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  • Summary: The world is a vast, beautiful, and dangerous place especially when you have been shrunken to the size of an ant. Explore, build, and survive together in this cooperative survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?The world is a vast, beautiful, and dangerous place especially when you have been shrunken to the size of an ant. Explore, build, and survive together in this cooperative survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
    Explore this immersive and persistent world, where the insect life reacts to your actions.

    Build epic bases to protect you and your stuff from the insects and the elements. Craft weapons, tools, and armor, allowing you to better fight, explore and survive.

    You can face the backyard alone or together, online, with up to three friends - it is your choice.

    Uncover the secrets lurking in the shadows of Grounded as you freely explore the backyard and progress through its mysterious story.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Apr 29, 2024
    95
    With stunning settings and an intriguing story centered on huddled teenagers searching for answers, Grounded mixes adventure, survival and foundation building. While facing a variety of enemies and challenges, players can explore the world solo or with up to three friends in multiplayer. However, the lack of clarity regarding the next steps in the story and the need for complex items can be challenging for some players, although fun is guaranteed, especially in multiplayer mode.
  2. 90
    If you have a PS5 and have always been curious by Grounded when it was shoehorned to Xbox/PC exclusivity, you'll find Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition to be a fantastic surprise. There's a lovely and expressive attitude and plenty of meat on its crafting and survival bones.
  3. Apr 29, 2024
    82
    Making its way to PS5 and Switch, it’s only a little disappointing that Grounded didn’t bring along a lot of new content, though it does include all updates, new ant queens, and a new game+ mode. Grounded is still an excellent and unique survival game. Its big-world crafting RPG mechanics scale down to miniature size quite well and there are a ton of ways to make the game your own. Like their PC and Xbox counterparts, Sony and Nintendo fans of the survival/crafting genre will not be disappointed by Grounded.
  4. Apr 23, 2024
    80
    Grounded is the perfect survival game to jump into with friends. It tests you constantly, but isn't too hard to the point that you want to turn it off. Now that the game has come to PlayStation in addition to other platforms, it's more approachable than ever and a high recommendation for anyone looking for a different kind of experience than the usual.
  5. May 2, 2024
    80
    From Xbox Game Studios straight to the PS5, this is the latest game to emerge from Microsoft's multiplatform title lineup. With crossplay functionality and bug-squashing action, Obsidian Entertainment offers players an abundance of freedom.
  6. May 1, 2024
    80
    Grounded proposes to be a survival title with an interesting twist, being set in a miniature world in the backyard of a house. It is a more accessible game than others in the genre on a vast hostile map, although with some design problems. It's good to start if we want to venture into this type of games and even more so now on PS5.
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    Jun 6, 2024
    60
    The campaign requires patience and a high tolerance for internet searches, but the creative elements are full of possibility if you’re able to put in the time. [Issue#41, p.80]