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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 9,781 reviews of which 8,306 were positive and 1,475 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.89€ on Instant Gaming.

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

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

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System 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

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Feb. 2025

Very good content, original base biulder and management game. Gameplay: This game, like many others in the same genre, becomes repetitive when we play a lot, but the construction of the base, which is limitless except for the map, plus the most complete management of survival and survivor occupation I've ever seen, allows this game to stand out from the crowd and offer something more. The workshop and its huge community also add a lot of fun to the game. Difficulty levels range from totally sandbox to ultra-hard. Weather conditions are the biggest challenge you'll face. Changes and disasters happen at random and can kill off your community in a matter of days if they happen too early in the game. Graphic design: The graphics are perfect, the only detail I didn't like was the style of dress and the appearance of the characters, everything is too identical and lacks finishing touches. As for the scenery, it's very well done and beautiful. Playtime: 4 maps and 4 scenarios, all offering over 20 hours of gameplay, for lvl hard. Certainly one of the best base biulder games, but I've never seen management so advanced. If you like Strategy, Tactics, tower defence games, come and discover what's available on steam. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45245664-Seni-Gaming-Strategy-Tactics-TD/

Dec. 2024

I like it. A lot of people say it's very similar to Rimworld. I've been in Rimworld since Alpha 8 in 2013 and I there's no doubt a lot of inspiration was taken from Rimworld, especially with the UI. In fact, the work menu is almost a carbon copy, but it was a great idea and I can't blame them - why reinvent the wheel? I think it pulls some inspiration from Kenshi as well because of the sheer scope of the map and how tiny everything feels; and it shares the jankiness of Kenshi to a degree but I think it is more polished. They did a really solid job on this game, there's plenty of content (not as much as Rimworld, but come on, it's 2D and almost infinitely modular so it's not a fair comparison), and it's fun to automate and manage. Best game of this genre I've tried in a while.

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

This game maybe copies a bit too much of Rimworld and feels like a mini version of it in the end. Its nice and tight however, more of a bespoke experience instead of Rim's sandbox style. It does mean that there is so much less here. If you like Rimworld you might not get much out of this , but if you know someone for who the look or density of Rim's experience is too much this would be a great alternative.

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.

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