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Grounded 2 Revealed Ambitious 2025–2026 Roadmap

Two armored characters in a lush garden aim a bow and a glowing weapon at a giant butterfly by a pond. Bright colors and greenery surround them.
Grounded 2 (Image Credit: Xbox)

Obsidian Entertainment has officially launched Grounded 2 in Early Access, revealing a packed content roadmap spanning through 2025 and well into 2026. Available now on Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, and through Xbox Game Pass, the survival sequel already features a bigger, bolder world — and it’s only getting started. Here's what's Grounded 2 planned for the next few months:


Fall 2025 Update (Sept–Dec 2025)

  • AXL Armor

  • AXL Furniture

  • AXL: Park Boss

  • AXL Recipes

  • AXL’s Arena

  • AXL Weapons

  • Brazilian Portuguese (Text Support)

  • Japanese (Text Support)

  • Building Grid

  • Hotpouch on Buggy Mounts

  • Various Quality-of-Life Improvements


Winter 2025 Update

  • Steam Deck Verified

  • Steam Deck Crossplay

  • ROG Ally Support

  • New Creatures: Cricket, Earwig, and Ladybug Buggy

  • Coziness System

  • Mushroom Set 2.0

  • New Base Defenses

  • New Furniture Items

  • New Tier III Equipment

  • New Variants of Existing Insects

  • Tier III Omni-Tool Unlocks

  • Sour 2.0 (Updated Damage Type)

  • PEEP.R 2.0 Binocular Upgrade

  • PEEP.R on Buggy Integration

  • Playground Mode

  • General Quality-of-Life & Interaction Improvements


Summer 2026 Update

  • New Tier IV Equipment

  • Tier IV Omni-Tool Unlocks

  • Smoothies 2.0

  • Swimming 2.0

  • Watery Bases

  • Watery Buggies

  • Watery Creatures

  • Watery Equipment

  • Ziplines


Future Content (No Date Yet)

  • Active Mutations 2.0

  • Passive Mutations 2.0

  • Base Moving

  • Buggy Customization

  • Buggy Mutations

  • Buggy Progression

  • Customization System

  • New Armors

  • New Weapons

  • New Creatures

  • New Colossi

  • New Park Bosses

  • New Archetypes

  • New Buildings & Building Materials

  • More New Buggies

  • Additional Omni-Tool Unlocks

  • New Language Support:

    • Arabic

    • Korean

    • Polish

    • Russian

    • Thai

    • Traditional Chinese

    • Turkish


Three roadmap entries have been intentionally redacted, all marked with a green tree symbol — suggesting major Brookhollow Park map expansions are in the works. Obsidian previously noted that only a small portion of the map is currently accessible, so these hidden updates could unlock entirely new biomes.


Grounded 2 roadmap poster with updates: Fall, Winter, Summer, and Future Plans. Features include recipes, buggies, and new languages.
Grounded 2 roadmap: Fall, Winter, Summer, and Future Plans.

Early Impressions and Community Feedback

Grounded 2 has a good start so far. On launch day, it hit a peak of 49,836 concurrent players, surpassing the original’s all-time record, as per SteamDB. It currently holds a "Very Positive" rating on Steam, with 76% of the 5k user reviews marked positive. Early criticism mainly pointed out optimization and performance issues — common hurdles for Early Access games.


Still, the general sentiment from critics has been optimistic. IGN rated it 8/10, praising it as "a stellar starting point, despite a rocky technical performance," while GameSpot gave it 7/10, noting it establishes "a much stronger foundation for the future."


Whether you're hopping in now or planning to wait for the full launch, Grounded 2 already shows signs of becoming a much deeper and more polished survival adventure — and the roadmap gives plenty of reasons to stick around.

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