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===Save game data location===
 
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==Video==
 
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Latest revision as of 18:21, 9 April 2024

Grindstone
Grindstone cover
Developers
Capybara Games
Engines
Unity 2020[Note 1]
Release dates
macOS (OS X) October 10, 2019
Windows May 20, 2021[2]
Reception
OpenCritic 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Controls Point and select
Genres Puzzle
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Fantasy
Grindstone on HowLongToBeat
Grindstone on IGDB
Grindstone on MobyGames
Grindstone on Wikipedia

Grindstone is a singleplayer puzzle game.

General information

Developer Discord server
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
Epic Games Launcher
Windows
Mac App Store
Icon overlay.png
Included with Apple Arcade.
macOS (OS X)
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
A demo is available on store display iMacs in some electronics stores.[3]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Capybara Games\Grindstone
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1818690/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Epic Games Launcher %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Capybara Games\Grindstone\EpicSaves
Steam
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1818690/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Game settings (1/2)
Game settings (1/2)
Game settings (2/2)
Game settings (2/2)

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Latin American Spanish
Turkish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11 Direct3D 12 can be forced using the -force-d3d12 command line argument.[6]
Executable 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
According to Go64.[5]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD, Resonance Audio
Input InControl
Cutscenes WebM
Multiplayer Epic Online Services Used for leaderboards.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 900 MB
Video card (GPU) Integrated
2 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.15
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 713.7 MB
A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2020.3.8f1[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Cn9740 on 2022-05-22
  2. Coming to PC on May 20th! (r/Grindstone) - last accessed on 2021-05-14
  3. Verified by User:Dandelion Sprout on 09 September 2021
    Confirmed first-hand at Power Tiller in Trondheim, Norway.
  4. Verified by User:Cn9740 on 2022-05-22
  5. Verified by User:Dandelion Sprout on 28 March 2022
  6. Verified by User:Cn9740 on 2022-05-22