Obsidian has not announced the name, date or contents of the next Grounded 2 update. The latest content update is Rot and Ruin (version 0.6.0), released October 20, 2026, and the current build is patch 0.6.0.4 from October 28. There is also no date for Grounded 2’s full 1.0 release: the game is still in Early Access on Steam and PS5 and in Game Preview on Xbox.
This Grounded 2 roadmap page lists only what Obsidian has said in its own Steam and Xbox Wire posts: what’s out now, every update since Early Access began, which items from the official roadmap have shipped, and what is still open. We update it when Obsidian announces the next update.
Last checked: November 3, 2026, 15:50 UTC (Obsidian’s Steam news for Grounded 2 and Xbox Wire).
Table of Contents
Quick answer
- Current version: 0.6.0.4 (October 28, 2026), on all platforms.
- Latest content update: Rot and Ruin, out October 20, 2026. It adds the Woodpile, Termites, the Centipede boss, the Potato Beetle Buggy, Painting and Bismuth gear tiers.
- Next update: not announced (no name, no date, no public test build) as of November 3, 2026.
- 1.0 release date: not announced.
- Official roadmap: Obsidian’s Early Access Roadmap (July 29, 2025) had Fall, Winter and Summer columns. All three have shipped. A few “Future Plans” items, such as base moving and five extra languages, haven’t shown up in the patch notes yet.
- What to watch for: Obsidian usually opens a public test build (PTB) on Steam about two weeks before a big update goes live.
Grounded 2 next update: what Obsidian has announced
Nothing yet. Since Rot and Ruin, Obsidian has posted one patch (0.6.0.4 on October 28) and no update announcement, PTB or teaser on Steam or Xbox Wire. Obsidian’s last naming step came before Rot and Ruin: on August 25, 2026 it asked players to vote on the name of the next update “coming this Fall” on the Grounded Discord. That update turned out to be Rot and Ruin. Its Xbox Wire post calls it “the Fall Update.”
Obsidian splits Grounded 2’s updates into two types, as it explained in the December 2025 Feature Update post:
- Content Updates are big drops with new areas, bosses and Buggies, such as The Toxic Tangle, Beat the Heat, Into the Abyss and Rot and Ruin.
- Feature Updates are smaller and focus on tech, performance and mechanics. The December 2025 one (0.2.2) brought back Coziness, added PEEP.R 2K and moved the game to Unreal 5.6.1.
When could the next Grounded 2 update come out?
There is no official date, so the following is a pattern, not a schedule. The gaps between content updates so far were 119, 77, 119 and 70 days. If the next gap falls in that range, the next content update would arrive between late December 2026 and mid-February 2027. That is our arithmetic, not something Obsidian has said. One precedent: last year Obsidian released a holiday-themed Feature Update on December 3.
The most reliable early sign is a public test build. Recent PTBs opened 13 to 15 days before the full release:
| Update | PTB opened | Full release | Lead time |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Toxic Tangle | Jan 13, 2026 | Jan 27, 2026 | 14 days |
| Playgrounds | Feb 24, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | 28 days |
| Beat the Heat | Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 14, 2026 | 13 days |
| Buggy Racing (0.4.1) | May 12, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | 15 days |
| Rot and Ruin | Oct 6, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | 14 days |
Into the Abyss was handled differently. It was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase on June 8, 2026, with a fixed date of August 11, the same day as the PS5 launch.
What’s out now: Rot and Ruin and patch 0.6.0.4
According to Xbox Wire and the 0.6.0 patch notes on Steam, Rot and Ruin adds:
- The Woodpile, a new adventure area with returning Termites (Workers, Soldiers, Queen and the Termite King) and new O.G.R.R. variants.
- The Centipede, a new boss with its own armor set, staff, mutation, trinket and furniture.
- The Potato Beetle Buggy, bigger than the Ladybug Buggy. It has a shotgun-style turret, a charged shot and a healing roar, and it can haul resources.
- Painting with the Splotcher, a paintball gun that colors walls, floors, roofs, stairs and doors.
- Gear tiers: upgrade weapons and armor with Bismuth at the new Yoking Press.
- Collectibles: 8 SCA.B color schemes and 5 figurines you can build as statues.
- Perfect Dodge (no damage and no stamina cost) and quick-swap mutation loadouts in the Hotpouch radial menu.
- A smaller install: 51% smaller on PC (37 GB to 18 GB) and 200-300 MB smaller on consoles, plus an upgrade to Unreal 5.7.
The Potato Beetle Buggy from Rot and Ruin (0.6.0) carries a shotgun-style turret and a healing roar. Image: Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios
The 0.6.0.4 patch (October 28) fixes these issues:
- The Skunk Pond Ranger Outpost hatch couldn’t be opened on older 0.4 saves.
- The “Forgotten” report appeared as a washball, and Advanced Bushcraft couldn’t be completed on some saves.
- Dew Collector and Sap Catcher contents disappeared after save/load, and paint vanished from far away.
- Projectile reloads could be skipped by spamming interact.
- The game hung on Xbox Series X when suspended, and there were several crashes.
Obsidian’s workaround for O.G.R.R. spawning problems is to sleep, then save and reload. If you’re hunting puzzles in the new build, our Grounded 2 briefcase code guide is checked against 0.6.0.4.
Every Grounded 2 update so far
Dates are from Obsidian’s Steam announcements and Xbox Wire.
| Version | Update | Released | Headline content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | Early Access launch | Jul 29, 2025 | Xbox Game Preview and Steam Early Access; $29.99 Standard, $39.99 Founder’s Edition |
| 0.2 | Hairy and Scary | Sep 30, 2025 | AXL tarantula boss, BUILD.M grid, Hotpouch on Buggies, Praying Mantis armor, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese text |
| 0.2.2 | December Feature Update | Dec 3, 2025 | Coziness (tiers 1-3), PEEP.R 2K, holiday decorations, Unreal 5.6.1 |
| 0.3 | The Toxic Tangle | Jan 27, 2026 | Garden biome, Ladybug Buggy, Earwigs, Woolly Aphid, Snake Colossus, active/passive mutations |
| – | Playgrounds Mode | Mar 24, 2026 | Creative mode with triggers, creature spawners and shared community maps |
| 0.4 | Beat the Heat | Apr 14, 2026 | King Dozer lizard boss, Buggy Progression (Moldy Milk Molars, Buffin’ Barrel), Black Soldier Ant Buggy, Sinkhole Anthill |
| 0.4.1 | Buggy Racing | May 27, 2026 | Racing in Playgrounds, Lakeside Loop map, Steam Deck support and crossplay with a Microsoft account |
| 0.5 | Into the Abyss | Aug 11, 2026 | Pond, Abyss, Bayou and Mountains, Diving Suit, underwater bases, Toe-biter Buggy, Swimming 2.0, ziplines; PS5 launch |
| 0.6 | Rot and Ruin | Oct 20, 2026 | Woodpile, Termites, Centipede boss, Potato Beetle Buggy, Painting, Bismuth gear tiers |
| 0.6.0.4 | Patch | Oct 28, 2026 | Save, quest and crash fixes (current build) |
Underwater bases arrived with Into the Abyss (0.5) on August 11, 2026, the update that delivered the roadmap's Summer column. Image: Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios
Grounded 2 roadmap: what’s delivered and what’s still open
Obsidian posted its Early Access Roadmap on Steam on launch day, July 29, 2025. It has four columns: Fall Update, Winter Update, Summer Update and Future Plans. A few entries were deliberately blotted out to avoid spoilers.
The official Early Access Roadmap from launch day (July 29, 2025). The Fall, Winter and Summer columns have all shipped; parts of Future Plans are still open. Image: Obsidian Entertainment
Here’s how those columns compare with what has shipped, based on Obsidian’s patch notes:
| Roadmap column | Shipped as | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fall Update (AXL boss, building grid, Hotpouch on Buggies, Japanese/Brazilian Portuguese) | Hairy and Scary, Sep 30, 2025 | Delivered |
| Winter Update (PlayGrounds, PEEP.R 2.0, Coziness, Ladybug Buggy, Cricket, Earwig, Steam Deck) | December Feature Update, The Toxic Tangle, Playgrounds and 0.4.1, Dec 2025 to May 2026 | Delivered, spread over several releases |
| Summer Update (Swimming 2.0, ziplines, watery Buggies, creatures, equipment and bases) | Into the Abyss, Aug 11, 2026 | Delivered |
| Future Plans: passive mutations and active mutations 2.0 | The Toxic Tangle | Delivered |
| Future Plans: Buggy Progression and Buggy mutations | Beat the Heat | Delivered |
| Future Plans: new park bosses and colossi | Snake Colossus, King Dozer, Centipede | Delivered (and ongoing) |
| Future Plans: building customization | Painting in Rot and Ruin | Delivered |
| Future Plans: Korean and Traditional Chinese text | Listed on the Steam store page | Delivered |
| Future Plans: base moving, new archetypes, Buggy customization | No mention in patch notes so far | Open |
| Future Plans: Arabic, Polish, Russian, Thai and Turkish text | Not on the Steam language list yet | Open |
Obsidian also mentioned an “updated roadmap” in its January 27, 2026 Toxic Tangle post on Xbox Wire. That one is an image on Obsidian’s social channels and doesn’t appear in its Steam or Xbox Wire posts. So this page lists only the updates that Obsidian’s own posts confirm, not that graphic’s contents.
Grounded 2 1.0 release date
There isn’t one yet. Obsidian’s posts still describe Grounded 2 as being in Early Access, and none mention a 1.0 date or window. For comparison, Xbox Wire said the first Grounded went through 12 Game Preview/Early Access updates before its full release in September 2022. Grounded 2 has had four content updates so far, so that history doesn’t point to a date. Other survival games have finished their Early Access runs recently, such as Enshrouded’s 1.0 launch.
Platforms and price
- Xbox: Game Preview on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, with Xbox Play Anywhere. It’s included in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass (see what else is coming in Xbox Game Pass this November).
- Steam: Early Access, $29.99 (the store lists a July 29, 2025 release).
- PS5: Early Access since August 11, 2026.
FAQ
When is the next Grounded 2 update?
Obsidian hasn’t announced it. The last content update, Rot and Ruin, came out on October 20, 2026, and the newest patch is 0.6.0.4 (October 28). Watch Obsidian’s Steam news for a public test build. Recent ones opened about two weeks before the full release.
What is the latest Grounded 2 update?
Rot and Ruin (0.6.0), which added the Woodpile, Termites, the Centipede boss, the Potato Beetle Buggy, Painting and Bismuth gear upgrades. The current build is patch 0.6.0.4.
Is there a Grounded 2 roadmap for 2026?
Obsidian’s original Early Access Roadmap (July 2025) covered Fall, Winter and Summer updates, and all three have shipped. Obsidian has not posted a roadmap that covers anything after Rot and Ruin.
Is Grounded 2 out of Early Access?
No. Grounded 2 is still in Early Access on Steam and PS5 and in Game Preview on Xbox, and there’s no 1.0 date yet. If you want another co-op survival game while you wait, our Palworld breeding guide covers a game whose systems keep growing with updates too.
Sources: Obsidian, patch 0.6.0.4 (Steam); Obsidian, Rot and Ruin 0.6.0 (Steam); Xbox Wire, Rot and Ruin; Obsidian, Rot and Ruin PTB (Steam); Obsidian, update name vote (Steam); Obsidian, Early Access Roadmap (Steam); Obsidian, December Feature Update (Steam); Obsidian, patch 0.4.1 Buggy Racing (Steam); Xbox Wire, Into the Abyss; Xbox Wire, Beat the Heat; Xbox Wire, The Toxic Tangle; Xbox Wire, Hairy and Scary; Grounded 2 on Steam.
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