Platforms
- PCSep 27, 20228.4playscore8.315 Critics9.058.4K Players
- PlayStation 5Apr 16, 2024NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.23.66K Players
- Xbox Series X|SSep 27, 20228.2playscore8.224 Critics8.411K Players
- PlayStation 4Apr 16, 2024NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.24.23K Players
- Xbox OneSep 27, 20227.9playscore8.04 Critics8.411K Players
- Nintendo SwitchApr 16, 2024NAplayscoreNA0 CriticsNA0 Players
55 critic reviews · 6 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Though it finished with a thud, Grounded still stands with the greats of the genre, like Subnautica or The Forest. It just oozes confidence in its theme, and successfully pulls off the feeling of wonder Honey I Shrunk The Kids gave me when I first saw it almost 30 years ago.
Joe Parlock · May 12, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - If you have a PS5 and have always been curious by Grounded when it was shoehorned to Xbox/PC exclusivity, you'll find Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition to be a fantastic surprise. There's a lovely and expressive attitude and plenty of meat on its crafting and survival bones.
James Davie · May 02, 2024 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - Grounded is the perfect survival game to jump into with friends. It tests you constantly, but isn't too hard to the point that you want to turn it off. Now that the game has come to PlayStation in addition to other platforms, it's more approachable than ever and a high recommendation for anyone looking for a different kind of experience than the usual.
John Hansen · Apr 23, 2024 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - Being able to access your shared worlds across platforms is nice, but for a game that offers cross play and has Microsoft account linking, I really wish it was full cross progression and cross play like you’d expect from a modern game with online components. I can see myself coming back to Grounded to play with friends online, but I’m leaning towards playing it more on PS5 with the faster load times, better performance, and more.
Shaun Musgrave · Apr 23, 2024 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Grounded is a fantastic survival game, a colourful, unique, and original slice of joyful adventuring that everyone should play if they have the opportunity. It nails the Honey, I Shrunk The Kids vibe, its core gameplay loops are moreish, and its setting and enemies are often breathtaking in how they reframe the mundane. However, and as usual for these big efforts on Switch, this port has plenty of issues. They've had to tank the visuals, the all-important online co-op is flaky, the frame rate is fine until you start going big on bases — just all the stuff we've come to expect at this stage, really. If you can handle the issues, or if Switch is your only way to play, this game can still deliver the goods and the quality shines through. However, if you have another way to play it, we'd definitely recommend you do that instead.
PJ O’Reilly · Apr 23, 2024 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Grounded on the Nintendo Switch sacrifices a bit of visual fidelity for a really solid port of an incredibly quirky survival game.
Jordan Biordi · Apr 18, 2024 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - In the default state, if you're looking to adventure through the story, you'll have a fun time, but Grounded is at its best when played as a survival sim. Focus on exploring the world, and let the story happen in the background. It may be a slower pace, but it's also more rewarding.
Adam Pavlacka · Dec 01, 2022 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Grounded is undoubtedly one of the best survival games around. While it falls into some of the same traps, getting very grindy and gatekeeping progression while not signposting as well as it should do, there's little doubt that it's a very engaging game.
Chris Wray · Oct 16, 2022 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Grounded isn't the biggest game of its kind, and most of its moment-to-moment gameplay moments have been seen before in other games. Still, the fantastical setup makes for an immediately intriguing setup, and to further stylize it as a uniquely child-like adventure, polish it beyond most of its peers, and set it in a world full of familiar sights to see in startling new ways makes Grounded no small feat.
Mark Delaney · Oct 13, 2022 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Excelling as a survival game with a nice and meaty challenge, an adventure game with a lot of secrets and goods to hunt for and a highly-enjoyable story, and a visual spectacle as you wander around and take in the eye-popping sights of now-majestic backyard clutter (and the more frightening sights of the impressive and imposing insects), this is one trip that’s tiny yet epic at the same time and is not to be missed out on.
Kyle LeClair · Oct 12, 2022 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review
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Community Reviews
- Reviewed on PC
- Reviewed on Series X|S
- Reviewed on PC
- Reviewed on XB1
- Rated on PS4
- Rated on PC,XB1
About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
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 first person, multiplayer, survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment