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 getting 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 spite of everything, Grounded launched final 12 months for PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Swap as one of many first 4 Xbox exclusives to make the soar 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 joyful for Grounded that we had been capable of go on all these platforms. On the finish of the day, we have now a bit tagline of ‘Experience collectively, survive collectively.’ This recreation, to me, is about taking part in along with your mates irrespective of the place they play. And so our aim all the time is to succeed in 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 positively 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 by way of 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 preserve us sooner or later, however we might persist with that too. However we’ll play that out as we work with the neighborhood by means of it.”
Grounded 2 will retail for $29.99 when early entry begins on July twenty ninth, although it’s additionally playable through Sport Preview for Sport Move subscribers. Head right here for extra particulars on why Obsidian selected to make a sequel as a substitute of updating the primary recreation.
