grindy

adj

1. (informal)Resembling or characteristic of grinding.

   “a grindy noise”

   “And “Old P” had stuck, for the whole of the year that Tony had had her, as her grinding day by day got grindier and her spluttering splutterier.”

   “The songwriting is a bit more grindy than I recall on their other releases, but I’m into that anyway.”

   “I head for the door, but instantly the bumping, gurgling diesel sound gets louder, grindier, it becomes more frantic, and I do too.”

   “[T]he gun had stopped firing and started making a horrible grinding noise and burping out thick, stinky smoke. […] The grinding got grindier.”

2. (informal)Involving a lot of repetition in order to progress.

   “HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better.”

   “Greed will get players to do interesting things. They will grind their way through the grindiest MMOs to get that stronger sword, that unique hat, gain that next level.”

   “[T]he student may have sufficient time to spend hours on even the ‘grindiest’ of games or, elsewhere, the mundanities of working life intervene.”

   “Beware, as these achievements can feel “grindy” unless there is a worthwhile reward attached.”

   “Some players seem to think that grindy content has been put in on purpose to pad out play […]”