Category: Announcements

Grounded 2: Celebrating Game Preview Launch with a Wild 10-foot Red Ant Plush

Aaron Greenberg, Vice President, Games Marketing

Summary

Grounded 2 Game Preview launches on July 29, 2025—now featuring Buggies like ants that you can tame, ride, and fight alongside.
To celebrate, Xbox built a massive piece of gaming decor—a 10-foot Red Ant Plush.
Fans have a chance to win one by following Xbox on social and entering the giveaway.

We’ve always said Obsidian Entertainment’s co-op survival adventure Grounded was big fun at a tiny scale—but Grounded 2 is taking things to bigger and bolder new levels. The Game Preview launches next week, featuring the secretive Brookhollow Park, a huge new setting with rich biomes, a more mysterious story, more satisfying combat mechanics, and plenty of room to build alongside the community again.

The most requested addition from the Grounded community is the cornerstone of the new game – you can now ride insects like the Red Ant Buggy, which let you traverse, build, battle, and survive the suburban wilderness of the park.

To celebrate the amazing new Buggy feature, and the game’s massive new park setting, we decided to go just as big in real life. Like, really big. Say hello to possibly the biggest, wildest piece of gaming décor for your living room ever built: a 10-foot Red Ant Plush.

That’s right. We turned the in-game Red Ant Buggy into a real-world, mountable, ultra-soft, totally bonkers gaming plush. It’s part furniture, part Buggy, and all awesome. Climb up, grab your controller, and play Grounded 2 like the Red Ant-riding boss you are—if you can fit it in your living room, that is.

The giveaway runs exclusively from today through August 31, 2025, and fans can enter a sweepstakes by following Xbox on X (formerly Twitter) and reposting the official Xbox sweepstakes promotional post containing “#Grounded2Sweepstakes” during the sweepstakes period or following Xbox on Instagram and commenting on the official Xbox sweepstakes promotional post with the “#Grounded2Sweepstakes” during the sweepstakes period. For official rules and eligibility details, visit here.

In addition, the 10-foot Red Ant Plush will be at the Xbox FanFest event during gamescom in Cologne, Germany on August 20 where fans can see it in person.

We can’t wait for you to jump into Grounded 2 to explore Brookhollow Park and all it has to offer. Ride Buggies, fight off massive threats, and maybe—just maybe—become the biggest tiny hero in gaming history.

Grounded 2 launches July 29, 2025, in Game Preview for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC, and Xbox Cloud, in Early Access on Steam, and with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. And with Xbox Play Anywhere, a single purchase lets you play with Xbox consoles and Xbox PC with full cross-saves – at no additional cost. 