Grounded is an open-world survival game being developed by Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studio. The game is still in it’s early access development stage and is only available on Windows 10 and Xbox One at this moment. The player must survive as a shrunken human in a bug infested garden, while monitoring their hunger and thirst.
Grounded uses beautiful scenery to bring the garden to life making the player want to explore it even more. Throughout the garden, the player will explore and find large scaled items and trinkets which can not only help with navigating the terrain but can sometimes also provide a usefulness to the player. (Juice boxes and soda cans can provide a small amount of fluids to keep the player hydrated.)
A large part of the game focuses on exploring the beauty of the garden and it’s setting. This can’t be done without first learning how to craft basic tools for necessary survival and also learning how to focus on keeping your players thirst and hunger meters full.
After the player has learned basic survival, they can explore the garden and terrain to find more learnable things. This also includes trying to survive against insects like solider ants, bees, mosquito’s and horrifying spiders.
