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Grounded 2: Beat the Heat

Beat the Heat Update – Your Lizard Has Arrived You asked for something bigger than bugs, and now it’s here. The Beat the Heat update is now live in Grounded 2, bringing a new boss fight, a new buggy…

15 April 2026

Grounded 2: Beat the Heat is a video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment, released 15 April 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Grounded 2: Beat the Heat is

Grounded 2: Beat the Heat was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released in 2026. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Beat the Heat Update – Your Lizard Has Arrived You asked for something bigger than bugs, and now it’s here. The Beat the Heat update is now live in Grounded 2, bringing a new boss fight, a new buggy progression system, and a wave of content, improvements, and community-requested features across the park.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Grounded 2: Beat the Heat launched on 15 April 2026, within three weeks of Pragmata, Replaced, Saros and Mouse: P.I. For Hire. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Pragmata, Replaced, Saros, Mouse: P.I. For Hire.

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When did Grounded 2: Beat the Heat come out?
Grounded 2: Beat the Heat was released on 15 April 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).