Games of the Year 2019: Grindstone's elemental fury makes it a great puzzler

Over the festive break we'll be running through our top 20 picks of the year's best games, leading up to the reveal of Eurogamer's game of the year on New Year's Eve. You can find all the pieces published to date here - and thanks for joining us throughout the year!

Puzzle games are no strangers to rage. They are bedfellows. It's slightly perverse, I think, that you can avenge a family member or push back alien forces threatening the entire planet without ever needing to leave the bubbly realm of pleasing busywork in some games, but puzzlers? These abstract voids of blocks and shapes and colours and numbers? These are the games that make you angry.

Grindstone is excellent in this regard. And I think there are (at least) two reasons for this.

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