It is nonetheless in early entry, however the survival sandbox Grounded 2 has already attracted a considerable variety of gamers. Xbox VP of selling Aaron Greenberg said on Twitter that it already has 3 million gamers, simply two weeks after its July 29 launch.
Grounded 2 is Obsidian’s follow-up to the unique Grounded, which launched in 2022. Like the unique, you play as one among 4 plucky teenagers who discover themselves shrunk down and left to fend for themselves within the huge wilderness of bizarre suburbia. Strange bugs like mites, ants, and spiders grow to be larger-than-life threats.
Whereas the primary recreation occurred in a again yard, a la Honey I Shrunk The Youngsters, the sequel takes place in a public park. Alongside a bunch of quality-of-life options and an unique story, the sequel’s greatest new addition is rideable mounts. In the event you’ve ever wished to deal with a fireplace ant like your royal steed, right here you go.
We had an excellent early sense that Grounded 2 was destined to be successful, because it beat the unique recreation’s concurrent Steam participant depend inside the first hour of launch. And since that is Steam, it would not even depend Xbox gamers, which absolutely makes up a major chunk of the participant depend because it’s included with Sport Cross.
“Due to its stronger start line, Grounded 2 ought to wind up the larger, higher, buggier-in-a-good-way survival recreation,” Mark Delaney wrote in GameSpot’s Grounded 2 review-in-progress. “Its greatest new toys make survival gameplay a lot smoother and extra pleasant; the adolescent spirit that actually makes Grounded stand out in a sea of survival video games remains to be on full show right here, too. It would take a while for Inventive mode to catch up and finally surpass what the primary recreation did for many who wish to play this recreation extra like an inside decorator than a hunter-gatherer. All of which means Grounded 2 is an efficient early-access recreation that improves on its earlier model in some large methods, whereas nonetheless incomes the label of being an in-progress expertise.”