In the announcement, Mikey Dowling, director of communications for Obsidian Entertainment, says, “We can’t wait for players to enter Grounded’s backyard. In fact, community is so important to us at Obsidian that we specifically wanted to bring Grounded to Xbox Early Access so that we can collect and deploy your feedback early in the game development process and ultimately build a better game. ” Dowling goes on to say that Obsidian “will add content based on community feedback for everything from a player’s story to new bugs and features,” and that players are encouraged to give their opinion on any features or additions they want. see. in the game in the future, and to let developers know what you think after playing it through the Xbox Game Preview program.
In Grounded, you’ve shrunk down to 10mm in height, dropped into a backyard, and were tasked with creating, exploring, building, fighting, following the instructions of the mysterious robot BURG.L and generally trying to survive a long time. Enough to discover how to get home. There is a single player, with a campaign story, and cooperative for up to four players. If you’ve seen the Grounded teaser above, you know there are some pretty big spiders lurking in that garden, but Obsidian is set up for this with an arachnophobia mode that allows you to alter the appearance and audio effects.
Ground will have no achievements at first, but achievements will be added at a later date.