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Grounded

Obsidian Entertainment · Xbox Game Studios

Quick read

Grounded is backyard survival at ant scale: base, bugs, and co-op optional. A lawn becomes a biome, and a spider is a raid you did not schedule.

What kind of game is it?

Open-world survival craft with a joke premise that still bites. You chop grass, build a palisade, and share the yard if someone else logs in. The loop is gather, build, die. Scale is the trailer; hunger and a nest are the sitting.

Who is it for?

For players who prefer a backyard they shrink into, and grass they have to chop.

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How it plays

Loop: Surviving hordes
Sessions: Long sessions
Progression: A world that stays
Players: Solo or co-op
Structure: Sandbox
Tone: Comedic · Challenging

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression80
Estimate
Social55
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Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release

released

2020-07-28

Review score

90%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

95,389

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price

€39.99

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Next Fest

Players

Single-player and co-op

How many people play Grounded?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

2.4M – 5.2M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players

31,923

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026

2,203

Peak that month: 3,799.

Median playtime

51.1 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 21.5–102.1 h. 1% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

English49%
Russian14%
Simplified Chinese12%
Portuguese (Brazil)7%
German5%
Korean3%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

Scale is the trailer. The loop is still chop, build, die. Raft is nearest: craft, expand, keep something out.

Core mechanics

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Raft is an ocean craft loop: expand the floater, dive, do not get sharked. The base is a square of wood that grows, and the island is a stop you chose with a sail.

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Nightingale

You hop a realm, you place a camp, and the fairytale skin sits on a gather-and-build week.

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Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together is the co-op hunger clock: seasons, bosses, and a camp that can starve while someone is still talking. A crock pot is the save, and winter is a date you both forgot.

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Stranded Deep

Stranded Deep is a raft-and-island survival: sharks, crabs, and a horizon. You drink, you craft a still, and the wreck is homework you swim toward.

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Related games

Nearby games. Not always a direct substitute.

Shared: Base building, Crafting, Survival, Survival

Green Hell

Green Hell is a first-person Amazon survival game where infection, parasites, and sanity sit next to hunger.

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Valheim

Valheim is a Viking survival sandbox: you gather, build, sail, and fight biome bosses on a world you keep. Co-op building is the spine.

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Genre / subgenre

Survival

Steam genre: Survival.

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Sources

Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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