Grounded 2 is out in early entry, and gamers are already swarming to see all the pieces developer Obsidian Leisure has deliberate for the long run.
The sequel to the studio’s Honey, I Shrunk the Children-inspired online game launched into its early entry interval on Steam and Xbox Sequence X | S yesterday, introducing a yard stuffed with concepts and additions to the formulation established with the unique Grounded in 2022. As Obsidian plots out its future, gamers are exhibiting up in droves to see what makes Grounded 2 tick.
Almost 50,000 gamers signed on to play Grounded 2 when it reached its Steam participant peak yesterday (through SteamDB). It’s a milestone that already towers above the 32,000-player peak the original Grounded reached throughout its early entry run in July 2021. With a little bit greater than 45,000 gamers actively taking part in the sequel on the time of this story’s publication, it appears there’s loads of room to develop.
Obsidian is already planting seeds for the subsequent few phases of Grounded 2, too. The workforce published an early access roadmap to coincide with its launch throughout PC and consoles, spelling out a minimum of one yr of updates with extra within the pipeline for the long run.
Highlights within the fall plans embrace AXL Recipes and AXL’s Enviornment for Brookhollow Park. Armor, weapons, and a Park Boss creature are additionally stated to present up round this time as Obsidian pads out Grounded 2 with numerous quality-of-life enhancements. Winter will then carry Steam Deck verification and ROG Ally help as properly as Cricket and Earwig creatures, variants of different current bugs, a Ladybug Buggy, and extra.
Obsidian doesn’t share precisely the way it plans to fill the spring with extra content material for Grounded 2 however says summer time will embrace ziplines, smoothies, and swimming enhancements as properly as Watery Creatures and Buggies. It means gamers can anticipate loads of additions to roll out within the months forward, however there’s a lot extra set to arrive at an unspecified level sooner or later, too. Highlights embrace Passive Mutations and Lively Mutations 2.0, extra creatures and Park Bosses, extra armors, further constructing supplies, and some secrets and techniques the workforce isn’t keen to share fairly but.
Whereas we wait to see how Obsidian is planning to construct upon Grounded 2’s early entry basis, you possibly can see why the studio selected to dig right into a sequel within the first place. It’s also possible to take a look at our 8/10 early entry evaluation.
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