Stranded: Alien Dawn Review

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After stumbling out of the wreckage of their escape pod, a whole new world awaits your survivors in Stranded: Alien Dawn. Marooned on an alien planet, the odds are against them to try and carve out a new life on this world, and eventually make their escape.

From the opening moments of Stranded: Alien Dawn, you have to guide your survivors in building makeshift shelters, storage and camp fires, scavenging from the crashed spacecraft and relying on emergency provisions within. You must quickly adapt to your surroundings, studying the local flora and fauna to discover what is edible, what can be used for crafting, which animals can be tamed — all to gradually claw your way back up to harness sci-fi technology once more.

There’s a lot to be getting on with and it’s easy to throw too many gargantuan tasks at your survivors, who then take an age to complete them all or stall with a lack of necessary resources. Even just making your first building and filling it with beds requires an awful lot of mining rocks, chopping down trees and then bashing it all together. Then you’ve got to fill it with beds. All the while, that’s potentially diverting attention away from making sure meals are being cooked, crops are being fertilised, and that your smartest survivor can basically just stand at a table thinking about each new technology for another day.

Of course, that technology will be vital to your survival and eventual ability to communicate with passing ships to organise rescue. It’s the foundation so that you can start using solar energy and wind turbines to power your newly built advancements: indoor lighting, electric stoves (so you aren’t constantly chopping wood), a tailor’s bench for hardier clothing, 3D printers to remove the