Grounded 2 similar games & best alternatives

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Grounded 2

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2025

Should you play it?

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

What works

  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer
  • Large and immersive map
  • Creative base building and crafting
  • Fun and challenging combat
  • Meaningful story progression

Things to keep in mind

  • Poor optimization and performance issues
  • Frequent crashes reported
  • Limited graphics customization
  • Some ui and control quirks
  • Early access bugs and instability

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Grounded

  • Deep Rock Galactic

  • Smalland: Survive the Wilds

  • Valheim

  • Risk of Rain 2

  • Sketchy's Contract

More competitive

Games that feels like Grounded 2 but with more competition against others

  • Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Onirism

  • Borderlands 2

  • Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

  • Monster Hunter: World

Less intimate

Games that feels like Grounded 2 but with less focus on close relationships

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • Borderlands 3

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • Palworld

  • No Rest for the Wicked

  • DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ II

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Grounded 2 but with less leadership over others

  • VR Dungeon Knight

  • Mycopunk

  • Lost Castle 2

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

  • Atomic Picnic

  • Nioh 3

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Grounded

  • The Outer Worlds 2

  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Avowed

  • Pillars of Eternity

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Grounded 2. 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 2. These titles are not in What to play next.

Grounded 2: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Exploration, Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026