Grounded 2 roadmap and future updates for early access

The Grounded 2 roadmap lays out around a year's worth of updates to the early access build, leading into summer 2026 and beyond. These upcoming updates sound pretty significant too, adding new areas to Brookhollow Park, revamped features from Grounded 1, bringing new bugs and plenty of new weapons, armor sets, and base-building options.

That also means a 1.0 release is quite a long way out – Grounded 1 remained in early access for just over two years as a comparison, so if Grounded 2 follows a similar schedule its proper full launch might not happen until 2027! Regardless, here's what you can expect to see arrive in future updates for Grounded 2.

Grounded 2 roadmap

The roadmap for Grounded 2 lays out three major updates for the game that cover roughly the first year of its early access period up to summer 2026. Beyond that, Obsidian Entertainment has laid out a list of planned features that don't even have a vague update timeframe, but it's likely that they'll trickle in over the course of the second year of early access.

Here are all the future content updates we know about for Grounded 2:

Grounded 2 Fall Update

Grounded 2's first major update for early access will come in the fall/autumn period (I'd guess some time in September or October) and will add a new major boss to the game along with the following:

• AXL Park Boss: Based on a mutation description, it sounds like AXL could be a tarantula boss. When AXL is added to the game, the park will also see AXL Recipes and AXL's Arena move in. There will also be new AXL weapons, armor, and furniture to craft.
• Hotpouch on Grounded 2 Buggies.
• Building Grid and quality-of-life improvements.
• Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese in-game text.

Grounded 2 Winter Update

The Winter Update for Grounded 2 looks pretty hefty, introducing several new features, new insect critters, and a new Buggy type. Importantly, Grounded 2 will also be Steam Deck verified and ROG Ally compatible with the Winter update! However, it's unclear when this could drop, either at the end of 2025 or start of 2026.

Here's everything in the Grounded 2 Winter update:

• New park area: The name has been intentionally obscured on the roadmap, so we don't know what the area is called, but we know it'll be arriving in the Winter update.
• New gameplay features: This update will expand what's available to you both in and out of regular survival mode. Sour 2.0 (the special damage type) and PEEP.R 2.0 (the binocular-like scan tool), both Grounded 1 features presumably revamped for the sequel, will be added alongside Coziness, the base-levelling stat. Furthermore, PlayGrounds will also be added which, assuming they're the same as Grounded 1, will act as Grounded 2's creative, level-designing mode.
• New insect types: The park will be home to new bug types, crickets and earwigs. There will also be new variations of existing insects.
• Buggy updates: Grounded 2 Buggies will get a few improvements in this update, with the most important one being that ladybugs will be eligible mounts. You'll also be able to use your PEEP.R on a Buggy along with plenty more currently unspecified quality-of-life and interaction improvements.
• More gear: New Tier 3 equipment and Tier 3 Grounded 2 Omni-Tool upgrades will be available in this update.
• New base-building options: The Mushroom Set 2.0 will be added alongside new furniture and base defenses.

Grounded 2 Summer Update

The Grounded 2 Summer Update is arriving in 2026 and will be very water-focused, adding major features to the game to do with aquatic critters and swimming:

• New park area: Again, the name is obscured but it might be something pond or pool-related given the watery theme.
• Updated swimming: Swimming 2.0 will be arriving with this summer update. For additional traversal help, ziplines are also getting added at the same time.
• Smoothies 2.0: Returning from Grounded 1, revamped smoothies will make it into the summer update, helping you cool off and gain some useful status effects.
• Watery Buggies and creatures: Nothing specific has been named but perhaps we'll see aquatic beetles, pondskaters, nymphs, or even tadpoles with this update.
• More watery gear: As well as new Tier 4 equipment and Tier 4 Omni-Tool unlocks, you'll also be able to get watery equipment, which will no doubt be useful for…
• Watery Bases: Whether these are habitable rafts or underwater dome settlements remains to be seen, but you'll be able to set up some kind of water home with this update.

Grounded 2 future plans

There is already a lot planned for the first year or so of Grounded 2's early access life, but there's still lots to come. These Grounded 2 features are currently on the horizon with no clear release timeframe:

• Even more park areas: The roadmap clearly has two more park areas, but the names of them are (unsurprisingly) obscured.
• Passive Mutations and Active Mutations 2.0.
• Buggy improvements: More Buggy types, Buggy mutations, Buggy customization, and Buggy progression are all planned features for the future.
• New creatures, Park Bosses, and Colossi.
• New weapons, armor sets, Omni-Tool unlocks, and Archetypes.
• New building materials, buildings, customization options, and the power to move your base.
• Arabic, Korean, Polish, Russian, Thai, Traditional Chinese, and Turkish text.

So there's a lot on the way, with a steady stream of new Grounded 2 creatures, tools, areas, features and more over the next year and beyond. Whether what we see here will bring things up to a 1.0 release or not remains to be seen, but expect the game to keep expanding for quite some considerable time.

If you're just getting started then make sure you know how to get Grounded 2 Lingonberry Leather and Grounded 2 Grass Seeds, two crucial early stage crafting materials. Or check out how to solve one of the game's toughest mysteries, that of the Grounded 2 Frostbitten Key!

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