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Honey, We Shrunk the Us in Grounded

The Besties

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Is There a Goal in the Game?

There's a very clear, and I don't know how they square this with something that's supposed to be endlessly playable, but there is a goal. Like you are small and you need to get big. And there are like very clear narrative hooks that are pulling you towards being able to re-enlarge yourself. It makes the all of the survival stuff feel a lot more consequential because you are directed. You can only have four people playing at one time. Four is the maximum that you can have playing in a world at a given time. The higher you put the setting, the less spidery the spiders appear. So if you have issues with spiders, it's totally not a problem

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