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Grounded is one of the most unique survival games I’ve played. Instead of yet another forest or island setting, it shrinks you down to ant-size and drops you into a backyard full of danger, charm, and creativity. What makes it so fun is how ordinary objects and insects feel massive and threatening: spiders become horror bosses, and blades of grass become towering walls. Building is easily the highlight: you start with small shelters, then end up creating bases, towers, ziplines, and defenses that feel genuinely rewarding. The game can be tough at the start, with a steep learning curve and a fair bit of resource grinding, but once you push through, it opens up into a world full of exploration, story, and endless replayability. Playing solo is fun, but co-op adds even more laughs and chaos, and the community maps keep things fresh long after finishing the main story. Overall, Grounded blends survival, creativity, and childhood wonder into a game that feels both familiar and completely new.
Honestly, Grounded surprised me in the best way. At first, I thought it was just another survival game, but shrinking down and surviving in the backyard is way more fun than I expected. The best part for me is building. You start simple with a base, but before long you’re setting up ziplines across the map to move resources faster or building crazy towers to reach spots that felt impossible at the start or setting up defensive bases to beat certain encounters. Setting up this whole network feels awesome because it makes everything so much easier later on and it’s very rewarding. Replayability is huge here. You can go through the story or just mess around and build the ultimate base. Every run feels a little different – you can make friends with ant queen, you can betray and poison them, you get to enchant your gear and try to fight bosses. Once you finish the main stuff, the community maps keep things fresh. The devs actually promote custom maps regularly, so there’s almost always something new to check out if you’re into that. Graphics are really nice too. The game looks clean and colorful without overdoing it. The backyard feels alive with all the little details – water droplets, giant blades of grass, bugs crawling around. It’s just pleasant to look at, which makes spending hours in the game way easier. Overall, Grounded hits that perfect mix of survival, building and exploration. It can get intense when you run into giant spiders, but that’s part of the fun. If you like games where you can build cool stuff, plan out big projects and keep finding new things to do even after finishing the main story, I highly recommend it. Honestly, for the price and the amount of content (plus community stuff), it’s a solid buy.
I didn’t play this game all the way through but I honestly haven’t had more laughs and silliness than I did playing this with friends. We were constantly in peril, running from spiders and trying to avoid getting gulped up by a giant fish. It was a really good time. If you want something with a good story, silly characters, and good laughs? This is it. Just.. beware the spooders~!
Imagine waking up in your backyard… but you’re the size of a Tic Tac, and everything wants you dead. That’s Grounded in a nutshell. It’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets Survival 101, and it’s way more intense than it has any right to be.
At first, I thought it’d be a chill crafting game. Build a tiny house out of grass? Fight the occasional ladybug? Easy. Then I met a wolf spider the size of a Honda Civic, and suddenly, my “chill” game turned into a survival horror film.
What makes Grounded weirdly addictive is how grounded (sorry) it feels. You’re not a superhero, just a shrunken teen trying to survive in a world where ants will steal your food and bees make you rethink your whole existence. Gathering resources feels rewarding, base-building is a legit flex, and exploring the backyard slowly reveals a surprisingly deep story. Yes, there’s lore. Real, juicy, bug-sized lore.
Playing solo is fun, but playing with friends? Chaos. Beautiful, scream-filled chaos. Nothing bonds you like hiding in a juice box while yelling about stinkbugs.
I started Grounded during finals week. Bad idea. Ten hours later, I had an acorn helmet, a mushroom farm, and zero pages written for my essay.
I still remember watching Honey, I Shrunk the Kids as a child, an adventure where a simple twig became a bridge and an ant could be a trusted companion. Years later, toooo many years later, Grounded captures that childhood wonder, but wraps it in a survival experience filled with humor, danger, and creativity. Grab your courage (and a blade of grass), and prepare to dive into the wild backyard jungle, because here, everything is bigger than you, literally.
In Grounded, you play as a teenager mysteriously shrunk down and lost in a backyard that transforms into a vast and hostile wilderness. The story slowly unfolds through audio logs, hidden labs, and the mysterious Ominent corporation. While narrative isn’t front and center, it adds a sense of purpose to your survival and fuels your curiosity throughout the journey.
Gameplay is built around classic survival mechanics: gathering resources, crafting tools, building shelters, managing hunger and thirst. What makes the game shine is how it reimagines everyday backyard elements into massive, dangerous, and sometimes awe-inspiring landmarks. You’ll craft armor from bug shells, brew potions with sap, and sneak past terrifying spiders that feel like towering bosses at your scale. If you’re afraid of insects, or worse, arachnophobic, brace yourself: Grounded doesn’t hold back when it comes to giant creepy crawlies. Facing them will require courage… and maybe a friend or two to scream with ! (Niahahahahaha. ehum, sorry)
Visually, Grounded is delightful. Its cartoonish art style blends beautifully with highly detailed environments, turning every leaf into a canopy and every water droplet into a precious resource. The lighting effects, like sunrays filtering through blades of grass, really enhance the sense of scale and immersion.
Not everything is perfect, though. Objectives and some crafting aspects can be a bit unclear at times. And while enemy AI is generally decent, some bugs (the literal kind) behave in odd ways occasionally. Still, nothing truly breaks the experience.
All in all, Grounded is an original, charming, and immersive survival adventure. Whether you’re feeling nostalgic for backyard adventures or simply looking for a fun survival experience, this game offers a small-scale world with epic potential.
Grounded is such an imaginative adventure game, especially with others! The huge open world is filled with fun things to play with (since you’re tiny, you can get really creative!) The building and crafting is super interesting and gives lots more ways to experiment! Co-op works wonderfully and feels so cool to explore around in the big world together! The graphics are colourful and the sceneries are beautiful in this perspective! The size difference is very unique and makes the enemies you find doubly more interesting to see and learn how to fight or tame! The game is a little bit hard and unbalanced at the beginning, but in a way it also feels realistic, working from nothing and now being among these creatures with no information about how they would fight you now that you’re smaller too!
What starts off as a honey I shrunk the kids game becomes what I only can describe as a dark souls hell in the second half. The Grind can be crazy at times but if you love bugs then you will enjoy Grounded
I was pleasantly surprised by this. The building system is fun and you get thrown right into the action to explore the world and survive. The world is pretty, if a bit cartoony. I found some of the aspects aimed at more junior audiences a bit abrasive (having an American announcer yell SCIENCE every time I research something).
The one thing that felt odd was the more linear style of the game. But that’s more because I assumed it was more a sandbox survival game like rust or ark or Conan. In play, it feels more like green hell as a survival story line.
The spiders are hands down absolutely terrifying. Combat is decent but the equipment gain vs challenge can be a bit rough. Also, the resource grind for building becomes a chore in later stages.
I played this game solo and with friends, I had so much fun. I am not a good base builder, you could say I’m basic 🙂 the bases I build are mostly just a platform yet very adequate. I loved that the only thing that affected my ‘base’ was bug attacks, which could be remedied quickly. In some games I struggle to ‘snap’ the next piece to the ‘base’, but in Grounded I had no issue with it.
I found the bugs interesting and pretty close to their real-life likeness with some cute changes visually. The noises they made often had me giggling and wondering how the creator came up with them. I imagined the creator crawling around the garden with a tiny mic lol
In all, I found it a fun game with or without friends, and the fact you can choose difficulty is a plus for this old Lady.
Grounded is the game you didn’t imagine you needed until it came out, because I don’t think anyone had enough imagination or balls to develop such an ambitious game. It is a unique game of its kind where enormous exploration is mixed with enormous amounts of facilities equipped with pure history of the game. It is openly a survival but with “lore” or story throughout the entire map, where it is not that only if you pay close attention you will understand how the hand comes or you should watch some explanatory video… Here the game gives you ALL the tools to know what is happening to you, why it is happening and what you have to do to try to end it. In practically all its aspects the game seems like a 10 to me, except for the difficulty part. I do not consider that the difficulty is at its maximum score to be something positive, but rather something disproportionately negative. I recommend you buy this little gem on Steam, and if you still have doubts about living this experience, let’s go into detail.
Huge exploration, everything within reach of the player’s focus but at the same time so distant. You are not aware of the true distance from one point to another. Any object that you can imagine in a courtyard is there in Grounded and not only does it visually enrich the map but 90% of them would tell you that it is interactive (either because it contains things for the inventory, because it hides something else or because it can be interact directly with it).
But what is the best thing about exploration? The physics of this blessed game. Our characters are the size of an ant, with the same weight (or less) than them, so not only can we but we will do (of our own free will) parkour among bushes, grass and stones because it can be done and it feels too good . Even though sometimes we go faster running on the ground, we are going to get on a grass and we are going to jump from one to another because the physics are crazy. Because then a big bug passes by (spider, ladybug, beetle) and just by touching the grass it will move everything (if you are on top it will knock you over), while if a bug of our size or us ourselves passes by, the grass will not he’s going to flinch.
What do I mean by a huge exploration? Dozens of objects, 78 milk molars, 45 gold molars, 52 SCA.Bs, more than 100 notes and images that correspond 100% with the lore (story) of the game, dozens of collectibles and 4 hidden bosses (in addition to all the of history). Does the map look bigger now?
Grounded is an amazing game that shrinks player to the size of a bug and creates an awesome adventure right in your own backyard. It has survival elements, combat elements and a coop mod. The game is unique and beautiful and is definitely worth checking out.
Grounded is a big, beautiful and dangerous place, especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. The game is made by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios. Grounded will allow you to thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects & fighting to survive the backyard. You can face the backyard alone, together, online or with up to three friends but not only that, but they added the Shared Worlds feature, you can continue to play in your shared world even if the original host is not on, with all your progression saved! Which is great when everyone can’t play at the same time.
Grounded has a storyline to can play solo or with a friend. You can build a base, trap or other things with also crafting Items & weapons with healing items. Grounded has many bosses & bugs for you to fight and run from. You can also replay the game many times with 4 different characters to pick from with their own storylines, interests & voice lines you can hear when playing.
Grounded is great! You should try this game. I had a great time. Thanks Obsidian Entertainment.
As a dedicated survival fan, I am always on the lookout for something new, something exciting but something that scratches that all too familiar itch. Grounded does this and then some. First off, if you don’t like survival games, this may be a survival game for you. The settings and difficulty adjustments make it so anyone can jump in and learn the ropes without drowning. This may not be for you, but I have my doubts. Obsidian is well known for their story driven games that leave players wanting more and this is no exception. Without spoiling the entire story, just know it is astounding. Every time I think I have a complaint or critique, I find out it’s already in the game. The devs seem to really listen to the community and that is a huge thing with all the hot garbage AAA games we are being water tortured with. This game is not just a great survival game, but also a great game. Period.
I would definitely recommend and I can’t wait to have time to do a coop playthrough. Did I mention it has that? Yeah, it does. You’re welcome.
Those who have played a lot of games will probably feel a sense of deja vu with this world, but you have the mental toughness and skill (both of which are owned by you), and you don’t need Pikmin.
The story is surrealistic, sort of like an impression from Bioshok and Fallout, and while it’s easy to get used to, it’s hard to get into your head where it is not bothered you into this game.
The game’s difficulty level is rather a challenge, to be honest you shouldn’t hesitate to throw away your moral and do cheesing.
Still, by the end of the game, you will be surely stronger, both physically and mentally, you will doubt yourself at the beginning of the game!
I recommend this game and apologize to those who did not like this game.
It is a fun game.
Now you can play and be part of Honey I Shrunk the Kids! This game was developed of that movie. The developers are from Obsidian but are a small group that has a great relationship with the Grounded Community.
You start off as one of four characters that have been shrunk down to the size of a bug. Now you are faced with finding out bits of information of what happened and how to change the shrinking process. Craft tools, weapons, armor, food, bases and more to help you survive the backyard! Weapon and Armor upgrades and traits that will give you an advantage on certain bugs but not have any effect on others. Grounded is a game on constant learning and adapting to the environment such as diving Underwater, dealing with Deadly Gas, or living for more than 30 seconds in Extreme Heat.
Explore and fight Solo or with up to Three other friends in Co-op play. The more friends you bring with you, the difficulty level ramps up in fights!
I have been following and playing Grounded and creating content for it since Early Access Beta and have gone through the Highs and Lows of the development of the game. I have to say I have stayed with Grounded for the 2+ year journey because it is FUN!
Grounded is set in a backyard and you have shrunken down to the size of an ant.
Most survival games are set in a forest or on an island or Canada for some reason, and there are many backyards in these games but what if that backyard was the entire game map? This is probably what Obsidian Entertainment thought when they were developing this game.
The developers over at Obsidian Entertainment clearly thought outside the box for this game, from the game’s biomes to enemies it all fits within the setting without standing out. From a BBQ that is fallen over to a bug spree can that is leaking and creating toxic gas they create environments that I would never think of. This is probably what interests me the most about the game.
Of course you need something to do and most survival games go beyond the survival aspect these days and Grounded is no exception to this. Your main goal is to find out a way to grow back to normal size, but besides the main quest goal you can also unlock side quests although most of these are kill or fetch quests. There are also a lot of different building materials to unlock and building in this game is really simple. The main issue I always face in most survival games when building is that there is no good flat area to build on. Grounded found this simple fix of not only being able to raise the building with foundations like most others but also to build through the floor of the map so that walls line up really nicely and there are no gaps in your build. The is also no shortage of building materials, over the course of the game you can analyze any material and this will unlock more buildings and decorations (as well as weapons and armor).
Grounded also has a couple of bosses you can summon and these really test your skills in the game since they are pretty tough.
My main issue with the game is that it does not clearly convey what the next material is that you need in order to upgrade to the next level. But luckily the map is not all too large so you can find out what you need rather quickly if you start exploring.
Grounded is a really good survival game and it has multiplayer so you have someone that can help you while you run away screaming from the huge spiders.