Games like Stranded: Alien Dawn

Chasing that replayable and dark feeling you got from Stranded: Alien Dawn? Start with these games when you are ready.

Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
RimWorld
You guide three castaways trying to stay alive on a far-off world. An AI storyteller throws raids, storms and traders at you, and your colonists react with moods, injuries and messy relationships. No two colonies turn out the same.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark, Chaotic
97% of 211,533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31,861$34.99
Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark
87% of 209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Dawn Apart
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Chaotic
67% of 246 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Aven Colony
Govern humanity's first settlement on Aven Prime, an alien world of deserts, tundras and wetlands light years from Earth. Grow a small outpost into a sprawling city, keep your colonists fed and breathing through electrical storms and long winters, and uncover the planet's secrets. A calm, easy-to-learn colony builder with a lot of charm.
Also in Colony sim
71% of 2,021 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$5.99
Planetbase
Planetbase puts you in charge of a small band of space settlers on a remote planet, and it is your job to keep them breathing. Build the base, grow the food, keep the power on, and turn a fragile outpost into a colony of hundreds in a place that would very much prefer you failed.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark
79% of 9,600 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$14.99
Unclaimed World
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18
Surviving the Aftermath
A post-apocalyptic colony sim where you rebuild after the world ends. Raise a settlement from a handful of survivors, send specialists into a hostile wasteland, and brace for disasters that can undo weeks of work. It is difficult, sometimes cruel, and the stories it leaves you with are the kind you retell.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
71% of 3,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$29.99
Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Chaotic
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Gaia
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Tense
57% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Outpost Zero
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Chaotic
51% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
The gates of hell have opened, and your answer is a well, a log cabin and a very sharp stick. Judgment is a colony sim where you grow a survivor camp, scavenge a demon-infested world and research both science and dark magic to push the hellspawn back. A grim, tense, deeply replayable fight for one more day.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark, Tense
80% of 2,113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99

Cheaper than Stranded: Alien Dawn

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

$24.99

Dawn Apart

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments.

$19.99

Planetbase

Grow a fragile space outpost into a working colony, one power failure at a time.

$14.99

Unclaimed World

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim.

$1.18

Adaptory

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.

$19.99

Surviving the Aftermath

Lead a band of survivors through a bleak open world, growing a settlement that disasters keep testing.

$29.99

Gaia

A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.

$19.99

Outpost Zero

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe.

$3.99

Aven Colony

Grow humanity's first settlement from a lonely outpost into a thriving city, one dome at a time.

$5.99

Farworld Pioneers

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op.

$3.74

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game.

$11.99

Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

Grow a survivor camp, scavenge for supplies and fight demons with science and dark magic, one day at a time.

$19.99

Hidden gems like Stranded: Alien Dawn

Oceaneers

Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.

$24.99

Surviving Ceres

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building.

$9.99

ALL WILL FALL

Lead flood survivors, scavenge a drying seabed and stack a shanty town toward the sky while physics, hunger and factions test every beam.

$22.49

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$22.99

Space Haven

Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.

$24.99

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.

Free

Stardeus

As the ship's AI, keep a dying vessel running, manage fragile human survivors and steer your rebuilt colony through a hostile universe.

$29.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

$9.99

AColony

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community.

$19.99

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

$24.99

Under A New Sun

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth.

$17.99

Don't get lost

A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.

Free

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