Grounded (XB/Steam/Game Pass/Switch/PS) - Over 20m players. Out now on Switch & PS4/5 with the Fully Yoked update.

Get ready to dive into Grounded's largest Early Access update yet: The Koi Pond. The Koi Pond Update is currently live on Grounded through Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for PC, and is available for purchase through Xbox Game Preview, the Microsoft Store, and Steam Early Access for $29.99! See you in the backyard!

Grounded Continues to Grow: Join Over 5 Million Players Diving into the All-New Koi Pond Update

Today the team at Obsidian Entertainment has released the biggest Grounded update yet, introducing players to a brand-new biome – the underwater world of the Koi Pond.

This new area of the backyard brings new wildlife, new crafting recipes, and new mysteries, along with underwater gameplay mechanics that will allow players to go deeper than ever before.

Intrepid explorers navigating the depths of the murky pond will meet a host of creatures, including Tadpoles, Water Boatmen, Diving Bell Spiders (did you know certain spiders can swim?!), and the awe-inspiring Koi Fish. Additionally, players can craft recipes for a Slime Lantern, Bone Trident , Pebblet Dagger, Gill Tube Rebreather and much more, to help increase the survival chances down in the pond. We can’t wait for players to dive in and check out the new update!

Since today is Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S launch day, we felt like it was a good time to remind you Grounded has been Optimized for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, in case you missed it when we previously mentioned it here. Additionally, using Smart Delivery technology, players will get an automatic upgrade to the best version of the game for no additional cost. Grounded is running at 60fps on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, offering unparalleled gameplay performance for next generation console players, with full 4K support and improved draw distance and shadow quality on the Xbox Series X. Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S users will experience increased graphical fidelity, improved loading times, and HDR support.

The Grounded Shroom & Doom Update is available June 30. Play it with Xbox Game Pass.

Befriend pets, build castles, unlock achievements, fight the Broodmother, and so much more, in one of our biggest updates to Grounded yet, coming June 30. Play Grounded today in Xbox Game Preview with Xbox Game Pass.

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Grounded getting sizzling sandbox biome, first dungeon and more in "biggest update yet"

Out at the end of October (20th).

Grounded Reaches 10 Million Players and Goes Into the Wood with New Update

Obsidian's inch-high garden adventure Grounded is getting the TV treatment

According to Deadline, Grounded's new television adaptation will follow the same basic premise, telling the story of four friends who, the summer before high school, find their plans to elevate their social standing upended after discovering shrinking technology that makes them two inches tall. "Now the four shrunken friends must learn to survive in a towering backyard that's a jungle full of enormous predators," explains Deadline, "and hiding a vast corporate conspiracy threatening their entire town."

Star Wars: Clone Wars writer Brent Friedman (who's also working on the new Earthworm Jim series) will adapt Grounded for TV, and Brien Goodrich, who served as cinematics director on Halo 4 and 5, is attached to direct. The project is a collaboration between Obsidian, Xbox, Waterproof Studios/SC Productions, Kinetic Media, and Bardel Entertainment.

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Celebrating Grounded’s Journey to Launch with Phil Spencer and Adam Brennecke

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Beyond that, though, it's hard to complain about what Obsidian has delivered here. As someone who instinctively shies away from survival games, Grounded's stunning, ant's-eye presentation of the natural world and plethora of personalisation settings make me feel surprisingly welcomed… even if that welcome involves the occasional hissing spider.

Whether you're a long-time fan of survival games or are intrigued by the rapidly expanding genre, Grounded is an excellent entry deserving of your time and attention. The 20-strong team at Obsidian Entertainment has crafted this title with care and passion. It shows as you explore the Backyard from an all-new perspective, one of an insignificant insect, lost betwixt blades of grass. The journey to go big and go home is fraught with danger and adventure, and I can't wait to start exploring again.

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.

So, Grounded is finished. Or at least it’s ready for prime time. Looking at Obsidian’s plans for the game, I’m excited to see they’re not quite done with it yet. What’s here is already fantastic and feels complete, but the potential to keep on expanding is also quite exciting. For now, there’s never been a better time to jump into Grounded and, even better, jump in with friends and discover all of the mystery the backyard offers. Literally, go touch grass.

Grounded is a delightfully creative and occasionally terrifying survival sandbox.

If you are in the mood to try out something new in the survivalist genre, Grounded may be the game you are looking for due to its unique shrunken environment and formidable enemies. All things considered, I can’t wait to see what will happen next in this first-person narrative from Xbox Game Studios.

Although it doesn’t reinvent survival game mechanics, Grounded’s setting goes a long way towards making the familiar seem new. The world is great fun to explore. It’s easy to lose yourself for hours in the game’s satisfying loops and creative environments. The narrative does a good job of giving you direction but not a rigid path, so you’re always free to take your time and enjoy. Slightly tepid combat and a few minor technical issues aside, Grounded is one of the most engaging survival crafting games I’ve played in quite a while.

With its 1.0 release, Grounded has so much to discover, and enough of a hook to justify the dozens of hours you might invest. Whether you’re an exploration-minded player in search of landmarks and tucked-away treasures, or a castle-building fiend with a vision, you should ideally bring friends along for the ride. Still, playing alone, it was hard for me to walk away from Grounded, even in its slowest moments. I wasn’t satisfied with my end-of-game score, so I searched for secrets and kept going, boosting my grade in the process. Even now, there are still more bugs to catalog and, inevitably, squash. Nothing personal!

While Obsidian isn’t known for survival games, it ended up making a great one.

Two years ago when Grounded entered Game Preview/Early Access, there were six biomes to explore, and 14 creatures to interact with. Now with the full “1.0” release, there are 13 biomes, three of which have had massive overhauls, 44 creatures, including the giant koi fish and bird, and a whole host of features to flesh out the game.

The full yard with the complete story is now featured with 10 total minutes of pre-rendered cutscenes and hundreds of additional lines of dialogue. Eight new creatures, three new bosses, five new armor sets, nine new weapons, new building materials, several new features, and for all of the achievement hunters out there, the final batch of nine new achievements including secret achievements tied to the story. This is just a sampling of what is going into the game to bring it to 1.0 as there are plenty of other things to find in the yard including some secrets that we definitely don’t want to spoil for you.

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Grounded is a zany, challenging, and memorable adventure that benefits from Obsidian’s instantly recognizable style, humor, and RPG bonafides, making it one of the best survival games in years. There aren’t many games that I’ve been anxious to dive back into after playing for over 100 hours, but Grounded still has me daydreaming about my next tiny expedition. Even the obnoxiously small inventory space, occasional lost treasures, and continued wonkiness and stability issues haven’t come close to throwing a wet blanket over an otherwise fantastic experience. It’s a testament then to how incredibly strong every other part of Grounded is that these issues did very little to cramp my style or my immense enjoyment.

PATCH NOTES FOR 1.0.2

FEATURE

Added a "Sort" button to the Inventory and Storage screens.

NOTABLE GAME BALANCE AND DIFFICULTY CHANGES

Doubled base durability of most weapons and armors.
Doubled duration / durability of all torches.
Mosquitos in the Grasslands do not spawn until 1 Super Chip is turned in.
Damage and HP for some of the early tier 2 creatures have been lowered a bit.
Toxicology Badge now provides 90% gas damage resistance instead of full immunity.
Javamatic fight spawns less creatures in single player now to make it less difficult.

OTHER CHANGES

Relocating a building will no longer be canceled if you stumble into combat with a creature.
BURG.L will now only give Artificer quests for items the player has not yet crafted.
Mant combo attacks no longer interrupted via perfect blocks.
Mant damage slightly increased.
Quartzite and Marble of all tiers now default stack to 99 (cannot be upgraded further via milk molars).
Slightly increased the stamina cost of staff attacks.
Spiny Water Fleas now have a very small chance to drop Pond Moss when looted.
Text chat messages filter for profanity.
Edible mushrooms placed under all large mushrooms in the Upper Yard.
O.R.C. EMP Bomb applies a large DoT (damage over time) to to O.R.C. creatures that are hit with it.
The field station near the outskirts of the Stump area has been moved into the Stump itself for higher visibility and utility.
You can remove a Surveyor Resource waypoint from inside the default Map screen (no longer have to be at a Surveyor to do it).
Slime mold light sources and the Firefly Headlamp light color has been desaturated a bit to not cast an overly lime green color on everything.
Getting a 100% on the Game Report Card requires completing all of the MIX.Rs now.

CRASH FIXES

Fixed crash that could happen if a creature is looted or despawns while an attack with visual effects was about to play.
Fixed crash that could occur when taming a pet.
Reducing Out of Memory crashes when loading a save.

BUG FIXES

Major Fixes

Xbox and Windows Store players can rename Storage chests again as long as their profile allows User Generated Content to be shown.
If you progressed beyond the story of receiving the Embiggening Cell, but did not get it for some reason, the game will grant it to you on your next load of the save.
If you progress to the story point where you need to interact with the Javamatic but the game will not let you, the game will fix up the quest state on your next load of the save.
Loading an early access save will no longer trigger the "Analyze a Pebblet / Analyze Raw Fiber" quests if you have already done so. Fixes 1.0 saves that are stuck with this quest as well.
Players will no longer disconnect from multiplayer after being online for 4+ hours.
Doors at player bases will properly have the door open state synced if the open state was changed while a client was far away.
Wolf Spiders will more reliably sleep during the day.
Addressed some cases where you could not get a 100% on the Game Report card.

Other Fixes

Addressed additional use cases where creatures could become stuck in the terrain.
Optimized the Mantis Pollen attack for Low and Medium quality settings (this includes Xbox One).
Pinch Whacker now properly classified as a club instead of an axe, no longer deals chopping damage.
Prod Smacker now properly classified as a club instead of a greatsword, no longer deals slashing damage.
The "Got to Peep Them All" Achievement no longer requires having all Gold cards.
Jack-O-Lantern will no longer spawn on the porch during October if you have any base buildings in the way.
Poison immunity has been readded back to Spiders as that was not supposed to have been removed.
Backpacks that drop near the car batteries in the Upper Yard will be teleported to a safe location nearby to prevent them from getting stuck in instant death locations.
The workout monitors in the Pond biodome will correctly turn on after opening the biodome instead of after turning in the Super Chip to BURG.L.
You can no longer nab certain items through the walls or windows.
Your character name should no longer rarely show up over your own character.
The text filter in the crafting menu will be applied correctly after changing tabs or crafting an item.
Placement of the Sap Catcher provides better control over the placement angle.
Buildings will now actually display their Defense values in the building interface.
Items will now actually display their Stun values in item description boxes.
Mantis armor crit effects no longer sometimes apply themselves to the player.
Bomb arrows now cost stamina to shoot like every other arrow.
Sour battle axe now properly considered an axe.
Non-diagonal buildings can now snap to diagonal rotations at specific angles.
Fixed various terrain and foliage and floating dirt issues.
Loading an early access save will not reset dropped player backpacks. This is not retroactive for any playthrough that has already made progress on 1.0 from an early access save.
Fixed some audio volume issues that would cause abrupt music stoppage.
Using photo mode no longer scales up creature damage.
Mutations on old saves will properly sync to their correct unlock level based 1.0 value changes.
Depositing partial stacks into containers works correctly.