Grounded similar games & best alternatives

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Grounded

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2022

Should you play it?

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

What works

  • Unique and immersive backyard setting
  • Streamlined crafting and building systems
  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer
  • Challenging and rewarding combat
  • Long playtime and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and technical issues
  • Multiplayer login complexity
  • Combat can feel clunky to some
  • Grindy progression at times
  • Limited player count in multiplayer

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Grounded 2

  • Deep Rock Galactic

  • Smalland: Survive the Wilds

  • Enshrouded

  • Valheim

  • Sketchy's Contract

More competitive

Games that feels like Grounded but with more competition against others

  • Onirism

  • Vellum

  • HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed

  • Monster Hunter: World

  • Borderlands 2

  • RIFT

Less intimate

Games that feels like Grounded but with less focus on close relationships

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • Borderlands 3

  • DYSPLACED

  • Roboquest

  • STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN

  • 5089: The Action RPG

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Grounded but with less leadership over others

  • CODE VEIN

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

  • FlyKnight

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

  • Absolum

  • Mycopunk

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Grounded 2

  • The Outer Worlds 2

  • Avowed

  • STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™

  • The Outer Worlds

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Grounded. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Grounded. These titles are not in What to play next.

Grounded: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Fellowship, Cooperation.

Last update: 21/08/2026