Games like Grounded

If the colorful and chaotic rhythm of Grounded stuck with you, this helps. These games could fill that gap nicely. Sharing the fun is easy with these picks.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds
You are tiny, the world is not. Smalland drops you into an oversized wilderness where puddles are lakes, ants want you for dinner and a grasshopper makes a fine horse. Craft gear, tame bugs, build camps on the forest floor or high in the trees, and survive the seasons alone or with up to nine friends.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Colorful, Chaotic, Cute
82% of 8,178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 282$34.99
GRAIN ROT
A co-op horror extraction builder in a scorched wasteland where everything burns. Ride a cursed elevator into shifting ruins as fragile wooden puppets, smash furniture for loot and flee the Corrupted. Die and your Spark keeps playing. Make it home, rebuild the Outpost, then go deeper.
Also in Co-op · Chaotic, Funny, Surreal
87% of 2,182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 475$9.99
Project: Mist
Project: Mist drops you on a foggy island full of monsters, abandoned facilities and dark secrets. You survive with a Gravity Gun, a train you build into a moving base, and a cooking pot full of strange critters. Play the story campaign alone or with up to three friends. It is rough in places, and the atmosphere makes up for it.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic, Tense
72% of 323 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$17.99
Don't Starve Together
Don't Starve Together is a standalone multiplayer expansion to Don't Starve about staying alive in a strange wilderness with friends. You gather, craft, farm and build a base while hunger, darkness and monsters test the group. Playing with friends is a big part of the fun, players keep one shared world going for a long time, and total time in the game can reach hundreds of hours.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic, Funny, Surreal
94% of 378,608 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32,832$14.99
Core Keeper
Core Keeper is an underground digging adventure for one to eight players in a forgotten cavern. You dig, craft, farm, build a base, and chase the secret of the old Core, alone or in drop-in co-op with friends. Exploring its biomes is fun, and the early hours are especially strong.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Colorful, Cute
92% of 51,154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,593$19.99
Once Human
Once Human is an odd post-apocalyptic survival game where you join friends against monsters, build your own territory, and uncover what Stardust wants. You watch food and water for Sanity, hunt bosses for powerful loot, and shape guns with parts, perks, and upgrades.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense
79% of 195,453 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20,225Free
Burglin' Gnomes
Burglin' Gnomes is a co-op heist game for up to six tiny burglars. Sneak into human houses, grab whatever fits in your little hands, dodge the homeowner and worse things lurking around, then haul the loot home to craft gear and upgrade your base. The High-Gnome sets the tasks. Physics does the rest.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Colorful, Chaotic, Funny
82% of 5,247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 426$9.99
Drake Hollow
A colorful survival adventure where you raise a village of vegetable folk called Drakes. Explore a procedurally generated world of misty islands, gather materials, fight feral beasts and build a camp your little buddies rely on. Playable solo or with up to four friends, at your own pace.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Colorful, Cute
77% of 1,162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$29.99
Muck
Trapped on a procedurally generated island, you chop, mine, craft, and throw up a base by day, then hold it against whatever crawls out after dark. Muck is a fast survival roguelike that is best played loose, died in often, and laughed through with friends.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Colorful, Chaotic, Funny
93% of 185,153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 945Free
A Webbing Journey
You are Silky, a tiny spider with the whole house to yourself. Climb walls and ceilings, weave webs across entire rooms and finish the humans' chores with nothing but silk and physics. A cute, chaotic sandbox for one to four players, where making a beautiful mess is half the job.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Chaotic, Funny
98% of 1,344 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$9.99
MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!
A survival horror with a simple setup: sea behind you, a towering gate ahead, and a maze in between. Hunt, gather, craft crude weapons and keep moving, because the things inside are starving too. Play solo if you like being scared, or with friends if you like being scared together.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense
82% of 622 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$9.99
ARK: Survival Evolved
Stranded naked and starving on a strange island, you hunt, craft, build, and learn to survive among dinosaurs. The pull is taming them: more than 100 creatures can be tamed by knocking them out and feeding them back, with the large ones ridden and new generations bred. It is more fun with friends.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic, Tense
83% of 589,225 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15,512$14.99

Cheaper than Grounded

Grounded 2

Survive an overgrown park at ant size: craft gear, ride your own buggy and build bases while a mystery watches back.

$29.99

Smalland: Survive the Wilds

You are tiny, the world is not. Smalland drops you into an oversized wilderness where puddles are lakes, ants want you for dinner and a grasshopper…

$34.99

GRAIN ROT

Ride a cursed elevator down with friends, grab what you can from the ruins, and rebuild your Outpost before the Corrupted catch you.

$9.99

Project: Mist

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

$17.99

Don't Starve Together

Gather, craft and keep a shared world alive while darkness, hunger and strange monsters close in.

$14.99

Core Keeper

Mine a forgotten cavern, craft your gear and uncover the secret at its heart, alone or with up to seven friends.

$19.99

Burglin' Gnomes

Sneak into human houses with up to five friends, pocket everything that fits and haul it home for gear and upgrades.

$9.99

Drake Hollow

Gather, build and fight across misty islands while your adorable vegetable settlers depend on you, alone or with friends.

$29.99

A Webbing Journey

Swing, weave and tidy up as a tiny spider, alone or with up to three friends.

$9.99

MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!

A survival horror with a simple setup: sea behind you, a towering gate ahead, and a maze in between.

$9.99

ARK: Survival Evolved

Hunt, craft and build a home on a hostile island, then tame and ride the creatures that once hunted you.

$14.99

Scrapnaut

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

$1.39

Hidden gems like Grounded

A Webbing Journey

Swing, weave and tidy up as a tiny spider, alone or with up to three friends.

$9.99

GRAIN ROT

Ride a cursed elevator down with friends, grab what you can from the ruins, and rebuild your Outpost before the Corrupted catch you.

$9.99

Delverium

Build a settlement, grow your crops and dig into the Faults corrupting the land, alone or with up to seven friends.

$9.99

MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!

A survival horror with a simple setup: sea behind you, a towering gate ahead, and a maze in between.

$9.99

Inferno Protocol

Scavenge, inject and shoot your way through a shifting labyrinth, building a settlement at its heart while you hunt for the way out, alone or with…

$13.49

Odd Remedy

Escape the open-world island infested with monster spiders while on duty as a prisoner alone or with your friends.

$9.99

Burglin' Gnomes

Sneak into human houses with up to five friends, pocket everything that fits and haul it home for gear and upgrades.

$9.99

My Little Universe

Turn a barren moon into lush little planets, one tile at a time, solo or with friends.

$14.99

Tinkerlands

Gather, craft and grow a cozy island settlement, with boss fights and friends welcome whenever you feel like it.

$12.99

Backrooms Lost Runners

Trapped in endless yellow corridors with friends, where even a whisper can give you away.

$13.99

DuneCrawl

Sail a colorful desert world with up to three friends, blasting Vassals from your crab ship and raiding fortresses along the way.

$14.99

Aground Zero

The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion.

$19.99

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