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:
Mostly Positive (78)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (5445)

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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

Stone
Recommended | 10 May 2026
16.3h played

I enjoyed this game alot. Type of game if you like these types that you think about the game through your day waiting to get back home and play it. This is one of the best builder/strategy/management games I have ever

Helpful: 1
BenFromCal
Not recommended | 10 May 2026
13.2h played

This game needs some serious work. Its difficult to know what resources you have. Which resources you need, how to direct the actions of the survivors, what things you need to do to succeed in the game and how to do

Helpful: 3
iGetChu
Recommended | 25 May 2026
418h played

Is a fun and relaxing base-building management game with a small touch of tower defense gameplay. There were some missed opportunities, but overall it was a good game. I would definitely come back for more if the

Helpful: 0
Azgoroth the Great
Recommended | 20 May 2026
13.1h played

Entertaining with a reasonable amount of challenge. Mainly just aiming at survival for the majority of the game. Have played for a good few hours on one playthrough, then restarted with that extra knowledge to help get

Helpful: 0
DarkJedii
Recommended | 15 May 2026
62.6h played

Fun game. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It got a bit stale towards the end, research stalled out. The end game got a bit slow. Overall still fun, worth the time and money.

Helpful: 0
_Dave_
Recommended | 17 May 2026
16.9h played

I recommend it ONLY when it's on sale because I heard it was abandoned so you're technically not getting a full game, but the game already has a hefty dose of content, so when it's on sale the price is well worth it. It

Helpful: 1