Grounded is off to a flying begin on Steam.
Grounded, Obsidian’s new experimental survival game, has debuted very strongly. The game launched on Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview yesterday, and has already shot as much as the highest of Steam’s best-sellers.
As famous by @Benjisales, Grounded shortly turned the top-selling game on Steam worldwide shortly after it went stay. Though gross sales are spectacular, significantly contemplating the game is freely accessible on Xbox Game Pass, the concurrent participant numbers are nothing particular.
Grounded peaked at 12,543 shortly after launch, which is sufficient to land it close to the underside of Steam’s high 100 most performed games. These numbers may, in fact, enhance over the course of the subsequent few days.
Nonetheless, the anticipation for Grounded was seemingly excessive. Yesterday additionally noticed the game attain the highest three spot on Twitch, when it comes to viewers. Survival games usually take pleasure in sturdy debuts on Steam, and this one appears be a bit of extra fleshed out than most that drop in Steam Early Access.
Grounded is a distinct game from a studio principally know for its expansive RPGs. It’s additionally an experiment by a small Obsidian crew, supposed to discover whether or not that model of story could possibly be instructed in a conventional survival game. So far, it appears to be paying off.
