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Grounded is a rip off of Honey, i shrunk the kids. Humans are made small through science. The game is trying to return to normal.
In Smalland you are a member of a tiny race of creatures sent out into the overworld from the safety of your home to... look for a cure for your sick queen, as i recall.
You're not shrunk, trying to get normal. Just the vanguard sent out into a world where everything can, and will eat you.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smalland#/
This is our first PC game but...
We've made a few learning projects so far. But what really matters is that since 19th January 2017, we reached the features we showed on this page and the video. So we have no doubt we can finish this project.
However, time passed, there were teething troubles, and a new company and new Devs took over and redesigned the game pretty much from scratch. So, is 2022's Grounded a rip off of this? 😉 Well, let's check...
https://grounded.obsidian.net/feature-board
GO BIG AND GO HOME 1.0.0 UPDATE
September 27, 2022
For the last 2 years, over 10 million players have had some questions: Why are we so tiny? How did we wind up in this backyard? Who did this to us? Could they possibly add another spider to the game? The time to uncover those answers is now with the 1.0.0 Full Release available today!
So, no, the concept of Smalland came first before the concept of Grounded.
If you like survival games like me, get it. I didn't play much yet, none of my friends has time nor wants to play it atm.
In smalland, there's also the major plot point that the game takes place after the "age of giants", with the "giants" being the human race. The humans are gone. In some areas of the game map, you find lots of human skeletons. Lots.
So there's a kind of post apocalypse angle to the background too.
There are a few disturbing elements in Grounded, like the lair of the ant killer, with all the impaled ant heads, and some disturbing wall "artwork" made out of tiny human bones and insect body parts. Disturbing, but doesn't come close to the extinction of the human race which is a core part of the game universe background in smalland.
sure you are small in the two games, yet they are very different if you ask me. not a clone or ripoff.
AND in grounded the bugs are not really bugs, they can't do half the bugs in this game do, like climb walls and stones.
You realize that Grounded was in Early Access for several years before it released in 2022, right? It began development around the same time Smalland did.
Grounded was in development for 2 years pre-early access, so since 2018. The blurb quoted above would indicate Smalland was in development pre 2017
But neither is a copy of the other. They just coincidentally had similar settings in mind of being small and being survival but beyond the basics they are different games. A cookie isn't a cake just because they both use flour and sugar.
why people keep doing this "is it a ripoff from ??" is beond me.
Because it's almost identical in every way? Even the inventory screen looks relatively similar. Heck, it's even got the same "reshuffles your inventory every time you change what's in your hand" problem. Taming a small bug adds inventory slots that are a pain in the rear to actually make use of.
The two games are, at a fundamental level, the same game. Grounded has a few additional features added, such as mutations or base defense mechanics, but it's also a "complete" game. I think the only thing I found in this game that's not in Grounded is the tree bases, and to me that screamed.. someone played Grounded and thought, man.. I'd love to build my base on top that tree.
That doesn't necessarily mean that one is a ripoff of the other, but it does make comparisons inevitable and it also means that if this game wants to be a success then they need to try to be better than the other game that's targeting the exact same niche of gamers and providing the exact same experience, in a more complete and higher budget form. That's a tall order.