Grounded 2 crossplay and cloud saves: what the publisher has actually fixed

Crossplay was disabled by the first hotfix for players without Gaming Services, a Steam Download Region connection bug was fixed on 2 October 2026, and crossplay and cloud save complaints are still.

Answer: Steam lists Multi-player, Co-op and Online Co-op, but the first hotfix after launch disabled crossplay for players who started the game without Gaming Services enabled, and hotfix 0.5.1.1 on 1 October 2026 fixed Steam players being unable to connect to others based on their Steam Download Region.

Version scope

Launch hotfix, the 2 Oct 2026 hotfix (1 Oct UTC) and current threads · read 21

Game status

Early access

Platforms

PC

Hub directory

Grounded 2

Verified

2026-10-21

Updated

2026-10-21

What the publisher has actually said

Two official fixes bear directly on playing with other people:

• Launch hotfix, 31 July 2025 (30 July in UTC). Hotfix 0.1.1.2 fixed a crash for Steam players who launched the game without Gaming Services enabled, and the same post states that "This fix disables Crossplay from being enabled." That is the first thing to check if you and your group are on different platforms.
• Hotfix 0.5.1.1, 2 October 2026 (1 October in UTC). The publisher thanks players "for reporting the multiplayer issue to us" and states it fixed "an issue where players on Steam could not connect to other players based on their Steam Download Region".

What is still open

The store still lists Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op and Online Co-op, and the game's own forum still has active threads titled "Crossplay doesn't work" and "cloud save is not matching up". Those are player reports. The publisher has not published a status statement for either, and we have not reproduced them, so treat both as open rather than fixed.

Practical order to try

1. Check Gaming Services. If you launched the game with it disabled, crossplay was switched off by the launch hotfix, and that is the published reason for the behaviour rather than a bug. The publisher's own remedy in that post is to install Xbox Services through the Xbox app and re-enable crossplay after a restart.
2. If you are on Steam and cannot connect to anyone, the 2 October 2026 fix names Steam Download Region as the cause; make sure your client and download region are not the reason you are being matched oddly.
3. For cloud saves, the forum thread is the only record we found, and it does not name a cause or a fix. It is worth checking the game's own issue tracker, which the hotfix posts point to, before assuming a local file problem.

Limits of this page

We did not run the game, and neither the hotfix posts nor the store page give a crossplay or cloud-save status page to point at. The two community threads are recorded here as open reports, with their thread links in the sources. For the rest of the update, see Rot and Ruin and the Grounded 2 hub.