Stranded: Alien Dawn

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  • Summary: 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 from starvation, disease, extreme weather    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 from starvation, disease, extreme weather and more. From basic camps to fortified bases, create a stronghold to defend the survivors from attacks by alien creatures that roam an expansive and deadly alien world.

    Experience an epic and unpredictable journey.    … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. GamingTrend
    May 8, 2023
    88
    Stranded: Alien Dawn is a well-focused survival game with choices that have meaningful and lasting impact. While it could stand to have a few more scenarios, what’s on offer will keep you busy for dozens of hours, and that’s just your first playthrough.
  2. PC Gamer
    Apr 25, 2023
    86
    A survival colony builder that generates stories of triumph, disaster, and white-knuckle rescues.
  3. God is a Geek
    May 12, 2023
    85
    Stranded: Alien Dawn borrows from RimWorld and The Sims, but meshes the borrowed elements into something both unique and immensely rewarding.
  4. CGMagazine
    Apr 28, 2023
    80
    Stranded: Alien Dawn is a great experience for those looking to get into the Survival/Strategy genre, even if a hardcore fanbase won’t like the lack of options in crafting, character generation, and random events.
  5. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 23, 2024
    80
    Visually, the game doesn't offend, but it doesn't impress either. On the other hand, it manages to elegantly justify it with game mechanics. Nevertheless, Stranded has a huge potential to find its players in those attracted by the genre of survival simulators and management-building games. [Issue#327]
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  6. PC Games
    Apr 28, 2023
    80
    The survival game Stranded: Alien Dawn from Haemimont Games is a great mix between The Sims and Rimworld. We enjoyed the long term satisfying campaigns and had a lot of fun while building a new civilization on a foreign planet.
  7. TheGamer
    Apr 25, 2023
    70
    I have no doubts that the Steam Workshop will do wonders with this game. If modding is supported properly by the developers, which it appears will be the case, we could have some seriously impressive mods down the line. I’ve already played around with the Beyond Stranded mod that adds a bunch of new traits, survivors, and expeditions - it’s a clear indicator of what is possible given enough time and effort. As it stands, though, Stranded: Alien Dawn is already a good game, but with more customization, narrative elements, scenarios, and general expansion on some solid foundations, it can become a great game.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
  1. Andrudis
    Jun 20, 2023
    8
    In short it is a casual version of RimWorld with much better 3D graphics and animations.
    It has some issues with balancing, but with frequent    In short it is a casual version of RimWorld with much better 3D graphics and animations.
    It has some issues with balancing, but with frequent updates and new content it become better and better with each update    … Expand
  2. koyata5860
    Sep 11, 2023
    7
    A colony simulation with 3D graphics while maintaining the gameplay and concept of "Rimworld".
    It's mostly interesting, but even as    A colony simulation with 3D graphics while maintaining the gameplay and concept of "Rimworld".
    It's mostly interesting, but even as technology advances, the character's movement speed doesn't change, which makes it frustrating.

    I think it was necessary to at least have specifications such as increasing travel speed once the roads were maintained. Also, the speed at which equipment deteriorates is so fast that production cannot keep up with it in the early stages.

    Installing a MOD would solve the problem, but it would have been better to enjoy it in its vanilla state.    … Expand
  4. darkshifty
    Aug 25, 2023
    4
    Very flat and boring from the midgame and onward, have been playing a session for a while and it had me invested in the first few hours butVery flat and boring from the midgame and onward, have been playing a session for a while and it had me invested in the first few hours but afterwards it slows down in such a rate that it gets boring.… Expand
  5. SobBaggot
    Jun 30, 2023
    2
    Abysmal... Crashes all the time on a 4080 with a 12900... I'm not even sure why games are released if they have this many bugs.
  6. RunFish12B8
    Jun 29, 2023
    0
    The game is poorly optimized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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