



Considering how many creepy critters are out to get you, being able to make the spiders less scary is a nice touch from Obsidian. The arachnophobia slider is one of the most exceptional features in the game. With a massively tiny world to explore, having a few extra pairs of eyes can make Grounded feel slightly less challenging and lighten the crafting workload. You can play offline on your own or recruit up to four friends to play together online.

The gameplay is somewhat reminiscent of Subnautica, but still offers several distinctive mechanics. Unlike most survival games such as Rust that feature a simple narrative, Grounded has an actual storyline, with quests to complete and mysteries to solve. Instead of dealing with dinosaurs like those in ARK, you’ll be fighting spiders, aphids, and other common garden insects as you try to get back to your normal size. Grounded is an epic survival game scaled down to the size of an ant. It’s an exciting survival game that makes tiny the next big thing. Grounded is due to his 1.0 on September 27th.Grounded lets you fight horrors and solve mysteries in your backyard. Or you could wait for it to leave testing. Note that, even within the context of Grounded's early access, Shared Worlds are considered in beta and "could require online shared saves to be reset / lost as bugs are ironed out." If you're going to use it at this stage, backup your saves. You can also download Shared Worlds and convert them into Standard Worlds, if you want to continue playing them solo. You can be the owner of three Shared Worlds and have 50 Shared Worlds shared with you at any given time. The public test patch notes say that previously created Standard Worlds can be converted into Shared Worlds. (Actual dedicated servers are seemingly still being considered.) It's a little of the functionality of a dedicated server, then, but with player-hosted servers. Any progress made in that world is then synched, so that the next person who hosts it - whether a different player or the original owner again - can carry on from its most developed state. With a Shared World, one of the other players can now re-host the world while the original owner is offline, so folks can continue playing.
