Grounded - Survival on ant size

12 September 2020, 19:09 / by Tom Schwiha
Grounded - Survival on ant size

In Grounded, the yard behind the house is a dangerous place. No one should be afraid of spiders here. Because in the new game by role-playing experts Obsidian Entertainment, they hunt the player. Insects as big as a human, a base made of grass and weeds. Shrunk to the size of an ant, you can experience a weird survival adventure alone or with a friend.

Grounded has been available in Early Access on Steam and Xbox One since July 28, 2020. Within two days, more than one million players had downloaded the title. In the Steam charts, Grounded has landed directly in first place. The full version is not due to be released until 2021, with Obsidian Entertainment planning to release monthly updates in the meantime. They want to improve the game more flexibly with feedback from the community. The first update will be released on August 27, 2020.
At the beginning of the Early Access phase, about 20 percent of the storyline is included. There are currently three large climatic zones (grassland, hedge, mistland). Both the co-op and single player modes are already integrated. Weapons and armor have two levels and there are at least ten types of insects. For those players who are afraid of spiders, there is a small all clear. The game has an arachnophobia mode that allows the player to decide how frightening the spiders should look.
In the surreal survival game, the player takes on the role of a teenager who has suddenly become as small as an ant. Together with his friends, he wants to find out why they have all shrunk. For this purpose, they enter the dangerously large world of a backyard. The player can play the adventure from a first-person perspective or from a third-person perspective. He builds his base and explores the dangerous world, improving his equipment and weapons as he goes.

Anyone who likes classic survival games will like this title. The setting offers something new and also appeals to players who like it more eccentric. Apart from the fact that the game is even more fun in co-op. Those who have always wanted to experience the world from the perspective of the smallest creatures will certainly spend many hours in Grounded.

Grounded is the new game from Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of The Outer Worlds, a surprise title from 2019 that not surprisingly evokes their earlier success Fallout: New Vegas. The studio is known and loved for its Neverwinter Nights series. It created South Park: The Stick of Truth. Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire also belong to its remarkable backlist. Grounded is the first title Obisian Entertainment has released under the Xbox Games Studios. Therefore, it will be released exclusively for Windows and the Xbox One and Xbox Series X.

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