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Grounded

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Developer
Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Franchise
Grounded
Release date
Sep 27, 2022
Store page updated
Jan 13, 2026
Price
$39.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

86.6/ 100

Based on 440 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 90% of 444
All time 😄 Very Positive 90% of 95,837
“112 hours, beat NG+ and all achievements, would recommend”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.91
Freedom +3.52
“exploration with hidden areas and unique locations” (29)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+2.73
World +3.80
“world and atmosphere design is one of the saving graces, well done” (45)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+2.57
Volume +3.64

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.48
Visuals +3.87
“art style, graphics, lighting all excellently done” (35)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+0.58
Playing together +3.16
“playing together with dad created countless fond memories” (67)

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-1.88
Balance -1.38

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-0.78
Stability -2.06
“still in active development and occasionally buggy” (19)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Jul 2020Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 439 reviews, peak 28/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 440 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English42%
  • Chinese14%
  • Russian11%
  • Portuguese10%
  • German5%
  • Spanish5%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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