Stranded: Alien Dawn

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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 from starvation, disease, extreme weather and more.

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Developer:
Haemimont Games
Publisher:
Frontier Foundry
Release date:
25 April 2023
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (61)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (5483)

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Description

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.

  • Discover an expansive, living 3D world with remarkable flora and fauna
  • Manage your survivors’ needs, health and happiness
  • Construct and evolve your own unique base, and devise cunning defences to protect it and survivors from being attacked
  • Plant, grow, harvest and hunt down food. Stockpile useful resources and salvage material from fallen space debris
  • Research technologies to expand your horizons.
  • Provide heat, light, devices for relaxation and more to keep survivors on top of their game, ready to face the next challenge.
  • React to fluctuating weather and environmental events

AN UNFORGIVING WORLD

Stranded: Alien Dawn pushes you and your survivors to the brink. Limited resources, unpredictable weather, illness and hostile alien creatures make it hard to establish a foothold on an unforgiving world. The next challenge is never far away, requiring construction of an increasingly robust base using advanced resources and improved defences.

STRANDED SURVIVORS

Ensure your group’s physical and mental wellbeing by providing weapons, medicine, and much-needed entertainment. Every survivor has a unique backstory, varying levels of ability in key skills, and both positive and negative traits. Only by improving their skills and maximising their potential will you survive.

AN UNPREDICTABLE JOURNEY

In Stranded: Alien Dawn, every playthrough is unique. Experience a journey driven by random story events, alien wildlife threats and adverse weather. There will be setbacks; devise your own innovative solutions to problems and manage multiple crises at the same time. However, actions have consequences and as you strive to plan ahead, you must make difficult choices to shape the story of your survivors, balancing short and long-term outcomes with risk and reward.

MODULAR BASE-BUILDING

Design and build your base on an alien world and transform it from simple shelter to high-tech outpost. Protect it with perimeter defences, decorate it with furnishings, introduce automated devices such as defensive turrets, and discover new technology to create your own functioning space pad.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
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

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10, 11 64bit
Processor:
Intel Core i5-10600K or AMD Ryzen 7 2700
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 5600 XT
DirectX:
Version 12
Storage:
15 GB available space

User reviews

Sinecure
Not recommended | 16 Jun 2026
10.7h played

This would be considered a bad game if any other game in the genre was well made. Compared to the competition this game is kind of good. But it's not so good that you should buy it. It feels like there's only one or two

Helpful: 19
FUNDEMORT
Recommended | 26 Jun 2026
149h played

among the best of its kind. i personally gave it a score of 90%. public reviews are not very high (only 73%-83%), i think because people are having too high expectations. however i agree it could be improved. well, all

Helpful: 3
Nasarog
Recommended | 05 Jul 2026
43.5h played

Caveat #1 - Buy on sale. DO. NOT. Pay full price for this. Paradox bought the studio and "killed" the development. The game is fine as is. It has several of the OG dev's putting out mods that patch up the game, but,

Helpful: 7
Hanky
Not recommended | 16 Jun 2026
21.4h played

Haemimont Games are absolute scammers, do not buy their games! Delisting a game from steam only to "re-release" it for 40 euro's is criminal and should not be allowed to happen. Disgusting practices almost worthy of

Helpful: 3
Kuwaji
Recommended | 01 Jul 2026
47.4h played

I think people have been giving this game too hard of a time. It's fun for what it it. Base & Colony Sim / Defense. The pawn AI is a little dumb but once you get used to the way they act you get better at controlling

Helpful: 4
Hitokiri
Not recommended | 05 Jul 2026
28.0h played

Game is garbage. Rimworld is miles better. it takes too long to craft things, everyone gets struck by lightning and ends up with brain damage. The mood system makes no sense because you can have 35 positive and 10

Helpful: 1