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Grounded 2 now has Rot and Ruin. Standard, Founder's Edition or Game Pass? Microsoft Store key €21.76 (€22.95 with fees), Steam Key €23.59 (no fees).
Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Steam Account · Global · Difmark
- Live offers
- 20 offers · 11 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · Steam Gift · Europe · K4G — €
Obsidian released Rot and Ruin, update 0.6.0 for Grounded 2, on 20 October after a public test that opened on 6 October. Patches 0.6.0.4 (28 October) and 0.6.0.5 (4 November) followed. It's free if you own the game, which is still in early access on PC and Xbox Series X|S. If you're buying in now, you can pick the standard game, the Founder's Edition, the Founder's Pack on its own, or Game Pass.
What Rot and Ruin adds
A new area, the Woodpile, overrun by termites: workers, soldiers, a queen, the Termite King and new O.G.R.R. variants. The Centipede arrives as a boss, and there's a new ride, the Potato Beetle Buggy, with a shotgun-style turret and a Healing Roar. You can now paint your base with the Splotcher, and push weapons and armour to higher tiers with Bismuth at the Yoking Press. Steam users rate the game Very Positive, 82% of 22,474 reviews.
The editions side by side
| Option | What you get | Official | Cheapest we track |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grounded 2 | The game and its updates | €29.99 on Steam | €21.76 (€22.95 with fees), Microsoft Store key |
| Founder's Edition | Game + Founder's Pack + Digital Artbook & Soundtrack | €39.99 on Steam | Only as a Steam Gift, at the Steam price |
| Founder's Pack | DLC, needs the game | €10.00 on Steam | €9.67 (€10.73 with fees), Steam Gift |
| Grounded Series | Grounded + Grounded 2 | €62.98 on Steam | Not tracked |
| Game Pass Ultimate | Access while subscribed, Xbox and PC | - | €12.00 (€12.79 with fees) a month, Xbox key |
Steam or the Microsoft Store
The cheapest key this morning is a Microsoft Store key at Driffle, €21.76 (€22.95 with fees) with GOCDKEYS10. It's the EU Xbox Play Anywhere version: one purchase covers Xbox Series X|S and Windows through the Xbox app, but it won't appear in Steam. The cheapest Steam Key is at Instant Gaming for €23.59 (no fees). On Steam itself, the lowest we've recorded is €26.99.
Steam Accounts start at €7.55 (€7.89 with fees) at Difmark with Gocdkeys. That's a login to someone else's account and the game is never yours, so we'd pass on it for a game you'll play for months.
Founder's Edition or the pack on its own
On Steam, game plus Founder's Pack costs €39.99, the same as the Founder's Edition, which adds the artbook and soundtrack. To spend less, take the Instant Gaming Steam Key and add the pack on Steam: €33.59 in total, about six euros less, without the artbook and soundtrack. The pack is a Steam DLC, so it won't work with the Microsoft Store version. Resellers only have it as a Steam Gift: a gift sent to you that lands in your own Steam account, with no key involved. The cheapest, at HRKGame, costs €9.67 (€10.73 with fees) with Gocdkeys12, more than the €10.00 Steam charges directly. The 0.6.0.5 notes mention its character skin; the full contents are on its Steam page.
Is Game Pass enough?
Grounded 2 is in PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate. A month of Ultimate is €12.00 (€12.79 with fees) as an Xbox key at Driffle, the cheapest way to try Rot and Ruin with friends. When you stop paying, you lose the game, and two months already cost more than the €22.95 key. If you plan to follow early access, buy it.
On Xbox Series X|S
The Driffle key above is also the cheapest for Xbox, and it covers PC too. Key4Games sells an Account at €17.40 (€18.32 with fees) with GOCDKEYS16, again someone else's account. Console offers are on the Grounded 2 Xbox page, PC ones on the Grounded 2 key page. Want it cheaper? Set a price alert and we'll email you when it drops.
Prices checked on the morning of 15 November.
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