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Shrunk to insect size, you scavenge, craft, and fight your way across a sprawling park, alone or with friends—and ride bugs.
Released 29 Jul 2025
Ride Fighting Bugs
Build Underwater Bases
Explore a Giant Park
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, Eidos-Montréal · Published by Xbox Game Studios
Players return to a world where people have been shrunk to insect size. Explore a sprawling park filled with oversized plants, insects, and manmade spaces, playing solo or in co-op.
Gather and analyze resources, craft weapons and armor, and prepare for fights against the park’s creatures. Choose an archetype to shape your abilities, then improve your gear as you find materials and unlock upgrades.
Build shelters and larger bases to protect your supplies and support expeditions, including underwater trips. Hatch, raise, and ride insect buggies to travel, fight alongside them, or help collect resources; Playgrounds also lets players make and share custom challenges.
Players who enjoy the game often praise exploring its larger park, building bases, crafting gear, and surviving encounters with oversized insects. Buggy mounts stand out as a distinctive addition for travel, combat, and hauling resources, while co-op is frequently described as a fun way to share the adventure. Some reviewers also like the expanded creatures and combat, though many qualify their praise with concerns about performance, glitches, or the amount of content available in Early Access.
When you've been shrunk to the size of an ant, what was once familiar is now a wild, uncharted frontier. Traverse sprawling manmade spaces overgrown with nature with buggies that can fight alongside with you, uncover hidden secrets, and fight to survive in a world much larger than the backyard. The playground may seem familiar, but beneath its bright colors and towering structures lie mysteries hidden in plain sight. Are you ready to uncover them?
Survive, Adapt, Overcome
The world is relentless, but so are you. Shape your adventure with unique archetypes, each offering distinct abilities to match your playstyle. Whether you rely on precision, cunning, or sheer strength, you’ll need every advantage to survive against the threats lurking in the park.
Stronger Together
The perils of the park are daunting alone, but with friends, every challenge becomes an adventure. Work together to build, fight, and uncover the secrets buried beneath the grass. Whether you’re facing danger side by side or continuing your journey in a shared world, survival is always better with allies.
Walking is Bogus - Introducing Buggies
They scurry, they fight, and now—they help you survive. Hatch, raise, and ride your own insect friends - buggies! Saddle up and ride through the park, command them in battle, or have them help gather resources. The right partner could mean the difference between thriving and barely surviving.
Big Baddies of the Park
The park is home to creatures other than the bugs you know and love. AXL, the tarantula, and the Lizard stand as apex predators that demand preparation, strategy, and courage. The snake is a different kind of challenge. To master it, you will need to learn its patterns, ride it, and harvest its scales. And let's not forget about the bird. Every encounter makes you stronger. Claim rare materials, craft powerful gear, and unlock upgrades that push you further into a world built to overwhelm you.
Playgrounds
Survival is only the beginning. With Playgrounds, you can build your own challenges using powerful tools that shape combat, puzzles, and unpredictable encounters. Download, play, and vote on community creations to discover new ways to test your skills. The park is no longer just a place to survive. It is a place to create.
Home Sweet Home
The park is yours to claim. Build everything from simple shelters to sprawling fortresses that keep you safe from the dangers outside. But don't limit yourself to just dry land. Create fully underwater bases to support long expeditions, expand your reach into the depths, and make every corner of the park a cozy little home.
A Shadow That Follows You
The threat is always there—watching, learning, waiting. You don’t know where it’s coming from, only that it never leaves. The deeper you dig, the closer it gets. Some mysteries should stay buried, but it’s too late now. It knows you’re looking. And it’s ready. Every answer drags you deeper, every step invites something closer. You were never alone. You thought you were in control. You were wrong.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Grounded 2 supports single-player and online co-op. Official store data lists Online Co-op, and the marketing copy describes playing alone or with friends in a shared world. Reviews indicate private friend-based co-op, crossplay support, no matchmaking, and a maximum of 4 players. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No information about mods or multiplayer mod support is provided. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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