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GROUND-UNBOUND cover art

GROUND-UNBOUND

Frinky · 2021-10-07

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 07, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

GROUND-UNBOUND is a procedurally generated, high-intensity movement shooter with a retro wave art style. It features roguelike mechanics with a number of skills, guns and abilities to play with, including a variety of enemy types. Created during the 7-Day BigFry Game Jam, updated for steam release.

89%
positive of 55 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Guns Use a range of satisfyingly visceral guns to eliminate zombies that drop like a sack of potatoes to your bullets, from SMG's to LMG's, ARS, and more, you're sure to find a gun that will suit your play style. Enemies Fight several enemy types, all requiring a different strategy to take on, flying, shooting, sprinting and even exploding, you'll need to keep your wits about you. Abilities Purchase and use several unique abilities to assist your fight, each catering to a different play style, whether or not ability is useful, is up to you, chain abilities together using secondary to further(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 72% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 56% of 21,289 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 55 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620212025Week of 2021-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.69$1.242021-10-072026-07-092021-10-07 — best price $6.692021-10-12 — best price $3.342021-10-14 — best price $4.992021-11-24 — best price $3.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $3.492022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-01-28 — best price $3.242022-02-03 — best price $4.992022-02-28 — best price $4.242022-03-07 — best price $4.992022-06-23 — best price $3.242022-07-07 — best price $4.992024-03-14 — best price $3.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-05-13 — best price $3.242024-05-20 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $3.242024-07-11 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $3.242025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-06-26 — best price $1.242025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-10-01 — best price $1.242025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-08 — best price $2.492025-12-15 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $1.242026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $1.242026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $1.242026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DFPSPvEActionShooterColorfulPlatformerRogue-likePerma DeathFirst-Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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