With Grounded 2 crawling out to a release in the near future, I was reminded of a piece I wrote several years ago about the original Grounded being a masterclass in horror. Even if you're not an arachnophobe, it was a game that could go a long way to making you rethink that position. The spiders that loomed in Grounded were so monstrous that they immediately traumatized players in early access, forcing developer Obsidian to put out a special patch to make them less terrifying.
Grounded 2 isn't out yet and I have no idea if it'll still have the same terrifying power that the first one did, but what I've seen so far largely seems to bode somewhat poorly for the collective underpants of the fanbase. And oddly enough, my hopes were solidified in one single image from the trailer:
