Grounded Is Thrilling as Obsidian's Survival Adventure Take on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | EM

Grounded has you shrink down like in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, but it's an adventure survival game from Obsidian Entertainment for Microsoft / Xbox.

[GaboonViper]

Wheres those spiders.😃

[timotim]

Obsidian gone be a problem next-gen!

[Felix_Argyle_Catbro]

Pretty cool based on the demo.

[IanTH]

At least the skin is an interesting differentiator, but I am pretty worn out on open world/survival/base building kind of games. I might try the demo out, but if someone has given it a spin, could you give me a quick take on it? Is it like a Honey I Shrunk the Ark typed experience? Is it less crafty than something like that? Is it more objective oriented? This game might just not be for me, but I'm still kinda curious to hear how it turns out & how it differs from other games in the genres it's working in.

[PappyQ]

The demo is only 30 minutes, but it is a 4 player co-op survival/base-building sim (the demo is sp). There’s a story about how you got shrunk and a mystery to solve of why it all happened, in between gathering parts, building your base/weapons/armor. You also have bugs to hunt. Some are hostile, some are not. There’s a nice feature called “arachnophobia,” which is a slider that allows you to adjust how “scary” bugs are. Spiders, for example, can be reduced to floating puffballs (basically). Not much else is known at this point. I don’t know if there’s an endgame or if you’re done when the story ends. Hopefully more info will be forthcoming.

[IanTH]

Thanks for taking the time to share your impressions, appreciate it!

[Kerppamaister]

If you can try it then I suggest you do. It's oddly addicting for such a simple idea.