Grounded Simply is one of the best survival games you can play distilling honey i shrunk the kids with 80s/90s vibes mixing in some of the best elements of other survival games like the forest and valheim and extensive history of rpgs games

Early access was 99% perfect with regular updates, taking on board feedback from the community and delivering a great 1.0, regular updates since 1.0 while not as frequent have still been unique adding new creatures to fight, new boss's and buildables and looks to be continuing in the future with more.

Buy grounded if you like survival games - you can wander aimlessly or follow a great story both work
Building cool bases (grind or creative)
Fighting bugs with deeper combat and stat min-maxing than a lot of other games with unique ways to make tons of different builds
Having fun with friends
Like environmental story elements and lore in games but not boring ass cut scenes every two seconds
Appreciate QoL elements to not waste ya time micro managing inventory

Negatives?
multiplayer while efforts have been made even most recently is still iffy, more than average reports of being kicked etc on consoles (yes i know this is pc) with synch and lag common on console connections
build pieces are great but need more freedom to meld them together like no clip in ark or closer to valheim rather then socket with limitations

What does grounded need?
New game modes, like hardcore/timed mode or new game plus
More items to create mini-games in the backyard
A road map or rough plans going forward

grounded is a pixar child friendly looking game but underneath lurks a horror with survival aspects that would make other hardcore survival games blush if it weren't for the array of options to customize and play however you want, grounded is a game about bugs with relative few games bugs in them, devs work hard to add new features and continue to update and communicate to a high standard

Its better then lemon crime