Unlike these other survival games, Grounded has players craft tools and weapons out of grass sprigs, collect water from dew-drops, build forts out of blades of grass, and construct armor out of insect shells. Mechanics-wise, Grounded is a survival game centered around crafting items, searching for food, and constructing bases in the style of Minecraft or Seven Days to Die. Who else was using the shrinking machine before the player, and what were they trying to do in their shrunken states? Grounded's Survival Mechanics Related: Honey, I Shrunk The Kids Reboot Would've Been Filming By NowĪs the player (and Max) progresses through the demo and follows a strange radio signal, they quickly learn how to combine pebble dust and rock stems into crude spears, fend off ants, and eventually stumble across strange campsites, furniture, and scientific tools designed to by used by shrunken humans. A machine on a tripod looms overhead, a high-tech mechanism suspiciously similar to the shrink ray from the comedy movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Gamers can learn about the world of Grounded alongside Max, the demo protagonist, who wakes up at the bottom of a dirty ravine and wanders out into a jungle of grass, mushrooms, and baseballs the size of boulders. This article aside, the best way for players to get a close look at the gameplay of Grounded is to the play the demo, currently available on Steam Early Access and the Xbox Inside Hub. Obsidian Entertainment been on a roll recently in the wake of their wildly successful The Outer Worldssci-fi RPG, they've grabbed gamer interest again with new footage of their Avowed first-person fantasy RPG along with Grounded, a game starring kids who've been shrunk down to a centimeter in height, who must survive in the wilderness of a grass lawn. As this open world survival game releases in early access, many gamers are wondering two things: what will they be able to do in Grounded, and will the plot of the game be an adaptation of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in all but name?

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