Grounded
Worth it · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99.
- Length
- 34h
- Value
- $1.18/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 650 Ti, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. It has been discounted 28 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Valheim ($29.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60).
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 3,405 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 34 hours; clearing it takes 109, which is 3.2 times the campaign.
Still 2.4K concurrent players, 4 years in.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
61% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2,394 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
10/10 Game. You can easily get 100+ hours out of this game and that is not including the new game+ 1, 2, and 3+ editions to the game. The story is good. The combat is rewarding and great. Exploration is good. The building mechanics are solid. The progression feels right. OMFG PETS! Let me put it this way, I played this with my wife. We beat it around 100 hours (taking our time and not researching anything). We...
It's an open world survival crafting game that understands that making a smaller map with dense content is far more interesting than a huge barren map. The story mode also motivates you to keep progressing and the "coziness" meter rewards you for slowing down and taking the time to decorate your base instead of speedrunning map exploration. All in all, it's a great game that addresses a lot of the issues prevalent...
The game itself looks nice, and the story and gameplay are fun. However, the co-op mode is terrible. Either you or your friend gets disconnected every five minutes, and you receive random errors every time you try to rejoin the session. Even when your friend sends an invite to the host and you accept it, the game can randomly close. Since the game came out, the developers have not addressed this problem at all. I...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Grounded scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/962130/groundedThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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