Grindstone
A colour-matching monster puzzle game up a mountain, with seeded daily leaderboard modes.
Every day: Daily Grind modes (now including the Fortune Grind and the Cosmic Grind) with a fixed seed for the day, so every player faces the same board, ranked on daily leaderboards. New puzzle: Once a day; the store does not state the time.
Grindstone is a colour-matching puzzle game from Capybara Games about slaying creeps and mining grindstones on Grindstone Mountain. Alongside 600-plus levels, its Daily Grind modes give everyone the same seeded setup each day and rank results on leaderboards.
About Grindstone
Grindstone, by Capybara Games, sends you up Grindstone Mountain, which is overrun with creeps. It is part colour-matching puzzle, part monster slaying: your job is to mine grindstones from the creeps, level by level. The campaign runs to more than 600 levels with bosses, hazards, blueprints for new gear, a boss-rush mode and a carnival wheel of fortune.
The daily side is the Daily Grind. According to the developers' design notes, it is a ranked mode with a daily leaderboard, built on a seed for each day. In the Fortune Grind, for example, every player starts with exactly the same enemies, hazards and rewards on the wheel, and only how big a chain you hit the wheel with changes what you get. The store lists three daily modes, and a May 2025 update added another, the Cosmic Grind.
It suits fans of match and chain puzzlers who want a short daily score attack with a lot of charm.
How to play Grindstone
- Buy and install Grindstone on Steam.
- Open the Daily Grind from the mountain map.
- Clear creeps by matching colours to slay them and mine grindstones.
- Finish the day's board for the best score you can and see your rank on the leaderboard.
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Tips
- Learn the campaign levels first: they teach the matching rules the dailies rely on.
- Learn each daily mode in turn: they reward different strategies.
- Gear crafted in the campaign helps, so progress the main game too.
Questions
Is the daily the same for everyone?
Yes. The developers describe a seed for each day, with every player starting from the same setup.
How many daily modes are there?
The store lists three; a 2025 update added the Cosmic Grind.
Is it free?
No, it is a paid game on Steam.
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