Stranded: Alien Dawn

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is a survival, base-building and simulation game developed by Haemimont Games and published by Frontier Foundry.
Released on April 25th 2023 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 9,324 reviews of which 7,942 were positive and 1,382 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified Stranded: Alien Dawn into these genres:

Survival Base-Building Simulation Strategy Crafting 3D Combat Colony Sim Management Destruction Hunting Cooking Resource Management Inventory Management Choices Matter Sci-fi Singleplayer Tutorial Building Space

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64bit
Processor: Intel i7-6700 or AMD FX 8370
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon RX 480 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 15 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Nov. 2024

On my first playthrough one of my survivors was a vegetarian soldier who was my designated combat and hunting specialist. Winter came and all sources of plant-based food withered and died, and my stockpile of berries and grain quickly got depleted. The vegetarian refused to eat any of the meat from the animals SHE HERSELF hunted and butchered, so she went into starvation and then flew into a psychotic meltdown, wrecking everything in the base. I sent people to try and knock her out, but since she was my combat specialist and the strongest by far she knocked out every challenger. Eventually she calmed down and proceeded to starve to death next to a fridge full of her own hunted game. 10/10 for realistic depiction of vegetarians.

Aug. 2024

It's a good (but not great) game. The positive aspects are the crafting (very well balanced), the music, and the interfaces. I like that there are a lot of mods in the steam workshop to tweak the game. What I'm disappointed with is that the resource management aspect is quite easy, especially once you get through the early stages of a mission. Most things are quite plentiful and easy to grow yourself once you have observed them. The main difficulty modifiers seem to be the weather (makes it a little tougher, but pretty easily managed) and the frequency and intensity of attacks from the local wildlife. For me, the battling the animals is by far the most boring and repetitive part of this game. I wished they had focused less on the combat stuff and more on making it a challenge to find and produce the items you need to survive, particularly in the trade scenario. It feels like they went all in on the combat aspects and added the other stuff for a bit of variety but not really to challenge players in any significant way.

June 2024

tl;dr - It's shallow. Really on the fence with this since there is nothing wrong with it, but its competition (Rimworld first and foremost) tends to have more depth, variability and user information. I would love to see more added, but a lack of roadmap doesn't inspire hope. Seems like a solid foundation was created and the hope is modders will carry the day on content. I think one of my biggest problems with the game was that it felt very slow due to the lack of people (player agency) and lack of controllable scaling (increasing that agency). Honestly, if I was asked to recommend a game in this 'genre', I would recommend Rimworld, Oxygen Not Included and Surviving Mars. This might come in as an afterthought.

April 2024

A lot of people call this game 3D Rimworld, and even though it does take a lot of "inspiration" from it, it´s no where near the depth, complexity and replayablilty. It´s obvious why people draw the comparison, since Stranded: Alien Dawn copies a lot of mechanics, that just aren´t really a thing irl or in other game, like for example your colonists getting upset, when they have to eat without a table, the way you setup and manage your colony or weed being called smokeleaf etc. All that said, it is still a good colony sim, and it does have mechanics that are not just taken from Rimworld, like exploring the world in a balloon (which unfortunately happens off screen apart from the start and landing), flying attackers, multi story building, having to study plants/animals to be able to plant/tame them, orbital communication etc. Plus it looks really beautiful, especially in fall. EDIT: I just saw there´s currently a negative review, that got a lot of upvotes, which claims, you need to be online to be able to play. So I tried it with my wifi turned off and the game still works without any issue. No idea why that reviewer claims it wasn´t possible, but their review should not be a reason for anyone to not buy this game.

March 2024

No story, just alien planet colony management. Beautiful world, very good automation, interesting lore. Very frustrating combat.

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