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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 Paradox Interactive.
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 10,014 reviews of which 8,504 were positive and 1,510 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 20.00€ on Gamivo.

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

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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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May 2025
This game is a lot of fun for the first 20 hours or so, but once you've researched everything and built everything, it quickly becomes a tedious process of struggling to keep all of your electric equipment functioning and all of your survivors fed and clothed until the next rescue pod is available. It's slightly annoying that you strive for so long to find more survivors to grow your settlement, only to later realize the only way to win is to send them away in rescue pods one at a time. A far more rewarding end-game would be having more research and more technological discovery and advancement until finally reaching the ability to build your own rocket so all of your survivors can leave the planet together. In this way players could enjoy an ever growing population and an ever expanding settlement while simultaneously advancing research and technologies far beyond the current scope of the game. An annoying imbalance is that all of the electrical equipment malfunctions very rapidly, to such an extent that even after a modest expansion, you'll quickly realize you're spending all of your time manufacturing circuit boards merely to repair the equipment you've already built, effectively stagnating (or dramatically slowing) any further settlement expansion. There are other less consequential bugs such as hostile animals clipping through defensive walls and having the ability to damage your survivors or their mechs even with walls between them, and survivors choosing to perform various tasks with extreme inefficiency like mindless idiots totally lacking any ability to think rationally. For example, there might be an equally important and equally weighted task that could be accomplished 2 feet away, but for whatever reason your survivor may choose to perform a different task that happens to be a mile away. Finally, the biggest killer in this game is its lack of end game content. There's really not as much content in the game as you might anticipate upon first starting the game. The developers created a very fun and addicting foundation here but failed to add the content necessary to keep me interested. For me it means there's very little replayability and finishing the game feels more like a chore than an adventure. In fairness, I should point out that there might be a thriving modding community here and it would not surprise me if there were a lot of really great mods that dramatically improve the game. This hastily written review is based solely on my own experience having played only one vanilla campaign. I also understand there are other campaign modes available that might not require survivor rescues as an end goal and therefore might offer a more rewarding late-game experience. To summarize, I think the game was definitely worth playing once, but I'm not interested in playing it again. From a cost perspective, I'd say it's worth picking up if you enjoy single player real-time strategy games and you can also find it on sale. I wouldn't advise paying more than $40 for it though as there are better options available at higher prices.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Stranded: Alien Dawn is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 34.99€ on Steam.

Stranded: Alien Dawn received 8,504 positive votes out of a total of 10,014 achieving a rating of 8.27.
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Stranded: Alien Dawn was developed by Haemimont Games and published by Paradox Interactive.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is not playable on MacOS.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is not playable on Linux.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is a single-player game.

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Stranded: Alien Dawn PEGI 16
34.99€ -43% 34.99€ 20.00€
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8,504
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Haemimont Games
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Paradox Interactive
Release 25 Apr 2023
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