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Grounded

Obsidian Entertainment · Xbox Game Studios · 2022-09-27

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Apr 16, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 27, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 27, 2022 (Xbox One), Nov 10, 2020 (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 16, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Apr 16, 2024 (PlayStation 4)

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Grounded is an Action, Adventure game released in 2022, priced at $39.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 95,767 reviews).

1,378
playing now
90%
positive of 96k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
58
twitch viewers (latest)
2.8
viewers/channel (concentration)
78/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (121 ratings)
189
Nexus mods (570k downloads)
4.34★
PlayStation Store rating (16,863 ratings)
82/100
opencritic · strong · 84% recommend · from 58 critics
49h
to beat · rushed 25h · completionist 100h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$39.99
steam price (US)

1,378 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Grounded is a 2022 survival game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. It was released for Windows and Xbox One in early access on July 28, 2020 and was fully released on September 27, 2022. The Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions were released on April 16, 2024.

Trailer

Grounded trailer thumbnail

Grounded - Official Story Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,378 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4,248 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~531/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-10-01

Tier history: cooling→healthy (Oct 1), healthy→cooling (Sep 3), unknown→healthy (Aug 27)

Estimated sales: 1.9M–4.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 96,158 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $19.99 at Steam (2024-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 17 of 35 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5.1k5.1k20202026Week of 2020-07-01: 1,610 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 345 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 5,080 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 591 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1,304 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 173 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 612 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,973 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 524 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 641 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 736 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 523 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 518 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 425 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 399 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 641 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1,009 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 209 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 466 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 690 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 756 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 419 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 584 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 853 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 555 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 524 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 805 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 153 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 545 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 99 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 508 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 601 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 103 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1,035 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 161 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2,899 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 563 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4,221 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 268 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2,079 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2,125 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 234 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 890 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 689 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,115 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 161 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1,412 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1,050 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 141 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1,294 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 705 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 701 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 712 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,915 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 150 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,066 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 144 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 853 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 652 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 626 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,213 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,018 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 126 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 728 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 937 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 148 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 562 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 587 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 665 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 974 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,056 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 798 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 526 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 766 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 688 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 868 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 118 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,262 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,457 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1,056 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 485 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 591 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 442 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 542 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 545 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 547 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 383 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 463 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 480 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 645 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 546 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 13 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4.7k1.0k2026-09-15 11:00 — 2,056 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 2,593 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 1,742 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 2,230 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 3,688 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 1,875 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 1,178 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 2,225 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 1,845 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 2,074 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 2,127 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 1,506 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 1,199 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 2,924 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 2,908 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 1,877 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 3,083 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 2,131 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 1,569 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 2,805 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 3,487 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 1,822 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 1,378 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
15k783Aug 2020Aug 2026Aug 2020 — avg 5,422 · peak 16,851Oct 2020 — avg 943 · peak 2,245Dec 2020 — avg 842 · peak 1,755Feb 2021 — avg 1,213 · peak 2,469Apr 2021 — avg 958 · peak 1,731Jun 2021 — avg 783 · peak 2,244Aug 2021 — avg 3,406 · peak 28,285Oct 2021 — avg 1,596 · peak 4,755Dec 2021 — avg 1,176 · peak 2,039Feb 2022 — avg 3,602 · peak 16,102Apr 2022 — avg 2,268 · peak 4,380Jun 2022 — avg 2,051 · peak 3,678Aug 2022 — avg 1,917 · peak 3,584Oct 2022 — avg 14,657 · peak 27,404Dec 2022 — avg 8,963 · peak 20,085Feb 2023 — avg 4,597 · peak 10,009Apr 2023 — avg 4,513 · peak 18,246Jun 2023 — avg 5,008 · peak 12,500Aug 2023 — avg 3,372 · peak 6,549Oct 2023 — avg 3,600 · peak 8,162Dec 2023 — avg 5,039 · peak 12,735Feb 2024 — avg 2,758 · peak 5,341Apr 2024 — avg 5,395 · peak 18,852Jun 2024 — avg 3,838 · peak 9,253Aug 2024 — avg 2,893 · peak 5,677Oct 2024 — avg 3,308 · peak 7,635Dec 2024 — avg 4,712 · peak 11,118Feb 2025 — avg 3,039 · peak 5,409Apr 2025 — avg 3,586 · peak 10,342Jun 2025 — avg 5,882 · peak 14,991Aug 2025 — avg 7,077 · peak 14,042Oct 2025 — avg 3,515 · peak 9,572Dec 2025 — avg 3,041 · peak 7,456Feb 2026 — avg 3,278 · peak 7,686Apr 2026 — avg 2,615 · peak 6,697Jun 2026 — avg 3,952 · peak 9,924Aug 2026 — avg 2,203 · peak 3,799
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
27272026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 4 new positive2026-09-21: 1 new negative2026-09-22: 7 new positive2026-09-22: 2 new negative2026-09-23: 12 new positive2026-09-23: 1 new negative2026-09-24: 12 new positive2026-09-24: 2 new negative2026-09-25: 5 new positive2026-09-26: 10 new positive2026-09-26: 4 new negative2026-09-27: 17 new positive2026-09-27: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 8 new positive2026-09-30: 4 new positive2026-10-01: 4 new positive2026-10-01: 1 new negative2026-10-02: 9 new positive2026-10-02: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 12 new positive2026-10-03: 1 new negative2026-10-04: 17 new positive2026-10-04: 1 new negative2026-10-05: 16 new positive2026-10-06: 10 new positive2026-10-06: 3 new negative2026-10-07: 27 new positive2026-10-09: 9 new positive2026-10-09: 2 new negative2026-10-10: 8 new positive2026-10-10: 4 new negative2026-10-11: 2 new positive2026-10-11: 3 new negative2026-10-13: 12 new positive2026-10-13: 3 new negative2026-10-14: 4 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$0.002020-07-282026-10-082020-07-28 — best price $29.992022-09-27 — best price $39.992022-11-29 — best price $39.992023-01-03 — best price $39.992023-04-21 — best price $39.992023-06-19 — best price $39.992023-07-13 — best price $23.992023-09-19 — best price $39.992023-11-13 — best price $0.002023-12-01 — best price $39.992023-12-14 — best price $23.992024-01-04 — best price $39.992024-03-14 — best price $23.992024-04-25 — best price $23.992024-05-21 — best price $39.992024-06-18 — best price $39.992024-07-11 — best price $39.992024-11-14 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $19.992024-12-12 — best price $19.992025-01-03 — best price $39.992025-04-16 — best price $19.992025-05-08 — best price $39.992025-06-10 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $39.992025-08-19 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $39.992025-12-02 — best price $39.992025-12-18 — best price $19.992026-01-27 — best price $19.992026-02-26 — best price $39.992026-04-01 — best price $19.992026-05-09 — best price $39.992026-06-11 — best price $35.992026-07-09 — best price $39.992026-07-30 — best price $39.992026-09-03 — best price $39.992026-09-24 — best price $39.992026-10-08 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.2k2072026-05-29 — 457 pageviews2026-06-02 — 825 pageviews2026-06-06 — 1,168 pageviews2026-06-10 — 713 pageviews2026-06-14 — 714 pageviews2026-06-18 — 540 pageviews2026-06-22 — 506 pageviews2026-06-26 — 574 pageviews2026-06-30 — 549 pageviews2026-07-04 — 487 pageviews2026-07-08 — 924 pageviews2026-07-12 — 686 pageviews2026-07-16 — 444 pageviews2026-07-20 — 410 pageviews2026-07-24 — 302 pageviews2026-07-28 — 280 pageviews2026-08-01 — 268 pageviews2026-08-05 — 301 pageviews2026-08-09 — 207 pageviews2026-08-13 — 349 pageviews2026-08-17 — 389 pageviews2026-08-21 — 293 pageviews2026-08-25 — 284 pageviews2026-08-29 — 297 pageviews2026-09-02 — 224 pageviews2026-09-06 — 289 pageviews2026-09-10 — 266 pageviews2026-09-14 — 276 pageviews2026-09-18 — 229 pageviews2026-09-22 — 600 pageviews2026-09-26 — 303 pageviews2026-09-30 — 234 pageviews2026-10-04 — 249 pageviews2026-10-07 — 282 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

24752026-09-30 23:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-01 08:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-01 17:34 — 50 viewers2026-10-02 02:34 — 114 viewers2026-10-02 11:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-02 20:34 — 78 viewers2026-10-03 05:34 — 163 viewers2026-10-03 14:34 — 107 viewers2026-10-03 23:34 — 149 viewers2026-10-04 08:34 — 53 viewers2026-10-04 17:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-05 02:34 — 58 viewers2026-10-05 11:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-05 20:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-06 05:34 — 73 viewers2026-10-06 14:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-06 23:34 — 63 viewers2026-10-07 08:34 — 51 viewers2026-10-07 17:34 — 74 viewers2026-10-08 02:34 — 95 viewers2026-10-08 11:34 — 32 viewers2026-10-08 20:34 — 50 viewers2026-10-09 05:34 — 247 viewers2026-10-09 14:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-09 23:35 — 64 viewers2026-10-10 08:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-10 17:35 — 57 viewers2026-10-11 02:34 — 38 viewers2026-10-11 11:34 — 33 viewers2026-10-11 20:35 — 197 viewers2026-10-12 05:34 — 59 viewers2026-10-12 14:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-12 23:34 — 100 viewers2026-10-13 08:34 — 53 viewers2026-10-13 17:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-14 02:34 — 64 viewers2026-10-14 11:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 58 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
60.7%
earned "Resourceful"
12.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

15 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Thai…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-10-05 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)69,1063%45
PS5 (PlayStation)28,3225%46
Steam (Steam)28,0304%45
PS4 (PlayStation)6,4735%46
Switch (Nintendo)1300%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opActionHorrorSandboxCraftingSurvivalAdventureOpen WorldExplorationMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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