics which sound just as weird as it is fun. I wish I could just buy this game standalone but will just continue playing it day for day and am still waiting for the fatigue to emerge at my gaminghorizon but so far theres a constant and steady flow of new ideas and concepts to spice up the gameplay which at its core remains very solid and pretty much always the same at an almost laughable simplictity.

Reviewed on Aug 16, 2022


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