just played this game for the first time and it was fantastic. There isn’t a lot I can say that hasn’t been said, but I can say this: The Ground Itself is perfect for anyone who really liked the premise of Microscope, but found it to be too open ended without any prompts or randomizers to get the ideas flowing. It’s also probably perfect for anyone who didn’t feel that way, honestly.
Our game started as a silly story about a grocery store in a town with ghosts, where food that goes bad turns into ghost food. We very quickly went down a rabbit hole of turning that silly grocery store into a pretty heartbreaking tale about the fear of death.