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Grounded

 Xbox Series X
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83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

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  • Summary: The world is a vast, beautiful, and dangerous place especially when you have been shrunken to the size of an ant. Explore, build, and survive together in this cooperative survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?The world is a vast, beautiful, and dangerous place especially when you have been shrunken to the size of an ant. Explore, build, and survive together in this cooperative survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
    - Reactive World and Insect Life -
    Explore this immersive and persistent world, where the insect life reacts to your actions.

    - Base Building and Crafting -
    Shelter and tools are critical to your survival. Build epic bases to protect you and your stuff from the insects and the elements. Craft weapons, tools, and armor, allowing you to better fight, explore and survive.

    - Online Co-op -
    You can face the backyard alone or together, online, with up to three friends - it is your choice.

    - Campaign -
    Uncover the secrets lurking in the shadows of Grounded as you freely explore the backyard and progress through its mysterious story.    … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. IGN
    Sep 28, 2022
    90
    Grounded is a fantastic survival game with a killer premise, rewarding progression, and boundless creativity that even a host of bugs can’t spoil.
  2. Windows Central
    Sep 26, 2022
    90
    Grounded concluded its early access tenure with one final update to pull everything together and add hours of fresh new content, resulting in one of the best games of 2022. Grounded is bound to inspire other titles in the survival genre for years to come.
  3. MondoXbox
    Sep 26, 2022
    85
    Grounded is a deep and compelling survival game that immerses us in a fascinating world waiting to be explored, full of challenges and graced by an excellent co-op mode. It's a game that doesn't hold the player by hand, and for this reason it can often leave you stumped requiring a lot of tenacity and patience, but it can also offer great rewards. Recommended for survival game fans and newbies alike, especially those eager to enjoy it with friends.
  4. Multiplayer.it
    Sep 26, 2022
    83
    Quotation forthcoming.
  5. LevelUp
    Sep 27, 2022
    80
    Grounded has great ideas and delivers a truly entertaining experience. It is one of those games that are made for you to start a game and get lost for hours while you get resources, improve your tools and build the best base of all together with your friends. What started as a small and crazy idea evolved into an exceptional survival that shines with great strength.
  6. Vandal
    Sep 26, 2022
    80
    Quotation forthcoming.
  7. GamesRadar+
    Sep 26, 2022
    70
    Grounded has always been a solid idea on paper, but Obsidian brings that potential to full fruition for launch, delivering on the thrills and fun of its brilliantly Spielbergian conceit.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 2 out of 19
  1. edgarMejia
    Sep 28, 2022
    10
    El arte me recuerda mucho a It takes two, la ambientación y la banda sonora son muy buenas.
  2. BanjoBoox
    Sep 29, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best Game ever! Groundead 10/10 .........................................
    obsidian has created a masterpiece of survival games, the game Groundead is more rpg than Q a survival game indeed! this world so unique so small is great in every corner that is explored, congratulations to obsidian    … Expand
  4. RageGameing
    Sep 28, 2022
    10
    Great combat great story game full of bugs everywhere buy this game now or play on gamepass
  5. Lemillion75
    Sep 29, 2022
    10
    Very very pleasantly surprised by this game. A really gem. I love the risk taking from the studio. Well done XBox !
  6. Pelle69420
    Sep 29, 2022
    10
    REALLY AWESOME holy **** Finally a great first party game from Xbox this year and it amazed me! Grounded's story and survival elements mixedREALLY AWESOME holy **** Finally a great first party game from Xbox this year and it amazed me! Grounded's story and survival elements mixed with unique gameplay makes this one of the best survival games I have played in the last years. Also one of my favourite obisidan games only behind fallout new vegas. Amazing price aswell and day one on game pass… Expand
  7. Nikop23
    Sep 28, 2022
    9
    I had about 30 hours in to this game in preview and really enjoyed it.

    Just started on the full release and the changes from the preview are    I had about 30 hours in to this game in preview and really enjoyed it.

    Just started on the full release and the changes from the preview are small but welcome.

    If you like survival games you can't go wrong here. Diverse biomes necessitateing connecting of different gear keep you exploring for materials. Building your homestead is fun, and the quests are not over bearing. The game just let you have fun! I highly recommend giving it a go.    … Expand
  8. DinaSousa
    Sep 29, 2022
    0
    Grounded is a game I had high hopes for but let me down. The controls are very wonky, the music is very average and I get get the game to bootGrounded is a game I had high hopes for but let me down. The controls are very wonky, the music is very average and I get get the game to boot for more than an hour without crashing.… Expand

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