Review: Grounded (PS5) - Little Bites Pack a Big Punch

A backyard filled with things to do.

As we continue to see walls being torn down between platforms, more people are getting exposed to former exclusives than ever before. On the PlayStation side, we're getting our first look at Grounded, formerly only available to Xbox and PC players for the last four years. If you're not in the Xbox ecosystem, you might not know much about the game, so allow us to get you up to speed: Grounded is a highly involved cooperative survival game that will encapsulate you and your friends as you endure the horrors of being the size of a bug.

At its heart, Grounded is essentially the video game version of the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. A group of kids have been shrunk down to the size of an ant and forced to fight for their survival in someone's backyard. For the regular-sized person, there’s nothing to worry about here. There’s a nice tree in the centre, a woodshed, a small pond, and other typical things you expect to see in a yard. However, in this situation, danger is everywhere. Spiders continually make their threat known. Walking alongside that pond will have you under constant assault from mosquitoes. Interfering with ants can have a colony working together to bring you down. There’s nowhere to go that feels truly safe.

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