Games like Grounded
If Grounded is your kind of game, the closest matches are Green Hell, Grounded 2 and Raft — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios, Grounded is a survival action-adventure game released in 2022 at $39.99 that puts players in the perspective of someone shrunk to the size of an ant in a backyard environment. The game features base-building, exploration-driven progression, and a mutation system, with up to four players able to tackle the challenges together in co-op multiplayer. Reviewers highlight the crafting-from-storage mechanics where materials visibly transform into structures, and the parry mechanic that feels satisfying to execute. Players describe the game as atmospheric, challenging, immersive, and whimsical, with an arachnophobia mode option making it more accessible for those with fears. Grounded achieved a 93% positive rating from over 40,000 Steam reviews, and it runs verified on Steam Deck.
About Grounded: 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?
Players who liked Grounded also play
Steam players who put hours into Grounded also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Grounded.
Top pick for Grounded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Grounded 2
WHY THIS
Shares mutation system, base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Second-strongest match for Grounded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
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.
Raft
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Third-strongest match for Grounded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer, base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Ranked #4 for Grounded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Ranked #5 for Grounded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Ranked #6 for Grounded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Grounded.
Ranked #7 for Grounded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Sons Of The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Ranked #8 for Grounded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Grounded
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Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Reviewers of Grounded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Reviewers of Grounded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Reviewers of Grounded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Reviewers of Grounded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Abiotic Factor
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Reviewers of Grounded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Windrose
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Reviewers of Grounded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Grounded.
Reviewers of Grounded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Grounded.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Grounded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grounded at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Grounded.
Priced ~75% under Grounded on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Grounded on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grounded.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Grounded on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Grounded on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grounded.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Grounded on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grounded.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Grounded on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer, base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Priced ~50% under Grounded on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Grounded on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grounded.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grounded.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Obsidian Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Obsidian Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Grounded. Shares Action with Grounded.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
WHY THIS
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Grounded. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
The Outer Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Grounded.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
WHY THIS
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Grounded.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
Grounded 2
WHY THIS
Shares mutation system, base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Grounded. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
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.
Pillars of Eternity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Grounded.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Grounded.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Grounded. Shares Action with Grounded.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Grounded.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Grounded 2
WHY THIS
Shares mutation system, base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
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.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Grounded.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Grounded.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Frequently asked about Grounded
- Is Grounded verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Grounded is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Grounded cost?
- Grounded is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Grounded have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Grounded supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Grounded?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grounded are Green Hell, Grounded 2, Raft.
- Who developed Grounded?
- Grounded was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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