My current feedback of grounded 2

[Mistr Straw]

First off, I’d like to start by saying I love the game. I think it looks stunning, and I genuinely enjoy it. That said, there are some unwanted bugs (pun intended—I’ll take any opportunity to make that joke). I had pretty high expectations, and to be honest, I was hoping for a little more.

Now, I get that it's early access, so it's understandable we didn't get all the content yet. But coming from Grounded 1, which had custom game modes, it's frustrating to see settings that we could potentially alter—yet they've been locked. Personally, I'd love to change the behavior of the backpack system when dying, but right now, that’s not possible.

This wasn’t a huge issue until one of the current bugs caused my backpack to glitch way out of bounds on the map after dying… that’s happened three times already, and it’s incredibly annoying.

I also expected there to be some kind of upscaling available. I’m not running cutting-edge hardware, but it’s far from outdated. Based on my experience, I don’t think the current recommended and minimum specs are accurate for comfortably playing the game. I'm well within the recommended specs, yet I frequently encounter low FPS. It's not a total dealbreaker, but it definitely didn’t meet my expectations.

Then there’s the crashing—within the first hour, the game crashed on me twice. Again, I know it’s early access and quirks are expected. But that brings me to the in-game settings and button mapping…

Every single time I reload a save file, I have to re-adjust my settings. I don’t want dash mapped to Ctrl—I want it on Alt. I want crouch mapped to Ctrl like almost every other game. But I have to change that every time, which wouldn’t be such a big deal if the game didn’t keep crashing.

Also, I can’t change the resolution to windowed mode. The moment I exit the options menu, the game automatically forces the resolution back to full screen.

Like I said, I love the game and I’m having fun overall. There are a few other “bugs” I won’t even mention, since those feel expected in early access and I can live with them, even if they’re a little annoying.

But coming from Grounded 1—which had everything—and into Grounded 2, where early access was promised to be just as big, I feel like I had higher expectations. Nonetheless, I love the game… but please, these issues are making it really difficult to keep playing.