Grounded 2 just went full submarine with its biggest update yet, dropping "Into the Abyss" and PS5 Early Access on the same day. Obsidian and Eidos Montreal opened up the entire Skunk Pond ecosystem on August 11, complete with diving gear, underwater base building, the amphibious Toe Biter Buggy, and a whole roster of new and returning threats like the venom-slowing Toe Biter, Pond Jockey swarms, and massive Koi fish.[[1]](https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/08/11/grounded-2-into-the-abyss-update-xbox/)

Steam numbers are sitting around 7,000-12,000 concurrent right now with a lifetime peak near 49k at launch, and the community on X and Reddit is already hyped about the new vertical exploration, ziplines, and harpoon combat options that make the pond feel like a genuine new dimension instead of just a reskinned biome.[[2]](https://steamdb.info/app/2661300/charts/)

New players on PlayStation are jumping in during Early Access alongside the Xbox and PC crowd, which is exactly the kind of cross-platform chaos that turns a survival game into a squad-wipe factory. The series has already pulled over 30 million players total, and this drop is the clearest signal yet that Obsidian is still committed to making Brookhollow Park meaner and deeper with every patch.[[3]](https://grounded2.obsidian.net/news/grounded-2/grounded-2-is-coming-to-playstation-5)