$34.99Stranded: Alien Dawn Every run, a new way to lose
Stranded: Alien Dawn strands a small group of survivors on a living alien world and hands you their food, health and morale. You build from a basic camp to a fortified, high-tech outpost, research new technology and hold off alien attacks, with every playthrough shaped by random events and hard choices.
Is Stranded: Alien Dawn worth it?
Stranded: Alien Dawn is worth it if…
- you like keeping a handful of survivors fed, rested and reasonably cheerful
- you like building a base from rough shelter to turrets, automation and research
- you like unpredictable runs where weather, wildlife and random events force hard choices
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Survivors with backstories and bad days
You look after a small marooned group, each with a unique backstory, skills, and positive and negative traits. You manage their needs, health and happiness, provide weapons, medicine and entertainment, and improve their skills to get more out of them. You plant, grow, harvest and hunt food, cook and stockpile it, and give them heat, light and places to relax so they stay ready for the next crisis. Starvation, disease and low spirits are as dangerous as teeth and claws.
From crash camp to fortified outpost
You design and build your own base on an expansive 3D world of strange flora and fauna. It starts as simple shelter and grows into a high-tech outpost with furnishings, automated devices and defensive turrets, plus your own functioning space pad. You salvage useful material from fallen space debris, research technologies, and ring the base with perimeter defences. Limited resources mean every wall and turret is a decision about what you can afford to protect, and what you leave to the wildlife.
An alien world that keeps changing plans
Every playthrough is different, driven by random story events, alien wildlife threats and adverse weather. You react to fluctuating weather and environmental events, from extreme heat and cold to storms, while hostile creatures probe your defences. There will be setbacks, and actions have consequences, so you juggle multiple crises and balance short and long-term risk and reward. Colony sim fans get the classic story generator here: a failed harvest or a breached wall becomes the tale you tell afterward.
What else should you know?
How do you survive the alien wildlife?
You fortify the base with perimeter defences and turrets, arm your survivors with weapons, and use research to unlock stronger options. Attacks come from creatures roaming the world, so placement, resources and timing matter more than reflexes.
What do your survivors need besides food?
Health, happiness, warmth, light and rest. You provide medicine, cooked meals, heating, lighting and devices for relaxation and entertainment. Traits and backstories affect what they are good at, so assigning the right survivor to the right job keeps the camp running.
Does every run play the same?
No. Story events, wildlife threats and weather are randomized, and available research and choices change what you can do. You will face setbacks and manage several problems at once, which makes planning ahead a matter of trade-offs rather than one safe route.
