It’s exclusive and arrives on Xbox and Xbox Game Pass at the end of July, don’t make plans

Before finishing the month of July we receive in Xbox Game Pass an exclusive game that will take hours of your life.

More stories in the category Xbox Game Pass

• If you have Xbox Game Pass, in September it has a new free game trial
• These have been the best Xbox Game Pass games of the week
• These are the confirmed games that will arrive on Xbox Game Pass in September

July will bid farewell with one of the most notable releases of the summer for Xbox players. Available from day 29 on Game Pass, this exclusive expands on everything that made its first installment special: cooperative survival, massive environments from a tiny perspective, demanding combat, and an atmosphere that now becomes even more mysterious and unsettling.

This return from Obsidian comes loaded with new features. Grounded 2 launches in Early Access format on both console and PC, with a clear roadmap for adding content over the next few months. The game already offers dozens of hours of content and a larger world, more vertical and with new key mechanics, such as insect mounts.

Grounded 2 arrives on Xbox and Game Pass on July 29 with early access: what you need to know

The premise remains: you’ve shrunk back down to the size of an ant, but this time the world is much bigger. The park, once a simple garden, has transformed into a vast wilderness with abandoned artificial structures, differentiated biomes, and much more aggressive creatures. Everything is designed to make the player feel small, vulnerable… but also with options to survive, adapt, and thrive.

One of the major additions is the Bichacos, insects that you can breed and use as mounts. With them, it’s possible to move around the map, fight, and even automate tasks like gathering or building. Exploration and time management change radically thanks to this mechanic, which adds more variety and depth to the gameplay cycle.

You have to play it, no question

Grounded 2 can be played solo or in online cooperative mode, and each game adapts to the number of players and their style. Thanks to a new system of customizable archetypes, you can develop your character based on your preferences: direct combat, strategy, building… or specialization in team tasks.

But this time, it’s not just bugs lurking around every corner: there’s also an unknown presence watching and acting in the shadows. A new narrative arc that adds constant tension, with stealth, exploration, and intrigue mechanics that develop with each discovery. The entire game is shrouded in a more mysterious atmosphere, with hidden clues among the scene elements and a story that forces you to always look over your shoulder.

Grounded 2 will be available from July 29, 2025 on Xbox Series, PC with Windows, and Xbox Game Pass (Ultimate, Standard, and PC). It launches in early access with all the main playable content and periodic updates planned. An exclusive that arrives to expand the survival catalog of the service and, from day one, aims to become one of the essentials of the summer.