Obsidian Leisure’s Grounded 2 builds off its 2022 predecessor with bigger areas, new options like mounts (often called Buggies), and rather more. It’s coming into early entry on Xbox Collection X/S and PC subsequent month, however with Microsoft leaning extra into publishing its first-party titles on different platforms, what about different platforms?
In any case, Grounded launched final 12 months for PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Swap as one of many first 4 Xbox exclusives to make the bounce to different platforms. Whereas there aren’t any plans for Grounded 2 to do the identical, government producer Marcus Morgan instructed IGN that the crew will “see the place it goes sooner or later.”
“I’ll say that I’m so, so blissful for Grounded that we have been in a position to go on all these platforms. On the finish of the day, we’ve just a little tagline of ‘Trip collectively, survive collectively.’ This sport, to me, is about enjoying along with your mates regardless of the place they play. And so our purpose all the time is to achieve as many gamers as potential. We’ll begin off with this. We’ll see the place it goes sooner or later.”
Obsidian will present a roadmap for Grounded 2 on the identical day that early entry goes stay. Whereas it might repeat its predecessor’s course of, Morgan says the crew isn’t placing “any laborious and quick constraints on that as a result of there’s a very honest dedication to the early entry strategy of placing content material on the market, seeing how individuals react to it, iterating on that and constructing from it.”
“I undoubtedly see Grounded 2 as being…it’s set as much as be rather more expandable than perhaps we had initially laid out Grounded 1 for, however we have to see the way it goes when it comes to whether or not or not we put a cap on or not.
“When it comes to what we do for future content material and past, that’ll actually be dictated by what gamers do after which assuming if back-end and tech can nonetheless maintain and hold us sooner or later, however we might follow that too. However we’ll play that out as we work with the neighborhood via it.”
Grounded 2 will retail for $29.99 when early entry begins on July twenty ninth, although it’s additionally playable by way of Sport Preview for Sport Go subscribers. Head right here for extra particulars on why Obsidian selected to make a sequel as an alternative of updating the primary sport.