Shadowdark is grounded.
…I mean, if you accept “delving into dungeons that work within some sort of strange ecology and assuming magic and magical creatures are real” is grounded…
Shadowdark is grounded.
Grounded as in a passing attempt at verisimilitude. PCs can get hurt and die, PCs are mostly normal people in extraordinary circumstances, PCs do not have godlike powers, etc. Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green would also be grounded in that sense despite the unknowable alien gods.…I mean, if you accept “delving into dungeons that work within some sort of strange ecology and assuming magic and magical creatures are real” is grounded…