Stranded: Alien Dawn

Stranded: Alien Dawn

October 12, 2022

SimulationStrategySurvival PCPlayStation 4PlayStation 5Xbox OneXbox Series X/S

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 …

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Critic Reviews (14)

Branislav Kohút SECTOR.sk Oct 2022
85.0 /100

Graphics

70.0

Gameplay

90.0

Story

75.0

"Stranded: Alien Dawn is an excellent game in the style of RimWorld, but with a better chosen graphic style. It&s;s a fun survival fight with different objectives based on each scenario. Thanks to the individual settings, it is suitable for …"

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Christopher Livingston PC Gamer Oct 2022
86.0 /100

Graphics

50.0

Gameplay

50.0

Story

50.0

"A survival colony builder that generates stories of triumph, disaster, and white-knuckle rescues."

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Darren Pearce Games Xtreme Oct 2022
100.0 /100

Graphics

95.0

Gameplay

85.0

Story

70.0

"Stranded: Alien Dawn excels at being a game like Rimworld, but charts it own course, marks its own innovations and breaks out of the mould set by the former. I’m really glad this came to the Xbox and it’s now …"

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Marc-Antoine Bergeron Cote Geeks &a; Com Oct 2022
70.0 /100

Graphics

65.0

Gameplay

80.0

Story

45.0

"Stranded: Alien Dawn offers a rather advanced management experience that will please many fans of the genre, even if it doesn&s;t reinvent anything. The tutorial is almost too comprehensive, but does a good job of preparing you for your game. …"

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Marino Puntorieri Spaziogames Oct 2022
80.0 /100

Graphics

60.0

Gameplay

80.0

Story

65.0

"Stranded: Alien Dawn is a good survival and strategy game. The project allows to manage a settlers team in an unexplored planet with a lot of gameplay possibility and it&s;s pretty enjoyable even playing with a controller."

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Mark Steighner Hardcore Gamer Oct 2022
80.0 /100

Graphics

70.0

Gameplay

85.0

Story

60.0

"For fans of futuristic survival games, Stranded: Alien Dawn is just as fun on consoles as on PC. It’s deep, engrossing, and customizable. Although controller implementation is a mixed bag, overall the experience remains engaging and addictive."

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Mick Fraser God is a Geek Oct 2022
85.0 /100

"Stranded: Alien Dawn borrows from RimWorld and The Sims, but meshes the borrowed elements into something both unique and immensely rewarding."

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Petr Polák Gaming Professors Oct 2022
80.0 /100

Graphics

65.0

Gameplay

85.0

Story

70.0

"Stranded: Alien Dawn is a very well-made survival-building strategy game that places a strong emphasis on the composition of your group of survivors, their skills, and the appropriate division of tasks. It’s clear that the game is still in development, …"

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Richard Banks Impulsegamer Oct 2022
80.0 /100

Graphics

72.0

Gameplay

68.0

Story

74.0

"Stranded: Alien Dawn makes one small step for man and one giant leap for survivor sims-kind."

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Richard Walker Xbox Achievements Oct 2022
82.0 /100

"Stranded: Alien Dawn is an enormously varied survival sim and base builder, that has been remarkably well-adapted for consoles and stuffed to the gills with content, features, and options. This is as welcoming or as hardcore a survival experience as …"

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Ridge Harripersad CGMagazine Oct 2022
90.0 /100

"Stranded: Alien Dawn was an exceptionally crafted survival, base-building simulator game that I could not out down, and it has only been in early access."

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Ron Burke GamingTrend Oct 2022
85.0 /100

Graphics

85.0

Gameplay

85.0

Story

85.0

"Stranded: Alien Dawn is a well-focused survival game with choices that have meaningful and lasting impact. While it could stand to have a few more scenarios, what&s;s on offer will keep you busy for dozens of hours, and that&s;s just …"

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Stefan L TheSixthAxis Oct 2022
70.0 /100

Graphics

70.0

Gameplay

55.0

Story

68.0

"Whether being completely cut off from civilisation is a fantasy or a nightmare to you, Stranded: Alien Dawn includes everything from base building as hunter-gatherers, to rediscovering technology and eventually making a successful escape, or setting up a rugged military …"

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Steven Green CGMagazine Oct 2022
80.0 /100

Graphics

72.0

Gameplay

68.0

Story

84.0

"Stranded: Alien Dawn is a great experience for those looking to get into the Survival/Strategy genre, even if a hardcore fanbase won’t like the lack of options in crafting, character generation, and random events."

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