Everyday life is turned upside down when you become equal to the insects you usually squash without thought out of fear or annoyance. These same bugs are now scarier, as players can now get up close and personal with these common critters, though, while some get scarier, others get cuter.

This new early access game has attracted many players for its crafting and sandbox experience, but most importantly for its bugs. No… not those kinds of bugs—we mean actual bugs.

10 Scary: Orb Weaver

The biggest scare factor of Grounded is its ginormous spiders. Or normal-sized spiders, since the player is shrunken. Orb Weavers are found patrolling around the backyard casually, which makes it easy for players to get a surprise attack. Not only can they run up on a player base by accident, but they leave behind webs that players can get stuck in.

9 Cute: Gnat

It can be up for debate whether a gnat can even be considered an enemy or not. Gnats drunkenly buzz around the backyard and accidentally bump into players, causing damage.

These round fuzzballs barely do any damage and are just made to be annoying, much like in real life. The fact that they are fuzzy balls that fly around like they are accidentally bumping into everything makes them really adorable instead of menacing.

8 Scary: Larvae

The larva in Grounded are frightening because they travel and sleep in packs. They are instantly aggressive upon being seen and will get their friends and family to back them up. If the player has a full group, it might not be a challenge, but, for a lone survivor, it’s a risk which may well turn out to not have been worth it.

7 Cute: Spiderling

The spiders are huge problems and distractions in this backyard game, but a baby is a baby. Smaller things are always less scary than their parents or larger breeds, that’s common knowledge.

While small spiders may still be scary to some in real life, in Grounded, they are a breath of fresh air after meeting their mothers. They’re much cuter, too.

6 Scary: Bombardier Beetle

Some beetles are colorful and attractive, while others benefit from being dull and ugly. The latter is true of bombardier beetles who spray players with deadly toxins when they get too close.

A lot of the aggressive mobs are familiar and not as outrageous when encountered Grounded because players have seen them in real life. No one has really gone face to face with beetles, though. Not by choice, anyway, and this definitely adds to the scare factor.

5 Cute: Water Flea

Though water fleas do not fight back, they are an enemy to any sane mind that did not know what a water flea was, and searching it up will only add to the questions.

Confusing specimens as they are, they are adorable nonetheless. Not in any normal setting, but, compared to every other insect in Grounded, the water flea is quite a cutie being a water blob.

4 Scary: Wolf Spider

If a player thought an orb weaver was the scariest enemy, they ought to think again. The wolf spider commonly stays in its nest and is way more powerful than the orb weaver or any small-to-medium-sized mob.

Running into these things or purposefully hunting them down is a dreadful experience, especially once the player realizes there’s more than one type of spider in the game and that one is not the orb weaver they prepared for.

3 Cute: Infected Weevil

A gassed and dangerous section of the map renders common bugs as infected. Trekking into this area means crafting a gas mask and being equipped with food, water, and weapons.

It can be a dangerous experience to be in this biome, but nothing brightens a day more than seeing a glowing weevil. While you’d absolutely never want to see something like this end up in your food in real life, in-game, we can’t help but think that they’re weirdly adorable.

2 Scary: Lawn Mite

When face to face with a lawn mite, all scare tactics are diminished, and it’s an insta-kill for the little sucker. But, before seeing what’s attacking, panic is at an all-time high.

Lawn mites are not scary in themselves, but their approach is what’s the most terrifying. Combat music starts blaring, and the player hears crawling and even damage being done without seeing what it is. A spider? A larva? Nope, it’s a lawn mite… again.

1 Cute: Ladybug

A lot of people are scared of bugs, from kids to adults. If not scared, then highly annoyed. Either way, it ends in their death. Though, one common agreement everyone subconsciously has is that ladybugs did nothing wrong and can stay.

Among one of the prettiest beetles, ladybugs have always been cute little guys who do no harm and keep little kids busy counting how many spots one has or what color the other is.

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