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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Developer Max Ent Games Ltd
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land. From the Steam store page
318 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
69
Fresh
181 positive · 80 negative
95% range 64–75%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
8,624 of 10,571 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 318 · most liked firstUsed to enjoy the game even with all the quirks, my favorite part was having a decent grapple system, but now, your grapple breaks after like 20 grapples and you have to stop and repair it. I just wish devs would STOP MAKING YOUR GEAR AS DURABLE AS PAPER. It's not fun, it's just a massive pain in the ass, when you make everything break after a few minutes of playing it's miserable, make the game fun to play not burdensome.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →honestly if you played grounded you would not enjoy this the items decay so fast the story is hard to understand and where things are is even worse its not very welcoming
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Discovered a game call Smalland, Survive the Wild on sale today for $8. Super stoked. Grounded is my favorite survival game and Ive been looking for something kinda low key while I wait dor Grounded 2 to come out of early access.
unlabelledView post →Game started out good but the more you play the more you realize they had no clue what to do with the game. Guess that's why that abandoned it for a second game. Do not recommend. It's unfinished, grindy, buggy, and runs like crap.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's fun until a certain point, then you sort of realise the inventory system is completely underdeveloped and it makes it sorta painful to play. Pros: - Game is gorgeous and really steps itself up compared to grounded. I'd play this game for hundreds of hours if it got updated with more QOL fixes. - The mounts are super fun Cons: - Resources are too scattered and you don't get enough of each resource per harvest meaning you're spending hours running around aimlessly just to build a basic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bought this a while ago and am disappointed to see theyre releasing a new game instead of actually just updating this one the way they should have. i'm not paying for a second smalland title when the first one was never done and never played well
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to love Smallands and sometimes I did. The problem is, those moments were usually followed immediately by okay but why is it like this though. The biggest standout here is the perspective. You’re tiny, humans are long gone, and the world feels massive, overgrown, and hostile in a way that actually works. It leans more gritty than something like Grounded, with skeletons and ruins reminding you things didn’t end great for the giants. It’s genuinely cool, and exploring it,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like Smalland. I love the theme, the scale, and the overall vibe, but the game just isn’t fun. I’ve been following Smalland for a long time, and I recently started another playthrough to see what updates had been added. Unfortunately, many of the core frustrations are still there. First, traversal is tedious. Getting up and down the tree encampments takes a lot of time, even with the lift. It doesn’t feel adventurous, just slow and repetitive, especially when you’re…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is actual trash. It started off so good and I had high hopes for it. However, the longer you play the more ♥♥♥♥ it is. It's crazy that you unlock magic at the very end and then you have to GO FIND THE REST OF THE SPELLS. Just to turn around and have to craft potions to replenish your wyrd. TO CAST 1 SPELL. Literally the whole point of it is to drag out the game so you put more hours into it. It's a soul sucking piece of ♥♥♥♥.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is the skeleton of a game here, massively kneecapped by a lack of decent guardrails to prevent very frustrating circumstances. Firstly, to make this game even playable, I advise you to recommend turning off ‘drop inventory on death’ as you will die a lot from fall damage. Secondly, shelve any per-conceived notion of getting a dragonfly and flying around because this game employs an arbitrary stamina bar to any mount that might fulfill that fantasy, which is very strange because any…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As with others, I really wanted to like this game. The aesthetic is lovely. The gameplay isn't. I'm a fan of open world survival craft games - my library's full of them - and while I appreciate the iterative nature of such games, the best ones achieve a balance. This one just... doesn't. The farther into the game you get, the more of a grind it becomes, and the return on that grind just isn't there, especially if you play solo. It's just too gated, everywhere, and with diminishing returns as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have completed the game and I want to recommend it, but I feel like I can't completely because the sudden end of content left me feeling disheartened. While the gameplay that is there is fun it feels like a game still in development. Honestly it feels like it should still be in very early development. For a game that retails for 50 dollars you are getting maybe an evening of content if you just play the quests. If it is on sale for 10ish dollars it is probably worth it but I would like to see…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to enjoy this game, but there’s far more to dislike than appreciate. Building feels clunky and poorly explained. There’s no proper attack command for pets. Traversal is slow, awkward, and tedious. Combat and weapons lack variety and quickly become repetitive. Mining pyrite from walls is mind-numbingly dull and feels like it wasn’t properly tested. Reaching the northern area through a tunnel that requires a specific light-emitting bug is a frustrating design choice. Party limits feel…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →when has this left early access to start a sequel already? either they realised this game was too bad of a mess to fix, and they wanted to start anew, and make it better this time (in which case i can't recommend this game) or they are doing some shady stuff and i can't recommend whatever game they pull out
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's been well over 2 years since I last played and unfortunately the game leaves a lot to be wanted. From being able to have a farm to get resources at home to areas when unlocked should stop birds from diving you when crossing the bridge. It's tedious to have to go through a tunnel every time to get to the other side when it's something you have to do repeatedly for new items/progression. I was hopeful when I saw a small new content drop but when I returned I realized it was only just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played Smalland with friends, which is easily the best way to experience it. Solo is fine, sure, but running around as a bug-sized adventurer with a party of tiny idiots makes the whole thing feel like a chaotic backyard D&D campaign, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. The survival system is simple (borderline chill, even). You still have to eat and craft and not get murdered by things normally stepped on by toddlers, but nothing feels punishing or grindy. It's survival-lite: enough…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Comparing Smalland to Grounded seems obvious, and assuming it's a knockoff or imitation would be understandable, but now that I'm in the game, it actually LOOKS a lot better than I expected with settings maxed out. Feels sorta "Dark Crystal" esque. I think the map might actually be significantly larger than Grounded. Some things are even modeled to a surprising degree. You can explore the base of a tree in Grounded, but you can never go UP, whereas in Smalland, you can absolutely go up, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont bother trying this fellas the dev promised a lot of things,never happened..the game content feels like being cut down so many times..and now they sell the sell the cut content as sequel..to another game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was enjoying the game and made it pretty far, but then the game was crashing here and there. So I log on today and all my effort was gone. I was looking at a fresh character, with my character's name, but not even how I created it in the character creator. All progress gone. So beware if you choose to play this game. One day all your effort may vanish into nothing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Took roughly 63 hours for me start to finish. Played both solo and with friends. friends make this game easier, and i think there is the correct amount of toughness in most aspects. Egg hatching is interesting and ive never played a game wuite like this. I would build arbitrary walls with a platform in front to defend against the waves of insects but more than a few times i had bugs destroy parts of my base. I enjoyed the random cliffs of difficulty and would play this again start to finish. I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a really good game the first time through. My biggest frustration was a lack of meaningful progression. There are 3 nearly identical weapons for each weapon type when fully upgraded that vary wildly in how hard they are to obtain. Difficult quests lead to mediocre rewards. The endgame quest is a nothing reward. My biggest disappointment was the lack of a real reason to build a base. Base building can be frustrating and buggy, and when you get it all built you realize you spent a lot of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very janky and broken and I do not recommend anyone plays it. I played 25 hours of this game and put a lot of effort into my character only for a game breaking bug to corrupt my save and have me permanently frozen in the sky on that character and no buttons work. It is unplayable. I had this issue the end of august and have reached out to the games support on 3 different platforms, 5 different times with the save file and description of what happened only to never get a reply at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Of course I'd stumble across a giant camera... (Game is called Smalland. It's a Grounded-esque survival game)
unlabelledView post →This game is quite fun once you get the hang of it. Tips: Build yourself a large base in one of the great trees and build catapults on the high branches facing all prominent directions. Then get the best glider available. Use the catapults to launch yourself thru the air towards the intended direction and land on the closest great tree to the planned target location. Then claim that tree and all of your catapults, etc. move with you. Stock up extra catapult building resources and place…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Smalland: Survive the Wilds is one of those games where I really like the concept, but the actual execution never gave me a reason to care about continuing. The idea of playing as a tiny creature in a huge world immediately reminded me of Arthur and the Invisibles, and the game is genuinely beautiful, with the scale of the world making the concept work visually. The problem is that once I started playing, I found very little underneath that presentation that kept me interested. The biggest…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has so much potential however it has been essentially abandoned for Smalland 2. Combat is janky AF, companions are annoying to manage and constantly getting in the way (or getting stuck in terrain), full of bugs (not the insect variety) invisible walls galore, progression is mind boggling, the faction system is meaningless, world events are unrewarding and you get magic way too late (clearly added on as an an afterthought). Why is the greatsword you're gifted at the end so garbage? It's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →absolutely LOVED this game!!! really wish the story just kept going T_T!! Played this game in co-op with my partner and we had an absolute blast the whole time! Seriously underrated co-op game!!!! the game-loop mechanic is very satisfying and you get a sense of achievement every time you leave the base to explore. around every corner are new resources to find, harvest & craft with, new bugs to kill and new areas to explore. one aspect of this game I really enjoyed was the base-building!…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It may be a bit unfair that this game is always compared to Grounded, because it really stands on its own very well. The parry/dodge centric combat flows well, base building is smooth (reminds me of Valheim), and story is enough to keep me engaged as I progress. Where this game stands apart is the mount system. Taming a grasshopper and jumping around the map is the best feeling in this game, it makes traversal feel akin to Spiderman PS4, that anything in this huge world is just a couple hops…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quest progression felt ok at the beginning, and the overall vibe of exploring a map as small folk was interesting. Graphics was nothing fantastic, but decent enough. The building system is also not bad but takes awhile to get used to. I feel like people not into building will easily give up and just build something functional instead of trying for aesthetics. I feel like thats where the 'good' ends. The game goes downhill the longer you play. Not really a fan of the combat, feels janky with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literal definition of "We have Grounded at home." It's a very loose recommend. It almost feels like this game saw all the other survival games of recent and said "Watch me do what you do, but worse." It can be fun at times (co-op improves the experience), but if it wasn't for mods, I'm not sure I would have completed this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You know, it's a shame. This game is close to greatness, but it leaves a sour taste in your mouth by the end. TLDR: =6/10 rating, Probably a solid 30-40 hours of gameplay to complete if you don't stop to smell any roses. =I've recommended the game, because despite it's flaws (of which it has many), as an indie dev they delivered a full, playable/non-buggy game which is fairly wide in scope, looks good and is enjoyable, albeit mechanically disappointing/shallow/lacks full polish. =If you want…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A part of me doesn’t want to recommend Smalland because it often feels incomplete. However, the game is quite charming if you give it a chance, especially when playing with friends. Co-op is often used as an easy excuse for a game’s appeal, but I don’t think that applies here. Smalland is a welcome exception because its charm still comes through, even when the flaws are obvious. At the start, I was quite annoyed with a lot of the game. A lot of things felt out of place or unconventional…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In open world games, you really need that hook that keeps you going. There's always the next tier, next piece of armor, or gadget, perhaps building bigger or better. In a sense, sure, it has those elements previously mentioned, but all of them feel flat. You start out by grinding resource-1, which is in abundance in one area. Then you travel to the opposite end of the map to grind resource-B, to unlock a better tool. Then you travel to another distant corner of the map to grind resource-C.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game on the Steam sale with never having heard or seen anything regarding it. I immediately fell in love with it! I went on to rent a GTX server so that my family and friends can also play! Now there are 7 of us exploring and building. It's a beautiful game and I absolutely love it! Crafting is easy to understand and not overly complicated. The gear sets are fantastic and look amazing. Combat is good, the weapons are fun, the gun is OP lol. I recommend Smalland to all exploring…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware being used to fund the second game that will be equally as small and devoid of content as the first. Buy grounded instead, or any other survival sandbox for that matter. Literally all of them have more content. This game has less substance than the Star Wars sequels.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just don't understand how a game can be so full and so empty at the same time. I dunno. It feels like it's just missing that special sauce. A soul. I somehow made it up a tree, built a shack, and grew the DARKNESS LADYBUG. But it really feels like I've already seen pretty much everything, which means only the grind is left. It kinda just makes me wanna go and replay Morrowind instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My husband and I played Smalland together for approximately 103 hours. The journey of the quests were lack luster. Graphics and scenery of the game are beautifully done and generally realistic. Gathering resources were logical and fun. Once we conquered a few of the larger bosses, the mechanics of these enemies were predictable. Unfortunately, the challenges of the game seem to fade toward the ending. In my humble opinion, the ending of the game is somewhat bittersweet and left both of us…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a good game in early access. The world has a feel of wonder and whimsy that grabbed me in a way that Grounded did not. If they had stopped at early access launch and added nothing else my opinion of this game would be higher. Unfortunately, it seems like they immediately lost the plot, adding in disconnected systems that never really go anywhere. These are some of the reasons I am sad to have wasted my time finishing this game: - The armor system is designed in tiers but armor within…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →cool thing about this game, it saves co-op + individual single player cloud saves and merges them for co-op play so you can each have a base and also keep your character level + full inventory + progress The graphics are amazing. Never played grounded but heard someone say its the adult version of that game. Story is decent. Lots of NPC around the map to help you out and unlock cool armors. NO DLC! everything is in-game to unlock thru progress. Lots of base building options + weapons.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed playing this game with friends, it's good fun. Typical survival craft gameplay: gather resources, build, collect pets, make better weapons/armor. It was pretty easy to 100% the achievements too. The NPCs are there to guide you and help you progress which is nice. The game is very customisable, you can change storm frequency, crafting time, difficulty, the amount of time before gatherables/creatures respawn. Smalland looks nice and there are a lot of places to explore. Unpopular…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is generally fun but lacks a coherent journal/quest pathway. There are a lot of super clunky and poorly designed key bindings, GUI aspects, and gameplay mechanics especially with the companions that detract from the playability of the game. I just logged in after hours of farming and raising a companion to find my storage companion disappeared with all the items that were stored in it from a farming trip. Not touching this game anymore after that and would refund if I was able to.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just started playing this game yesterday 4/14/26. I'm going to be very honest, I think it's amazing so far. It has all the aspects I love about a survival games. You have resource gathering, hunting, base building, grinding that makes sense for a survival game. You also have NPC's who provide you with the story to the game guiding you through the story. There is character creation, but very limited, but at least your not stuck playing an already made character. I know there is still loads left…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Smalland is probably one of the best Open World Survival games in the genre! I personally put it above "Grounded (2022)" despite being less popular. Made by British independent/AA developers "Merge Games" (now re-branded as Silver Lining). Their original vision can be felt in 99% of the game that follows a roadmap of sorts, yet the latest Wyrdweaver update was more disjointed as if it was made by the publishers rather than the developers, at least feels that way.. BTW, the recently announced…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Smalland is a lot of fun if you like gathering resources, building a base, exploring in a sandbox world, I've been having a great time with it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is insanely fun, as someone who loves bugs, amphibians, lizards etc I feel like this game was made for me. I've sunk easily like 10k hours into survival games across platforms and they are one of my favorite genres, I really really wanted to enjoy grounded but just found it boring and hated the characters with a passion; being able to create my own was a big plus as I feel that's kinda standard in most RPG games these days atleast to some extent but this game was almost everything I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed my time with it generally. I just wish my pets would stop appearing on top of me and knocking me off stuff and also stop getting in the way of loot.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Smalland is a great game if you like to hear the sound of bugs in your ears constantly Anyway I just made myself some cute Bee armor and also look at my beetle companion 😌
unlabelledView post →4/10 LOTS OF BUGS, mostly technical + mounts - 35$ looks like they have no plans on fixing things and moved on to 2
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ABANDONED GAME!!!! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, THEY HAVE LEFT IT IN A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ STATE AND ANNOUNCED SMALLANDS 2,
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Choosing what pets to game in Smalland based on what eats my boyfriend’s pets~
unlabelledView post →This game is soooooo fun. My boyfriend and our friend play together in a guild. I would 10/10 recommend this to others, especially if you liked grounded 1 and 2.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just finished the game. Disappointing that it doesn't seem like there is much in the works to be added to it in 2026, but I still highly recommend it. Played with a few friends/family as a group, which is how I prefer to play survival games like this. According to Steam I spent 132 hours in it. To be clear, that is a leisurely play where we emphasize exploration and all the mechanics the game has to offer like taming numerous critters just to try them out, etc. If you are a charge through…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wouldn't prescripe this game as a 10/10, but neither a 1/10. I think there's more pro's then con's to this game, it lacks in some areas, and some QOL features are definitely missing. Which makes gameplay tedious instead of enjoyable. Overal I would give this game a 7.2/10, a definite recommendation when on sale below 15€, but a bit of risky one at fulll price. I do highly recommend playing it CO-OP. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another great open world adventure game, I do wish some of the controls were better but overall, the game was fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It could have been a decent game, can finish in 16hrs or less (wish there was more) but rather than working on this game they seemed to be working on Smallands 2 at the same time. Not worth and i dont trust the company now from this money grab aspect $51 for a lack luster game with few updates then the announcement for part 2. Get grounded, they kept working on it for years and bringing more and more to the game, better polished and worth your money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a sucker for open-world survival games, and adding a creature collecting mechanic made this a game I had very high hopes for. After beating the final boss and finishing the story, here are my main takeaways: - Combat is simple, Dark Souls-like mechanics. You have stamina which is used to run, attack, and dodge. You can parry attacks by blocking right as certain attacks hit you. It's simple, effective, and enjoyable (although it can feel a bit stale at times). - The building mechanic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Already abandoning this one to launch a second title sucks, especially as this one still doesn't feel complete and lacks a lot of the polish you'd expect from a survival title in this day and age.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: "We have Grounded at home". Smalland feels like one of those abandoned early access games where you see the potential, but everything feels unfinished and it doesn't seem like it will ever be. In detail: - Generic survival gameplay: There is nothing in this game you haven't seen before. Which would be fine if they at least improved on some concepts, but for the most part they managed to make things subpar. - Unfinished, unpolished feel: UI elements cover each other, many annoying QoL…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome game, played solo and with friends, both are fun. Bugs look cool and the finale is more epic that I expected.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kinda cute game, but short. It's like Grounded, but with magic and not sci-fi. The game runs fine, no weird lag-spikes and heavy usage on hardware. A bit imbalanced settings, either everything is too easily die, or you hit roll hit roll for minutes, then get 2shoted. Interesting concept you have character as save-file, not just world, and you can jump server to server with same character, while your real progress stays in your world. Specially like how my great tit can shake the floor :D…
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