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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 157.9 hrs on record (111.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 27 Jan, 2023 @ 1:38pm
Updated: 7 May, 2024 @ 7:42am

Grounded is a pretty nice game to play, with lots of possiblities, but also contains some glitches.
Starting the game, we got rekt by almost every evil creature. Without knowing attack patterns in the first hours, it was a complete desaster and ended up being very hard to be confident in the fighting system. After finally getting to know the game, starting to actually play the story and do the labs and stuff, it was hard because even though the blocking etc helped, enemy masses just were crazy. Later, with proper equipment ofc, we ended up being slightly overpowered? Like wolfspiders, infected ones and all the bosses were peanuts, regardless of the difficulty (medium). It started very hard, but ended up being no challenge. The only challenge we had was simply not killing each other while fighting.
The story was interesting and ended up like expected. But the grind for the achievement of the 100% report card was literally pain. Going through everything, we ended up playing 25h or so just to get to the 100% (which we would never have reached if we didn't look up what was missing). I gladly deinstalled the game directly after getting the final achievement lol.

The glitches whatsoever became apparent in the building system. I loved the way of placing the blueprint before actually building something, so you could proper do the planning, but when you put in the materials, the object itself moved from the blueprint spot to another one, which could be solved by just placing other walls/objects first, but it was still really annoying.
When something was destroyed or loot was dropped, sometimes it's very hard to pick it up, because it is bugged either inside the ground or just being at a different position.

Anyways, Grounded is a wonderful survival game to play with friends, and I highly recomment to give it a chance!

Jeez, what an honest review xD

EDIT:

The new update with the new bosses was fun to play, but also a hard challenge. The Wasp Queen was way easier to beat than the infected Broodmother, however not easy after all. The broodmother was absolutely hard to kill, we looked up strats and had much heal and buffs but we managed to kill her after roughly 15 attempts. But it was a nice challenge after all and a great addition to the game :)

EDIT v2: Fully Yoked

I was so happy to deinstall this game after the last update, and now here we are again.
In our playthrough, we only remixed one time, but the difference was huge. We weren't able to kill the Infused Infectted Broodmother because once phase 3 started, she killed us like in 5 seconds. However, we are glad that we have finished this game once again. Just those updates show how much potential this game has, and should be at least tried by every survival game enjoyer.
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76561199736356716 28 Aug, 2024 @ 3:57am 
Just wanna say, your review rocks! It's so full of insights and cool stuff. You really nailed it