Jul 25, 2020

Grounded - dham

Today we are excited to announce the voice actors who will be bringing to life your new favorite characters, along with announcing the talented Michael Chu (Overwatch) who has joined the team to help develop the narrative experience!

The cast includes:

Ozioma Akagha (“Runaways,” “Teen Titans Go!”) as Willow
Josh Brenner (“Silicon Valley,” “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) as BURG.L
Charlet Takahashi Chung (Overwatch, “Carmen Sandiego”) as Hoops
Zachary Levi (“Shazam!,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) as Wendell
Max Mittelman (Spider-Man, Final Fantasy VII Remake) as Pete
Luke Youngblood (“Community,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”) as Max

You will be able to hear all of their work in just three days! Check out our developer blog on https://grounded.obsidian.net/ for the latest up-to-date information!

Jul 24, 2020

The Grounded Launch trailer is here!

Grounded - dham

We are proud to reveal an all-new trailer for Grounded! The backyard is waiting and ready for you to explore in just four days! Check back to see more news and insights we have for you leading up to launch!

On July 28th, go big or never go home.

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Jun 17, 2020

The world of Grounded is completely magical

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Everything old is new again. That's Grounded, based on the short demo I just played as part of Steam's Summer Games Festival. A bit of exploration, a bit of crafting, some clumsy first-person combat. A world of interesting things to investigate that gradually expands in every direction. This is hardly new. But that world! Huge blades of grass rising overhead. Pausing beneath a canopy of clover. A building on the horizon, a sheer white wall, and when you approach it's a thing of Tic-Tacs dropped in the earth. The sell for Grounded is so simple: it's Honey I Shrunk the Kids, a bunch of you in the backyard suddenly no bigger than ants. But that simple sell is also completely transformative. The world of Grounded is magical.

I start the demo underground, soft earth leading off in several directions. I wander for a bit, picking up stems of smaller plants and eventually find a small geodesic dome - a place where I can analyse the things I find. My job is just to explore for now, explore and gather things and work out what's nearby. I see ants, and a ladybug that I absolutely refuse to mess with. I round a corner and golden sunlight lances through the grass - grass which is so thick I'm going to need a tool to cut through it.

The main bulk of the demo as I played it appears to be a gadget on the lawn that I'm trying to get reactivated. It has computer chips and a mother board inside - a terrain that I can literally walk around on top of - and three lasers that connect to it to power it up. Some of the lasers are blocked, and unblocking them is the obvious mission.

Jun 16, 2020

Obsidian's Grounded gets Steam demo

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A demo for Grounded, Obsidian's Honey-I-Shrunk-The-Kids-style bug-high survival adventure, launches today.

The demo is available to those registered to be an Xbox Insider, but it's also on Steam as part of the Steam Game Festival, which launches today.

The demo is a 30-minute, single-player experience playable until 22nd June. Grounded will then enter Xbox Game Preview with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Steam Early Access on 28th July 2020.

Apr 7, 2020

Obsidian's Grounded will enter early access in July

Grounded - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

Obsidian Entertainment tonight announced an early access launch date of July 28th for Grounded, their craft-o-survival game about teenagers shrunk down smaller than ants and turned loose in a back garden. If I’ve learned anything from the oeuvre of Rick Moranis, is that those kids are in for a tough time. It’s a surprising game to see coming from a studio known for RPGs including The Outer Worlds, South Park: The Stick Of Truth, and Pillars Of Eternity, but who are you to pigeonhole them? While we’ve mostly heard about the four-player co-op so far, tonight’s new look focused on the singleplayer side. Observe!

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