12/3/2023 0 Comments Grounded review![]() If you want to get big again you’ll be exploring tiny laboratories and accumulating science points to unlock even more blueprints. If you want to focus on survival, you can make bandages or hunt down clean water. This is coupled with a quest system that gently pulls you towards several different story avenues at once. Early on there’s a nearly overwhelming amount of crafting options as new item blueprints are unlocked by analysing new items, but this means that for people willing to be brave and search further afield, there’s a lot of progression available. If you want to craft a spear with a rope and some rock, it’s easy to do: click on the object you want and if any of the other items need crafting, you can do it from there to avoid having to click through a thousand menus. The crafting system is fun and robust, and the UI is excellent for it. Want to visit a literal sandbox? It’s just another tiny biome you’ll conquer, a near endless desert that is probably only a metre or two long in reality. There’s something charming about slowly exploring these areas and building outposts within them, little safe areas for you to recuperate and resupply. The garden contains several different recognisable biomes – a stagnant pond becomes a dangerous lake, the middle of the garden has a little grass. I settled my first base right now to a mysterious machine, and with the help of a big tower could easily navigate visually by the garden detritus the game scattered around the place. These objects tower above you and you naturally use them as landmarks, so it’s smart of the game to identify them as such, helping you to quickly and easily navigate the world. Obsidian has taken the shrinking seriously, and the landmarks in the hand-crafted map are things like a baseball, a dropped packet of mints, or the severed head of an action figure. Otherwise, Grounded makes living life on the small side look altogether pretty appealing.įor a start, the world (and the four playable characters within it) are charming from the word go. ![]() I guess, if I were shrunk down to the size of a tictac, I’d be terrified of getting eaten alive by insects, too. The insects are your biggest threat in Grounded and are somehow as terrifying as the scariest opponent in any horror game you care to note. My first serious assailant was a red ant and, in turn, several of his mates – I had to fend them off with a pebble and a handy stack of tiny granola bars to avoid a fatality. READ MORE: The best co-op games to play with your mates in 2022īut the thing I think about most is the spiders, and other insects – I know spiders aren’t an insect, I know – that infest the garden.There’s a lot about the game to appreciate: it’s an incredibly smooth survival game that seems to have taken a genre that was everywhere and distilled it into the most enjoyable parts, overlaying a charming narrative to the whole thing and turning players loose to Lewis and Clark their way across the backyard. There are some uncomfortably large spiders in Grounded, the Honey I Shrunk The Kids-esque survival sim from Obisidian. ![]()
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