Grounded is Perhaps the Most Unique Game Among Microsoft's Arsenal

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Xbox Game Studios has a lot of different titles in development right now. Whether it's Arkane's Left 4 Dead-like FPS Redfall, Bethesda's spacefaring adventure Starfield, or Playground Games' fantasy RPG revival Fable, Xbox fans of all kind have something to look forward to in the coming years. These kinds of story-driven games with realistic graphics aren't all that the Xbox Series X has to offer, though. There's also Grounded, the survival game from Obsidian Entertainment. While the premise of Grounded is familiar to anyone who has seen Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, its delivery is special, especially within the greater Xbox environment.

In Grounded, players take control of kids who have mysteriously been shrunken down to the size of insects. Players must use the resources found in their own backyards to craft shelter and weapons that'll help them survive attacks from insects. Although Grounded doesn't take players to new, fantastical worlds, it cleverly uses the real world to create compelling challenges and objectives for players, all while developing a unique aesthetic that blends thrills and whimsy. Grounded is a unique title in the Microsoft library that ought to encourage similarly creative endeavors at Xbox Game Studios and beyond.

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Grounded's sense of scale lends it a special atmosphere. Plenty of games feature giant spiders and other bugs as enemies, but Grounded is different. Hostile bugs may look huge, but the player is the one whose size has been meddled with. The bugs and environmental details work together to make the player feel very small, which makes exploration in Grounded feel different from other sandbox or survival games where