What you need to know
- Grounded first released into early access in 2020.
- A survival game, Grounded shrinks players down to the size of bugs.
- Obsidian revealed during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase that Grounded will release into 1.0 in September.
It’s been a long time coming. After spending around two years in early access, Obsidian is ready to present Grounded to the world fully. The studio announced during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase that Grounded 1.0 will be releasing in September 2022 on Xbox and PC.
People will now be able to play through the full campaign complete with new armor recipes, new weapon recipes, and the giant Mantis insect. Players will finally be able to find out why they’ve been shrunk and the “mad scientist” behind it, as Obsidian puts it.
Grounded is a survival game where players are shrunk down to the size of bugs, not unlike what people may be familiar with from the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In either first or third-person, players can team up and survive in a backyard full of threats like spiders, bees, and more.
Interestingly, Grounded also made the news for having a dedicated arachnophobia mode, allowing players to toggle various aspects of the spiders on and off depending on their preferences.
