Stranded: Alien Dawn
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $34.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 21.4h
- Value
- $1.64/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 37% over the last 30 days against 83% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Radeon RX 480 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $12.24. It has been discounted 32 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Oxygen: First Breath (free, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Maia ($24.99, scores 0).
Players rate it 83 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 37 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 436 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
21.4 hours to finish it, 62 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
It came out 3 years ago, and 575 were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 30, 14:46 UTC.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
78% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
575 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 14:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is another game I'm quite torn on recommending. It has some good, enjoyable elements. It also has a bunch of half-baked or broken mechanics which almost entirely trash the enjoyability of the game. I only played the crash landing scenario, which seems like the default, OG experience. I really like the visuals and the world building - it's an attractive bit of alien landscape with some great wildlife. I like the...
Absolutely Fantastic Game Stranded: Alien Dawn is honestly one of my favorite games I've ever played. The gameplay is fantastic, with a great balance of challenge and progression that keeps things interesting without ever becoming overly frustrating. I'm coming up on 300 hours of gameplay, and I still have absolutely no interest in stopping. There is always something to work towards, something to improve, or another...
Rimworld in 3D, except it got murdered by Paradox buying the studio out and killing the game. They bought it out a year ago and then went radio silent not one patch not one promise made not one word made bout the game. Bought the game just for the sole purpose of killing it out.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Stranded: Alien Dawn scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1324130/stranded-alien-dawnReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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