Grounded
- Developer
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Publisher
- Xbox Game Studios
- Released
- 27 September 2022
- Age rating
- PEGI 12
- UK price
- £34.99
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Genres: role playing rpg , adventure
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Explore, build and survive together in this first person, multiplayer, survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Best gaming PC for Grounded in 2026
Full buyers guide →Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for Grounded today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.
Budget
£7991080p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Mid-tier
£1,2991440p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
High-end
£1,7991440p · 144fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
Enthusiast
£3,4994K · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB
- RAM
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 4TB NVMe SSD
Official system requirements
These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Xbox Game Studios on Steam. They tend to be conservative — usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 64bit | Windows 11 64bit |
| CPU | Intel Core i3-3225 | Intel Core i7-7700K or Ryzen 5 1600 |
| RAM | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 650 Ti | GeForce GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 470 |
| Storage | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| DirectX | — | — |
Verified 18 May 2026 against the Steam store page.
Can your PC run Grounded?
If your CPU is roughly equivalent to Intel Core i7-7700K and your GPU is at or above GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, see the tier picks above.