Sunlight beams through towering blades of grass and illuminates the ground with a warm, orange hue that makes you want to cosy up with a blanket. Surviving another night and killing a stinkbug might give you the parts you need to make a gas mask, unlocking a new part of the garden that you couldn't explore before that's filled with new materials and mysteries to uncover.Įxploring is a real treat, too, because Grounded's garden is gorgeous. Getting through the day just to scoff down a tin of beans, or a lump of roasted gnat, in Grounded's case? Nah, thanks, I'd rather just get munched on by one of those spiders and get it over and done with. Grounded offers a metroidvania approach to exploration that genuinely rewards survival, rather than making it a dull goal that pads out your playtime. You can find supplies, get better gear, and uncover new parts of the garden filled with secrets that advance the main quest and guide you towards the next set of craftable goodies. Grounded's main quest, which tasks you with exploring science labs scattered around the garden to find some way to grow back to normal size, gives surviving a purpose. You make a base to hide from the beasties, and store lots of items in neat little stacks, somehow maintaining some semblance of control and organisation despite the fact that almost everything in the world is out to eat you and those spiders are fucking massive.
You hunt for food and water so that you can, well, survive. Is that what they said in the 80s?įor most of your time with Grounded, the main loop might feel similar to any other survival game that you've enjoyed over the past decade. My thoughts in tiny form, after getting zapped by a weird sci-fi shrink ray? Grounded is rad. If you stopped playing upon first meeting that spider back in 2020, then it's time to jump back in. That means the wolf spider that I mentioned earlier is big enough to elicit the loudest of screams, as you probably already know. Only, those shoes actually look normal size from your new perspective, and everything else looks huge. Grounded is a 1980's themed "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" survival scenario that puts you in the very tiny shoes of four shrunken kids.
With two years of updates layering new enemies, items, biomes, dungeons, and quests onto that healthy foundation, Grounded has blossomed into a perennial survival game that sits comfortably among the very best of the genre. The story wasn't complete and the garden was rather basic, but one encounter with the wolf spider proved that this was far more than a pile of mulch. When Grounded released into early access a little over two years ago, it immediately became a personal favourite. From: Steam, Microsoft Store, Xbox Game Pass.Grounded is an incredibly rewarding survival experience that constantly pushes you into new areas of its reactive world, filled with insect inhabitants that are some of the best baddies in gaming.
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